RE: Who was the first vegetarian you met?

June 21, 2006

What a cool story. Wish it was that easy to convince everyone.

Sam

Well, I remember the first time I met a vegetarian: I was turning 20,

very depressed and deep in an Ohio lake-front winter.

}{e was a rosy cheeked boy who I had just met. He was beautiful,

and I remember his piercing blue eyes, shoulder length shining hair--

thick and wavy. He was biting into an apple and somehow the

conversation got onto why.

He said he didn't eat meat and of course I asked.

....Looking at me with a calm and concentration as he worked the

apple, he promptly said; " I just don't believe in killing animals

to eat them " .

June 21, 2006

The first vegetarian I met was my mother. I got born, met her and the rest

is history. When I went to live with my oldest sister for several years I

discovered she ate meat and her refrigerator stunk of it. The whole house stunk

of it. I hate to go past the meat section at the grocery store -- it reeks of

decay.

Sunday supper was a magnificent wheatsteak with mushrooms and onions, mashed

garlic potatoes, corn with a bit of butter. All that after a nice salad and

way before the cheesecake. Delightful and not one animal killed to get it.

Lisa Marie

June 21, 2006

In a message dated 6/21/2006 11:33:13 PM Pacific Standard Time,

jtwigg writes:

> Sounds like a great meal. What is " Way before the Cheesecake " ?

>

it is when you eat so much salad and so much wheatsteak and stuff that you

have to wait at least an hour before you can stuff in dessert.

BTW I make my own gluten for wheatsteak. Double yum and cheap to boot. I

made about $100+ worth of guten product (if I had bought it canned) for less

than $8. Simple, cheap and yummy. I made beef, chicken and mushroom flavors.

One of these days I will tackle sausage. I need to get a bigger crockpot to

simmer the product in -- the beef flavor is actually flavored with soysauce. I

even made a 'roast' to slice for sandwiches, cube up for omlettes or salads.

I can grind it up for wheatburgers.

The book is called " how to make all the meat you eat from wheat " It has basic

recipes for different flavors and then it has a mass of recipes that cover

just about everything.

There is nothing quite like bok choy, ground wheatburger with sauce over

rice. A very simple, easy and very quick to fix meal.

Lisa Marie

June 22, 2006

Sounds like a great meal. What is " Way before the Cheesecake " ?

Was you sister raised to be a vegetarian also? My parents raised my 2 sisters

and myself to be vegetarian. It's all I've ever known. One of my sisters, she

is adopted, now eats meat as an adult. It is hard to realize how one can become

a meat eater, that has not been raised eating it. I too can't go past the meat

section of the grocery store. All that dead bloody meat, is repulsive as is the

smell that you mentioned.

One store used to see their Boco Burgers and other Vegetarian Items in with the

meat. I only spotted them quite by accident one day, when I needed to ask the

man behind the meat counter to paige some to help me. I talked with the store

manager and told him that most vegetarian steer clear of the meat section and

would NEVER look there for their Vegetarian meat sub. products. If they wanted

these products to sell, then they must be completely away from them, like near

the breakfast frozen items or frozen veggies. They moved them and then they

started selling them. Guess meat eater just can't fathom that storing

bloodified(as my daughter calls it) meat next to a Veggie Burger, would repulse

the Vegetarian. They must not be noticing how we steer clear of that area and

find reasons to look the other way. LOL