Declan, I find one, do I get to keep it? :-p

Wasn't it Killer Kowalski that wanted the meat sandwich?   

Oh my, autocorrect fail, sorry Devlyn. Tapatalk doesn't let me edit or quote at the moment...

I've been vegetarian for my entire life and vegan for the past 6-ish (has it really been that long? apparently so!)
but sometimes it's easier to not ask too many questions about things... (especially when dining out )

I'm vegetarian because I like the food, but also because of health issues.  I was on Permarin for years and it's messed up my liver and kidneys a bit.  Nothing like being rushed off to hospital because you're peeing jet black urine 

I can't tolerate most dairy products, but that's Ok because I like soy.  A cheese like Edam is fine so long as I only eat small amounts of it, but cows milk will seriously upset my stomach.  Somebody suggested I try goats milk, but that gave me shocking flatulence for a day so I'm never going to try that again.

There's an Indian supermarket in the township and I buy most of what I eat from them, apart from fresh fruit and veges, because it's guaranteed to be vegetarian.  I like Indian food, - genuine Indian food that is, - hot spices and all.  In the big supermarket in town anything vegetarian with a western label on it is very expensive which is why I shop at the Indian supermarket where everything is much more sensibly priced.  The owner of the Indian supermarket was concerned at first when I started shopping there because I was fearlessly buying things which were seriously expert level spicey, but they are used to me now and don't try to warn me off buying things most white New Zealanders would find just plain too darn hot for their taste.
I'm not particularly wheat tolerant either so I eat brown rice as well as chickpeas and foods that use chickpea flour instead.

I now weigh the same as I did when I was 19 and I feel so much better for being exclusively vegetarian with much better energy than I had before.

Well I once read a very interesting article stating that in old times many people were plant eaters, omnivore meaning having the possibility but not need to eat everything. They also said eating plants is easier on the system.
Only during an ice age people reverted to eating more meat because plants were more rare.
Well, the ice age is over... there are plants in abundance and in great variety.
Vegetable soups, pasta with sauces, selfmade pizzas... its quite easy....

I also like some eggs from time to time...

Quote from: Tysilio on January 29, 2015, 06:23:46 PM
I didn't check any of the poll options, because none of them describe my eating habits. I'm an omnivore with a strong preference for natural, unprocessed foods; if possible, things I or a family member or friend have grown/gathered/hunted; next best is food grown locally, ideally by people we know; otherwise, we shop very selectively, buying the best food we can find from inexpensive sources -- the local co-ops, small ethnic markets, the meat counter at the liquor store (yeah, weird, I know, but they have great meat -- they're Italian ).

I like to know where my food comes from.

I totally agree Tysillio,  knowing how your food was produced is often more important than what you eat.  I prefer to get my food as local as possible.  It's always a good thing to know the farmer that grew the food if that's possible.   If you want to avoid something to do with food I would vote for the grocery store, give me a farmer's market any day.

I guess that makes me a farmersmarketvore
Paige

I checked part time meat eater, prefer vegetarian but occasionally eat meat/seafood (preferential)

L Katy

I "went" vegetarian for two years, and it was quite easy. It was tough at holidays, everyone eating turkey or ham, me gnawing away at my Tofurky. Yikes!

What turned me back to meat is we were camping, and rising from the tent one morning, the smell of 200 campsites all cooking bacon did me in. While Tofurky brand bacon (seitan), is ok, it ain't bacon.

I'd like to try being vegetarian again as I enjoyed the cooking, but my partner is dead set on meat seven days a week. I do not feel like cooking multiple meals a day.

I had a vegetable last fall. Well, a couple bites of green beans, but those are vegetables, right?  I am heavily anti-vegetable. My roommate eats the things though but then she is lesbian. I don't know if that has anything to do with it though, just thought I would throw that in to make me look open minded even though I hate vegetables with a passion.

I could not imagine not eating meat. I absolutely love love love tuna and chicken. I am trying to shy away from beef and pork, but I like meatballs and bacon/ham too much. I do see where vegans and vegetarians are coming from though.

I'm a pescatarian. I was completely vegetarian for a couple years or so, but then I gave in to the wonderful temptation that is seafood.

The funny thing is when people ask me why I eat fish if I'm vegetarian, expecting some thought-out moral reasoning for why it's okay to eat fish but not land animals, my answer is always just along the lines of, "Fish is too good to resist." Hey, at least I'm honest about it!