"I will not ever never eat a tomato" -

- is the title of a children's book by Lauren Child.

It is also something I have regularly heard from my husband!! (I know you thought I was going to say "children", but no!). Grant has never been big on vegetables and looks suspiciously at anything green that ends up on his plate. He is/was particularly suspicious of tomatoes! He has been known to eat some salad items but only if drenched in mayonnaise!! So it is a great surprise that he has decided this week (Dottie, are you sitting down?!) to change to a vegetarian diet. And not just vegetarian mind you, vegan! Now you may or may not know what a "vegan" is so I will tell you, a vegan does not eat anything with a face or a mother, so that includes eggs, dairy, fish as well as the obvious things like meat and chicken etc.

(Dottie, you can climb back onto your chair now!!)

It has been quite revolutionary here this week as our eating "plan" (as if there was one!!) was turned on it's head! We have never had so many vegetables (quantity and type) in our house before!!

Another revolutionary moment was when Grant went grocery shopping! It's just not that practical for him to do it but we discovered that if we go half an hour before closing time the shop is relatively quiet and only gets emptier not fuller!! Anyway, we came home with all sorts of things I would never normally buy as nobody in this family would ever eat it! Like red cabbage for instance, can't say I've EVER had that in my trolley before!!

We also came home with one of these so we are going to be juicing up a storm:-)

I don't know if it will last forever or even until the end of the year - he's not doing it for "moral" or "poor defenseless chicken" reasons but rather health and weight reasons, his aim is to lose 40 kg's and hopefully he can reach that goal.

He heard on Friday that he has to have an operation to replace the battery in his pace-maker device which is flat (fortunately it's not connected to his heart!! but to his spine) and he has some other back ideas that he wants to explore and it will obviously be to his benefit if he loses weight.

So we now have a bulk-size bag of tomatoes as well as a punnet of mini tomatoes in our fridge which means I guess that he will eat a tomato after all!!