What Foods Do You Miss As A Vegetarian? (mcdonald's, breakfast, tomato)
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If you have not been a vegetarian your whole life, perhaps you miss some foods you used to enjoy. I've been a veggy for about twenty-five years (I'm 59). A couple of things I miss... Scrapple either fried thin and crispy or thick and browned on the outside and soft inside. Served along with scrambled eggs, perhaps on toast as a breakfast sandwich. Tuna salad, this is a craving I've had for years. Used to be served at the cafeteria at work in a quartered tomato on a bed of green lettuce. .... I've got to stop writing now
The last meat I missed was Arby's Roast Beef sandwhich, strange enough. I use to miss McDonald's cheeseburger...I think it was the warm ketchup/mustard/pickle combo, because now I get my fix at BK with the veggie burger "my way."
There is so many different fake-meat products now that I can satisfy my nostalgia whenever it crops up. Although I have to admit it would be hard to reproduce a veggie scrapple!
I have only been a vegetarian for 9 days and I miss red meat a lot. Particularly lamb, cheeseburgers, gyros and steak. I don't know how much longer this will last. I'm tempted daily and am hopeful that these cravings will subside. I still eat poultry but am getting really bored with it and never liked chicken or turkey as much as red meat and unfortunately, I don't like fish or seafood at all. I always said that if I could give up red meat, I'd be the perfect vegetarian. So I finally decided to try it. It's been tough but I'm hanging in there. Since I'm still eating chicken, I guess I'm not really a vegetarian. Just someone who has given up red meat and pork.
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I have only been a vegetarian for 9 days and I miss red meat a lot ...
Perhaps this wasn't a good thread to start. I forgot about folks who look in this forum for information about changing their diets. I've been eating meatless for so long that I take it for granted. I will ask the mods to close or remove this thread.
That said, I hope Chinolala that you will enjoy some good new foods and don't fret too much about it. There is no test at the end or judges to appear before I got into a vegetarian diet gradually. For example, I'm not vegan (love cheese too much) but I don't want to eat eggs. However, I eat them three or four times a year at a church breakfast. I don't worry about those few times but think instead about the dozens I would have eaten when I was one of those folks who always had some in the fridge. Six eggs eaten vs many not.
When I changed I thought "How am I going to eat?!" But my tastes changed. It's funny but I really love broccoli And I loved the lunches I made from the salad bar at the work cafeteria. I was lucky to have a Seventh Day Adventist hospital in my community that provided community outreach and healthy living classes, including meatless cooking (SDA's are vegetarian). Oh some of the yummy dishes we made there. There we also learned about the designations of various types of vegetarians. There are vegans (no animal products) of course, and then there are lacto (dairy) and ovo (eggs) vegetarians. Most are lacto-ovo vegetarians (eat eggs and dairy). The teacher also discussed folks who eat fish or chicken but no red meat and call themselves vegetarians. So she suggested they are called "chicko-fisho" vegetarians
So don't worry about the foods you eat. Enjoy the new ones you discover, and did I say enjoy? You'll really start to feel good and you tastes will change.
Perhaps this wasn't a good thread to start. I forgot about folks who look in this forum for information about changing their diets. I've been eating meatless for so long that I take it for granted. I will ask the mods to close or remove this thread.
Personally, I don't see a problem with this thread. There's nothing wrong with missing certain foods that you no longer eat. I rely on a lot of meat analogs, and I know that many vegetarians won't go near those -- but without them, I'd really miss a lot of foods (and I've been vegetarian for more than 20 years now)!
I agree with squeezeboxgal. Besides, it is good for people struggling cutting out meat to know that there are enough of us that miss certain foods, even after years, and that we are still sane and very happy with our choice!
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I got into a vegetarian diet gradually. For example, I'm not vegan (love cheese too much) but I don't want to eat eggs. However, I eat them three or four times a year at a church breakfast. I don't worry about those few times but think instead about the dozens I would have eaten when I was one of those folks who always had some in the fridge. Six eggs eaten vs many not.
And I loved the lunches I made from the salad bar at the work cafeteria. I was lucky to have a Seventh Day Adventist hospital in my community that provided community outreach and healthy living classes, including meatless cooking (SDA's are vegetarian). Oh some of the yummy dishes we made there. There we also learned about the designations of various types of vegetarians. There are vegans (no animal products) of course, and then there are lacto (dairy) and ovo (eggs) vegetarians. Most are lacto-ovo vegetarians (eat eggs and dairy). The teacher also discussed folks who eat fish or chicken but no red meat and call themselves vegetarians. So she suggested they are called "chicko-fisho" vegetarians 
