Whats your Christmas dinner menu?

[FurryFury]

Right...but you'd think a doctor would be aware that it's possible to be a vegetarian AND have a nutritionally adequate diet. She seems to think that no meat = bad. Which is not what I want from my doctor.

Oh, yes, a doctor should know all that.

 

[minx1]

Wow, you were not a vegetarian but you ate vegetarian dinners? I've never experienced that in all my 16 years of it. I'm always the only one, therefore I put up with everybody else's meat.

Yeah. Well it was practical...rather than cooking two different meals in the evening and my favourite dishes were pasta or rice based, so meat was never that important. When we went out to eat, I would choose veggie, I guess out of respect for his principals.

He always said to me that the way people buy meet enables them to disassociate with the process. That when you buy chicken breast portions...they dont really resemble the animal. That if people hadto kill the animal and prepare it themselves there would be a lot more vegetarians in the world.

To be honest he had a point as I would fall into that category.

BTW, the best veggie cookbook I've ever found is Cranks. Mine's about 26yo now and falling to bits, but I got one recently for a friend, so it's still available, at least in the UK.

Linda McCartney cook books are ok too if I recall. Think thats where he got his christmas recipes from.

I must say that in Ireland (where cattle are an economic mainstay) and in France, eating out with veggie kids can be hard.

France is hard. Portugal is terrible!

 

[Etoile]

Mmmmm yes, my first veg cookbook was a Linda McCartney one, mostly because I was a Beatles fanatic at the time!