Are you an ex-vegetarian?!
Are you an ex-vegetarian?
Are you or do you know someone who is an ex-vegetarian, or someone who used to live a vegetarian lifestyle but now eats meat again? Just curious (I'm vegetarian).
No rude answers please...
2 months ago
Becky Jo I'm American too...just so you know...
Answers:
2 months ago
Becky Jo I'm American too...just so you know...
Well, maybe u can consider me an ex-vegetarian. I was a vegetarian for a month for health reasons but soon I give up because I was seriously thinking about meat all the time especially fish. It somewhat defeat the purpose of being vegetarian. So, I stop being one.
However, I keep my meat intake to a minimum level. I will try my best to be vegetarian and if i feel my body needs some meat, I will eat some. Most of the time, itz seafood.
im an ex-vegetarian, hope to get back into that lifestyle again soon
I know a woman who was, and then wasn't. She had to go back to eating a normal diet upon her doctors advice. She became very anemic and had stomach ulcers while she was eating the vegetarian diet.
I am a vegetarian .
i was like, a vegetarian for maybe 5 months in 4th grade... i had to stop bcuz i couldn't and wouldn't eat cheese, or milk, so i didn't have any calcium, and all i was eating were carbs. and i wanted chicken tenders! and turkey
i'm all the above''
I can't be a vegetarian. I'm American. I eat BURGERS :-)
But hey, whatever works for you.
I was a vegetarian for 7 years and started to eat meat again when i got pregnant. All meat made me sick no matter what. It has been 4 years as a meat eater again, and still till this day I can't eat alot of meat without getting sick. I just don't like the taste and texture of it. I feel so much more clean without that stuff in my system. There are other ways for me to get the protein and what not that I need with out the meat.
i used to be a vegetarian but i developed anemia from a lack of iron so i had to start eating meat again...but i only do it for my health and i don't like it
i know someone who was a vegetarian for a considerable period, adopted it suddenly dropped it suddenly.
i was vegan for 3 year, but i got to be so anemic that i almost had a heart attack
i miss it so much ibut i value my life too much to stay vegan
use to be for yrs. very self righteous about it,too. then i started practicing Buddhist meditation and read how lots of Buddhist monks eat meat because they go on begging rounds and eat what they are served. so that's how i do it. i can choose to not eat meat by myself but if i eat at someones home i eat what i am served. that way i'm not "special" and no one has to go out of their way for me. so now i consider myself a meat eater who chooses not to eat meat very often.
my art teacher's friend is an ex-vegan. i dont know how you could go back to eating meat once a veg but.. its their choice, eh?
I was vegetarian for many years. I became a vegetarian because my mum is a vegetarian and I also got a job in a Deli. I started eating meat 5 years ago, but I still find it very hard. I can go months without eating meat. I only eat meat because I am unable to absorb Iron and nutrients as most people do. I still try and provide vegetarian options to my partner who eats a lot of meat. I will not eat meat that has been processed, non organic or not free range. Hope this helps
I'm a ex-vegan. I went to culinary school years ago, and all rules went out the window. If I didn't taste the things I made, I would get a 0 as a grade everyday I refused food. We were taught part of cooking is tasting, and you can't be a great chef without know what your food tastes like. I don't regret going back to eating meat and seafood one bit.
I was a vegetarian for three years, from the middle of my senior year in high school till the end of my junior year of college. As an experiment, my host family in Germany and I agreed we would try vegetarian dining for a week just to see what would happen and if we would miss eating meat (I was an exchange student). My host father did end up missing meat but the rest of us did not; we continued to eat vegetarian with my host mother buying the occassional salami or schnitzel to keep Papi content.
Upon returning to the US I found it very easy to stay vegetarian and did not miss meat at all; in fact the only edible meals churned out by the college cafeteria were usually the vegetarian ones. And when a friend said she saw the cafeteria getting a shipment of meat in and the boxes said "Grade E meat -- suitable for human consumption", well, certainly no temptation there.
But towards the end of junior year I was faced with a dilema. I was to spend my senior year of college abroad and had arranged going to the Balkans and staying with families for a half year. This was the very early 90s and I could imagine being the first American some people would meet, going to the local fest, being presented with a lamb's head or something and everyone expecting me to take the first bite of meat before launching the festivities -- well and then what? Whine "I'm a vegetarian" and have everyone hate me for offending them and ruining the fest?
Truthfully, I had no idea what to expect so I decided that before I find myself in a bad situation, I better get myself used to eating meat again. So three weeks before take-off I started to eat fish and I sampled a few thin slices of genoa salami -- I know, very meaty aroma but they are so slight it doesn't put a knot in your stomach.
It ended up that back then, people were so poor they really couldn't afford to eat meat all that often, plus it was harvest season so there were loads of fruits and vegetables everywhere. But yes, I was in situations where I was given a bowl of soup and told "this is our national dish -- pig stomach soup" and all eyes were on me to reply how wonderful it is.
Now I live in the Czech Republic and admit to continuing to eat meat, though far less than the national average (this is a very pork and potato country). When I first moved here fresh vegetables were limited to just potatoes, apples and the odd bit of onion and garlic in the winter and early spring, and there was no tofu, tempeh, seitan ... Restaurants would offer as their vegetarian dish of the day little gnocchi with bacon drippings (they still do this). As the range of food available at the supermarket and health food store has improved my meat consumption has declined, but probably won't cease altogether until my kids and I make an agreement like my host family in Germany and I did many years ago.
No I'm not.
I couldn't be able to live without any meat.
I am an ex vegetarian. I was a vegetarian for 3 years.
I was a vegetarian for 8 years for a number of reasons.
Then I decided a better way to think about eating meat:
If I can kill it myself, then I can eat it. So far I eat all seafood and chicken.
I was a veg head for 21 years by influance of my hippie parents then I moved to alaska I have lived there for 10 years I have adopted the hunter gather diet I only eat animals I kill or catch myself and are processed in my own home with no hormones ar additives it seems to be a healthy compermise