Michele’s Freeminding

i’m a non-strict vegetarian now, but when i was a strict vegetarian i was constantly reproached at for being such a nuisance to family members’ meals. problem is, they just don’t understand. of course, these are people who lived when there was no such thing as ‘plenty’ in their plates and considered my stand snobbish and spoilt, even if i still had milk and eggs.

since i started eating fish again, i haven’t had a single headache or migraine (which was constant during pre-fish eating). also it makes things easier for everyone else, like choosing a restaurant, or planning a family meal. sometimes you feel awful by compromising your own ethics in order to please those you care about, but they’ve compromised on my behalf too: no more mcdonald’s ever again!

some people think it’s fine for a vegetarian to eat beef stew with the pieces of beef taken out, ha. yuck.

concerning off-topic: i uploaded an image, and it’s all good, so i don’t get why textpattern doesn’t work, although i haven’t tried textpattern again yet (mainly because i’ve been so busy!), i might try wordpress instead. we’ll see how it goes.
coincidentally, i’m finishing off a website for my project right now. i will have html coming out of my ears by the end of the week!

I have a friend who is a vegetarian, and my other friends and I do occassionally forget that she’s a vegetarian… (heh)

But otherwise, we make sure that we make her a separate meal, usually a salad, or order a nice cheese pizza instead. It’s no trouble at all if we are warned beforehand that we should make something with no meat in it.

This is rather horrible, but recently we converted our friend (who’s been a veg for about five years) back to eating meat–we were at a buffet and we made her a deal: If she had a full plate of meat (which consisted of shrimp, chicken, crab, fish, and roast beef) then she would get to keep the $60 we offered her in return… and that’s exactly what she did.

Unfortunately, though, our veg friend lost her wallet later that night at the cinema, and now she believes that the heavens have punished her for her greed.

Yes, she should be back to her normal veg schdule by now. I know she’d feel guilty if she didn’t!

I’ve never had a problem. However, during the first year, my uncle bar-be-qued me a slow smoked piece of ham, because he didn’t know, and I always loved his ham, the look on his face was depressing. But I told him it smelled good. Now everytime we go to his house, he has fresh squash, corn, and potatoes roasted in his bar-be-que pit.

My mom loves setting aside a bit of all her signature holiday meals before the beef/chicken stock goes in. She would even clip and save the labels from products I would buy while visiting. Then when I visit again - much to my surprise - the fridge would be stocked with the same items waiting for me to consume them.

I visited a friend in Stockholm, he warned his mom, and to my surprise, the entire family ate vegetarian that night. They loved it and raved about all the types of things they don’t normally have.

So as you can see, my experience being vegetarian is completely opposite! Of course, I’ve been a vegetarian for like 8 years, so maybe it gets better with time.

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technically, there is no lactose in eggs. :)

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