I want to be a vegitarian but......?

Question

what can a vegitarian eat or not eat? Befor coming one you have to no what you can and can't eat!:] So please help me!

Answer 1

It all depends on what kind of vegetarian you want to become.

Plain vegetarians don't eat red meat* (beef, bison, etc.) or products derived from them, but they do eat other meats/animal products like chicken, pork, seafood, products derived from them, and honey.*

Lacto-ovo vegetarians don't eat any kind of flesh or products derived from animal parts (like gelatin, oils made from animal organs, etc.), but do eat eggs and dairy, its derivatives, and honey.

Ovo vegetarians don't eat any kind of flesh, products derived from animal parts, dairy, or its derivatives, but do eat eggs and honey.

Lacto vegetarians don't eat any kind of flesh, eggs or products derived from animal parts, but do eat dairy its derivatives, and honey.

Vegans don't buy or eat any animal products, whether it be flesh, products derived from animal parts, eggs, dairy, honey, leather, fur wool, sheepskin, carmine, etc. They also don't use any products tested on animals.

Most home-made gravies are made from drippings of roasted chicken, turkey, etc.

*Red meat is flesh that has a bright red color when it is raw.

**Vegetarians can also be a variation of any of these. I know a person who was a vegetarian. She wouldn't eat any meat, dairy, eggs, derivatives of animal parts, but she would eat seafood. The fact that she wouldn't eat any red meat made her a vegetarian.

Answer 2

Vegetarians can eat a bunch of stuff!

Remember that all of the things you liked to eat before have alternatives. If you're going lacto-ovo vegetarian, meaning you still eat milk, cheese, and eggs, then you can buy Morningstar Farms foods. They have lots of mock meat hot dogs, chicken patties, etc. If you're cutting dairy and egg out of your diet, then Boca is the way to go. They don't use milk in their products.

There are meat substitutes for everything you can think of. What you could do is try thinking of your favorite foods and then thinking of ways to reinvent them veggie style.

For example, I love tacos. I eat them all the time and I'm vegan. You can either substitute the meat part with beans, or you can go to the store and buy some fake meat crumbles that look like ground beef, cook and season them, and have tacos as usual. If you like, you can buy some soy cheese to sprinkle on top of the taco if you like.

It's not so difficult, you just have to make sure to check ingredients to see if there are any animal products in them.

PS a fish is an animal, and so is a chicken, You won't believe how many people think otherwise.

Answer 3

No meats , no products with rennet(some cheeses), no gelatin(jello and many candies), no lard also watch out with many snacks and candies because many of them contain animal products also not Mars candy if you live in the U.S.

Answer 4

It isn't that hard really. All you have to do is substitute all the meat you would usually use with soy meat (they have soy meat for just about everything). Eat the same foods you usually would.  Also try some vege stuff like tofu, soy milk, and soy cheese. Protein shouldn't be a problem as long as you eat beans, nuts, tofu, and stuff like that.

I don't think gravy is vegetarian, but I'm not too sure on this. Some stuff you should watch out for that aren't vege friendly are:

Skittles

Starbursts

Some soaps

Some toothpastes

Some lotions

marshmallows

Nerds

A lot of red candies (consist of carmine aka bug juice)

Yogurt

and a bunch of other stuff.

All of the stuff below consist of gelatin, glycerin(e), or carmine.

Gelatin-Cow hooves, fish bones, and pork skin

Glycerin(e)- can either be vegetable fat or animal fat- have to call company to find out

Carmine- bug juice, used to make candies reddish color.

Answer 5

A vegetarian does not eat the flesh of any living creature. No beef, chicken, fish, seafood, etc.

Answer 6

Sorry but it really annoys me when people are so interested in labels. It shouldn't be a case of you wanting to be a vegetarian and then finding out how and why. It should be that you don't eat meat because you don't agree with it and that THEREFORE makes you a vegetarian.

What are you 'allowed' to eat? You can eat whatever you want. You make vegetarianism sound like a religion with set rules you must adhere to. Just decide what foods you do and don't want to eat. If it turns out that you've become a vegetarian then good for you but blindly following a doctrine without knowing why just seems ridiculous to me. Sorry.

