Vegetarians?

So I want to be a vegetarian.
Help me tell me what I shouldnt eat as a vegetarian.
So could you help, and let me no some good foods to get protien from.

Vegetarianism is the practice of a diet that excludes all animal flesh, including poultry, game, fish, shellfish or crustacea, and slaughter by-products. The reasons for choosing vegetarianism may be related to morality, religion, culture, ethics, aesthetics, environment, society, economy, politics, taste, or health.

There are several variants of the diet, some of which also exclude eggs and/or some products produced from animal labor such as dairy products and honey. Veganism, for example, excludes all animal products from diet. By some strict definitions, animal products are not used for attire either, whether or not the production of clothing or items has directly involved the actual death of an animal (dairy, eggs, honey, wool, silk, down feathers, etc.) A generic term for both vegetarianism and veganism, as well as for similar diets, is 'Plant-based diets'.

Properly planned vegetarian diets have been found to satisfy the nutritional needs for all stages of life, and large-scale studies have shown vegetarianism to increase longevity, improve health, and significantly lower risks of cancer and other diseases.

basically vegetarians don't eat anything that was alive at some point..

anyway, one of my favorite chicken substitutes is 'morning star parmesan chik patties,' you can get them in the frozen food section at your local supermarket. they're easy to make, taste really good and have twice as much protein as regular chicken. for a good ground beef substitute that I use for cooking like spaghetti and 'meat' sauce, or tacos is called 'boca meatless ground burgers' and you can get that in the frozen foods section as well. it's also really good, you just have to practice cooking with it and add your own little flavors to get it to taste how you want but it's great. these substitutes alone give you more protein then having real meat so getting enough protein in your system shouldn't be a problem. I know a whole bunch of other meat substitutes that I've tried out over the years so if you want to know any more you can just leave me a comment and I'll go look in my freezer and tell you more. well uh, I probably won't answer back right now though, cause I gotta go to sleep..but I will when I wake up! :]

Hey I have been a veggie since christmas !
Technically you are allowed to eat fish, but some chooce not to.

Avoid: meat, jelly sweets(haribos etc.), millur light yogurts, and anything else that has 'geletin' in the ingredients

Hope I helped !! xx

Vegans - will not eat ANY product made from an animal (chesse/milk etc)

Vegetarians are trickier there are ones like ovo-lacto and much more, some vegetarains dont eat meat products and then thers willonly eat white meats like fish and chicken (but no red meats.)

^^^ to lonely_world
'vegetarians' who eat fish are actually pescetarians. because technically fish is still meat. vegetarians=NO meat.

While man is an omnivore physiologically we are closer to a herbivore than a carnivore. The reason mankind can survive anywhere is because basically we can live on almost anything. Diets of mankind range from nearly all animal foods to nearly all plants. Places where all kinds of foods are available we can choose what we eat. An interesting book is 'The China Study' which looked at the diets across China. China is a large country that has different traditional diets in different areas. When the health profiles and diets of different areas were compared it showed that basically the less animal products consumed the healtheir the people.

A vegetarian diet is closer to our ideal diet than the rich and heavy meat based diets most North Americans eat. From a health point of view there doesn't seem to be any advantage for vegetarian diets over near-vegetarian diets (eating meat only occasionally) though. Dr. Pritican was the first doctor who successfully reversed heart dissease through diet and he allowed small amounts of meat. Personally I find it easier to not eat meat at all than to be teased by an ounce or two of meat.

Protein generally is not a problem on vegetarian diets. There is protein in almost all plant foods. Nearly any diet that supplies enough calories supplies enough protein. Protein deficiency is almost unheard of in people who are not also starving or have health problems causing them to need abnormally high protein diets..

Decades ago most vegetarians believed that it was necessary for vegetarians to consume similar amounts of protein that meat eaters do. Now we know that as long as you eat a varied diet of whole grains, vegetables, and fruit you really don't need to worry about protein. The time in your life when you are growing most rapidly is when you are a baby; human breast milk gets only 10% of its calories from protein. It makes no sense that adults would need several times this amount of protein. No studys have demonstrated that athletes who eat large amounts of protein are larger or stronger than athletes who don't yet high protein meat heavy diets are still favored by athletes and body builders.

I'm not a big fan of fake meats like Bocca and Morningstar Farms. As I see it the less processed food is the healthier it probably is and fakes meats are highly processed foods. I do have them for an occasional treat but I avoid eating them as a staple. Soy protein isolate has been associated with high levels of IGF-2 which is a risk factor for several cancers. I think that they are probably ok as an occasional treat but I know vegetarians who live on little else but fake meats and eating this much probably isn't healthy.

im a vegetarian strict from when I was born dont be a vegan just rink milk eat cheeze eggs nuts fruits vegetibles all diffrent things its not that hard!!

I've been vegetarian for 8 years (I'm 20) and I'm still learning new foods that I can't eat. You got the basics I presume. NO beef, pork, chicken, fish etc... But you also must read the ingredients list on EVERYTHING before you eat it. Gelatin is in like everything now, and that is made from tendons and bone matter so don't eat that, also Rennett is in a lot of things. it is from the stomach acids in cows. don't eat that.

Maybe do a google search, because there is too much to list here.

Good luck!

