I could easily do without meat for a week or two, but then my jaw does a kind of vampire thing and I need a bloody steak (in it's genuine state).

I just want that filo veggie thing you made ! *drools* 

 I'm vegetarian, the very thought of a bloody steak gives me the boak  ( I do cook meat for others though )

Slinki....here is dinner for us tomorrow night...

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/rec.../moroccan-spiced-pie

 

if you liked the sound of the filo thing I made, you should like that!!

 

ohhh bloodynora! I'm away to the 24 hour Tesco NOW!!!! ! That sounds gorgeous!  

Well, I was vegetarian for 15 years. I was really strict veggie too. Then when I was living abroad I was getting poorly and really stupidly thin because there was just no meat substitute. If you didn't eat meat, you ate salad....the end.  So I started eating chicken and fish.  I have been eating that for about 4 ish years now but to be honest i sometimes wish I didnt eat it. I would go back to being veggie tomorrow, its just laziness that stops me.

zazz, if you could feed me like THAT, I'd probably not miss meat!

 

Gyps, isn't there lots of options for getting the appropriate proteins these days?

Oh yeah, here but I was living in Turkey at the time, and there wasn't any sort of meat substitutes, no quorn, no veggie cheese, everything was cooked with chicken or meat stock. If you said you were veggie you got looked at like you were weird.    I had been successfully veggie for at least 13 of those years before Turkey.

Yeah, my sis lives in Turkey (but only for the next 5 days!!), and they aren't very flexible food-wise. I know that from my visit a couple of months ago. I'd have hated to have any kind of special dietary needs....

I have been a veggie for nearly 30 years now, I was 14 and eating a pork pie outside the local bakery in my school lunch hour when i saw the dead pigs being carried in.... Then and there i turned veggie. Its got a lot better now we have quorn but back then it was cheese or dodgy soya

Some years ago me and my husband were veggie for about six months (still ate fish for obvious reasons ) - we'd seen a programme on TV about the state of slaughter houses etc. and were really put off. It went quite well from July to December and then ..................................Christmas happened - we couldn't do Christmas with no meat - that was it!

 

I do really enjoy meat - I think I'd find it hard to go veggie again.

I couldn't do the veggie thing.    No bacon and eggs?   Ever again?    Oh no...not for me....

I;ve been veggie for nearly 15years

Although i do eat fish occasionally

So that makes me an erm . . . wots the word?

 

Oh, yes ... hypocrite

I sometimes think Veggies have a point but I can't do without my meat, sorry

Well der

 

Re Turkey. Does anyone remember gma who used to post here? She was veggie and her husband was Turkish and every summer they went to visit his family.

She used to say all the time about how bad it was there for veggies and how she was treated like a freak by her husbands family!

I've been veggie twice, I get anaemic and suffer colds & flu's a lot after approx 6 months. After being turned away from blood donors once again, I was told to eat more meat or more cereal. Seeing as I was eating 2 bowls of cereal a day anyway, I decided to go get a big fat steak and have never looked back since! I do sometimes still choose veggie options though, I love a good nut roast

Yeah, I remember her She was really nice.  I remember she shared my rant of lack of turkish pavements.

We've been eaten meat since the dawn of time.  I bet no caveman thought to themselves: "hmm would a lovely looking leaf that is, I sure hope its tasty" When they had a triceratops to munch on.

 

I ain't changing for no one, YA HEAR ME!!!!! 

 

Although I am a good boy and try to eat most veggies...excluding Cauliflower 

 

same here, life without a bacon sarnie?? oh no!

 

I do eat a lot of veggie food (peeps quite often think I am veggie ) and am not a big red meat eater really, I usually go for chicken or fish - I'm having chicken risotto for dinner tonight actually (with peas, asparagus and spinach in) Still though, I know I couldn't cut it out completely, occasionally I fancy some lamb or steak - plus I need to eat em to keep my iron levels right, I keep getting anemic  

only really acceptable as cauliflower cheese

That's even worse! 

 

The smell alone makes me wretch.  (but i do like cheese, i'm just awkward)

1 - 2 City

 

I became veggie 4 years ago although I do still cook meat for others.  I could ever eat meat again 

On a more serious note from moi . . .

i have been veggie for a long time - never, ever missed meat - have zero desire for it anymore. I do eat veggie meat alternatives but they are nothing like the real thing if i'm honest - i eat stuff like that for variety alone and not as a meat replacememnt.

Remember chips n beans is veggie *stands proud*

veggie all the way for me for the last 22 years

 

having a lovely broccoli quiche tonight with a few chips

Another veggie here.  I don't miss meat, fish or poultry - could never stand the stuff. It's great that so many restaurants now cater for veggies and we aren't just stuck with the salad or omelette option

 

i was in Ireland (a good few years ago), and we were gonna have some pub grub, i couldnt see anything veggie on the menu so i asked if they did anything - she said we have tuna lasagne

 

i dont miss meat, fish or poultry either, the one thing i do miss though are jelly sweets like haribo

 

you can get some jelly sweets now, but not a lot

My Moroccan spiced pie is almost ready...just waiting on little Gyps getting home to put it in for half hour and we will be filling out bellies!!! Looks and smells lush!!

I'm not veggie I love a red meaty steak, but I do like a lot of veggie dishes

Keep it from the kitties, zazz!

 

barney, I've seen some nice vegetarian lasagnas (with eggplant and such).

 

What are jelly sweets?

Atlas is far too fussy, and Zeus has more of a sweet tooth, I think the veggie pie is safe from them (its about the only thing that is!!)

I amend my question (since I googled ):

What makes jelly sweets non-vegetarian?

I dunno, But I didnt know until recently that Marshmallows have pork in

you mean MY Moroccan spiced pie! Gissit! !  ( i was a lazy panini wumman tonight ) 

gelatin  

( it's made from animal collagen)

and lots of brands of cheese aren't veggie either, due to the rennet content. 

  Especially the hard Italian cheeses like Parmesan

acchhh, it smells like feet anyways

Seriously???

Roasted marshmallows are my favorite! I shall have to push that fact out of my head, now.

 

Ah, collagen. Like Jello. I always forget about that.