From Vegetarian to meat eating and clean eating

cherapple

This may be a touchy subject, but I've been a vegetarian for several years and I've recently decided to start eating meat again. I'm excited because now I feel like I can really try clean eating. I just need to learn to buy, prepare, and cook meat again -- and get over my squeamishness. If I never eat another processed soy item, I'll not be disappointed.

Is there a clean eating club around here?

Cheryl

cherapple

This may be a touchy subject, but I've been a vegetarian for several years and I've recently decided to start eating meat again. I'm excited because now I feel like I can really try clean eating. I just need to learn to buy, prepare, and cook meat again -- and get over my squeamishness. If I never eat another processed soy item, I'll not be disappointed.

Is there a clean eating club around here?

Cheryl

yoginimary

I don't think there is a forum for that.

I also don't think that vegetarianism and clean eating are mutually exclusive - just ask the Indians.

kerrilucko

I don't think there is a forum for that.

I also don't think that vegetarianism and clean eating are mutually exclusive - just ask the Indians.

huh? so confused, you know meat is a huge part of a traditional native american diet right?

You could alwasy start a clean eating group or thread. I know there are some people on here that practice it. You may want to look into buying your meats directly from a farm or, I know there are some on here that farm their own meat. Good luck to you! :flowerforyou:

Fitness_Chick

This may be a touchy subject, but I've been a vegetarian for several years and I've recently decided to start eating meat again. I'm excited because now I feel like I can really try clean eating. I just need to learn to buy, prepare, and cook meat again -- and get over my squeamishness. If I never eat another processed soy item, I'll not be disappointed.

Is there a clean eating club around here?

Cheryl

We're all in the clean eating club per se around here:flowerforyou:

Perhaps stirfry might be a good place to start off? Veggies and a lil EVO and a bit of chicken, shrimp, whichever you'd like to start out with......

I think perhaps to some 'clean eating' is subjective... but to many of us eating healthier now it's more a term we use as eating less processed foods and well, eating cleaner..

Sorry if I've not been to awful helpful but just trying to think on things you can incorporate into your food that might be an easier way to include animal proteins that you're thinking of doing.:drinker:

Fitness_Chick

I don't think there is a forum for that.

I also don't think that vegetarianism and clean eating are mutually exclusive - just ask the Indians.

huh? so confused, you know meat is a huge part of a traditional native american diet right?

You could alwasy start a clean eating group or thread. I know there are some people on here that practice it. You may want to look into buying your meats directly from a farm or, I know there are some on here that farm their own meat. Good luck to you! :flowerforyou:

Whoops sorry...perhaps I've totaly misunderstood now that I read Kerri's post......so you're interested in more organtic meats etc? Oh I definitely go that route myself... I try to stay away from the whole hormone business as I have plenty flying around of my own at any given moment:huh: :blushing: :laugh:

Looking forward to you posting back in this thread to help clarify to us what you're interested in & how we can help you better....:drinker: :flowerforyou:

yoginimary

I don't think there is a forum for that.

I also don't think that vegetarianism and clean eating are mutually exclusive - just ask the Indians.

huh? so confused, you know meat is a huge part of a traditional native american diet right?

You could alwasy start a clean eating group or thread. I know there are some people on here that practice it. You may want to look into buying your meats directly from a farm or, I know there are some on here that farm their own meat. Good luck to you! :flowerforyou:

Indians - from India...:happy:

frithir

My best advise is to gradually ease yourself back into eating meat and experiment with what your body will and won't tolerate anymore. When I went back to being a meat-eater, I found that my body would no longer tolerate red meat of any sort and actually, doesn't play nicely with pork either. I know that saying you're partly vegetarian is like saying you're partly pregnant ~ it's an either or but in my case, with my husband's work schedule and hours (not complaining ~ THANK GOD he has a full-time job), we usually don't have sit-down meals together during the week and when I'm making a meal just for myself, 99.9% of the time, it's meatless. Maybe try alternating days of meat and no meat and see how you do with that.

kerrilucko

I don't think there is a forum for that.

I also don't think that vegetarianism and clean eating are mutually exclusive - just ask the Indians.

huh? so confused, you know meat is a huge part of a traditional native american diet right?

You could alwasy start a clean eating group or thread. I know there are some people on here that practice it. You may want to look into buying your meats directly from a farm or, I know there are some on here that farm their own meat. Good luck to you! :flowerforyou:

Whoops sorry...perhaps I've totaly misunderstood now that I read Kerri's post......so you're interested in more organtic meats etc? Oh I definitely go that route myself... I try to stay away from the whole hormone business as I have plenty flying around of my own at any given moment:huh: :blushing: :laugh:

Looking forward to you posting back in this thread to help clarify to us what you're interested in & how we can help you better....:drinker: :flowerforyou:

I could be totally wrong but I took it to mean clean as in no chemicals added. A lot of meats we buy in stores contain hormones etc. :flowerforyou:

kerrilucko

I don't think there is a forum for that.

I also don't think that vegetarianism and clean eating are mutually exclusive - just ask the Indians.

huh? so confused, you know meat is a huge part of a traditional native american diet right?

