Day 8: Onions/garlic/shallots/mushrooms

These are like spices as far as the flavor options you'll have, but they're somewhat more substantial. Plus, a sweet onion, caramelized, can be so nice as a replacement for the more potent forms of sugar you're not eating.

These items, like potatoes, come from underground. When you eat them, give thanks for the life of the plant. Not as a way to anthropomorphize it. Just to connect to the fact that it is an individual entity in its own way, and that the loss of this individual self benefits you.

Hmmm.... I wonder if aliens at a far higher consciousness would look at us the same way while they blithely pop us into their mouths.

Well, if so, I hope they see me the way I look at mushrooms and decide to pass. I only included them here because I can't leave off foods just because I hate them. But I will stop short of writing why I'm grateful for them, or meditate on them specifically. I've tried to like them, but it didn't take.