johnnyx0

I'm surprised there's anything of her left.......

Burbage

Perhaps the best alternative might be... meat.

petensue

I know what you mean about the name!

I have some Sanitarium vegie mince which is 99% fat free and I can cope with it if I make a chilli to hide the taste of it!Their burgers are ok.Frys do vegie sausage I can't remember the taste so I will have to try them again,they also do a burger which is horrible.Cole sell a nice vegie burger I can't remember the make but at nearly $8 for four are very expensive

The good thing for me is I do make a lot of things from scratch with lots of fresh veg and have not poisoned myself or my daughter yetSue.

Burbage

But why the vegetarian diet? Your body isn't designed to eat it, providing vegetables kills more animals than providing meat and it's a bugger to get all the essential vitamins and minerals you need.

Safin

well the 2 veges in my life are neither moral nor health vegetarians but both detested meat from early childhood and now have such a strong aversion to it cannot be persuaded otherwise....we all have something we hate the taste of just a major pain for me who cooks that they live in my house!

Kooky.

There must be alternatives available - I work with loads of vegetarians and quite a few vegans. They're all quite healthy looking and active, too.

petensue

I have no idea if what you say is correct.I was just never happy eating meat even from a child and I just did not feel right in eating an animal.My three children were brought up eating meat and my middle daughter asked to become a vegetarian for some time before I gave in and let her.

Sometimes I wish I could have a bacon sandwich or a bit of fish but I know I never will.It is hard to explain why it just feels right to me.Sue.

WillBlack

Tempeh Tasty 300g
Price $4.29

Kooky.

Just surfing round for something and came across this; did you write it, Burby?

http://www.theage.com.au/opinion/why...0328-9esz.html

Burbage

No. But it is rather obvious is it not.

By the way, unless vegetarians are growing their food in space. and then consuming it in some kind of super clean tent with filtered air etc, then it is actually impossible to eat anything without eating animals.

What I find rather amusing is that people who don't eat meat in order to save the animals (which actually has the opposite effect) go to enormous lengths in order to try an produce vegetarian food that tastes like meat.

petensue

I think it depends if you stop eating meat because you don't like the taste or you don't like eating animals.If you don't like the taste then you don't miss it but I must admit there is one or two meat things I miss so veggie food that tastes like meat can be very nice.Sue.

Burbage

Is it not easier to just eat the one or two meats that you like?

Why limit yourself?

Kooky.

I'm with you on that one. There's a restaurant in Pitt St, Sydney, called Mother Chu's Vegetarian Kitchen. It does some great Asian food but I just don't get the dishes that are supposed to look like meat; maybe if I stopped eating meat, I would.

(It also has a whole section of the menu dedicated to meals containing "gluten". I don't get that, either and I'm gluten-intolerant.)

Burbage, you're like a drug dealer. Stop trying to make people eat meat when they don't want to!

petensue

Burbage

But they do want to, they just, from some misguided sense of propriety, think they shouldn't

You only live once folks. There are plenty more pigs where this lot came from.