I think the vegetarian lifestyle is unhealthy
 

I've observed that vegens and vegetarians tend to be overweight. Also, if you go in their restaurants and bakeries there is an obsession with desserts--there is a huge selection, they are front and center, and the portions are huge. I think vegens and vegetarians compensate by loading up on carbs and sweets--not refined sugar, mind you, cane juice (as if it mattered).

Food for thought, anyway.

Flame away.

No need to flame when I'm in agreement.

My wife was a vegetarian when we first married and she had been for seven years. She gradually became a carnivore and lost a bit of weight in the process. I think it was the reduction of carbs.

Interesting. I was a vegetarian for 6 years. I quit after I got pregnant with my son and really craved a burger. Once I lost all the baby weight, I maintained a weight approximately 5 pounds less than when I was a veg. But I always figured it had more to do with leaving the workforce and being at home where no one brings me donuts and no one keeps jars of candy on their desk.

Vegetarianism done right is healthier. My cousin is a vegetarian. She eats a lot of fresh fruits, veggies, whole grains and legumes. She is thin and fit. She likes her sweets but I don't think she overdoes it. I have a friend who is a vegetarian, but from what I can tell, she pretty much eats the same crappy, overly-processed American diet, just sans meat.

It takes a lot more effort to be a healthy vegetarian. A lot of vegetarians I know won't take the time to make something well-balanced and filling. They will grab fast food (sure, the tofu corn dogs might be more healthy than the real thing, but they are still processed) or some other handy processed food to eat.

I've tried to cook one veg meal a week, and I have a hard time coming up with a good variety. I have more success with incorporating a little meat, and filling the rest of the plate with veggies, grains, and legumes.

I call them twinkie-terians.

They are fat and they eat junk food.

I was almost a vegetarian during college. I didn't buy meat very often.

You know, I went vegetarian a year ago. I was curious about this "great feeling" you get that they claim only comes from a vegetarian lifestyle.

I can tell you with certainty that I have experienced and identified that "unique feeling"...it's called hunger.

What the hell has come over you Babs? You change your voter registration from R to D. You declare for Obama. Now you've become a vegetarian? You live in Norman, not Austin. Act like it dammit!

One of the missionaries in the ward is an extreme vegan, very extreme. He never smiles.

I bet he's fun to have over for dinner.

My wife makes a good lentil soup. I can post the recipe if you're interested.

We buy prepared meals delivered for 4-5 nights a week. Two or three of them are vegetarian. The lady really knows how to cook simple stuff well, so it's good, even though I normally prefer meat.

Wow, this is so disgusting elitist .

It's like they want to have a private chef, but can't afford one.

Mama is too busy recording promo videos, and Daddy is too busy congratulating himself about living next to a salmon stream.

I just threw up in my mouth.

The meals are cheap. We figure not a whole lot more than if we went to Whole Foods grocery. Nothing elitist about curried vegetables with tofu.

A lot of middler class people do this, dip-shit.

Maybe if you count ordering at the drive-thru or picking up a pizza. Otherwise, I don't know any "middle class" people who have their meals regularly prepared by a chef.

However, Farrah is an excellent cook so Mike is probably eating just as well as you if not better.

Sheesh. You act like I made some attack on Waters and Farrah or something.

She brings us the food in quart-sized containers in a styraphome box. Sure sounds glamorous, doesn't it.

To SU, 7 figures is "middle class".

No attack. I am just trying to bring you back to reality. Middle class people who don't have time to cook eat at the drive thru. That's why Americans are so fat.

First you give up sugar, and now you're off meat too? Switch those with alcohol and coffee and you're one step closer to being a Mormon.

I met a chef who has their own business delivering meals to clients. She says her clients are either celebrities, wealthy people who don't want to cook but want to eat at home, and two income households where both parents work long hours but want to eat healthy.

Y, I actually have a good lentil soup recipe, but you can post yours in case anyone else wants it. I have a hard time convincing Mike that soup is a meal. Also, everytime I cook a veg meal, he yells "Where is the meat?!"

Tell him the gray wolves ate it.

Excellent.

Danimal is the same way... I love soup, but I rarely bother making it.

what's up with danimal. he is awol.

Has Mike not seen the Campbell's ad on tv that tells us "Soup is good food"?

Post your recipe for lentil soup. I'll make it. Nobody but me at my house will eat it, which is ok because there will be more for me.

Lentil Soup

1 ½ cup dried lentils soaked in salted water 30 minutes or overnight

In frying pan, sauté for 10 minutes over med heat

• 1/3 cup Olive Oil
• ½ cup chopped fresh garlic
• 1 large white onion chopped
• ½ cup red bell pepper chopped
• ½ cup chopped celery
• ½ cup chopped carrot

After 10 minutes, add 1 cup tomato sauce
Stir and sauté for five more minutes

Transfer to large 6 qt pan.

Add:
Rinsed and drained lentils
12 cups of water
3 packets of Goya ham flavoring packets (there are 5 or 6 packets in one box)
8 Chicken bullion cubes
3 dried bay leaves
1 large can of beef broth (a couple of normal size cans)

Optional (one of the following):
½ cup barley
½ cup white rice
2 peeled potatoes

Bring to a boil, reduce medium for 1 ½ hours.

Looks good, YOhio. I'd have to leave out the onions, as onions literally hate my guts. Eating onions is like eating a box of razor blades.

Keep them in. The taste is worth it.

It is tempting to keep them in. If I do, will you represent me when I sue you for causing me harm?

The lady who delivers our evening meals makes a killer lentil soup.

Dang.

I misread that for a second.

Bummer.

Let's see......chef prepared meals, Whole Foods Grocery Store, prefers the symphony and thinks that followers of the NBA are a drag on civic culture......yep, it would be a shocker to find out you were racist.

The private cabin we're renting has two books in its library: Chicken Soup for the Soul and The BoM. I swear I can't get away from you people. ;-)

I'm reasonably sure not all vegetarians are rabid white supremacist mass murderers, but it always bears repeating when this is discussed that Hitler was a vegetarian.

Good stuff. I'll use it the missionary, who by the way, comes from Northern Idaho.

I've noticed that when white folks are with a black person they just met the subject the whites first bring up to talk about is usually sports. That's always grating to me because I think it's racist, and I never do it. You're just that kind of bigot, maybe not out of malevolence but ignorance more than anything else.

You're the one who joined a religion with notoriously racist doctrines spouted by its prophets, seers and revelators. As an adult? Shall I apply your logic and conclude you're a racist just because you're a Mormon? You are the one who sends his "girl" to the store to buy your sodas.

TripleD threw that fastball right past you, didn't he?

It was a joke, SU.

This one is getting ugly. I think it's pretty clear that neither of you are racist and accusing each other as such deprives the term of real meaning. Plus, I hate seeing my amigo fight with my comrade.

DDD doesn't know what it means. I'm trying to help him.