Thinking about giving up meat

[Dis]

I'm tired of getting food poisoning from meat. Just came off a bout last week. Though it might have been something I got from my brother as he had it too. And meat is kind of icky when you think about it.

2 things steering me away right now. One is meat tastes good. Two is I have enough trouble getting enough protein as it is. Esp. as I started working out again, I need the protein. I don't eat that much meat right now because I'm concerned about heart disease and cholesterol. But the meat I do eat I need for protein (and to fill me up).

But how do you get protein without eating meat? (I can't eat much dairy either). I find I still tend to get too much protein from sugar sources. Not good as I'm concerned about getting diabetes. But I tend to eat too much yogurt and peanut butter for protein as it tastes good. I just don't think I can eat that much sugar and be healthy. So what ways of getting protein are there that taste good besides meat?

[ZEE]

veggie meat?

[Grandpa Troll]

I have a secret passion about eating meat, love a nice piecwe of juicy meat, just not ready to be a fulltime carnivore..well, maybe one day


I really love meat, and cant for the life of me ever think about giving it up

[chequita guevara]

I got a bad case of food poising from a salad wrap with no meat in it. You can easily get food poisoning from veggies and fruits.

[Boris Godunov]

I've had food poisoning twice, and both times it was because of meatless salads.

Getting protein as a vegetarian isn't too hard: Soy products (tofu, fake meat like Morning Star Farms), eggs, beans, and nuts, if you want to limit dairy.

The hard thing is to avoid over-eating carbs, as vegetarians tend to compensate for not eating meat by eating more carbs like pasta, rice, etc.

[Dinner]

I've been lucky enough to never have gotten food poisoning which is bizarre given how I'll eat food from street vendors and other high risk places other people avoid.

[Asher]

Don't do it. Don't.

[Japher]

I've been making deer jerky. Friends have been killing them around here left and right. I love jerky, and how it makes my basement smell when I'm making it.

[Dinner]

Hunt a deer yourself and make some venison burgers. Great stuff.

[Japher]

I don't need to hunt. These guys are getting so much meat they just give it to me.

[Asher]

Why doesn't he hunt a beaver and make venison burgers?

[Japher]

I'm going to hunt Asher and make stupid burgers.

[Dinner]

[Asher]

You'll never catch me! I have reflexes like a hippy on acid.

[Blaupanzer]

Originally posted by Asher
You'll never catch me! I have reflexes like a hippy on acid.

This conjures up some very unusual images, all of them humorous. None of those memories relate in the least to the quickness of the consumer.