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Bok Choy Soup

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So May 5th has come and gone and we are no longer keeping the fast. We found out after a couple of weeks that not eating meat was pretty simple, not eating any animal products was a little more than we could do at this time. Pretty early on we brought back milk, cheese, and eggs after having stomach cramps for several days. We did falter a couple of times when we went to cookouts, but the experience has substantially changed the way we view our eating. We have decided to eat far less meat than we were before the fast. In addition to our realization I heard at work about Bountiful Baskets. It's a cooperative food buying thing where you pay $15 for a basket of mixed fruits and vegetables, usually every other week. It's really a crapshoot on what you get, but I've found some interesting things that caused me to flex my cooking muscles. The first time we did this we also ordered an Asian vegetable add-on. We got bok choy. I have never eaten bok choy, so we were in for a ch