I want to become a vegetarian?!

Vegetarians, What do you eat, mainly? Beans, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables with smaller amounts of nuts and seeds, and eggs and dairy if they're allowed in the diet.

Also, if you haven't always been a vegetarian, was it hard to become one? Not at all. It was a very natural progression to make founded on inner resolve. It would've been harder for me to continue eating a meat-based diet.

Include stories of why you became one, what foods you eat, things like that? :) I first began eating vegetarian when I was a kid. I was taken to a fish farm when I was 7, and fainted after seeing a fish being slaughtered. Later, when I was twelve, I attended a wedding where there was a whole pig being roasted. Once I realised what it was I was eating, it no longer seemed right to be eating it.

I eat a lot of different things! I love having oatmeal for breakfast, or a tofu scramble. Sometimes I have eggs in the morning with some toast. Fruit and hashbrowns is great too. For lunch, I might have an avocado sandwich, some noodles, a wrap made with refried beans and veggies, or some hot soup. Dinner-wise, I love pastas. I also love curry and rice, or grilled mushrooms with mashed potatoes and seasonal vegetables. Sometimes I make a casserole. Another thing I like is beans on toast. I also love having enchilladas for dinner. Smoothies are a great pick-me-up. Chilli and quinoa is great at lunch-time.

Check around. There are tons of recipes available online and there's lot of great books out there to help give you some ideas. Don't miss out on reading about nutrition. That's important anytime you change your diet.

Best of luck, and feel free to email me if you have any more questions.

I was a vegetarian for 20 years and became one after working on local farms during my school holidays and driving past a slaughter house on the way to town Our school also had a working farm. Also my da kept poultry for slaughter to sell at Christmas (going to school and avoiding blood in the snow, finding out how young ducks are when they are slaughtered etc) Awareness of factory farming and animal rights, as well as hunting and snaring. It was a gradual join the dots kind of thing as I grew up learned about where my food came from.
I was still at school and gradually dropped meat from my diet without it impacting on my Mum and then quit totally when I went to college. There is much more vegetarian foods now and if you love to cook then all you need is a cook book.
Hidden animal products such as gelatine and calf rennet in cheese are there, but I never bothered with that much.

Actually protein is in almost everything, and i found is suprisingly easy to go veggie. and just check the label, you can eat most things.

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They become one because they are idiots.

it's really not difficult at all, you just need to get used to looking at packets and recognising things that you can't eat: colour E120, for instance, is cochineal, which is made from insects and colours things red; rennett is an enzyme found in the stomach of calves; gelatin is derived from bone and cartilage; and obviously animal fat/meat. you may also choose no to eat palm oil, because unless it is from a plantation it is harvested at the cost of the habitats of animals.
finding things to eat, despite saying that, really isn't hard. i eat a lot of fruit, vegetables, rice, noodles, bread, cereal, legumes (so beans, lentils, chickpeas) and things like that. it's not too hard to adapt to eating animal-free food.
i found i really easy to become a vegetarian, because i never really ate very much meat in the first place, because i didn't really like the taste. plus when i became a vegetarian i was happy with what i was doing so i had a lot of drive to keep doing it.
i became a vegetarian because i've never really thought that killing animals is right, especially in the farming sense where they're only bred to be killed; i think that's wrong. i think that we don't need to eat other animals to survive, so i choose not to. plus the meat industry is cruel, and i'm not supporting it this way.

as far as health concerns, the argument that you won't get enough protein is rubbish. you can easily get enough protein by eating just a small serve of nuts or some beans, pretty much. the real concern is iron, which is present in smaller amounts in vegetables and things than in meat, but if you do become iron deficient, then you can get supplements, it's really no big deal. to be honest, i was iron deficient before i was a vegetarian, and now i'm a lot healthier and as far as i know and feel i'm not anaemic or anything, weird. just make sure you eat a wide variety of food as to get all of your vitamins. also, you'll find that iron can be in a lot of cereals, so that's a good way to get it oddly enough.

basically, you should do what you want to. if you want to become a vegetarian then there's nothing stopping you, it's a great choice (:

stop eating meat, gelatin, rennet

you are now a vegetarian
now you can also be a lacto, ovo or a lacto-ovo vegetarian... which you decide is up to you.

why do you want to do that meat is delicious and you won't be healthy cause you need the protean

MEAT IS DELICIOSO!!!!

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