Monday night is "Family Night" for us - three families (2 adults, 2 kids each) rotate cooking duty for the others. It's awesome! Homecooked meals that I didn't cook!

Hot dog with black bean chili, quacamole and chips.

The avacado was at least home grown.

You need a choice for "leftovers", whether home-cooked or from take-out ;)

But it was vegetarian, though not vegan.

A grilled cheese sandwich and potato chips I made myself. I've been making all sorts of potato food items lately.

Red beans & brown rice (w/hamburger) and salad. Everything organic, and the beef raised free range & local by family friends in the Rocky Mtns.

Nice survey - BUT - I strongly doubt that Treehugger readers are a representative sample!

Also - food industry surveys have shown that some people think that a TV dinner is a dinner prepared at home - I doubt that is true of Treehugger readers but you have to take these things with an (unwanted) grain of salt

"Nice survey - BUT - I strongly doubt that Treehugger readers are a representative sample!"

We never pretended otherwise. This is a survey of TreeHugger readers, not of the general population.

Recently turned vegetarian for environmental reasons. Enjoying the surprising variety of food I can prepare at home but I'm astonished at the lack of veggie choice in restaurants. It's been a bit of an eye-opener. It reminds me of an article I read once where a journalist spent a week in a wheelchair and found out just how many obstacles there are, i.e. it's not until you put yourself in someone elses shoes that you realise what kind of world we're really living in!!!

and what?? Raw doesn't count??

if it wasn't raw and wasn't from scratch, chances are there was A LOT of waste (those AMYs organic are nice but that waxes paper..) plus electricity to heat/prepare everything...

caldini, when I go to restaurants, I usually always end up with some kind of pasta dish unless it's a very veg-friendly restaurant. The upside is that I cook a lot more myself and spend less money eating out (not that I ever did spend much in the first place, but still).

Where do all-natural Terra chips and awful-stuff-containg generic French Onion dip fall in the choices? I didn't NOT eat, but I didn't eat healthy, either. *hanging head in shame*

Roasted beetroot risotto - darn it was good!

Picked up a veggie dinner at a local store deli. Doesn't fit into any of the above options, but I tend to do this a lot...

http://bblinks.blogspot.com/

it was vegan and all organic and i think everything but the lentils where localy grown. i don't know where the lentils where grown though.

Dinner: vegan pesto linguine with tomatoes (unfortunately not organic)
Drink: Cabernet Sauvignon made with organic grapes
Dessert: vegan chocolate cake

I had veggie dinner at a great healthy diner here in LA called Swingers - the first place I ever tried quinoa (they serve it as a side dish choice with all meals), and who recently have been putting jars of agave on all the tables (like maple syrup only it's tapped from the huge, cactus like agave plant). Cool!