Sounds like a typical saturday to me...Clawhammer wrote:Ahah!!! I'm with you now! :) By battling with your food, I had images of wrestling down a wildebeaste with ones bare hands! ..or swallowing down an unchewed lamp-chop (Labrador-style) :p
My new thing: Vegetarian Wednesdays!
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SlideTechnik
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Sorry, Paul, if it sounded that way. I didn't take it personally at all.The Deacon wrote:Don, it appears you took my answer rather personally. All I can say is, it was not directed at you in any way.
As an omnivore and non-religious person, I don't stand on any particular soapbox, and, like you, I believe that meat-eating is the natural way of humans.As for your rebuttals, I think I'll just note that both Axlis and myself mentioned we were not doing meatless days for ethical, religious, or philosophical reasons, but merely as a change of pace.
Reading again and remembering the title of the original thread, I agree that you certainly don't need meat substitutes for a single day of the week... why bother?I won't presume to speak for him, but perhaps you can understand why eating meaty tasting non-meat products on days I elect to go meatless might be less appealing to me that to someone who chose never to eat meat. I don't begrudge the vegetarian or vegan their right to not eat meat, or the Jew or Hindu their right to be selective as to which meats they will, and will not, eat. But I am non of those.
We are all influenced by people we admire, which makes you one of the most influential people on the board, in my opinion. So, in light of your comment -- "If I want the taste of meat, I get it the old fashioned way, I eat meat" -- I was thinking of people who might like to extend their one day a week to more... just to let them know there was more variety out there than they might imagine.
Again... I'm sorry if that didn't come across as well as I intended... or went on for a little too long. :)
Cheers,
Don
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Axlis,
Your experiment is interesting. About 15 years ago I gave up meat for Lent (40 days). I was suprised that it was not that difficult and started to question why I was eating meat. I don't like to do things if I don't have a good reason to do them, so I became a lacto-evo veggie and have never looked back.
I'm not saying you will do the same, but there are benefits from reducing your consumption by even the small amount that you are. Good lock with your diet.
My suggest for quick veggie food, Taco Bell, Burger King (yes Burger King) and the sub joints (Subway, etc.).
Jim
Your experiment is interesting. About 15 years ago I gave up meat for Lent (40 days). I was suprised that it was not that difficult and started to question why I was eating meat. I don't like to do things if I don't have a good reason to do them, so I became a lacto-evo veggie and have never looked back.
I'm not saying you will do the same, but there are benefits from reducing your consumption by even the small amount that you are. Good lock with your diet.
My suggest for quick veggie food, Taco Bell, Burger King (yes Burger King) and the sub joints (Subway, etc.).
Jim
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If we took all the grain that we feed to animals so that we can eat meat when we want to....all that grain would feed the entire world's hungry and starving population three times over....just something to think about!...BTW Ronald McDonnal (the guy who dresses up as he) is a vegetarian :eek: ...Doc :D
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About a month ago we had a retirement lunch (and the first retirement party in the company) for one of the guys from QA. His wife is Indian and he loves the food so we had an Indian menu.
Our product support tech was worried about not being able to eat anything, but then we all brought vegetarian dishes :p
I'll have to go through my emails from her and grab the link for recipes. Some of the items looked downright tasty.
Quite often on weekends I'll eat vegetarian. Usually that means I'll throw together bulgar wheat, a couple large onions, field mushrooms, and then a dill and cilantro sauce on it. Though the dish is very easy to through chicken breast in if you want meat you won't miss it. Have a bowl of that and you're good for quite a while.
When I get around to making lunch today it's going to be wild salmon in a butter dill sauce, with long grain brown rice and a couple roma tomatoes. Just have to get the rice cooker going before I do my running around, might even have enough rice for supper to go with the rib-eye steaks I grabbed yesterday. I don't think I could do one day a week without meat, though I only eat beef a couple times a week. Nice juicy rare (edging into medium-rare) steaks.
Supper thursday was a steak night with work, 4"x4"x~1.5" slab of still mooing rare new york strip. It was warm all the way through with the outside seared long enough to get color on it. Hmm.... still mooing.... (insert drool here).
