Shawn and I have been vegetarian for not quite 5 months now. I’ve come to terms with not being able to go to a restaurant usually or having friends and family have to go to places we can eat. Sometimes it frustrates me so much I can’t stand it.
I don’t tell people they can’t eat meat. It’s their choice the same as my own. That said, I’d really appreciate it if people thought about it a sec. Look at a menu like TGI Friday’s as if you were vegetarian and notice how everything in that menu has meat, even all the salads. I find it sad and bizarre.
Shawn’s sister is getting married soon and thought of us in regards to the reception. She asked about vegetarian meals for the two of us, which is being accommodated. The thing that makes me so mad about it is that Americans (at least) feel the need to have meat in every bite they eat. Why does the reception hall have to make two servings of mashed potatoes without bacon. I’d bet that the reception party wouldn’t care one way or another, so just don’t use the bacon. Do you really need bacon in mashed potatoes in the first place? I didn’t like that even when I ate meat. I like and liked plain, smooth, creamy mashed potatoes without skins in it or meat or anything except maybe garlic. So they’re preparing that and two servings of green beans without meat plus some Alfredo pasta thing.
For my work holiday party we are going to a Montgomery Inn, which is a BBQ rib joint basically. So I’ve been emailing the girl planning this asking her to find out about vegetarian meals for us because even vegetables have to have meat in them, dont’cha know?
The food pyramid tells us that veggies, fruits and grains should be the big portion and meat and dairy the small portion, but go to any restaurant, just about, and they appear to never have learned this. THAT’S WHY WE ARE ALL FAT! Farmers grow more crops for animal feed than people food and global warming will kill us all.
I guess I really shouldn’t post angry.
I don’t say stop eating meat, if you do eat meat, just eat it the way you should. You do not need meat in every bite of food you eat.
While the health benefits of most frozen meals aren’t up for much debate, there is one benefit that I greatly appreciated from Banquet TV dinners and Michellina’s entrees; time. My free time is cut so thin these days that it could easily be blown off the table by a passing breeze and slide right under the door, gone forever. So when we went vegetarian I was relieved to see our local Kroger’s freezer moderately stocked with SoyThing and Meat-Not-Meat in handy microwavable packages. A month later and I’ve realized that the trade off for slightly healither, meatless, and quick meals is a price I’m not always willing to pay.
