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 !

hub, is Camille already 19wks?

Oh yes, please all make sure your mince pies are veggie !!!!!!

Ah, and the finest of traditions: veggie English breakfasts, LOL.

hausfrau LOL
no, i love fruit and veg but just cant eat most of it, as it does make me ill
does it make you ill too???

Yep, f.i.t. We just bathed her. She has chubby legs. And tonight she did her first attempt at a giggle. Brill. Only short, and more of a delighted squeal than full on belly-laugh but it was music to my ears.

I was veggie for 7 years...

then decided to eat organic well cared for meat ONLY, so now i eat meat, but i have to be SURE its good well cared for meat.

Piscaterian for 5 years

My big temptation would be a hot dog from a stall with loads of onions and ketchup and mustard

yum...............

Hub
Chubby legs and giggling! bless.

i am vegetarian (11 years) and DP and DD also are. we eat no meat or fish, but still eggs and dairy.
my parents became pescetarians within a year of me giving up meat.

I am a veggie. I have been a veggie for 23 years

Both children are, and always have been, veggie.

PMSL Hub

A veggie profiterole - what????

And what's a veggie Xmas and a veggie fry up - don't even go there with your nut roast!
Gross.
Get some bloody meat down you man

oh and now you will hate me - every Xmas day it's tradition, one that me & d started a few years back - to ahve fois gras to start
It is me that cooks all the veg as I love to do masses of differnet type veg with a twist, like sprouts with bits of bacon and mustard seeds and cabbage with greens and garlic, oli, bacon and veg stock and mashed swede, sweet potato, parsnip & carrot, and sugared, buttered carrots etc. All very, very nice but has to be eaten with turkey, How is it Xmas otherwise??

Veggie BBQ next summer it is then !

OK I'll 'fess up - I was vegge for 13 years but started eating fish again when suddenly started losing weight in my 20s - since have lapsed into eating poultry and even some red meat for one reason or another - always seem to be partnered to people who prefer me to eat meat (yes I'm confused about that one too) DP has actually said he's not prepared to be with another vegetarian woman (ex-wife was)

I know this is no excuse really and now I'm feeling guilty about eating meat again - there are so many good reasons not to eat meat.

Sorry - meant to add that that';s fab about your DD and her first attempt at a giggle, how lovely, bless her.

Vegetarian for 25 years- started eating fish occasionally (white only- can't stand anything that smells/looks 'meaty') when ds1 was 2 and not gaining weight (didn't make any difference).

DH used to eat veggie at home/meat out but once the kids were old enough to realise he had something different he switched- his idea, not mine.

All kids brought up veggie. Oldest 2 are over 18 and can do what they like but have stuck to it- younger 2 still toeing the line at home (I have no qualms about inflicting my views onto them ). They like tuna etc which although I won't touch myself I buy for them... agree with unicorn on the roll-up-sleeves brigade

Don't be ridiculous, what's a veggie bbq????!!!!

Am I winding you up yet?

But sod that, a bbq without chicken thighs or sausages or ribs, or king prawns - get otta here!

Suppose I'm a vegetarian now don't eat meat used to have to eat it for work though (taste tests) combination of being in one abbatoir/factory too many and just not liking the taste did it for me.

DP definite carnivore

DD eats chicken/fish once or twice a week.

Don't miss meat at all in-laws will remark over dinner about feeling sorry for me eating my veggie dinner why? it's my choice no one is forcing me to eat it and I would rather eat it than a piece of meat.

Best food in the world: profiterole.

Is it veggie ? Yes.

Ergo, the best food to eat in the world is vegetarian.

A veggie Xmas is lovely, first we visit the turkeys which survived the cull, LOL, then we have quorn or soy or nutroast and a million billion delicious veggy dishes, LOL.

I hope one day you get to force feed your own source of fois gras.

If you invite me for a meal, will I be able to have the sprouts (cos they've only got 'a bit' of bacon) ? LOL. I've had several aunties attempt to get some beef / chicken into my system with, ahem, enhanced veggie soup.

Hey ! There's gonna be a party ... and Thomcat is NOT invited.

I am a veggie. Have been since I was 9 am now 26 so...oh YEARS!!
DP is a meat eater.
Both dds were weaned with meat and fish.
DD age 7 now refuses to eat any meat/fish products( more to do with her always been a veggie friend who HAS to tell them exactly what they are eating every single mouthful than me)
and
DD age 4 enjoys cod and chips too much at the moment to take on board that if REALLY is a fish.
I thought I would let them decide themselves so that family, mainly DP, wouldnt give me grief for putting my choice on them IYKWIM
And of course it is their choice.

And while im here what do you lot BUY (not make, crap cook) for Xmas dinner, had a look round marks and sparks today and there was nothing. Sainsburys used to do a gorgeous vege roll thing....discontinued...

"Ergo, the best food to eat in the world is vegetarian." - PMSL - can't really argue with that!

Please tell me you don't really visit the turkeys which survived the cull!!!!!!!!!

And PMSL - you're so not selling it with your quorn or soy or nutroast!!!!!!!!!!!!

I haven't force feed my own source of fois gras, but I have seen it done. So cruel, but so, so tasty. How can something so cruel taste so good??!

hub - I'd cook veggie for you any day babes, you and your lovely family would be welcome to the finest veggies I could muster. You know I love you, even if you are a weirdo veggie

Anyway - go and be happy for me over in SN's now please, I had a good report from the Portage visitor today

You see, that's the great thing about TC, you present a sound argument and she has the maturity and grace to admit she has been wrong all her life and start knitting muesli and ensuring a strictly vegetarian diet for her family.

LOL.

charliecat: I really like a quorn roast. It's a lump of thingy, shaped like TURKEY slices (you know what I mean, before you slice it. Like a giant sausage), LOL. You roast it in its wrapper in the oven and bits sometimes even go crispy on the edge and you can carve it up and pretend you are TC.

It's delish though makes you fart. Love it.

veggie stock poured over it. veggie stuffing.

I've been veggie for nearly 20 years.
DH is not. He cooks meat for the kids now and again.
The kids (esp. dd) flirt with vegetarianism now and again so with any luck at least one of them will join me in the end.

I'm another 20 year-long veggie. I was completely vegan for a year, and we still eat mostly vegan, but my god I love the taste of CHEESE so much .

Dp is a huge carnivore. However he is kind enough to not eat it in the house (plus the fact I do all the cooking )

Ds is veggie and I will do my best to make sure he stays that way.

DH and I both pescetarian, me for 12 years (since we got together), DH for about 15. DD1&2 mainly pescetarian but like puddle, they can have meat when offered it at other people's house as I don't buy or cook meat at home.