I’d be lost without pasta. Pasta isn’t a meat or dairy food. Now what you put *on *the pasta…
Toss your pasta with some olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, white beans and broccoli, and you’ve got yourself a damn nice meal.
My big problem is I just don’t like beans or legumes. Even mixed in heavy with Mexican food, I can still taste them. The only kind of bean I like are green beans. I do try and eat more veggies, and when I eat pasta I try and stick with Dreamfields low carb pasta. If I tried to stick with a vegan diet I would just make myself miserable.
Happy Lendervedder: I presume that if you formerly ate fish / seafood, you are including that in with “meat”, in the things which you’ve cut out.
I am for myself, in the very-reverse-of-vegan camp; though seeing much that’s positive, about vegetarianism. For me, this is not about health-related issues, as in this thread so far; but about matters environmental. (I’m aged 70 – lifelong omnivore, with great liking for meat, and fish / seafood. Have been fortunate in that although I’ve always done / not done, what reckoned physically bad for me to do / not do – save only for tobacco, and illegal drugs; I have, unfairly, enjoyed lifelong excellent health.)
It does seem clear that – with the planet’s population in its current numbers, and still increasing – what would minimise harmful impact on environment, and make sharing-and-sharing-alike worldwide, most nearly possible; would be for everyone to become, at any rate mostly-vegan. My brother and I, who share a house and share the cooking 50 / 50, are keen omnivore-type “foodies” – including, we can enjoy the occasional vegetarian-type meal. Although in principle, we consider that humankind should – for things in the future to be as little of a disaster as possible – go, as above, anyway mostly-vegan; hypocritically I suppose, we have no wish to do that, and plan to continue omnivorously for the probably not hugely long time that, elderly as we are, we expect still to be around. Brother was, way back, an ovo-lacto vegetarian for about a dozen years (basis “reverence for life”, rather than environmental); but made a decision to come back to “omnivory” – such health problems as he has, are not diet-related.
I figure that I could – not very happily – endure being an ovo-lacto vegetarian for the remainder of my life, but would greatly miss the renounced stuff. Veganism, unless forced on me one way or another, is utterly not for me: in actual fact overall, my thoughts re myself, concerning meat / fish / eggs / dairy are quite honestly in the “cold dead hands / prising” realm. (Genuine applause by me from the sidelines, for anyone who does go vegan.)
Just as long as you don’t claim that honey is “bee blood”