Zucchini comes in yellow. Did you know that? Because I didn't until this week. Recently I've become a semi-vegetarian. And what is a semi-vegetarian you ask. Well it's like this, I have decided to eat mainly fresh vegetables (not grown in China), but and this is a big but, although I no longer purchase meat, if someone where to put let's say a nicely prepared piece of genuine Kobe beef in front of me, I would eat it.(Back to the zucchini) As I was saying zucchini comes in yellow, at first I thought it was a funny looking squash, but after looking closer I realized what it was. So I bought some. It taste, to me, a bit different than green zucchini but not much. I've been buying all the usual vegetables, carrots, cabbage, broccoli, but I've become very adventurous as well. I have purchased Brussels sprouts, purple cauliflower, bok choy, kale, Chinese eggplant, string less string beans (because the stringed string beans are truly annoying) and varieties of squash. And I plan to try many many more.
I've also given up sweets for fruit. I've had fun buying exotic and not so exotic fruit. I've eaten Mangoes, figs, kiwi, blueberries, blackberries, heirloom tomato's (yes tomato's are a fruit) and good old banana's (fair trade banana's even). I just this week purchased a quince. The only thing I knew about quince's when I bought it was that it was an answer to a jeopardy question posed to Rosie Perez' character in the film White Men Can't Jump. I haven't eaten it yet because I have to look quince up on the internet to figure out how to eat it.
I really wish I had gotten into vegetables (I refuse to call them veggies) long ago. The benefits of eating them are great. For instance even though I wasn't trying to lose weight I have. Also the combination of fruit and vegetables have given me a lot more energy. There is no sugar rush from eating fruit the way there is from eating refined sugar and that darn high fructose corn syrup, just a nice energized feeling that lasts. Another thing is and I'm really not sure if I can attribute this to my new diet, I'm sleeping better. Who knows, it could be.
So I'm going to be on the lookout for more fruits and vegetables that I've not seen or eaten before and I might even get crazy and try to cook my own whole wheat bread (that's gonna be a while).
