Allison,
While vegetarianism may not exactly be an attack on Texas, it is an
attitude of change, from grazing land to gardening and farming!
If you are not financially dependent on your folks, maybe you shouldn't go down to see them until they are ready to accommodate you a little, like learn how to make miso soup, brown rice, beans (macrobiotic stle with kombu) and temperate climate vegetables.
What does the macrobiotic dietary lifestyle do for you?
Communicate that to your folks.
And when you go down, again:
Make some rice balls with umeboshi plum centers to eat, every day and make some
brown rice norimaki to eat and also show sushi chefs in Texas (what town [s] are those?).
Get some good quality natural leavened loaves of bread, and make some Sesamiso spread using miso, tahini, onions, sprouts, dried grated citrus peels, and purified water to eat and share with your friends and relatives.
At home you can get wheat gluten preprocessed and easy to whip up like
Vital Wheat Gluten and
buy here, as well!!
Is this the
Planet Organic Market you are talking about?
T & T Supermarket!
For your pleasure, here is an
article on Tarot by my hitchhiking guru, Ed Buryn, author of
Vagabonding in the U.S.A.: A Guide to Independent Travel.
Thank you, very much.
Bruce Paine