vegetarian in a meat eating world

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Our family lived with my inlaws for awhile.She has always made

dinners that include lots of side vegetables or has been concerned

with the things that I do and do not like to eat.When I became

vegetarian her vegetable side dishes dissapeared.Even the spaghetti

which she used to make with plain sauce began appearing with

hamburger in it.Salads became limp iceberg and shredded carrots.Not

very appetizing.It's like she took offense to me choosing not to eat

meat.Now that we don't live with her any more,she constantly offers

to cook me eggs, or make me a ham sandwich,how about some leftover

meatloaf?And no she hasn't forgotten that I don't eat these

things.These are the people that we don't visit much anymore,at least

not for dinner.

I have also been to many many restaurants where there was just

nothing for me to eat.Even the " vegetarian " options have some hidden

meat ingredient.I have also been to dinner where the main course is

fish,because they knew there was a vegetarian coming over.They are

shocked to here that it is meat just like any other living,breathing

animal.

I have had a neighbor take my daughter out for fast food and gave

her a hamburger because she thought just this once wouldn't hurt.When

I told her that it wasn't ok her response was " but she ate it all,she

liked it " I found out later she was really hungry and was not given

the option of anything else. I would almost rather hear she had worms

for lunch than a fast food hamburger.I wouldn't be surprised if they

did have worms in them.

 

 

 

 

> This sounds like the perfect segue into a fun side topic, just in

time

> for all the family- & -food holidays coming up. What have you been

> served, that could easily have been vegetarian and yet wasn't, by

> people who knew full well they were serving a vegetarian?

>

> 1) My aunt, knowing about 1/4 of the family guests to her holiday

> buffet would be vegetarian, and one of those vegetarians had just

come

> out of rehab, served enough food for 25 people despite the fact the

> only thing vegetarian (and not vegan, btw) was bourbon-laced mashed

> sweet potatoes (no, my cousin wasn't warned until I realized and

ran

> over to him just in time).

>

> 2) The Spanish restaurant that offered " vegetarian paella " which

made

> me so sick that I called up to confirm the ingredients, and of

course,

> it had been made with some sort of animal-based stock.

>

> 3) I was in a rural downstate town, where the only restaurant was

a

> Bob Evans. I explained to the waitress that I was a vegetarian, so

> could I have their (listed on the menu) side dish offer, of 3

vegetable

> side dishes on one plate? The green beans had bacon in them, etc.

etc.

> They couldn't even serve vegetables without pork products in them!

>

> Anyone else??

>

> Liz