Are you a no meat eater / Vegetarian / Vegan / Raw food eater ?

[Pete]

I'm a bit of an omnivore. I joke that I'm on the seafood diet. If I see food, I eat it. Having said that, my old dietary habits are dying hard. I still love bread, potatoes, and have an incorrigible sweet tooth. I am eating more fresh fruit (at least two bananas a day plus the occasional apple, pear, plum or peach - in season) and a few more fresh vegetables. However, neither of us is in love with cooking. We do recognize that processed foods are not particularly good for us. And like Bob, neither of us is in love with a lot of the available veggies.

My wife and I are seeing a dietitian at our PCP's office at the end of the month. My PCP has recommended that I follow the DASH, healthy heart, and weight loss diets. What I want to do is get to a diet that helps me reach my health, waistline reduction, and weight loss goals; fills me up; and tastes good. I wish I had taken home economics in high school. I would have at least learned how to cook, grocery shop, and stock a pantry.

[annekat]

I tend to be on the more meat and less veggies side, myself. But can restrict myself to fish and other seafood, chicken or turkey, eggs, and dairy products. Once in awhile some beef or pork can be really good, but I do feel bad about the animals and have, perhaps arbitrarily, drawn my line at mammals, because they seem more like us than other animals. It may be silly. Not to say I ever eat them, just a tendency I've adopted.

As for veggies, yes, the effort to eat more is ever present. When I was on high dose pred and ravenous, I could prepare veggie dishes and inhale them, along with some carbs and protein. I remember inhaling some tofu then, too. Now, I have certain veggies I gravitate toward, like bok choy and spinach, and I buy a prepared, washed mix from a farmer that contains spinach, cabbage, and kale, which I use both cooked and raw in dishes, and the fact that I paid good money for it makes me want to eat it all. I also like to have onions around, and gravitate towards the white sweet ones these days, though also use red onions and the small green ones. A little smoked salmon thrown in with a veggie dish is excellent. I can get all this stuff at our farmers market.

[Barbara N]

Are you a no meat eater / Vegetarian / Vegan / Raw food eater ?
I have been a veggie/vegan for many years and I am interested in how many of our flock are of the same leaning.
It is a fact that an alkali diet is better than an acid one, and meat and dairy is all acid food whereas most (not all) vegetables are the opposite.
All best for 2014
Stephen

I have been a vegetarian all of my life starting at age five but I'm not a vegan. I grew up on a farm and hand raised, cows, sheep, pigs and just about everything else and the idea of eating them repulsed me.

[vdub]

I grew up on a farm. I was well aware of where our next meal came from and had a real appreciation for the cycle of life even at a young age. My diet is red meat and potatos. I will have that diet until I die. My Dad, now 96, has had that diet his entire life. He's about 6'2", 180 lbs. I will be heavier due to steroids, but I'm ok with that.

[MCC]

I've been vegetarian for 22 years and vegan for 6. I do it for the sake of animals, not for health, BUT I do also feel it's much better for you (in fact the evidence is there- check out Forks over Knives Forks Over Knives - YouTube or Food Matters FOODMATTERS® | Natural Health & Nutrition | FOODMATTERS® or the work of PCRM: PCRM: Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine).

(of course I still got wegeners but the vast majority will be meat eaters).

Since I got ill I try to follow a more raw foods diet for optimal nutrition. I'm doing roughly the 'raw til 4' programme where you eat raw during the day and a cooked dinner. here if anyone is interested: How to eat raw food till dinner, the RAW TILL 4 program | The Banana Girl