Year 3, Day 114: More Normal

The first of many hot days. Me and the lone other Domaniac went for a walk to Russo's. I vowed I would only buy my salad, I filled up my basket. It's hard to explain, but the walk back, and carrying more than one thing (like a salad and strawberries and bananas, for instance) makes your gait unbalanced; they only give you the crappy, landfill-laden plastic shopping bags that have no shape and are designed to allow things like tins of salad that want to be horizontal to angle themselves. Therefore, you have multiple problems of trying to keep things from opening, spilling or being crushed, and keeping an even walking position. Then you have to keep up a good pace and much of the walk in the hot sun. I cursed myself, and my inability not to buy things at Russo's, the whole way home, sweating.

Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee

Lunch: Russo's ($5.31)
Romaine, red pepper, red onion, feta
chicken, broccoli, mushrooms
balsamic vinegar, pepperocini


Snack
4 Sticks Beef Jerky
1 oz. Boston Lite Popcorn

Dinner:
Burger
Broccoli
Salad, Pickles
10 Cashews

I want to go back on phase one but can't give up my breakfast during strawberry season. They are just so good. I am eating them all the time. If loving them is wrong, I don't want to be right.

Year 3, Day 62: Mars Bars for the Vegetarians

Mars bars get veggie status back
Mars has abandoned plans to use animal products in its chocolate, and has apologized to "upset" vegetarians. The firm had said it would change the whey used in some of its products from a vegetarian source to one with traces of the animal enzyme, rennet. The Vegetarian Society organized a campaign against the move, asking members to voice their concerns to parent company Masterfoods. Mars said it became "very clear, very quickly" that it had made a mistake.
In just one week, more than 6,000 people bombarded the company, which produces the Mars, Snickers, Maltesers and Galaxy brands, with phone and e-mail complaints. Forty MPs also signed a petition to voice their opposition. Fiona Dawson, managing director of Mars UK, said the company had listened to customers and decided to reverse its decision.

HAVE YOUR SAY
The Mars turnaround is about profit, not people power Michael Winston, UK "The consumer is our boss and we had lots of feedback from consumers who were unhappy about the change," Ms Dawson said. "It became very clear, very quickly that we had made a mistake, for which I am sorry. "There are three million vegetarians in the UK and not only did we disappoint them, but we upset a lot of the consumers."'Principled decision'

The Vegetarian Society had called the move by Mars "incomprehensible" and "a backward step" at a time when consumers were increasingly concerned about "the provenance of their food".

We are very pleased that they now recognize the importance of integrity to all their customers, especially vegetarians. Dr Annette Pinner Vegetarian Society Mars replied that, by admitting its products were no longer suitable for "extremely strict vegetarians", it was making a "principled decision".

Now it insists it will begin changing its recipes back immediately.

Dr Annette Pinner, chief executive of the Vegetarian Society, said she was pleased Mars had been "honest enough" to admit it had "made a mistake".

"A Masterfoods representative has made contact with us and we are very pleased that they now recognize the importance of integrity to all their customers, especially vegetarians," she added.

Rennet is extracted from calves' stomachs and was to have been used in the ice cream versions of all Masterfoods' bars too.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/6673549.stm

Published: 2007/05/20 00:31:07 GMT

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Breakfast
Kashi Go Lean!
Heritage Flakes
Strawberries
Blueberries
Banana
Unsweetened Soy Milk
Coffee

Snack
5 sticks beef jerky
1.5 oz Boston Lite Popcorn

Lunch: Christos 7-Star
Greek Salad Kebab

Dinner
Pork
String Beans

Fast walk today, just the two of us. It was a rare nice day. By May 1st you usually see a lot of them, but this year it's been more cold and wet than anything else. I need the walks but I'm afraid we're going to have start walking more often, farther or faster. Could I be a walking junkie?