Provoked: Tomorrow is my best friend’s birthday. Tradition: Every year we go out to eat - her husband/mine/me. I was vegetarian for a long while but now as vegan - I doubt seriously there’s much on my plate at all. Compound this with my husband who is now vegetarian AND her husband on this low/no carb atkins diet. What a pickle, huh? At this point, with what I now know (which made me vegan), I don’t think I could stomach watching someone consume flesh - it’s just gross. Any suggestions?

ahisma: Saw this one too late … how’d it go?

Provoked: I have procrastinated to embarrassment. I emailed a happy birthday, I called - but nothing else. I have a card/gift that I intend to drop over tomorrow. I’ve really blown this one. I am what I do not eat: chicken.