Vegetarianism within the context of a carnivoric family unit

Well I've made it to the end of my 29 days of being flesh free, in my diet that is.  If you read through my other 2 blogs at first I found the juggle of being vegetarian within the context of a meat eating family not that much of a juggle.  But despite my best efforts I wasnt getting enough iron or protein and I was starting to feel weary.  I lacked sustained energy that quite frankly, I take for granted.  I started craving sugar.  I've never had that before.

Over the last week I made a few more changes to my diet, it'd be too easy just to give up.  I must confess 2 servings of fish over the 29 days, 1 as a takeaway purchase - it was either chips or fish and chips, and I'm not that into chips.  The other was when a friend came for tea, we were running late, kids were hungry, we wanted to talk . . . .

Changes I've made over the 29 days include:

• eating protein at each and every meal and snack (this was a big help)
• plenty of dairy
• a few quick and easy meals, like baked beans, eggs, cheese on toast
• finding protein high snacks like spicy broad beans and Mrs Mays Pumpkin Seed bites quickly added 10 grams of protein to the tally
• eating sprouts
• trying tofu - particularly the flavoured ones

I'm feeling much more stable energy wise and a week ago this wasnt the case, so I'm pleased I perseverered!