You could alwasy start a clean eating group or thread. I know there are some people on here that practice it. You may want to look into buying your meats directly from a farm or, I know there are some on here that farm their own meat. Good luck to you! :flowerforyou:

Indians - from India...:happy:

ahh got'cha, I was thinking you must have been very misinformed by someone, lol because I currently live on a native reservation and meat is about 50% of what people eat here, lol

Marla64

If I had someone to prepare my food, I could easily be a vegetarian-- I LOVE veggie dishes and could do without meat most of the time. But, no tofu-- I couldn't get past the look of it.

Curious-- do vegetarians not eat seafood and all that jazz, too? I usually assume it means red meat ???

Best to you as you try to make this switch--

cherapple

I love vegetables -- fresh, local, and in-season ones are probably my favorite foods -- just not processed soy products. I think vegetables should be on the bottom of the food pyramid (the old one), rather than grains. There is one brand of tufu that I like (Soy Boy) that I will probably keep eating once in a while, but frozen Boca burgers, tofu dogs, facon, fausage, soy cheese -- blech!

I'm still not actively seeking out meat for myself, but my kids eat meat and sometimes I'll eat their leftovers. I have eaten deli meat a few times, which is probably the worst kind to eat, but I feel so satisfied afterward! We bought a freezer a couple months ago, with plans to buy local, organic meat, so we hope to do that at some point. Manufactured meat is just so gross. :laugh:

By "clean eating," I mean the way body builders eat -- no processed or "man made" foods. If it comes in a box, it probably isn't real food. I don't think I'll ever be totally clean, but eating "cleaner" is always a step in the right direction. I simply feel so much better physically and emotionally without sugar and refined foods in my body.

I'm not sure that I was looking for help, so much as company. I just subscribed to Clean Eating Magazine and hope to find some good tips and recipes.

Cheryl

may_marie

Curious-- do vegetarians not eat seafood and all that jazz, too? I usually assume it means red meat ???

people that eat fish and seafood but no other meat are called pescarian. a vegetarian will not eat any animals. that includes mussles and oysters.
its a missunderstanding that vegetarian eat fishy things. they dont.
im a vegetarian and everybody assumes that i eat fish. i even had my mil cook a whole fish just for me. i really dunno where people get that assumption

for the clean eating part.
if your not used to eat meat, just make sure you cook it well enough ... you system is probably not used to eat undercooked meat and you can easily get sick. you can ease yourself into eating medium steak.

Fitness_Chick

I don't think there is a forum for that.

I also don't think that vegetarianism and clean eating are mutually exclusive - just ask the Indians.

huh? so confused, you know meat is a huge part of a traditional native american diet right?

You could alwasy start a clean eating group or thread. I know there are some people on here that practice it. You may want to look into buying your meats directly from a farm or, I know there are some on here that farm their own meat. Good luck to you! :flowerforyou:

Whoops sorry...perhaps I've totaly misunderstood now that I read Kerri's post......so you're interested in more organtic meats etc? Oh I definitely go that route myself... I try to stay away from the whole hormone business as I have plenty flying around of my own at any given moment:huh: :blushing: :laugh:

Looking forward to you posting back in this thread to help clarify to us what you're interested in & how we can help you better....:drinker: :flowerforyou:

I could be totally wrong but I took it to mean clean as in no chemicals added. A lot of meats we buy in stores contain hormones etc. :flowerforyou:

yea...ew on the added hormones in milk, meat which then includes, cheese, milk and eggs and does it ever end....:ohwell:

Fitness_Chick

I love vegetables -- fresh, local, and in-season ones are probably my favorite foods -- just not processed soy products. I think vegetables should be on the bottom of the food pyramid (the old one), rather than grains. There is one brand of tufu that I like (Soy Boy) that I will probably keep eating once in a while, but frozen Boca burgers, tofu dogs, facon, fausage, soy cheese -- blech!

I'm still not actively seeking out meat for myself, but my kids eat meat and sometimes I'll eat their leftovers. I have eaten deli meat a few times, which is probably the worst kind to eat, but I feel so satisfied afterward! We bought a freezer a couple months ago, with plans to buy local, organic meat, so we hope to do that at some point. Manufactured meat is just so gross. :laugh:

By "clean eating," I mean the way body builders eat -- no processed or "man made" foods. If it comes in a box, it probably isn't real food. I don't think I'll ever be totally clean, but eating "cleaner" is always a step in the right direction. I simply feel so much better physically and emotionally without sugar and refined foods in my body.

I'm not sure that I was looking for help, so much as company. I just subscribed to Clean Eating Magazine and hope to find some good tips and recipes.

Cheryl

Love that mag too! Very helpful in so many aspects well I'm glad you posted again as I too prefer what you've shared up above....much prefer non processed & eating as close to the source as possible:drinker:

ChubbyBunny

Curious-- do vegetarians not eat seafood and all that jazz, too? I usually assume it means red meat ???

people that eat fish and seafood but no other meat are called pescarian. a vegetarian will not eat any animals. that includes mussles and oysters.
its a missunderstanding that vegetarian eat fishy things. they dont.
im a vegetarian and everybody assumes that i eat fish. i even had my mil cook a whole fish just for me. i really dunno where people get that assumption

I think for the most part it's because the term vegetarian is used very loosely by lots of people.
I have kids that claim to be "vegetarians" but still eat chicken, some who use it as an excuse to eat junk, etc.

I didn't know what people who only eat fish were called.

***Edit: I think going slow is a good idea too. Once a week, alternating days, meals that only use small amounts of meats. That kind of thing, just to gradually adjust yourself. :flowerforyou: