Ideological purity.

[snarp]

I've been vegetarian-ing for three weeks, and I haven't had much trouble avoiding meat; it hasn't really been a big part of my diet since I came back from Japan. But I can't work myself up to care that there's fish in instant dashi? I eat soba all the time, and I've got like four boxes of this stuff, and throwing them out will do nothing to remedy global overfishing.

When I run out I'll buy some plain wakame and try cooking with that, but for now I intend to continue to eat noodles that have been rendered ritually unclean.

I'm also resolving to go ahead and eat a hot dog/fried chicken/etc if I'm on a long drive or something and that's all that's available. I'm a bad enough driver when my blood sugar's normal.

Comments

[torachan]

Dashi is the secret ingredient in everything Japanese!

But, yeah, idk. When I was trying to eat less meat, I didn't count stuff like that. To be honest, I wouldn't count beef or chicken stock, either. (I mean, I certainly would if I were cooking vegetarian/vegan for someone else, but not just for myself.) -_-;;

[esmenet]

*shrug* I'm a vegetarian because a) I think meat and fish taste terrible, and b) after twelve years of not eating them they literally make me sick. Since b)'s not a concern for you, I wouldn't worry about it.

[telophase]

We've got friends who are vegetarian (and raising their kids that way), but as the dad says: his body is not a temple. If he ends up eating something that's been cooked on the same part of the grill that the burgers are frying on, he's not going to worry about it.

[(Anonymous)]

You could try instant kombu dashi: http://www.amazon.com/Imported-Dashi-Moto-Kombu-1-9-Ounce/dp/B008OQO828/ref=sr_1_3?s=grocery&ie=UTF8&qid=1354913856&sr=1-3&keywords=kombu+dashi