Meat-free Monday

[rainman]

Ok, I've tried the planning bit. But every meal I've thought about without any meat ends up just being an empty plate.

A meal just isn't complete without a bit of dead animal on the plate.

Sigh. Do I have to do everything for you?

Ratatouille (kids favourite vego meal).
Indian or Thai style curry (dhal or beans, typically). Heaps of Indian options... there's a lot of vegos in India.
Vegetarian Pizza.
Vego Quesadillas or Burritos. Or even Fajitas, but you need to substitute mushrooms for the meat and I'm not convinced that's so great.
Baked Potatoes - even if you have to put some bacon bits or ham on them they're at least a low meat meal.
Many, many pasta options. Improvise.
Stir Frys.
For lunches, homemade soup and homemade bread. Or kale, pine-nut and blue cheese pastries. I love these.
Pies - spinach, potato and feta, for example.
Felafel and rice.
Macaroni Cheese.
Pesto (on pasta or bread). Broad bean, parmesan and mint a personal favourite.
Quiche - not strict vego, but no meat.
Tostadas.
Hot and Sour chinese/vietnamese soup with udon noodles.
Potato curry and homemade roti. Fun to make and delicious.

No shortage of options if you're willing.

[Headbanger]

Sigh. Do I have to do everything for you?

Ratatouille (kids favourite vego meal).
Indian or Thai style curry (dhal or beans, typically). Heaps of Indian options... there's a lot of vegos in India.
Vegetarian Pizza.
Vego Quesadillas or Burritos. Or even Fajitas, but you need to substitute mushrooms for the meat and I'm not convinced that's so great.
Baked Potatoes - even if you have to put some bacon bits or ham on them they're at least a low meat meal.
Many, many pasta options. Improvise.
Stir Frys.
For lunches, homemade soup and homemade bread. Or kale, pine-nut and blue cheese pastries. I love these.
Pies - spinach, potato and feta, for example.
Felafel and rice.
Macaroni Cheese.
Pesto (on pasta or bread). Broad bean, parmesan and mint a personal favourite.
Quiche - not strict vego, but no meat.
Tostadas.
Hot and Sour chinese/vietnamese soup with udon noodles.
Potato curry and homemade roti. Fun to make and delicious.

No shortage of options if you're willing.

ad a slab of bacon to those meals and they would be sweeeet.

[AllanB]

I'd have to say I have been know to also enjoy a good hearty vege pie every now and then - Hilliers of Lincoln do a nice one

I know a couple of vegetarians - the bit I find weird is that they have these pattie things that are designed to replicate in taste, a good old meat burger pattie. So it is OK to enjoy the taste of meat as long as it is not from a donor animal.
Possibly this is a bit like 'replicating' sex with ones own hand?

[Sidewinder]

dont eat my meat but suck on my meat monday sounds fun

[JimO]

dont eat my meat but suck on my meat monday sounds fun

i will pass that on to Paul mcFartney and im sure he will be in touch

[rainman]

Mmmm. Just had a surprisingly nice food court Aloo Mutter. Tasty, cheap and filling.... and, as it happens, meatless.

(might be a bit windy around these parts for the next litte while, of course...)

[Headbanger]

I lived with some vegetarians for a few months, They were both on massive amounts of drugs, she was working as a stripper/whore and he was dealing.

The food was complete and utter shit.

[eelracing]

How long have humans been eating meat for?

Coincidently around the same time man started walking on two legs.

[Donor]

What's this "we" shit?

It's a concept that makes a lot more sense as you grow up....

"We" is when you have advanced in years from being able to toilet yourself, to needing several helpers void your bowels and do up the elastic tabs on your adult sized nappies.

And fuck being a vego - as it is said, if the gods didn't want us eating animals, they shouldn't have made them so tasty.

I has canines and mighty incisors - and I am totally prepared to use 'em!

[rainman]

"We" is when you have advanced in years from being able to toilet yourself, to needing several helpers void your bowels and do up the elastic tabs on your adult sized nappies.

