are you a vegetarian, vegan or a hard core non vegetarian ?

India
May 29, 2007 5:18pm CST
Nothing against non-vegetarians, but my parents were hard core vegetarians and so now i find it difficult to eat any kind of meat or fish. I eat eggs but thats my limit on the non vegetarian side. My husband eats everything but has never forced me to try out anything or even get any non vegetarian food in our house.
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@gradyslady (4054)
• United States
26 Sep 07
I was a hard core vegetarian, but then I started having a lot of health issues and they pretty much started when I stopped eating meat, but because of vitamins I was able to keep up with my health and all that, but then I got really really sick and things were getting worse so my doctor advised me to start eating meat, even if it's not a lot, so occasionally I will have some meat now.
30 May 07
Our familyh9both my side of the family as well as my husband's side of the family)as been vegetarian since many many generations.It is only my parents who started encouraging us to eat eggs as part of a health conscious diet.I don;t eat eggs regularly,maybe once a week or so.My daughter likes eggs.My husband and his side of the family dont eat eggs either but they are fine with diary products like milk,butter,ghee and honey as is common with millions of vegetarians in India.But recently I have had to cut out the diary in my diet too since I discovered I am intolerant to lactose and I get migraines from drinking milk and diary yogurts.
@brimia (6581)
• United States
30 May 07
I'm vegetarian. I've been almost 100% vegan for the past few months.
@sweetlady10 (3611)
• United States
30 May 07
We are pure non vegetarian lol. Me and my hubby really like to eat non vegetarian food. But we do enjoy vegetarian food too. If something is tasty then I just like to eat that. In nonveg we don't eat some stuff though. Like we don't eat beef, lobstar and there are some more. We don't have any problem with people's eating habit. After all it's a complete personal choice.
• United States
30 May 07
When I was growing up in a professional stoic household, dad was a medical doctor practising conventional no holistic or alternative, just straight conventional medicine, it was meat and potatoes, few vegetables (he wasn't much of a veggie eater so the pattern continued). Thank goodness I had good and bad things happen to my body over the years, including a rupturing ovarian cyst in 2006, that halted me in my lifestyle specifically diet and exercise plans. Nothing major really just the fact that all along I was not eating in accordance to my blood type, AB+. I read Peter D'Amo's book on the subject and I don't care what anybody says, the man is a genius in thinking this way. It fits perfectly to what Edgar Cayce preached about regarding elimination and assimilation--don't put in what you cannot properly digest to get out. So in answer to your question . . . I am supposed to be vegetarian (no meat at all) according to my blood type BUT during the cycle of womanhood, a craving of red meat happens ! It is just the lunar baby in me I guess that simply ignores what the body says and feed what the desire says, I pay for it later with some cramping but at least I am aware of what I should and should not consume. Veggies, veggies and more veggies I am free now ! sharing the light, Erica, the Enlightenment Advisor M.A. Transpersonal Psychology Studies Counseling http://www.enlightenment-psych.net/ericasprofile.htm
• Austria
30 May 07
Vegan. My husband is like yours. I used to be vegetarian while he ate meat and he was happy eating tofu. He never asked me to buy him meat or cook him meat. So that's nice. All my friends felt so sorry for him. Now we are both vegan, well he's more vegetarian because he just can't say no to cake, hehehe. Our kids are vegetarians.
@limcyjain (3516)
• India
29 May 07
Our family too is pure vegetarian and we never ever eat anything non veg not even eggs. Rather when we go out to some eating joints too we see that we go to a pure veg one as i cant take the smell and scene of being in a place where non veg is being eaten. We being jains are very careful on this issue.
• United States
29 May 07
I go easy on the meat and meat products myself. I do not eat any type of red meat at all whatsoever, no pork, beef...I eat some or certain sea foods... I do not eat any meat on a bone. I find meat attached to a bone to be very animalistic, disgusting and barbaric.....thus I eat poultry(turkey & chicken) mainly but not on a bone. You would be surprised the number of recipes I have developed for turkey and chicken! As far as other products, cheese I absolutely love. Cheese and ice cream are my favorite foods. However, I do not drink milk. I cook with milk and eggs but I don't eat or drink them. I grew up eating deer, lamb, etc...and now there can NEVER be a GREATER distance b/w me and most meats......
@shestalou (293)
• Canada
29 May 07
I am not a vegetarian but I do not eat meat every day, I usually eat a little bit of everything, variety is the spice of life, lol.