Call for Interested People to Play with Food

I'm going to become a vegan for February, attempting to change my diet alongside a collection of coursemates, friends, family and other people who've turned up along the way. They're not all becoming vegan though - the idea is to change your food habits and think about it, or at least gently muse.

So far, offerings have included:
1) Vegan!? For a month?! Nope. I'll try vegetarian for a week.
2) Ok! I'll do it. But only Monday to Friday.
3) I know - I'll only eat local food - that'll definitely be more environmentally friendly than just going vegetarian ...

(I suspect this last offering to be strongly correlated with the amount you're willing to spend. There's a rather nice local produce shop close by, and I can think off worse things than living off local veggies and "pheasant burger" for a month).

The impetus for this has been a homework assignment for a Masters class we're taking in "Implementing Change Towards Sustainability - a "Personal Change Challenge". The essence of your assignment is "your personal story...[to tell] in your own creative way". I know. Oh dear. But since we have to do this, I thought it could be a good time to do something I've been muttering about for a few years - try and alter my diet to reduce its environmental impact (as well as that fact that most animals don't have very happy lives before you eat them, I suppose, though this doesn't stop me enjoying them).

Alongside this, many others from my course have also been talking about food-related lifestyle changes. And since I'm going to be incredibly grumpy and miserable, it would be a good opportunity to make other people suffer too. Well, not exactly. But it would be cool if others also taking this opportunity to reconsider the way they eat - and if you'd like to use this forum to provide some distraction throughout the month.

We'll be running this blog from now until the end of February. It won't just be me writing (hooray!). Everyone taking part in this will be posting too, and I'm hoping that we'll be able to pull together resources, recipes, grumbles and strategies to amuse ourselves - and learn some stuff - throughout the month. We'll have a kick-off gathering Monday next week, and try and organise some real-life events throughout as well.

Let me know if you'd like to get involved. By February 1st I'll post up a list of everyone and what they're attempting to do, with the clear intention of encouraging through peer pressure. Aliases welcome if you are internet-shy.