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We have a vegetarian family member, if I am cooking, I will make a lentil or a veggie curry with rixe, or a veggie frittata, we all enjoy the same dish & they are easy to make. If we are going to another family home, she will be happy with the starch & veggie portion of the dish, no fuss.
Yes, maybe a bit different because I am vegan but I have to put with family members saying its too hard work to do vegan meals as well, despite the fact that they could just do vegan and everyone could eat that. Simple.
Wow. You expect everyone to eat Vegan to accommodate you?
As a long time vegetarian, generally the only way family gatherings are affected is when Uncle Lenny notices someone is eating a veg plate and goes into an unsolicited 10 minute monologue about how much he just loooooves to eat meat.
I have a friend who's vegetarian. She's not "in your face" about it, and not preachy about it, and doesn't try to convert others to it. It's just her being her.
One time, we were hanging out, and we went to visit her cousins, who own a jewelry store. I get introduced to one of the cousins, and he starts telling ME that I should work on Nancy, and get her to eat a cheeseburger. So, here's this guy, telling a total stranger to him, telling me to annoy my friend. That's being a jackass.
I don't have a lot of experience being around vegetarians, but the few that I've known love to cook and share...and that's alright by me. LOL
You not only expect a non-vegan to figure out how to prepare a vegan meal, but expect everyone else to eat it too. That's pretty selfish. I had a vegetarian guest at a holiday once. I made an extra pasta dish without meat for her, used water instead of broth in another dish; plus she bought ingredients and made a vegetarian side dish. It was a group effort, and it was fine. It would not have been fine for her to expect everyone to eat only her food, and expect the host to prepare it.
If you're going to invite them, then you should fully accommodate them yourself with no fuss. Otherwise don't invite them.
Look, meat eaters are stupid hypocrites because apparently they love animals and yet they eat them. When you realise how stupid that is, what I say is no longer so stupid.
Apparently an animal lover says its selfish to save animals too.
I'm only saying this to make it easier to cook, its easier doing one vegan meal than one for meat eaters and another for the vegans.
And yes I do expect someone to know how to make a meal without slaughtering an animal or taking its secretions, its pretty simple really. We're in 2017 for god sake.
Would you like to go to someone's house in China and eat a roast dog? Would you expect them to do something different for you?
But it doesn't work that way, and you know it. Just bring your own plant-based food and offer to share it. If you don't cop an attitude, people might be open to trying something not animal based.
I don't eat meat, but I did for most of my life and I'm not about to start telling anyone else what they should or shouldn't eat or to accommodate my choice.
Don't invite me then. If a meat eater went to a Chinese party in China and there was roast dog, they would expect another meal for them. There is no difference.
Why is it acceptable to kill and eat a pig and illegal to eat dog?
Don't invite me then. If a meat eater went to a Chinese party in China and there was roast dog, they would expect another meal for them. There is no difference.
Why is it acceptable to kill and eat a pig and illegal to eat dog?
Lol, my daughter went to China and came back a vegetarian. By the time she returned to China the second time, she was vegan.
Spiders, snakes, baby sharks, scorpions, all fried on sticks and offered as street food.
But they wouldn't "expect another meal". That's where you are wrong. If you don't eat what the host serves, you bring a dish you can eat. I do that all the time, and make it something to share, not just for me.
If you choose not to go because meat is served, that's OK, too--provided damaging a relationship is worth making your point. I am not clear how setting up a conflict helps people see that eating animals is unethical. Just be an example without the preaching.
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