It's Meat-Free August!

This is the third year we have had a meat-free month. The past two years it has been July, but we forgot...so, hooray for Meat-Free August! We got the idea from our friends Susan and Ben who did something similar. It's actually a nice when the weather is hot to steer clear of heavy meats. It's good practice for when we have our vegetarian friends over (come home, Tim!) and it's always fun to try something new.

Dinner Menu Items:

Sweet Potato & Corn Soup

Spinach Lasagne

Quiche

Olive Waffels

Moroccan Sweet Potato & Spinach Stew

Cream of Broccoli Soup

Black Bean Burgers

Veggie Joe's

Scrambled Eggs (thank you Sparky)

Stirfry Tofu & Broccoli

Red Potato & Red Pepper Tart

Cream of Tomato Soup (thank you Steinauers)

Black Bean Tacos

We're not too strict about it. If we go out to eat, anything goes--hence the hotdogs & shishkabobs at a cookout last Friday.

I mentioned Meat-Free August last night at dinner (black bean burgers -- delicious) and Phoebe said, "That's a good idea. We should do that sometime!" The kids obviously haven't missed the meat. Moses said, "Let's do it until December!" Oliver saw that December and raised him, "Let's do it forever!" And Paul and I both said we liked bacon too much to never eat meat. That was an argument no Dunbar could deny.

I'm not stingy with recipes so if you want any of those, let me know.