Going vegetarian for a week

[Amanda P]

We rarely eat meat. We might have sausages once a month or a bacon sandwich now and then, but we never do the meat-and-two-veg thing. I'm shocked to find that, often, a piece or packet of meat would cost nearly as much as the rest of our shopping put together.

And when we do occasionally buy supermarket chicken, for a barbecue or something, it doesn't actually taste of anything; we might as well be eating cotton wool. So it's pretty rare we bother.

We don't really eat 'vegetarian' dishes. We just eat the normal stuff that everyone eats and which doesn't have meat in it anyway.

 

[roadrash]

I am a butcher by trade, one chap i worked for , ie, the shop owner, was a vegetarian, which i found odd

 

[MarkF]

I haven't eaten meat since 1984, though I still eat fish. I don't miss it, but a comment by a cycling friend that he feels that a good steak after a hard ride really helps his recovery made me wonder if there is any truth in it? I suspect that there isn't, as long as one gets enough decent protein etc. from other food sources.

It's easy to get protein form other sources. 1984 was about my time too, having never given it any thought whatsoever, I went into an abattoir (on a job as a sparky) and left a couple of hours later, a vegetarian. I've never missed meat from that day and at 53 I am in better physical shape than back then and, other than colds, have never been ill. Good luck OP.

 

[MarkF]

Having not eaten meat for so long, the smell of it cooking now makes me feel ill. My body has stopped recognising it as food. I used to miss cold ham and chips, but I'm over that now.

That's the downside for me too, the smell of the meat aisles in markets makes me retch.

 

[Cathryn]

Mrs Slowwww is running another half-marathon on Sunday and decided to cut meat and fish out of the family diet for a couple of weeks to get down to her racing weight.
The replacement meals have been imaginative and really tasty, but seemed to rely heavily on beans and pulses as protein substitutes, and so while our local furred and feathered friends have had some respite, there seems to have been a significant acceleration in the thinning of the ozone layer locally.

That's actually an issue for me. Protein sources as a veggie are full of fibre and, as a runner especially, this can get 'messy'!!

 

[ColinJ]

That's actually an issue for me. Protein sources as a veggie are full of fibre and, as a runner especially, this can get 'messy'!!

Do you take running seriously, or are you just 'going through the motions'!

 

[Dayvo]

Miss Goodbody isn't coming round, sadly

Did you knock her out?

 

[Fnaar]

Did you knock her out?

Well, she's asked me for a recipe.
So, I'll think of her later, and bash one out

 

[Dayvo]

I've been getting my own back on him in tiny increments for over 25 years now.

Try large excrements: that'll do the trick.

 

[Lullabelle]

Do you take running seriously, or are you just 'going through the motions'!

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

That's actually an issue for me. Protein sources as a veggie are full of fibre and, as a runner especially, this can get 'messy'!!

look up the herb called savoury. It can be either summer or winter savoury (one is an annual the other a perennial). When added to bean meals it helps with the wind issues considerably. In fact we have found it eliminates it entirely.

 

[Lullabelle]

Grocery shopping has been done, TVC thinks we may have over bought

 

[TVC]

look up the herb called savoury. It can be either summer or winter savoury (one is an annual the other a perennial). When added to bean meals it helps with the wind issues considerably. In fact we have found it eliminates it entirely.

So does a cork.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

So does a cork.

it does, but I think I'll stick with the herb. It is tasty and much more efficient in the long term, even if I did mis-spell it. There's no u in it... savory, not savoury.

 

[slowwww]

So does a cork.

At the risk of over-sharing, I'd have needed to attached braces, or at the very least large amounts of gaffa tape