Subway experience

[Guest guest]

Tonight for dinner the kids and I went to Subway. I asked the person

waiting on us if he could either make mine first or make the kids and

then change his gloves as he would be touching meat for the kids. He

asked me if I was alergic to meat and I told him that I didn't eat it

and also didn't want it touching my food. He was fine with that, but

the man behind me turned to me and said the I had chosen a very

unhealthy way of eating. Now I weight over 200 lbs (unfortunately,

am slowly loosing the excess), so I turned to him and said do I look

unhealthy from eating that way. He shook his head and turned away.

My little girl asked him if he knew why animals had protein in their

meat. He shook his head again and she told him it was from eating

all the greens, like the grass and leaves and things like that. Then

she went on to say that her gramma just missed a step and ate the

greens and veggies instead of the meat.

 

I hadn't realized how much she was listening and taking in about why

I had become a vegetarian. She said eating a ham sub was a treat for

her but when we got home after taking a bite or two she took the ham

off and gave it to her brother. She said she was too used to not

having the meat that it tasted funny. She also told me that from now

on she doesn't want to eat any meat either. Now she just has to tell

that to her grampa (my ex) while she is on her weekend visit starting

tomorrow.

 

Barb, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada

[Guest guest]

How Cool!  I am sorry that ignorant man was there to challenge a stranger and

listen to your conversation, but I bet you felt great when your little one put

him in his place! LOL 

Knowledge is power, and she was on top of the world

My daughter, 2.5, hates soy crumbles.  She LOVES tofu and eggs (to me that has

the same texture), but she never had ground be*f, so she has no frame of

reference, nor does she feel like she needs to have an analogue in her food.  I

find it frustrating, as we don't really like beans in our spaghetti, and she

seems to pick out the squash and zucc, too.  But, I am fine with her being picky

if it is to get some of the processed foods out of her diet.

Best wishes,

Cassie

[Guest guest]

Thank you for posting your story.

I get so frustrated when people say that a vegetarian diet is unhealthy. Any

diet can be

unhealthy - and vegetarian diets are usually more healthy than non-vegetarian

diets. I

think people think that vegetarian diets are unhealthy because they think you

have to eat

meat to get enough protein. People are so mis-informed. One of the biggest

questions

people have asked me is, " how do you get enough protein? " I say, " umm, from

vegetables... "

Americans get more than enough protein on average. Your body only gets energy

from

carbs, fat, and protein. Out of these three things, the least amount of energy

should come

from protein. Too much protein can actually be bad for you - it has even been

linked to

colon cancer!

Anyway, good for you and your daughter!

[Guest guest]

My granddaughter is nine and if this is the way that she has decided she will

eat it is fine by me.  She went to a meat bingo with her grandfather on Friday

evening and won and ham.  He said that he would cook it for her over the weekend

and she told him to go ahead and cook it but to do lots of veggies also because

she wouldn't be eating the ham just the veggies.

 

Last evening when he dropped the kids off he commented on it and said wasn't I

lucky I had managed to comvert another one.  I told him that it was her choice

not mine and she could eat whatever she wanted.  She overheard us and told him

that she didn't think it was right that an animal had to die so she could eat

when there were so many other things that she could eat that didn't harm

anything.  I just smiled and gave her a hug and he just shrugged his shoulders

and said to each his own and now he would have to purchase veggies and fruit for

when she was at his house.

 

To him veggies are mashed potatoes, canned corn or peas, pork and beans, canned

carrots and peas, and sometimes sweet potato if someone else cooks it.  We were

married for 32 years and he never could understand why I cooked other veggies

for myself and my children.

 

Children are a wonderful thing and I am so happy that my little one is

concerened about the environment and other living things.

 

 

 

 

 Barb 

 

--- On Fri, 11/14/08, Cassie Dixon <roxy87cabriolet wrote:

 

Cassie Dixon <roxy87cabriolet

Re: Subway experience

 

Friday, November 14, 2008, 12:42 PM

 

 

 

 

 

 

How Cool!  I am sorry that ignorant man was there to challenge a stranger and

listen to your conversation, but I bet you felt great when your little one put

him in his place! LOL 

Knowledge is power, and she was on top of the world

My daughter, 2.5, hates soy crumbles.  She LOVES tofu and eggs (to me that has

the same texture), but she never had ground be*f, so she has no frame of

reference, nor does she feel like she needs to have an analogue in her food.  I

find it frustrating, as we don't really like beans in our spaghetti, and she

seems to pick out the squash and zucc, too.  But, I am fine with her being picky

if it is to get some of the processed foods out of her diet.

Best wishes,

Cassie

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

You have a very special granddaughter Barb.

Give her a hug for me too!

Pam

 

 

 

 

________________________________

Barb <tigger_twins

 

Monday, November 17, 2008 12:06:52 PM

Re: Subway experience

 

 

My granddaughter is nine and if this is the way that she has decided she will

eat it is fine by me.  She went to a meat bingo with her grandfather on Friday

evening and won and ham.  He said that he would cook it for her over the weekend

and she told him to go ahead and cook it but to do lots of veggies also because

she wouldn't be eating the ham just the veggies.

 

Last evening when he dropped the kids off he commented on it and said wasn't I

lucky I had managed to comvert another one.  I told him that it was her choice

not mine and she could eat whatever she wanted.  She overheard us and told him

that she didn't think it was right that an animal had to die so she could eat

when there were so many other things that she could eat that didn't harm

anything.  I just smiled and gave her a hug and he just shrugged his shoulders

and said to each his own and now he would have to purchase veggies and fruit for

when she was at his house.

 

To him veggies are mashed potatoes, canned corn or peas, pork and beans, canned

carrots and peas, and sometimes sweet potato if someone else cooks it.  We were

married for 32 years and he never could understand why I cooked other veggies

for myself and my children.

 

Children are a wonderful thing and I am so happy that my little one is

concerened about the environment and other living things.

 

 Barb 

 

--- On Fri, 11/14/08, Cassie Dixon <roxy87cabriolet@ > wrote:

 

Cassie Dixon <roxy87cabriolet@ >

Re: [vegetarian_ group] Subway experience

 

Friday, November 14, 2008, 12:42 PM

 

How Cool!  I am sorry that ignorant man was there to challenge a stranger and

listen to your conversation, but I bet you felt great when your little one put

him in his place! LOL 

Knowledge is power, and she was on top of the world

My daughter, 2.5, hates soy crumbles.  She LOVES tofu and eggs (to me that has

the same texture), but she never had ground be*f, so she has no frame of

reference, nor does she feel like she needs to have an analogue in her food.  I

find it frustrating, as we don't really like beans in our spaghetti, and she

seems to pick out the squash and zucc, too.  But, I am fine with her being picky

if it is to get some of the processed foods out of her diet.

Best wishes,

Cassie