Answer 7

vegitarians dont eat meat:

hot dogs

steak

chicken

sausage

deer

fish

hamburgers

eggs

ect...

vegans dont eat meat or dairy.

Answer 8

Here is the definition by the people who coined the word: http://www.vegsoc.org/info/definitions.h...

Basically, vegetarians don't eat anything resulting from the death of an animal.  Everything else is fair game.

Edit: OK, to use gravy as an example... if it's made with a dead animal, you can't eat it.  If it's not, you can.  Most of the time gravy is made from the drippings from meat.  If you make gravy at Thanksgiving from the drippings from the turkey, that would NOT be vegetarian.  If you make gravy with vegetable broth, it would be totally OK.

Answer 9

what you have to know is that there are many types of vegetarians, all of which has a different diet.

Lacto-ovo vegetarianism:  no meat, poultry or fish. yes eggs, dairy and honey

Lacto vegetarianism: no meat, poultry, fish or egg. yes dairy and honey

Ovo vegetarianism: no meat, poultry, fish or dairy. yes eggs and honey

Veganism: no meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs or honey

Answer 10

The best definition that I know of is if it had a face you don't eat it.

Meat gravy is not vegetarian, but there are several ways to make vegetarian gravy. I'd suggest you borrow some books on vegetarianism from your library, and buy a couple vegetarian cookbooks.

Answer 11

Vegetarians can eat eggs and consume dairy products, but they can not eat any type of meat including fish.

Vegans don't eat eggs or consumer dairy, nor do they eat any other animal product including honey.  Strict vegans don't even eat refined sugar because a lot of times it is filtered through coals made from animal ashes.

Some people claim to be vegetarians but they still eat fish.  They are not vegetarians. They are pescatarians. Also there are people who still eat meat when it suits them and call themselves flexitarians.  There is no such thing.  You are either a vegetarian or you are not.  You can't have it both ways and they think they can.

Good luck with whatever choice you make.  To aide you in a decision, view www.meat.org

Answer 12

It's a lot of personal preference.  And there are different kinds.  Some eat eggs, some eat fish, etc.  I'm a strict vegetarian - I don't eat any meat (including fish), or eggs, or drink milk.  So, I don't quite fall into the category of Lacto-ovo, but not quite vegan either...

1. Pescatarian (also spelled pescetarian)

The word “pescatarian” is occasionally used to describe those who abstain from eating all meat and animal flesh with the exception of fish. Although the word is not commonly used, more and more people are adopting this kind of diet, usually for health reasons or as a stepping stone to a fully vegetarian diet.

2. Flexitarian/Semi-vegetarian

You don’t have to be vegetarian to love vegetarian food! “Flexitarian” is a term recently coined to describe those who eat a mostly vegetarian diet, but occasionally eat meat.

3. Vegetarian (Lacto-ovo- vegetarian)

When most people think of vegetarians, they think of lacto-ovo-vegetarians. People who do not eat beef, pork, poultry, fish, shellfish or animal flesh of any kind, but do eat eggs and dairy products are lacto-ovo vegetarians (“lacto” comes from the Latin for milk, and “ovo” for egg).

Lacto-vegetarian is used to describe a vegetarian who does not eat eggs, but does eat dairy products.

Ovo-vegetarian refers to people who do not eat meat or dairy products but do eat eggs.

4. Vegan

Vegans do not eat meat of any kind and also do not eat eggs, dairy products, or processed foods containing these or other animal-derived ingredients such as gelatin. Many vegans also refrain from eating foods that are made using animal products that may not contain animal products in the finished process, such as sugar and some wines. There is some debate as to whether certain foods, such as honey, fit into a vegan diet.

5. Raw vegan/Raw food diet

A raw vegan diet consists of unprocessed vegan foods that have not been heated above 115 degrees Fahrenheit (46 degrees Celsius). “Raw foodists” believe that foods cooked above this temperature have lost a significant amount of their nutritional value and are harmful to the body.

6. Macrobiotic

The macrobiotic diet, revered by some for its healthy and healing qualities, includes unprocessed vegan foods, such as whole grains, fruits and vegetables, and allows the occasional consumption of fish. Sugar and refined oils are avoided. Perhaps the most unique qualifier of the macrobiotic diet is its emphasis on the consumption of Asian vegetables, such as daikon, and sea vegetables, such as seaweed.