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Would you ever consider becoming a vegetarian?
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Would you ever consider becoming a vegetarian?
Posted by Joshua W. Jackson on July 26, 2006 - 10:41am.
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I think there are many amazing and powerful reasons to become a vegetarian.
But in the end, two reasons always prevent me from making the change:
1) Frankfurters
2) Pastrami Reubens
And I'm into fake meats, too. I love fake chicken. But I haven't had a fake hot dog I like. Or fake pastrami. Anybody have any recommendations?
I love being a vegetarian...I have nothing against meat and cook it all the time for others in my family, but I just don't like the taste of it at all...except for beef frankfurters, and I usually only have them once or twice a year...go figure!
So I am with you Josh...I feel your pain...you could always keep having the frankfurters and pastrami and lose everything else meat related. There are a couple of options out there for "fake" hot dogs, but it's just not the same.
We found Quorn brand dogs to be the closest hot dogesque "meat". Not a lot of luck with pastrami...but we have a local restaurant that maks a killer tempeh rueben! That's basically the only time we had pastrami, so we don't miss it at all!
Good luck!
In Peace, Light and Love,
Kim
A lot of the fake meat is delicious. And it's a good way for someone who loves the taste of some things to not have to lose that taste, but be able to cut out the meat.
Maybe they don't get the staisfaction of having made a true sacrifice, but some of us are too into pleasure for that anyway.
I may like fake chicken more than I like real chicken.
But I LOVE carrot-shaped beef. My absolute favorite.
I think it's more a replacement for protein, not necessarily a meat replacement...and having grown up eating meat, that whole meat, vegetable, starch (potato or rice) meal ideal was really engrained into us. So replacing the meat with a high protein substitue, which may or may not taste/look like meat is a seemingly easy transition. Some of our meals have "fake meat" and others do not. When we first gave up meat, it was a much easier switch to just make the "meat" not real meat.
This is how/why we use "fake meat", anyway.
In Peace, Light and Love,
Kim
I really wish I could become a vegetarian, and I may try it.
The problem is that since I'm ten years old and my family could never be vegetarians, I'd have to make everything myself. Let me know if you have any really good vegetarian recipes, specifically substitutes for foods made with meat. ^_^
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Kylie --- Junior Lime Addict
That's tough, Kylie. We tend to post food recipes on Wednesdays, many of which are already vegetarian or can easily be prepared as such by just leaving out meat or subbing in a soy product.
Best of luck!
Hi Kylie,
I found vegsource.com to be very helpful with recipes...Chef Deb can also take a meat-based recipe and change it up to make it vegetarian.
Good luck!
In Peace, Light and Love,
Kim
There's a lot of nastiness here.
Can everybody just chill out and have a conversation?