Have you converted anyone?

[justlookatmenow]

have you managed to convert anyone to become vegetarian/vegan?
Or has someone converted you?
If so how?
(I'd like to convert someone, can't see it happening though)

Sorry justlook it just made me laugh!
Ya both bu for eating quorn though, I've been a lifelong vegan without resorting to the devil's own foodstuff

So, he always accommodates your vegetarianism when he cooks, and you accommodate his. But you are missing out on yummy dinners because when he doesn’t cook, the food is crap. Is it that you don’t want to cook and want him to do it all?

Because “you could learn to cook” seems like the obvious solution you haven’t considered. Yes, much better to push your husband to be vegetarian than to make the effort to learn to cook.

that's basically crack! I binged all series of below deck and below deck med in a ridiculously short amount of time!

😂 That’s exactly what happened to my sister. I’m now a pusher.

LOL

Seriously!

J smith 99
I'm far from a sanctimonious dick head, honestly I'm far far from perfect. It was just that I'm missing my partners gorgeous dinners, he supports me, takes the piss out of me, it's all very not serious. Like I say I handle and cook meat

We were dairy shamed by our two, adult, daughters.

But it was our fault - we brought them up as vegetarians and they went that extra step.

We should have done it years ago.

My ex boyfriend became a vegetarian about 6 months after we started seeing each other (I’d been a vegetarian for about 9 years before that) and I got lots of ‘joking’ remarks from his friends about how I’d converted him to being a vegetarian, which did get a bit tedious on occasion. I’m a vegetarian (now mostly vegan) for moral reasons so obviously I think it’s the right choice to make, but I don’t try and foist it on other people.

My current partner also became a vegetarian after we became friends but before we were together, so maybe I am good at accidentally converting people

Several people think they’ve converted me to boycott nestle. I just nod and smile then go home to enjoy another kitkat or aero bar.

Why would you want to do that? Leave people alone to their live choices!

31 years of vegetarianism ... I've ate fish and dairy up until recently

Vegetarians don't eat fish

So, he's just made a homemade lasagne a it looks, smells delicious.....my god I wish it was made with quorn, I'd demolish the lot!!!!!

Sanctimonious not.
Selfish streak yes.

We've managed for ten years like this so far, we accommodate and take the piss slightly out of each other, it's seriously not a big deal for those of you that think it is.

The only vegetarian i have known was always ill, permanent cough and very pale
Vegans and vegetarians should get on with their own life and stop trying to ram it own everyone elses throat ,i understand the ethics of it, but its just not good for everyone

Whatwouldleslieknopedo

Pescitarian.

I'm just having a go at vegan since October, making mistakes, but just trying

My aunt has been vegetarian for 25 years. Never said a word Oddly enough out of her 4 nieces 2 are vegan and I'm veggie with very little dairy, if she had preached nobody would have taken a blind bit of notice

Hope I've made myself clear that I really don't have an issue with anyone eating meat.....

So, he doesn’t accommodate when he cooks?

You seem confused.

I’m also wondering why so many seem to think it’s fabulous that they can concinve their new boyfriends turn veggie, but if a meat eater tried the same with a vegetarian it would be a heinous crime?

I'm not a preacher, my god no one I know would take a blind bit of notice anyway

Ahhh OP, what a shame that it seems to be upsetting you how much you’ve unintentionally rubbed folk up the wrong way. Did you not realise how much vegan hatred there is out there?! It really upsets people and often seems to make them feel they are being criticised. Then talk of converting- well you can’t blame folk for thinking you’re judging. Although you’ve clarified and it’s clear you’re not, the vegan hate is still there tho!

Anyhoo, I had a vegan friend who tried for years to convert me by sending me hideous videos of whaling and pig farming etc. It did nothing but make me feel guilty. Then I met DH who was a veggie and Buddhist but never pushed it on me, but the respect for life within Buddhism moved me and I became converted

I have been converted to various things over the years - I chased a lot of external ideological parameters of good when I was young and ended up in a quite a few groups that use some or all of the BITE model to keep compliance.

I wouldn't really recommend doing that to someone you care about, especially not so they'll cook meals for you. Give the resources that inspired you, sure, maybe even cooking together with trying out alternatives together, fine, but leave it at that.

Also, ASDA's own brand vegetarian mince is far better in lasagna than quorn.

And by "resources that inspired", don't send gruesome videos. I don't think that would go over well. Probably should say "positive resources that inspired you".

31 years of vegetarianism ... I've ate fish and dairy up until recently

Vegetarians don't eat fish.

To lighten the mood. Saw this on my fb wall today:

Hope the link works!

Glitterstick

I think I would be more inclined to eat a chicken we have raised than one off a Tesco shelf. Not in that position yet so can't clarify I have done, or know if I will or won't.

I’m no veggie but I think I’d be less inclined to eat an animal I had raised. Farewell Clucky. You did taste good with mayo.

The only reason I'd like to 'convert' (sorry) is because he's a fab cook and I'm missing out on his making dinners.

Relationships always work much better if you see them as getting somebody to come and work for you for free rather than forming a mutually-respectful partnership of equals

'Converting' somebody is a very loaded, controlling concept. What's wrong with discussing your views with people, respectfully listening to their views and then, if either one of you decides, completely of your own volition, that you'd like to move partly or fully in the direction of the other one, that's just great. If you're both happy as you are, that's just great.