To Be Vegetarian or Not?

Thank you Felecity! That's highly informative. I would be a pollo-vegetarian! Although I only eat chicken and only occasionally. But I also eat eggs and milk- I love my bread way too much to avoid those two products!

I'm a lacto-ovo vegetarian! It'll be ten years this August!

But as to the anemia problem, I become anemic a lot. But it's really because I don't eat much. And when I do, I usually grab the bag of chips or crackers.

This is how I overcome my vitamin deficiency's without eating meat:

I eat LOTS of beans and nuts. I absolutely love all natural almonds and butter beans!

I also eat a lot of spinach. It's my favorite vegetable. My foods teacher taught a cool way to prepare spinach by tossing it around in a frying pan with garlic, ahh soo delicious.

But any vegetable with a very vibrant color will be very high in vitamins.

I've tried to become a piscatarian and eat fish. But my roommate has a fish tank and I can't bear to even see one of the little buggers struggling or anything.



I know that a lot of slaughter houses aren't horrible... But how I feel in MY heart, is that it's wrong. I don't like to think that cows are any different from my dog. And I think Gidget (my dog) is like my best friend.

Thanks Felicity - the list is really helpful Now when people say I'm a ovo vegetarian I will know what they do and don't eat

I have become a piscatarian, well kinda. More like once in a blue moon need it. I keep becoming borderline anemic.

I love spinage, I put spinage in everything

Michelle have you considered taking Iron vitamins? Also look into what foods are high in Iron and try to get plenty of that as well as B12. I used to have the same problem with being anemic, but not anymore.

Yeahh talk to your doctor about taking iron vitamins. Also, I don't know if Canada offers things such as "fake" meat in the groceries, but I always buy the fake hamburger meat, patties, chicken nuggets and all sorts of things! It tastes a lot like meat but it's all vegetables and soy and beans. Its really high in protein and the fat that our bodies need

Try cooking your food in iron skillets (without any coating). Preparing your food in them boosts the iron too!