Day 11 - Insert fart joke here

Fair warning, we're going to be talking about something that I was only vaguely aware of before beginning this, and am now too familiar with: veggie farts.

But first, what did I eat?

Check out this doughnut. It has cereal on it! A doughnut and cereal, all in one! Isn't it amazing?

I think it's genius, if you ask me.

For lunch I had a Cedarlane Baked Stacked Eggplant dish. Basically, it's like lasagna, but with eggplant slices instead of lasagna noodles.

For dinner, we picked up some Chinese from QQ Li's. I had white rice, "veggie delight" and fried tofu in garlic sauce.

Fun fact: QQ doesn't use any meat-based products in any of her veggie dishes. No chicken stock, dairy, eggs, etc. So it's fully vegan. And it's delicious. The food is very affordable as well.

Mmmm...reading about food makes you hungry, no? Well, let me fix that for you.

I've been doing this for about a week and a half now, and something has become clear. I feel the need to warn anyone who is considering going vegetarian about one of the unpleasant side effects. You see, when you change what goes in one end, it changes what comes out the other.

I'm talking about veggie farts.

Now, I don't know if meat blocks them somehow, or if I was eating fewer veggies than I thought I was before, but now that I'm meat-free, I'm become gas-full. Veggies give you gas. Lots and lots of gas.

That isn't all. Not only do you fart more, but it stinks horribly. I'll be driving in my car and let one rip, and I start choking and tearing up because oh God why does it smell so bad! What did I do to deserve this?

Vegetarian diets are supposedly more eco-friendly, but with the amount of methane coming out of my rear end, I question that claim. Hey, I wonder if you could convert a car to methane-power? And just have a little tube in the seat that you can sit on that can collect veggie farts and use them as fuel? I think about weird things sometimes when I'm on a long drive and suffocating from my own farts. So forgive me.

Basically, what I've learned is that Bean-O exists for a reason.