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Wow, it’s been a while since I posted anything about food or the garden or anything tasty, really. Life has had other plans for me than sitting around with the computer, but now that I am on a bit of a break before diving into new projects, let me catch you up:

The garden continues to produce in abundance, though some crops were total failures. We have been covered up in green beans, flageolets, soy beans, yellow squash and cucumbers (though these did have a recent run in with pickle worms).

I have been watching my calories for a while now, and have dropped about 14 pounds. Along the way I have discovered something: I can eat meat and dairy and be hungry by the end of the day, or I can eat only plant foods and have calories “left over” every day.

This has led to a lot of soul-searching and reading and discussion, the upshot of which is that I can’t see myself doing much other than continuing right on down the path to being a vegan. ‘Tis a strange turn of events for an eater like me, but as Martin Luther (didn’t actually) say: Hier stehe ich. Ich kann nicht anders.