Veg Meal #3: Zandi Baguette

[asterroc]

Modeled after the Black Sheep Baguette, my third vegetarian meal is the Zandi Baguette. You take some favorite bread type and split in half. One side you coat liberally with basalmic vinegarette, the other with a good pesto. The fillings are fresh mozzarella, some lettuce, and avocado slices. The original used actual baguette bread (I forget what type we used), and didn't have the lettuce and avocado but had sun dried tomatoes instead. We had a side of cheesy rice and broccoli. Make sure you get a nice dense and textured bread.

Cost was more reasonable than the meat substitute meals, but still slightly higher than it could've been b/c we made poor choices in how to purchase ingredients. We bought bread rolls individually instead of in a pack, avocado's always expensive, and we could only find fresh mozzarella at the "Mediterranean salad bar". So the price ended up comparable to a meat meal for "just a sandwich." But it's a yummy sandwich! ^_^

Anyone know how the environmental impact of cheese compares to that of eating meat?

Comments

Re: Water use might be a good metric.

[galbinus-caeli.livejournal.com]

Looks like Chicken water use is 6 gallons per bird so about 1.5 gallons per pound of marketable meat. Feed consumption is 2.5 pounds per pound of body weight, but "dressed" weight is 60% of body weight, so about 4 pounds of feed per pound of marketable chicken flesh.