Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 My friend Lisa & I are on the long hard journey of better health and are doing our best to seek out information and recipes. I've been meat free for I want to say 3 weeks now and I truly feel so much better. I'm working on becoming dairy free but I haven't made the full switch and I'm hoping this board will help. It's one thing to invent recipes with items you are familiar with and have been using for years....another to jump in blind with new items and unfamiliar flavors. I hope to find recipes here that will give my husband the feeling of " fullness " (for lack of a better word) that he gets when eating meat - not to be deceitful mind you but to ease him into at least eating less meat (for now) without freaking him out and making it such a huge and forced thing. Trying to convince a meat and potato man that I can live otherwise is an interesting debate to say the least... Thanks in advance to any help you can offer. -- Nicole W. Katy, TX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 6, 2007 Report Share Posted March 6, 2007 Some of the unmeat loafs, made with beans and rice are filling and can be covered with a sauce so that hubby's eyes and mouth tell him he is eating meat even if you tell him differently. Portabella mushrooms also have a meaty texture that pleases a meat and potatoes man. Then there are all the traditional italiam pasta recipies. If you put chunks of onion and pepper into your sauce your hubby won't notice that there is no meat there. If his eyes and mouth are happy, his is making big steps toward meatless eating and being far more accepting of different things. Good Luck. I converted my husband, so I have confidence you can do it, too. Katie " Nicole W. " <cdwdnw wrote: My friend Lisa & I are on the long hard journey of better health and are doing our best to seek out information and recipes. I've been meat free for I want to say 3 weeks now and I truly feel so much better. I'm working on becoming dairy free but I haven't made the full switch and I'm hoping this board will help. It's one thing to invent recipes with items you are familiar with and have been using for years....another to jump in blind with new items and unfamiliar flavors. I hope to find recipes here that will give my husband the feeling of " fullness " (for lack of a better word) that he gets when eating meat - not to be deceitful mind you but to ease him into at least eating less meat (for now) without freaking him out and making it such a huge and forced thing. Trying to convince a meat and potato man that I can live otherwise is an interesting debate to say the least... Thanks in advance to any help you can offer. -- Nicole W. Katy, TX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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