Want to stop eating meat?!

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Fish is of course not vegetarian.

You don't have to eat soy if you don't like it. Try including other legumes into your diet: Chickpeas, peanuts, black beans, kidney beans, mung beans, etc. As a vegetarian, beans are an important way for you to add fibre, calcium, protein, and iron to your diet. You'll also want to try including lots of whole grains such as oats and quinoa. Also add lots of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds into your diet.

Try Vegetarian Times for recipes, and go to the Vegetarian Resource Group's homepage for information.

If you want help looking for sites for recipes and information, feel free to email me and I'd be happy to help.

Good luck.

EDIT: I live in Canada, too, which is why I didn't mention Quorn because I didn't even know what that was. Overall, however, I suggest avoiding processed foods. Even this Quorn stuff doesn't look like something healthy you'd want to eat every day (enriched flour, mycroproteins, high sodium, etc.). Instead, you can make your own at home. There's plenty of recipes out there for making your own vegetarian meats and they're not all difficult. If you're interested in any recipes, just email me.

I recently "quit" meat for a similar reason. I am blessed to have a vegan roommate who is helping me find lots of yummy options. Have you tried Tempeh? I hate most tofu (extra firm I can handle if it's in a spicy dish) and most soy products, but I love Tempeh. It has a wonderful nutty quality.

My roommate makes Tempeh cakes (instead of crab cakes) and they are wonderful. You can also make teriyaki Tempeh easily. Boil the Tempeh first (to open it up for absorbing flavors) then marinate in your favorite sauce. I like to slice it into smaller pieces before marinating. Then you can broil or pan fry, basically use it as a meat replacement in meals you already like.

It's really all about experimenting - and having fun with it. For Thanksgiving I roasted chestnuts (low fat, high protein) then sliced them up and put them in a saute pan with spinach and barley. It was delicious. No one told me to try it, I just thought it sounded good to me.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempeh

there r plenty of things...im veggie but can not stand tofu! theres plenty of quorn and things and they taste quite good...cover in sauce and it absorbs the flavor and is mouth watering and yummy!!!! there r lentils and beans and things and gr8 recipes in good food mag and on the bbc!! gd luck! xxxx

wwww.peta2.com has healthy meat free recepies. also its a website that helps stop animal cruelty... u should visit it if you are against animal cruelty... it tells u ways u can help stop it and it gives u free stuff to pass around

www.peta2.com

I'm the exact same way , I like to eat fish and raw carrots with dip . Salad French fries ummm PENUT BUTTER :) toast cereal nuts (they have a lot of protein) ... Hope I helped

Quorn offers tasty meat substitutes.

http://www.quorn.us/Products/

Daisy, you're a goddamn idiot. lol.

Back to the question...

Try Quorn.

Quorn, fish

Being a vegetarian isn't easy under any circumstances, but if you are a picky eater, that makes it much more difficult. When I was in college, I bought a crock pot and pretty much lived off of soups I prepared from lentils, black-eyed peas, vegetables, and various other beans or peas. It is quite healthy and, since I was on a budget, its affordability was also an interesting plus

Your situation is similar to mine. When I was quite young, and the area win which I lived was semi-rural, there was a farm very close to my home, in which I could look at and occasionally touch the cows. I grew very fond of them, and as I grew older, I found the idea of harming them, either directly or indirectly, revolting.

Soy isn't the healthiest food, nor is it good for the environment. It is a very big business that hides the harm it does to the environment under the guise of being "health food". There are plenty of other beans besides tofu that are healthy, tasty, and high in protein.

If you read online, the Mediterranean diet suggests very little meat in the diet. I am a strict vegetarian, which means I eat no animal products at all, which might not be the healthiest. Except for concern about mercury, there is a strong consensus that fish is very good for you. Whatever you decide to do, there are plenty of vegan cites with suggestions of how to prepare healthy, meat-free foods

Good luck

I think you're gonna toughen up or be very hungry.

Here are some recipes:

http://vegweb.com/index.php?action=recip…

You can't replace nutrient rich beef in your diet with a salad and stay healthy. Proteins in veggies are incomplete. You need to eat a lot of green leafy veggies to get complete protein. Iron in veggies is non-heme iron and your body doesn't use it nearly as well as the heme iron in meat. So, again, you must eat a lot of iron rich veggies. You might not notice a calcium deficiency until your bones and teeth start to fail....years after you give up meat.