how odd, i am not opposed to meat, but i don't think to eat it unless i am
really working at meal planning, i could live on fruit, and dary with a
vegetable fror dessert, but i find that if i don't eat red meat at least
once/twice a week i gain weight like crazy, so i make an effort to have it
along with soy and chicken four times a week, blessedly the dh has no
problems making two totally seperate meals when he wants just pasta and
tomato sauce and i want a porkchop, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Nick Cramer" > wrote in message
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>> "Julie Bove" > wrote:
>>> "Nick Cramer" > wrote in message
>>> > "Stormmee" > wrote:
>>> >> could someone help me out with what i am obviously missing? Lee
>>> >> "pavane" > wrote in message
>>> >> > "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>>> >> > [ . . . ]
>>> >> > | Where was someone trying to give me helpful information? I
>>> >> > | thought *I* was giving helpful information.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Yes Mistress. Thank you Mistress. You are very helpful Mistress.
>>> >> > Grovel.
>>> >
>>> > I think Pavane is asking to be killfiled.
>>>
>>> Yeah. That must be it. Along that other guy and his sock puppets in
>>> ASD
>>> that claim I couldn't have been a vegetarian.
>>
>> Julie. Don't tell anyone, but I was a vegetarian in the late 60's and
>> early
>> 70's.
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> I went mostly vegetarian at about age 12. We did eat some meat at home,
> but we had meatless Mondays, perhaps in an effort to save money and also
> had meatless meals other times of the week. I didn't really think about
> it much.
>
> Then when I got my first apartment, I was strapped for cash. So meat was
> given up in an effort to save money. I studied nutrition as best I could.
> No Internet in those days!
>
> And soon I discovered that I felt better. Much better! Meat would sit
> like a lead weight in my stomach, making me feel sluggish and horrible.
> But beans didn't do that. I did eat some cheese and eggs in those days.
> Didn't know of my food allergies. But really couldn't even afford those
> things very often. And my mom had convinced me that cheese was evil
> unless eaten in tiny portions. When I did eat it, I would cut as thin a
> slice as possible, then cut that into matchstick sized pieces. I have
> since dismissed that notion!
>
> I remained on this diet, adding more eggs and cheese in, especially when
> pregnant and eventually adding meat in just to please the dietician I was
> seeing at the time and to make it easier for me to get my required
> protein.
>
> I then became anemic while pregnant and learned that I had to eat meat a
> couple of times a week just to stave it off.
>
> Then more recently, I gave the meat up again, realizing that I just don't
> digest it well. I went vegan. Worked well for me except that I didn't
> digest the veggies well either and I became anemic again.
>
> So while I really would prefer to be vegetarian, it just doesn't work for
> me like I would want it to. I still do eat a mostly vegetarian meals, but
> not like I used to. Used to be mainly beans and rice or beans and pasta.
> Can't do that now! But I wish I could.
>