Starve Them Out
Not the vegatarians. They are generaly OK people.
But please don’t feed the TROLLS.
vienna sausages
Just eat a can as an appetizer before each meal! After all that animal fat and protein you will want some veggies to help wash it down.
omnivores
Eat the vegatarians.
Our little group managed for a month
One vegetarian, plus 3 omnivores (one of them the vegetarian’s wife).
Sometimes we simply ate vegetarian dinners, but for others we’d add foil-packed or canned chicken or beef or real bacon bits to our own servings. Not the best approach for flavor, but it got us the protein we craved. Also, one guy had made a huge batch of delicious beef jerky that, basically, kept me going snackwise, cuz GORP wasn’t enough to do it.
I lost weight anyway.
They should not be grossed out
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...just because you eat meat. It's a personal choice and nothing more. As long as you don't force them to follow your choice, there's no reason for this to be a trip-breaker. (Plenty of other things can do that!)
Now, there was something published last year that you might find gross. A guy with a weird name wrote a book about cooking with semen (that's not a typo for "seamen"). I think it was called "Natural Harvest."
So, no MorningStar burgers, either
I actually like those because they’re kindasorta like meat. Their fake chicken, too. Make sure you never, ever go near their mini-corndogs, because those really taste like hot dogs.
at least it would be easy
to carry your food…
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Hey, trolls need food too!
why bother cooking it?
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SPAM!
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It ain't meat... It ain't vegitabools..... It ain't mineral.... nobody know wat it be... but me an' 1.5 million Hawaiians aar livin' proof yer kin' ett it an' live. Book 'em, Danno!
FE
Much ado about nothing…
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Not all of them, but wow did some of this thread go off the rails! I've put together dinner for far more demanding mixes than the usual vegetarian and meat eater combo - try a vegetarian who can't eat onions, another who is lactose intolerant (there goes the mac and cheese), one who hates all fish and a carnivore who lives for beef. It took a little more time with the recipe books than the normal evening meal, but the solution was really simple once I found a few recipes to mess with.
So if all you are talking about is adding some protein that maybe used to go Moo! to vegetarian fare, and that seems way complicated, I'd say it's time to expand your culinary horizons.
I'm an omnivore myself, though we do try to limit it to critters that walked or flew on a local farm. But I cringe at some of the stuff above, like vegetarianism as a eating disorder. As to compromises like vegie burgers - worth asking your friends. Obviously they don't work for all, but I know plenty of vegetarians who do fine with some of them like my usual favorite, black bean burgers.
Why not each just cook their own?
ya, pretty funny–thread gone askew
All the OP asked was for some recipes that could be adapted to please both veggie and meat eater. Where is C2G when we need “thread police”? Well, OP got a little of what was requested, and I got a good laugh.
Spam! That FE does crack me up now and then.
Nice perspective, Jaybabina.
Add merits of vegetarian diet to topics like religion and politics…you can argue til blue in the face and nobody hears a thing. Take it to bicker and banter (I guess, I’ve never been there).
~~Chip
YES !!!
Well said Dr. Lecter. The human brain (yummm…) has only developed to it’s current functional capabilities with the consumption of animal protein. Proven fact. If veggie heads would like to start de-volving they should have to cook for themselves.
meat
Just make the meat and tell them it’s soybeans!
You are only enabling them by just letting them get by on veggies. Don’t feed an obsession.
Thanks for all the responses
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I even enjoyed the banter. But I did get some good suggestions and I appreciate that. My main concern is not whether I have to eat vegetarian meals but the transition from eating meat almost every evening to eating no meat. For both my wife and I this occasions more out of boat breaks. This is not always convenient. :-)
Again, thanks everyone.
Unfortunately, you’re just plain wrong
…and shouting your ignorance won’t make you right.
Everything Mjflores said is true, with the possible exception of the “ethically defensible” part. I have no problem with people eating animals, as I’m not a vegetarian. However, a vegetarian diet IS far more healthy than the overly meat-heavy diet that many - perhaps most - Americans eat. Yes, humans are omnivores by nature, but you don’t NEED to eat meat to be healthy. In fact, meat used to be a rarity in most human diets, as it was harder to obtain (either hard to hunt or very expensive) than fruits and vegetables. It’s only been in the past few decades of heavy subsidies that meat has become cheaper than vegetables and the problems that creates are the leading causes of the obesity epidemic in the US.
Cattle and pig production is also hideously wasteful, as it takes an enormous amount of feed to produce these animals and the feed crops - or those that could be grown on the land used for feed crops - could feed many times the amount of people as the resulting animals can.
I choose not to eat red meat for health reasons (I have no particular love for cows), but I eat poultry and seafood most days. On some occasions I eat vegetarian meals because they’re not only healthy, but they’re GOOD. One of my favorite restaurants is a vegetarian Indian place that opened up in town a few months ago. The food there is so savory and delicious that I couldn’t care less that there’s no animal protein in it.
As for Dr. Disco’s original question, there are plenty of meat, poultry and seafood products available in cans and pouches sized perfectly for a single meal. Just bring some with you and add them to your meals when appropriate. Discuss this with your paddling partners so they know that you’re not doing this to offend them, but because it’s something that you really want/enjoy in your diet. They should be understanding of this. If they’re not, then THEY have a problem, not you. OTOH, be open to vegetarian meals, as they can be wonderful. Variety is good!
fake?
Not sure what fake tofu is but…
Someone I knew said he had some veggie bacon and it bothered him because “it tasted like real bacon and I started thinking about what they added to make it taste like that” I thought “they probably added the same stuff they put in pork bacon!”. Of course I’m sure this guy thought bacon just tastes different than the other parts of a pig not because it’s smoked, flavored, etc…
that was great
I just choked on my foie gras!
There’s Tofurkey, and faux turkey.