I am a vegetarian and as a vegetarian you are allowed to eat eggs and seafod for protein but if you are going for vegan you really need to take vitamins. want some help becoming veg got to http://www.goveg.com and watch some videos everyone should

well you cant eat meat or eggs or fish and if your really want to stop all animal suffering you should be a vegan

PLANTS AND ANIMALS ARE ALL THE SAME BECAUSE THEY ALL GROW SO WHATS THE POINT OF NOT EATING THE MEATS..

WONDERFUL RED MEATS FOR LIFE

to elfranco...

Plants don't have feelings, and they can't feel pain...they also aren't brutally slaughtered and tortured.

I somehow get the feeling that might be why people eat plants, vegetables etc, and not meat.

depends what kind of vegetarian you are

#semivegetarian: eats animal products, even including meat! tries to limit the amount of animal product intake though.
#pescoetarian (I hate to call these people vegetarians vegios because they eat animals):animal products this diet consists of is fish, dairy and eggs.
#lacto ovo: animal productsin this diet consists of dairy and eggs.
#lacto: animal products in this diet only consist of dairy
#vegan: no animal products at all.

Vegetables, beans, nuts, and soy products provide abundant amount of essential nutrients. Aim for very colorful vegetables such as broccoli, cucumbers, carrots etc. These types of veggies are especially high in vitamins, calcium, beta-carotene, zinc, and a lot more. They also provide a good source of proteins.

Beans and soy products (tofu, soy milk) are excellent sources of protein. And don't think that these types of protein are inferior to animal protein - they're not. Makes good sense to lower meat intake doesn't it? Especially when meats are high on saturated fats - the type that's bad for you.

Harmful effects of meat consumption you NEED to know:

Meat eaters are 3 times more likely than vegetarians to suffer heart diseases and breast cancer.
People who eat meat are 400% more likely to suffer from colon cancer!
You are at risk for arthritis, osteoporosis, and prostate cancer if you consume meat - not to mention all the other health problems and diseases associated with eating meat.
High blood cholesterol and saturated fat are all unhealthy bi-products of eating meat.

I always find vegetarians amusing...what proof do you have that the carrot or lettuce (plants are considered alive until they start decomposing) doesn't have a soul, or doesn't feel pain (extreme environmentalists like to envision trees crying every time one is cut, so doesn't that mean by the same logic, a tomato would cry when bitten into O.o )

Some people don't eat meat because they don't like the taste or texture, I can understand that, and that's fine with me. Some won't eat meat because they find it disgusting (at least less disgusting than slaughtering plants), I can sort of understand that, as some things do make me physically ill, so I don't eat them.

The thing I have a problem with is when a vegan attempts to push on other people that eating meat is 'wrong' or attempts to disrupt other peoples rights to eat meat (especially those that hijack meat deliveries, or destroy meat that's being delivered). They have the right to state their beliefs, and if they can calmly say 'this is why I don't eat meat' and calmly,without using shock (pictures of slaughterhouses, etc.) tactics then I'll even stop and listen to them. My problem is with anyone, no matter what the issue is, that attempts to FORCE their beliefs on others. No one has a right to force any belief on anyone else, only to inform them, in a civilized manner, of their beliefs(e.g. Saying 'This is what I believe' is ok, saying 'This is what you should believe,because it's what I believe is WRONG') and I think anyone that tries to force their beliefs on others should be locked up.

Types of food or trying to tell(force) someone to eat a certain way is especially a touchy subject in a world where millions of people are going to starve to death within the next month. What a lot of the 'activists' forget is that not everyone has a choice on what they get to eat, millions and millions of people have no choice but to eat whatever comes along, be it wheat, or dog, or a ferret,(in some parts of the world where food is that scarce). We have about enough food in the world to feed 2/3 of the population of the world...I don't think you're going to find 1/3 of the worlds population to willingly starve to death so that world hungar would end. That'd be a few billion people choosing to die rather than live.

The funny thing is, the activists that try to outlaw certain kinds of food even have the OPTION to turn down food...They should be forced to live in a 3rd world country where a majority of the people go DAYS without eating anything. Let's see if they try to tell someone what they should or shouldn't be eating after that.

My 'beef' isn't with vegetarians, everyone here has a right to eat what they want(I fought in Iraq to protect that right). In fact, I have a few Vegan friends. My 'beef' is with those few Vegans that try to FORCE their beliefs on others.

first of all, tizubythefizo, plants dont see hear, feel or have any emotions like animals do. animals bleed when they cut themselves, they can cry, they communicate, they smell. plants dont do these things. oh and by the way, meat eaters are responsible for destroying more plants because they eat animal and animals eat plants oh and humans chop down trees to accomodate animal that will be slaughtered.
yes I do agree with not enforcing things. I also agree with you that some people have no other choice but to eat animals when there is basically no food but animals...but I do believe that people shouldnt kill animals for meat if there are many other alternatives. I do understand if it is in africa where there are no crops...infact people should be helping the poor people out. if people were fair, they would share their food and resources so you dont see those poor african children with their ribcages sticking out and then in america, a morbedly obese boy eating a supersized big mac meal in a comfortable couch in a nice warm place.
but you know that they treat animals very cuelly. in my guide to animal cruelty, in some meat industries(the major meat sellers) the animals are in concentration camps. and plus, that isnt fair on animals killing them (killing them humanely or not). do you think you are entitled to die of old age? because I think I am and I think animals should be entitled too.