{"id":7331,"date":"2009-04-11T17:14:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-11T22:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=7331"},"modified":"2009-04-11T18:52:51","modified_gmt":"2009-04-11T23:52:51","slug":"vegetarian-for-a-week-challenge-final-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/vegetarian-for-a-week-challenge-final-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"Vegetarian for a Week Challenge &#8211; Final Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made it! We&#8217;d set-out to do six days as vegetarians and we did. In this last video I discuss the meals I had for my last day as a vegetarian, as well as some of my takeaways for the week. I found that living as a vegetarian was fairly economical, was much easier to implement than expected, and I wasn&#8217;t anywhere near as hungry each day as I&#8217;d anticipated. All-in-all being a <a title=\"vegetarian\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/tag\/vegetarian-for-a-week-challenge\/\" target=\"_self\">vegetarian for a week<\/a> was a fun experience, and one I&#8217;m now challenging you to take.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IBFaGXCEmCc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/IBFaGXCEmCc&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"vegetarian diet\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/videos\/vegetarian-for-a-week-challenge-final-thoughts\/\" target=\"_self\">Day Six Vegetarian Menu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Breakfast &#8211; egg white veggie omelet. The usual, full of mushrooms, spinach, red peppers, egg whites and served with whole grain toast.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/categories\/vegetarian\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7332\" title=\"fruit-salad\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/fruit-salad.gif\" alt=\"fruit-salad\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Lunch &#8211; misc. salads. I attended a luncheon where I skipped the meat and cheese tray and filled up on pasta salad, garden salad and fresh fruit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Dinner &#8211; roasted red pepper panini. We found ourselves out with friends Friday night for dinner. I had a roasted red pepper panini with spinach and mozzarella cheese, served with a small salad (dressing on the side!). It was devine!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks for sharing this vegetarian journey with me. I&#8217;ve enjoyed keeping you up to speed on how we progressed.<\/p>\n<p>Am I going to become a vegetarian? It&#8217;s safe to say no. Will I serve more vegetarian meals? Definitely. We found a lot of new things we like and discovered new uses for old favorites. If you start your own vegetarian challenge, definitely let us know, and check-out our <a title=\"vegetarian recipes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/recipes\/categories\/vegetarian\/\" target=\"_self\">vegetarian recipes<\/a> for inspiration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made it! We&#8217;d set-out to do six days as vegetarians and we did. In this last video I discuss the meals I had for my last day as a vegetarian, as well as some of my takeaways for the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/vegetarian-for-a-week-challenge-final-thoughts\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[29,24,1274],"class_list":["post-7331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-nutrition","tag-vegetarian","tag-vegetarian-for-a-week-challenge"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7331"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7334,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7331\/revisions\/7334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}