Nothing with a face ! Are you vegetarian ? (MN roll call)

[hub2dee]

I was just wondering who on MN may be veggie (and for how long)... add any other comments you want to make

I'll begin:

15 years

dw - pescetarian (I think that's the correct term - no meat but eats fish) - 17 years

Comments - we find it brain-numbingly easy, an easy choice IYSWIM. Wondering how we will handle meat / fish and dd (currently 19 weeks)...

Over to the rest of you !

I've been vegetarian for about 12 years, following six months or so of feeling very guilty about eating meat - sounds silly but it suddenly dawmed on me that I didn't need to feel guilty, I could just not eat it. So I don't. I don't eat fish, never did even when I ate meat.

My dh isn't veggie and neither is my dd; she was veggie for the first 2 years or so, because it was easier for me to taste her food and check for temperature that way, but once she discovered meat, she took to it in a big way. It means I have to prepare and cook meat (organic and "freedom foods" only) but I'm OK with that; I can't inflict my choices onto someone else. She knows I'm veggie but I haven't told her why; I can't guilt-trip a 4 year old into doing as I do!

It was a very easy choice for me, and I'm still happy with it now. I don't miss meat in the slightest and can't see me ever going back to eating it.

I've been vegetarian for 18 years. dh isn't, dd and ds aren't.

Nope - meat eater. All of us.
My dad was a butcher when i was a kid and I have no qualms about eating meat.
Don't feel guilty, these teeth were supposed to chew meat.
Nothing against veggies - I just wouldn't want to be one.

me- carnivore
cant eat fruit at all and some veg, makes me very ill, some veg ok with

dh- eats anything
kids- eat anything
dd2 - vegetarian for 20yrs, never liked meat since weaning
dd3- does not eat fish

Oh, was I only suppoased to sign in if I was a veggie?
Sorry and hope my meat eating habits don't offend anyone.
Each to their own and all that aye.

I am vegetarian. Have been for 14 years.

DH was a pescetarian when we met, he'd been vegan for a few years, about 12 years ago.
Now he is a big meat eater!

DD1 was veg for first year, like WWB's. Now she eats meat when I make it for them. DD2 is a meat eater.

I buy, prepare and cook chicken and fish for them, also mince. I don't particularly enjoy it, but do it as it is my choice not to eat meat.

The only person who has ever really made a "thging" about it is MIL. But only a couple of comments!!

not veggie except for special occassions, but don't eat beef. Like veggie food though and dont eat meat every meal. I don't understand people like my parents who never ever eat a meal without meat.

I also don't quite understand how veggies can prepare meat for others. Not anythign against it, but can't quite see hwo they can brign themselves to do it. I wouldn't touch beef, and it's not allowed int he house.

Yes, Thomcat. This thread is only for vegetarians.

You should be ashamed of your carnivorous tendencies, LOL and, although fearful of kicking off a rather large discussion, last time I looked I had quite a few great big molars and some weedy looking incisors

Oh dear. War. LOL

Kelly, I cook meat for my dh and dd because it's not my place to tell them what they can eat and what they can't. Vegetarianism is my choice, not theirs; I feel that it's wrong for me to inflict my choices onto them. It's hard to explain to someone who doesn't understand though.

No chance of me feeling guilty or having a row / war with anyone Hub, least of all you
Whatever you say about teeth I say back they are designed to chew meat, we're supposed to eat meat. If you choose not to then good on you, I respect you, totally, but you won't catch me chomping into a beanburger over a fillet steak, never in a milion years mate
Love you loads
TC x

I can understand you don't wnat to inflict your choices on them, but I can't understand you would want to cook it for them. I wouldn't inflict it on my kids, but they won't be allowed it in the house. Sorry if I'm going off topic.

I don't touch it, and I hold it as far away from me as I can with a pair of very long tongs

As well as which I'm just too nice to make him go without meat

I have been veggie for 15 years until pregnant with ds when I started eating fish. still eat fish but not seafood. DP gave up meat after we had been together about a year. He's not as hard core as me - I am a big factor in why he still doesn't eat it years later.

My rule for the children (who are 5 and 3) has always been that they can eat what they like when they are offered it at other people's houses/ when we go out but I will not buy or cook meat at home. I have told them my reasons for this but that it is a personal choice and they see that many people do eat and enjoy it.

My ds has tried the odd bit of meat and not really liked it and definitely went through a short phase a year ago of being quite gory about it all "I want to eat the pig and drink its blood" but that passed. At the moment he doesn't want meat because he sees the connection between meat and animals - who knows how he will feel when he is older.

Pescetarian for 20 years now (blimey- didn't realise It was that long!)

I still come up against much discrimination (see thread in summer about being laughed at for requesting vegetarian alternatives at B.B.Q!!)

I gave up meat because well, I guess I never liked it (I blame mothers cheap cuts of braising steak, yak)
I hate the roll up the sleeves brigade ("oh so if you're a veggie how come you have leather shoes?" etc etc yawn!!!)
and I don't feel as though I have to justify my dietary choices with anyone!!!

PMSL, I know it';s not supposed to and Hub is probbaly going to be very upset with me, and probaly lots of other people too, but I'm going to be honest - all this talk of meat is making me really hungry! I can't wait for dinner tonight. Aberdeen Angus beefburgers! Sorry, sorry, sorry veggies, but Mm - Mmmmmmmmmmm.

I am a veggie, have been for nearly 11 years, dont eat gelatin, animal fats, or animal rennett, dont drink milk, and only have eggs in things, not on their own. dp eats meat, every type of meat, dd (8 months) is veggie so far, but I know she may want to eat meat when shes older.
I do try to avoid cooking meat, as the smell makes me feel ill, especially pork and fish, but I often cook chicken for dp.

kids and dh are carnivores btw

lol, i agree wwb, u must be very nice!

tc - u shud be ashamed!

I have been veggie for 8 years (i think!) bar a brief spell after I had Linus when I had a craving for meat!!!! Ate it and got the most awful stomach cramps.

omnivores here

me - veggie for 12 years (which is when I gave up fish, although I gave up meat two years before that). Avoid rennet and gelatine, eat (free-range) eggs and dairy.
dh - veggie at home (we have an almost blanket meat ban - once in a while he'll bring some bockwurst home), eats meat when out and about or at people's houses. Is pretty happy about that. He wants to give ds meat when he's old enough though, and I'm very reluctant. We have sort of compromised on organic meat once a week and fish once a week.