Of course they served chicken and a veggie stir-fry alongside the steaks, and the only large meals were the stir-fry :p
Our product support tech was worried about not being able to eat anything, but then we all brought vegetarian dishes :p
I'll have to go through my emails from her and grab the link for recipes. Some of the items looked downright tasty.
Quite often on weekends I'll eat vegetarian. Usually that means I'll throw together bulgar wheat, a couple large onions, field mushrooms, and then a dill and cilantro sauce on it. Though the dish is very easy to through chicken breast in if you want meat you won't miss it. Have a bowl of that and you're good for quite a while.
When I get around to making lunch today it's going to be wild salmon in a butter dill sauce, with long grain brown rice and a couple roma tomatoes. Just have to get the rice cooker going before I do my running around, might even have enough rice for supper to go with the rib-eye steaks I grabbed yesterday. I don't think I could do one day a week without meat, though I only eat beef a couple times a week. Nice juicy rare (edging into medium-rare) steaks.
Supper thursday was a steak night with work, 4"x4"x~1.5" slab of still mooing rare new york strip. It was warm all the way through with the outside seared long enough to get color on it. Hmm.... still mooing.... (insert drool here).
Of course they served chicken and a veggie stir-fry alongside the steaks, and the only large meals were the stir-fry :p
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Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
Why do people worry more if you argue with your voices than if you just talk with them? What about if you lose those arguements?
Slowly going crazy at work... they found a way to make the voices work too.
I am prety sure if I go a day with out meat it is an accident. I do see how people do it though and I don't see to many really fat vegetarian people walking around so there has to be something to it. I guess I just love eating meat to much to give it up, not just beef but elk :) deer even bear once and a while, oh and antlope. If I gave up meat I would have no reason to hunt every year and then would have no reason to put up with work for the other 49 weeks. My sister in law is a eats no meat and she cooks some really tasty dishes from time to time.
Butch, you my kind of cook!
Butch, you my kind of cook!
Good luck! All I can say is mmmmm Hamburgers. :D Joking of course.
Another diet that some may want to try is a Gluten and Casine free diet.
My son is Autistic ,and we found out through many sources that this diet has worked very well for Autistic children.So we tried it.The theory is that these two substances act as a sort of narcotic to a Autistic person's brain.We have found that it works great for him.He can function lots better and his behavior is lots better.
As others have said, our bodies were designed to eat plants and animals.The one problem with store bought meats is that they are full of preservatives,chemicals, and hormones.My family eats only Bison(free ranging grass fed) or Deer.These meats are very low in fat and quite tasty in my opinion.
Another diet that some may want to try is a Gluten and Casine free diet.
My son is Autistic ,and we found out through many sources that this diet has worked very well for Autistic children.So we tried it.The theory is that these two substances act as a sort of narcotic to a Autistic person's brain.We have found that it works great for him.He can function lots better and his behavior is lots better.
As others have said, our bodies were designed to eat plants and animals.The one problem with store bought meats is that they are full of preservatives,chemicals, and hormones.My family eats only Bison(free ranging grass fed) or Deer.These meats are very low in fat and quite tasty in my opinion.
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I think it's a great idea...I'm an omnivore, but have been on a vegetarian diet 4 times in the past, the longest time for 4 years...as was said before, Indian food has lots of great vegetarian dishes, and you might also check out Middle Eastern and Greek...it's not all lamb as many might think! 
One thing I can say is if you meditate, being a vegetarian seems to be much more conducive to that than being a meat eater... :cool:
Have fun!
Agent Starling
One thing I can say is if you meditate, being a vegetarian seems to be much more conducive to that than being a meat eater... :cool:
Have fun!
Agent Starling
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If you're looking for recipes, I recommend this one: ratatouille over pasta. It's surprisingly simple to make and really good. The ratatouille is great by itself too.
http://www.kqed.org/w/morefastfoodmyway/episode225.html
http://www.kqed.org/w/morefastfoodmyway/episode225.html