why vegetarian

[Guest guest]

I never ate much meat and it came to a point where I figured why even " try " to

eat it. I would tend to think of what it was and where it came from and

couldn't bring myself to consume it. I guess my reason is part ethical but

mostly just don't care for it.

Cindi

 

 

willow2320003 <mgjhalls

Saturday, December 1, 2007 2:30:55 AM

thanks for the welcome

 

i know that people have probably have already answered this and i hope

i'm not asking a really dumd question but what reasons do you have for

being vegetarian either raised or chose later in life?

 

thanks

 

Marie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I'm an omnivore, but my daughter decided she didn't like to eat meat the night

we were having liver and onions, and she stuck to her position, to the point

that three years on, we occasionally eat small amounts of meat but mainly

vegetarian meals.  She has also developed lactose intolerance, so that

eliminated a huge amount of my standard repertoire of meals, and she does not

like soy, rice, or almond milk, but we are doing all right.  When I can't stand

it anymore, I'll use a small amount of Parmesan cheese and she takes her

Lactaid, and we have eggplant parmesan.  Problem is, she's not an ethical

vegetarian, an aesthetic one instead.   This means that any vegetarian food that

resembles meat is off the list of possibilities too.  No tofurkey, no boca

burgers, no veggie meat-style products.  At first she would eat seafood, but

that has also been eliminated, and she recently announced that visible egg

products were off the menu too.  We mainly eat

meat on the days she is not at home or announces she ate already and is going

to bed early.

 

I would probably cook two meals if my husband were not diabetic with cholesterol

issues.  As it is, being 80% vegetarian, with dairy but very few eggs, has

probably helped him with his health.  One of my other daughters is also lactose

intolerant but will drink soy milk and horchata.

 

You would not believe trying to fix foods for a family reunion.  Add in another

lactose intolerant person (but likes Lactaid and not soy), three more diabetics,

corn allergies, gluten intolerance, inability to eat peppers, tomatoes, peas,

and lentils....and it turned out the soup mixes I got for the kid with gluten

and corn intolerance had peas, and he can't have them either.  I ended up buying

tapioca bread, which was just plain blah.

 

Oh well, you all have good recipes in the files, and when I'm not feeling too

lazy I can usually find something adaptable...keep up the good work!

 

Sue in Wausau

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

OMG Sue, *reading e-mail again* O M G. How in the name of heaven are you feeding

everyone?

 

For the first 20 ish years of veggie life, I, too, did the aesthetic veggie

thing and snooted my nose at the meatish looking stuff with the exception of TVP

which I used by the ton when the kids all lived at home. It's cheaper than meat,

you see, and feeding 7 adolescent critters (4 by birth, 1 by marriage, 1 found

on the train tracks and 1 " found " for us by the Navy recruiter) was kind of

pricey.

 

Jumping Jimminy. Doing all that AND gluten and dairy allergies? They'd go hungry

here. Mother came up with a tortilla made of soy flour once, but it was really

not one of her better efforts. (It tasted like....never mind.) How

about garbanzo bean flour? I seem to recall a bread made with garbanzo flour -

will look through my stuffies.

 

You have my heartfelt sympathy. ALSO, a high protein snack - take a can of

garbanzo beans, rinse, drain, lightly mist with olive oil, lightly sprinkle with

a mix of onion powder, garlic powder, a tiny bit of sea salt and roast in a

single layer in a lowish temp oven till dried and crisp - great snack. Kind of

addictive. You can spice them up with cayenne pepper and whatever else your

group will eat.

 

Try to keep from killing them. All of ours made it out of the house without me

killing them and they'd eat anything that wasn't moving - though I do recall

them running after a cow, carrying knives, forks, salt and the ketchup bottle,

but I'm sure they didn't actually EAT the cow.

 

I hope. Jeanne in GA

http://jeannefromgeorgia.blogspot.com

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

I'm an omnivore, but my daughter decided she didn't like to eat meat the night

we were having liver and onions, and she stuck to her position, to the point

that three years on, we occasionally eat small amounts of meat but mainly

vegetarian meals.  She has also developed lactose intolerance, so that

eliminated a huge amount of my standard repertoire of meals, and she does not

like soy, rice, or almond milk, but we are doing all right.  When I can't stand

it anymore, I'll use a small amount of Parmesan cheese and she takes her

Lactaid, and we have eggplant parmesan.  Problem is, she's not an ethical

vegetarian, an aesthetic one instead.   This means that any vegetarian food that

resembles meat is off the list of possibilities too.  No tofurkey, no boca

burgers, no veggie meat-style products.  At first she would eat seafood, but

that has also been eliminated, and she recently announced that visible egg

products were off the menu too.  We mainly eat

meat on the days she is not at home or announces she ate already and is going

to bed early.

 

I would probably cook two meals if my husband were not diabetic with cholesterol

issues.  As it is, being 80% vegetarian, with dairy but very few eggs, has

probably helped him with his health.  One of my other daughters is also lactose

intolerant but will drink soy milk and horchata.

 

You would not believe trying to fix foods for a family reunion.  Add in another

lactose intolerant person (but likes Lactaid and not soy), three more diabetics,

corn allergies, gluten intolerance, inability to eat peppers, tomatoes, peas,

and lentils....and it turned out the soup mixes I got for the kid with gluten

and corn intolerance had peas, and he can't have them either.  I ended up buying

tapioca bread, which was just plain blah.

 

Oh well, you all have good recipes in the files, and when I'm not feeling too

lazy I can usually find something adaptable...keep up the good work!

 

Sue in Wausau

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

OMG Sue, *reading e-mail again* O M G. How in the name of heaven are you feeding

everyone?

 

For the first 20 ish years of veggie life, I, too, did the aesthetic veggie

thing and snooted my nose at the meatish looking stuff with the exception of TVP

which I used by the ton when the kids all lived at home. It's cheaper than meat,

you see, and feeding 7 adolescent critters (4 by birth, 1 by marriage, 1 found

on the train tracks and 1 " found " for us by the Navy recruiter) was kind of

pricey.

 

Jumping Jimminy. Doing all that AND gluten and dairy allergies? They'd go hungry

here. Mother came up with a tortilla made of soy flour once, but it was really

not one of her better efforts. (It tasted like....never mind.) How

about garbanzo bean flour? I seem to recall a bread made with garbanzo flour -

will look through my stuffies.

 

You have my heartfelt sympathy. ALSO, a high protein snack - take a can of

garbanzo beans, rinse, drain, lightly mist with olive oil, lightly sprinkle with

a mix of onion powder, garlic powder, a tiny bit of sea salt and roast in a

single layer in a lowish temp oven till dried and crisp - great snack. Kind of

addictive. You can spice them up with cayenne pepper and whatever else your

group will eat.

 

Try to keep from killing them. All of ours made it out of the house without me

killing them and they'd eat anything that wasn't moving - though I do recall

them running after a cow, carrying knives, forks, salt and the ketchup bottle,

but I'm sure they didn't actually EAT the cow.

 

I hope. Jeanne in GA

http://jeannefromgeorgia.blogspot.com