Do't you miss meat?

Question

i have been thinking of becoming a vegatarian for health reasons. I am healthy but i have a history of high choloestrol and heart dieseas and i know diet has a lot to do with it. I love meat though. like i can't make through summer without ribs on a grill at least twice. I am half puerto rican and as a kid we went to puerto rico and a few days before Christmas we would drive out to a farm and pick a pig. a few days later he would be slaughter and delivered and we would roast him whole. i want to do that with my kids. I think i will be a vegatrian part time eating right but there is no way i can give it up 100% i would miss it to much

Answer 1

Course i don't miss meat.

I eat meat all the time, VEGE meat that is :).

Oh, and you cant be "vegetarian part time".

There's no such thing.

If you eat meat, your NOT a vegetarian.

Answer 2

I used to think that meat tasted too good to become vegetarian, but now that I'm vegetarian, I don't miss it. I found that a whole new world of flavors opened up once I did some exploring and experimenting with vegetarian foods.

For those who want to go veg without giving up the taste of meat, there are faux meats like veggie burgers, veggie sausages, and veggie bacon. These products look and (depending on the brand) taste like meat, but are made out of plant-based ingredients.

Years worth of eating less meat will improve your health more than a brief stint as a vegetarian, so it's important to take an approach you can sustain. You can make exceptions, like eating meat on certain occasions, and still improve your health by eating vegetarian the rest of the time. Good luck!

Answer 3

Well it pretty much sounds like you found a solution to your own problem. You don't have to give up meat for good just have it less often. Maybe just once a day instead of for every meal. And if you do have meat just eat it in moderation. Try to keep youself healthy.**

Answer 4

WELL!!!  I don't miss meat at all!  There are LOTS of great meat alternatives.  Morningstar Farms has the best!  Also if it's ribs your craving, Gardenburger brand has ribs.  They are SOOOO delicious!!!  For serious....the meatless stuff tastes just as good if not better than the dead animal kind.

Answer 5

Ask a worker at your local grocery store where their soy products are. The brand Lightlife has a variety of soy foods that taste just like meat. They have soy lunch meat such as turkey and roast beef cut into slices just like real meat, chicken fingers, chicken cuts for stir-fry, fake meat chili, fake beef hot dogs, and more! You can also go to http://www.lightlife.com/index.jsp?WT.mc... to find delicious vegetarian recipes. Hope this helped!

Answer 6

First to say I've nothing against being a vegetarian.  Second to say I respect them, but I am not vegetarian.  Yes, I have been vegetarian in the past and I have missed eating meet.  However, having said that a vegetarian diet doesn't always mean a healthy diet.  Fried foods can clog your arteries as can salt and highly processed food.  Don't let anyone ever let you think that being a vegetarian limits you to the produce section of a store, that is so not true.

There are alturntives.  Morning Star Farms, and Boca make very excellent vegie meats.  Those are the two kinds you will find the easiest.  However there is LomaLinda and Woringthon Foods and I think Woringthon Foods are the best of the best.  I do have to cuation that although the fat that is in real meat isn't present in the vegetarian meats they are extreemly high in salt.

Good luck with this quest, it can be healthy if and only if you do it correctly!

Answer 7

I havent missed meat at all, but I never ate that much to begin with. I have never had things like ribs, pork, veal, lamb, duck, sausage or lots of other common meats. Giving up gelatin has been the hardest for me.

Answer 8

To answer your question, no I don't miss meat.  I've been vegan since 2006, and the smell and sight of meat makes me wretch.

I used to think I could never get through a cup of coffee without a cigarette, but I managed to quit smoking and I still enjoy coffee.

Giving up eating meat is like giving up any other maladaptive behaviour - it's tough at first, but you adapt, and eventually the behaviour (and the desire to use the behaviour) becomes extinct.

Answer 9

I would have classified myself as a meat and potato kind of guy. Lately I have been eating allot more fish (like 4-5 times a week) as an experiment. I eat chicken or tofu the other meals. I have to say that I've lost weight but feel pretty good. I wake up more easily and don't feel as tired as I did before after eating a steak. I think I still love red meat but I have upped my fruit and veg intake substantially. I don't think I'd go all the way to stop eating meat but maybe a little less of it (allot) and way more fruit and vegetables is probably not going to hurt. as far as the pig is concerned I would chalk that up to a family affair and do it because it sounds fun. Traditions are very important.

Answer 10

I've never really missed it. I stopped and havn't touched it other than a mishap or two in my not knowing there was meat in a dish until I ate a bite. It's not all that big a deal. My daughter stopped cold turkey too (she's half Puerto Rican) and says it was easy. It's dairy that's the though part.

Funny that you would mention pig butchuring and Puerto Rico, I saw a home movie from Puerto Rico of a pig butchering, it screamed in horror the whole time and no wonder. Even some of my Puerto Rico inlaw family members turned away from the tv screen. Anyway I'm getting nasty, the point is, veggie diet makes you look good, smell good and feel good.

Peace Dear.

Answer 11

To answer your question, no. I don't miss meat, at all.

Occasionally I will get a longing for some cheese, but as far as meat is concerned, I can't do it.

Answer 12

Wow. You want to be vegetarian... but you also want to take your kids to pick out a pig to SLAUGHTER? Do I have that right?

If you have high cholestrol and a history of heart disease you should really limit meat.

Answer 13

You can easily create another ritual with your kids that doesn't involve killing something.  It's probably not the food you're attached to, but the event.  But, it's your choice to make.  If you're in it for the health benefits, having meat on occasion won't kill you.

For me, it was predominantly an ethical decision and I believe in the choice I've made so I stick to it.  I had one craving for meat about a year after I gave it up, but that was it.  Now it's been so long that I couldn't conceive of putting that in my mouth.

Answer 14

Oh, yes, I miss the TASTE, but nothing else about it!  But I stopped eating it because of ethical reasons.  I watched a movie called "Earthlings."  Watch it here:  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=...

After watching this and a few other videos, I completely turned around and just wanted nothing to do with this cruelty any longer.

I too am Puerto Rican and I'll never forget the taste of freshly-fried empanadillas, long-roasted pernil, and my grandmother's rice, beans, and pigs' feet...  DELICIOUS!  But what happens to get those foods to me just completely turned me away from all of them.  I also now think of meat as dirty and bloody and just plain dangerous, even more reasons why I'm opposed to it!

Answer 15

I've only been vegan for about a month now (I didn't have an in-between state) and I do miss meat sometimes. They make plenty of meat alternates that taste like meat though (or close to it). If you want to become a vegetarian for health reasons, but you don't think you could go without meat, you don't have to go vegetarian if you don't want to. Just limit how much meat you eat and try to healthier ones. If you decide to only eat meat sometimes though, please don't call yourself a 'part-time vegetarian'.