By a mix of happenstance, I've kinda stumbled into a way of eating where sometimes I'm eating stuff with some meat, but other times I find myself intentionally reaching for vegan or vegetarian dishes. And I actually feel really good as a result?
Started with wanting to learn how to properly cook tofu with the motivation of food growing more expensive all the time and tofu being a far cheaper source of protein than meat. So I started looking up dishes on youtube by cooks from China, India, Japan and Korea mostly to learn how tofu is cooked in those regions rather than seeing at as a 'bland meat substitute', and learned that I really very much so enjoy the flavor and texture of dishes where tofu is meant to be the focus. Around the same time I also picked up a taste for other dishes such as Shakshuka where the vegetables in the dish really shine.
My housemate conversely is a very meat and potatoes, easy heat and eat, kinda guy. So when I cook for both of us I often cook a bit heavier towards the carbs and meat with the veggies being mostly a flavor base. Stuff like pasta with Italian sausage red sauce and Spanish Rice with sausage I can make lots of individual portions of to store in the fridge and reheat later. This suits me fine most of the time because I do have a taste for meat, and a mix of intentional experiments and just past times I didn't have the money for a lot of groceries taught me that I get lethargic, or even irritable and sick if I cut all meat out of my diet. Or even just cut all red meat out.
But lately, I find that if I eat too much of that I feel heavy and slowed down? And then find myself actually craving the dishes I make with tofu and lots of veggies, often over rice. Along with the various pickled vegetables I'm constantly making to keep up with my cravings for them. And even my regular breakfast has become a sort of Shakshuka inspired spicy veggie stew over rice with one egg over it and a side of something pickled.
And that, seems to have fallen into a balance just on it's own without me actively trying? Something I've not quite managed previously in my life, with food often being a 'eat so I don't feel dizzy with hunger' thing.
I don't know, maybe my experience is just odd. But anyone else stumble into something similar?
