Just a phase?

My vegetarian phase continues...... About 4 and a half weeks now though in that time I have had a couple of 'meaty' meals. I still can't get to the bottom of why I have changed.... I would love to say it is due to moral reasons or indeed health reasons but fact is I have just gone off it!

The River Cottage Veg book has been partly to blame and tonight we had the baby carrot and baby broad bean risotto. It was delicious! I do not miss meat one bit and am finding that I seek out the vegetarian option when we go out.

Son#1 has been a vegetarian since he was three. He simply refused to eat anything that didn't grow in the garden. For a while we could 'convince' him that sausages and minced beef grew in the garden, but smart cookie that he was/is he soon worked it out for himself. Doctors told me it was just a phase....Twenty years on and he still doesn't touch meat of fish.

My mum also started to eat less and less meat when she was my age and maybe I will follow in her footsteps..... maybe I was meant to be a Veggie or maybe it is just a phase!?