Vegetarian? Here I go AGAIN

I would love info on this also. My husband is a major red meat eater...so it will be hard.

make sure you get your iron!!

funny, i "officially" became a vegetarian after eating a gross huge burger! I suggest finding good recipes and plan ahead with your food choices. I've been a vegetarian for a year officially but didnt each very much meat before that. You can also try slowly weeding out meats too...it works for some people. There are so many great foods out there that you dont *need* to eat meat.

Also, I had issues with depression and acid reflux, both of which have been completely eliminated since becoming a veggie. I've NEVER felt better in my entire life...so much energy and so "clean." I also dont have mood swings any more...i really think its due to all the hormones they inject. (i eat organic veggies/fruits to avoid pesticides for this reason too)

ill tell you what i am currently doing. I am about 70% on my way to becoming vegetarian! I'm doing it because i love love love animals and it would keep me from eating out a whole lot more! Ok so i took it VERY slow. i gave up Beef in 2010.. this year i cut out chicken and then i guess next year i am giving up turkey and pork (which i don't eat much of anyway) . You can switch it up obviously. I gave up beef first because i am not a fan of steak and there are tons of substitutes for ground beef (cause i love Mexican food yum yum) So yea. It has been hard giving up chicken but not impossible. I am still debating on whether or not ill give myself a day or two during the year to eat meat. (as a little treat)

As for living with a spouse that is not a vegetarian.. i can't help you haha i starting all of this when i moved out of the house for the first time but because my dad passed i moved back home with my mom and brother and they are meat eaters. so i just go shopping for myself.

The biggest thing you need to be aware of is that getting protein will be harder. Vegetarian forms of protein tend to have a lot more carbs than you need. And fake meat products are highly processed and again, have a lot of carbs. They may help with meat cravings but they aren't good for you. I was vegetarian for 10 years, vegan for 2, and that's when I started gaining a lot of weight.

Until I got pregnant with my first child I was vegetarian and my husband ate meat. I had been veg. for so long that it wasn't an issue for me. I'd make some meals like tacos or lasagna with veg. meat and he couldn't tell the difference. Or, I'd make other meals that he could add meat to if he wanted, like pasta and salad, stir fry, etc.

. i buy alot of morningstar products they are tasty but expensive.

haha me too!!

Quorn and Linda McCartney in the U.K. are what I have. I've been vegetarian since the age of 4 from my own choice. All my family members ate meat, but I was stubborn. Eventually my mum became a veggie too, and my dad sometimes was veggie but sometimes wasn't! He liked to eat the odd bit of meat at work and would go through phases. I've gone through phases of eating fish and not eating it at all. I currently eat tuna occasionally, and fish cakes which don't contain much fish anyways.

My ex boyfriend ate meat and so do all my friends. I recently cooked a spag bol for me and my best friend, which she loved! She hadn't tried veggie mince before but gave it a go. We're going to be moving in together soon, and I think spag bol will be a dish I can cook which she'll enjoy. I have no problem with people around me eating meat, as long as they don't try and peach to me, the same as I wouldn't to them.

I'm not sure what it's like where you're from, but here a lot of supermarkets do their own brand or cheaper brands of meat free products. A vegetarian Linda McCartney sausage contains 11g of protein per sausage. I have recently made more of an effort to get my protein up, and have it with most meals of my days off without a problem. I do have anaemia though, and take iron tablets for that.

Good luck!

Sorry about your house!! I am a veg, and my roommate (meateater) and i cook together all the time. She will just cook meat separately to add to whatever we make. Asian dishes seem really easy to make like this....stirfry, curry, veggie saute's...Just be ready to do more dishes than before

For me, not eating meat is natural....i hate the taste, except for hot wings...(which obviously, is just the sauce) so i will get veggie nuggets and put hot sauce on them, bbq sauce on tofu, things like that. Maybe make sure you have lots of "meat accessory sauces" at your finger tips, and the transition wont seem so hard?

Real simple magazine always has great veggie recipes too if you need inspiration!

The thing about most veg. meat products is that they're made with GMOs (genetically modified organisms). GMOs do not undergo any long term testing so the health effects aren't known. The bottom line is that GMOs are not things we should be eating.

Quorn isn't. Nor is Linda McCartney. At least in the UK they are the 2 biggest brands by far. You can find this information very easily on their websites...so I don't know what brands you are referring to although I would like to know so I can avoid them.