Would it kill you if you decided to take meat out of the menu equation once a week?
OK, now you decided to take the plunge and give a break to the carnivore in you?
You might procrastinate because you cannot make up your mind as to which day of the week you will kick the habit.
Stop sweating, in one clean swoop cut your carbon footprint by joining Meatless Monday, a national health campaign to help prevent heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer.
You don't even have to turn into a Vegan as their Seafood Salad Wrap recipe (for Lunch) proves.
Each recipe and they offer many is followed by Nutritional Facts.
For the wrap: Calories 280, Total Fat 9g, Saturated Fat 2.5g, Cholesterol 55mg, Sodium 840mg, Carbohydrates 29g, Fiber 14g, Protein 28g
They cut all the information in bite sizes to make it easy to digest.
Regarding the carbon footprint side of things, Nathan Fiala offers some details on How Meat Contributes to Global Warming (Scientific American, February 2009).
For starters he notes that "Pound for pound, beef production generates greenhouse gases that
contribute more than 13 times as much to global warming as do the gases
emitted from producing chicken. For potatoes, the multiplier is 57."
Happy Meatless Monday for Green Day # 74