I'm a long way from there, fortunately. There is a great deal of good sense in understanding one's place in a community. Our move towards "rugged individualism" (at the encouragement of the neolib right and their insistence that we are 'consumers' rather than 'citizens') will eventually be seen as a colossal mistake. I blame big cities, myself.

And fuck being a vego - as it is said, if the gods didn't want us eating animals, they shouldn't have made them so tasty.

I has canines and mighty incisors - and I am totally prepared to use 'em!

Gahhh! Why do I bother? This debate isn't about being a vegetarian (I'm not), but about whether having one meatless meal a week is a terminal threat to one's manhood. Clearly many here have not yet attained a level of evolution sufficient to even take this concept on.

I don't care if you dress in furs and loincloths and run your game down in the wild, before ripping their raw steaming flesh from their bones with your mighty canines and incisors (actually, that would at least be a bit more honest than just nipping down to the supermarket for a sixpack of domesticated lamb chops...). The question is, can you eat a veg curry once a week, to benefit both you and others? Or is is that beneath your (rather dubious) mental model of yourself as alpha predator?

As the Great Frank said "The mind is like a parachute. It works best when it is open."

[Pussy]

"We" is when you have advanced in years from being able to toilet yourself, to needing several helpers void your bowels and do up the elastic tabs on your adult sized nappies.

And fuck being a vego - as it is said, if the gods didn't want us eating animals, they shouldn't have made them so tasty.

I has canines and mighty incisors - and I am totally prepared to use 'em!

Thanks for the enlightenment!
I don't mind SUPPLEMENTING the steak with some veg stuff...

Banana cake or rhubarb crumble is vegetarian, isn't it?

[Donor]

Gahhh! Why do I bother? This debate isn't about being a vegetarian (I'm not), but about whether having one meatless meal a week is a terminal threat to one's manhood.

It's about giving in dammit - it's the proverbial inch that we give, then the kaftan wearing, sandal slapping freakin' hippies, as well as That Woman Who Has A Moustache and her eco-cronies will be all over it, thus emasculating we eaters of the sacred flesh (Well done for me thanks...) and forcing us into a life of sal-ads (whatever the fuck THEY are) and non-sentient food munching!

...The question is, can you eat a veg curry once a week, to benefit both you and others? Or is is that beneath your (rather dubious) mental model of yourself as alpha predator?

Like hell - let the others eat the once a week veggie rubbish, leaves more meat for me! ... oh, and Pussy I s'pose...

Thanks for the enlightenment!
I don't mind SUPPLEMENTING the steak with some veg stuff...

Banana cake or rhubarb crumble is vegetarian, isn't it?

Plonker - that's dessert/breakfast food that is - hardly a dinner!

[James Deuce]

99% of the time my breakfast is vegetarian (but not Vegan) so I'm fairly confident I can say I'm 1/3rd vegetarian.

I don't like potatoes much though. So that big long list gets shorter. Mexican food just ends up on my shirt, as does Middle Eastern food. Not a huge pasta fan unless it's loaded with animal fat and salt. I love pesto, but that's more of a garnish than a food. Dhal is vile. So are chick peas. Both remind me of the unfortunate drunken evening where I woke up with my tongue stuck to the inner sole of some random shoe. Muta or Saag curries are nice, but they go well with a spicy meat curry. On their own they remind me of stroke patient food. Or diarrhea. Quiche is gross. It has the texture and taste of reconstituted vomit. In a soggy pastry shell. Mmm, mmm.

A solely vegetarian meal simply isn't appetising. I'd rather go without than eat it at all. It isn't worth the effort.

[Pussy]

Plonker - that's dessert/breakfast food that is - hardly a dinner!

Fair enough... I do like asparagus this time of the year, too....



not good for golden shower though

[rainman]

99% of the time my breakfast is vegetarian (but not Vegan) so I'm fairly confident I can say I'm 1/3rd vegetarian.

...whiny bit redacted...

A solely vegetarian meal simply isn't appetising. I'd rather go without than eat it at all. It isn't worth the effort.

Ah well, guess you lose out then.

I understand not everyone likes dhal or channa, but how can you not like potatoes? As the saying goes, I don't know what's wrong with you, man, but I bet it's hard to pronounce...