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I very occasionally miss tuna sandwiches and mcdonalds cheeseburgers, gross I know. I've been veg for over 2 years and overall, after a few intense cravings in the beginning I really don't miss meat. I am suprised sometimes when I think about it because I really used to love steak and chicken.
Going from vegetarian to vegan has been much much harder for me and i'm not completely there yet.
I don't really miss any of the food I ate in my youth (went veg in my early 20's). I found that veggie food is very tasty and interesting, especially indian and thai cuisine.
Meat does not appeal to me at all, when I think of where it comes from. It is downright repulsive to me.
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I've been a vegetarian for five years now, and only occasionally miss turkey and duck.
But I think the missing is more in my mind if I let myself think about it, because if I happen to catch the aroma of meat or fowl being cooked somewhere, the smell actually makes me feel a bit queasy. Not pleasant.
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
Can't help you with the tuna salad qw, but what about making some bubble and squeak to go with your scrambled eggs and toast?
I realise the flavour would be different but it's still pretty tasty and the texture sounds like it might be similar. NOT that I've ever had this scrapple thing of which you speak.
I failed at my only concerted effort to be a vegetarian over 20 years ago but as I live with a vegetarian I spend a great deal of time vegetarianizing (like my new word? ) a lot of my meals. It's hardly worth the drama making 2 versions of dinner in such a small household. As it turns out my meat consumption has dropped considerably.
My vegetarian, for some reason, misses Lambs fry and bacon!!! bluk!
I don't miss the actual meat but I occasionally make my favorite ole meat dishes fake: I love faux "chicken" & dumplings. & faux biscuits & gravy are so awesome.
Pizza with dairy cheese, for sure. I feel better about it, though, after I read Neal Barnard's latest book and learned about the opiates in the dairy cheese...it isn't my imagination that the cravings have a physiological basis. It is easier to fight off cravings if I know what I am dealing with.
I agree -- I think that's the hardest step to take!
Me too Me Too!!!
Why...??? I would Love to be VEGAN by the end of this year... well maybe after all the holidays...
I am however Mostly Vegan at home now but when I am out, as everyone knows it is just a difficult task to always find foods that will be a good enough meal, other than the silly iceberg lettuce salad, that is Vegan...
And foods that I miss.... I would have to say cheese as well... just seems like something is missing w/o that slice on even a veggie sandwich.
But still sooo glad to be veg and will never go back, even though sometimes it feels like everyone around me, actually that I am eating "different" than everyone else around me... Ugh, yeah his or her sandwich/meal may look good... at that moment!
Nothing. I literally miss nothing. I became a veggie around the age of 15 and am 33 now. My daughter (preteen) has never had meat in her life and has no desire either. My husband occasionally eats meat when we go to restaurants and neither one of us even bats an eye. I am Ukrainian though, and did not eat the traditional American meat foods, or when I did, I did not like them that much when I was a child, nor did I like the traditional Eastern European amimal foods either.
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) a lot of my meals. It's hardly worth the drama making 2 versions of dinner in such a small household. As it turns out my meat consumption has dropped considerably.
