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Vegetarian food is critically dependent on someone who know to prepare it.
My mother did not, so I grew up thinking that vegetarian is food for cows.
Then I happened to marry a girl who really knew it. Certainly not every day - she was very good with fish as well, and I did some meat stuff. But there was no reason to point out that "today we eat vegetarian" - it was just as tasty, and as varied, as the other stuff we ate.
After we broke up, one of the few things that I have tried to hold on to is her vegetarian cooking. Tonight I had a "Chili sans carne" - when beans and other vegetables are prepared and spiced the proper way, you certainly do not need any carne in it.
If you want to go partially, or maybe fully, vegetarian: Make sure to learn how it is properly done. If you just pick up random vegetables at the shopping center and try to make something out of it, with no proper guidance, you will drop those veggie ideas within a week.
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Member 7989122 wrote: If you want to go partially, or maybe fully, vegetarian: Make sure to learn how it is properly done. If you just pick up random vegetables at the shopping center and try to make something out of it, with no proper guidance, you will drop those veggie ideas within a week.
And that, right there, is a large part of why it's so hard to convince so many people: Who has time to cook anymore or learn how to prepare some meal? If you have to give it some extra thought on top of that, it's a losing proposal.
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Well, partly.
We Dutch eat vegetables, potatoes and meat (with gravy).
Kind of like this[^].
On that plate, it's really easy to just replace the meat with, well, a replacement, like a vegetarian steak[^].
Luckily, that kind of eating is becoming old fashioned.
If you have something else, like pasta, it's easy to replace the minced meat with a vegetarian replacement.
Even my grandpa doesn't taste the difference and since he's a very old fashioned and strict eater that's saying something!
Of course, if you want to do anything with tofu or the like, that requires some training or you'll be eating a tasteless block of gum 
Unfortunately, I still hear "it's not a meal if there's no meat" way too often 
I think those people (mostly men) feel that eating meat is manly and they have to compensate for something else 
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Sander Rossel wrote: Unfortunately, I still hear "it's not a meal if there's no meat" way too often
My old dad defined "dinner" (i.e. "supper" in US English) as "a hot meal with boiled potatoes". Even if we had had a late afternoon meal with a soup, a main dish with pasta or pasta with meat/fish, vegetables and bread to go with it, and then a desert, at seven or eight in the evening he would be asking around: Aren't we going to have any dinner today?
For vegetarian dishes: You may of course use an old recepie with meat and replace the meat with something that pretends to be meat, but I don't think pretending is a long lasting solution. My own cooking is usually without a recepie - I look into the fridge to se what is there, and make something out of it. If there was no meat there, then the result may be vegetarian.
Like, I once praised the bread made my cousin and asked how she made it. "Oh, I start with two liters of water... and... well, use whatever flour I've got..."
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Member 7989122 wrote: I don't think pretending is a long lasting solution
Just don't pretend it's meat, but something else, because it is.
No need to pretend, just say "today I'm eating [your replacement of that day] because it tastes really good."
Be sure it tastes really good though, or you'll be back to eating meat real soon
I mean, you're not eating meat because it's meat, but because you like the taste, so replace it with something else that tastes good and you'll have no problem.
A lot of people started eating vegetarian a few years ago because it was all the hype back then.
Few stuck to it, but most still eat vegetarian two or three days a week which already makes a huge difference on our meat consumption.
I've been vegetarian for 22 years now and I don't miss meat one bit.
In fact, I already look forward to whatever replacement I'll be having tonight 
That said, I've literally replaced it.
Instead of a piece of meat I now eat a vegetarian cheese burger, steak or fish burger.
And lately I've been eating real good with quinoa, bulgur, tofu, etc. because I've been doing Hello Fresh, which delivers the recipes and ingredients
Member 7989122 wrote: My own cooking is usually without a recepie
We can't all live like that!
I plan ahead or I'll be left with food I didn't eat or it just won't be any good
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I leave the main land for 3 weeks and come home and no toilet paper, what's the matter with y'all?
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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What? You don't know how to use the three seashells? 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I'd a brought home a butt load of banana leaves if I had known!
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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In order to aid in keeping adequate spacing between member's posts, please switch you lounge view to "Relaxed" and limit to 10/per page.
Thank you for your cooperation.
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Maybe 10 minute interval between posts would help also!
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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Are neglected whales overwhalemed?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Do you have any cetaceans to back up your claims? Ahab my doubts, although Moby you can allay them.
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Are you just spouting off?
I'm hiding from exercise...I'm in the fitness protection program.
JaxCoder.com
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They just wander the oceans without any porpoise whatsoever...
If you can't laugh at yourself - ask me and I will do it for you.
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are excited whales spermed, or just righted ?
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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I needed wanted to play and old CD-ROM from 1998 and another one from 2000.
I have an external CD-ROM player for my laptop, but for some reason it doesn't work anymore.
So I fired up my old desktop that still has a built-in CD-ROM player
It's continuously rattling, it's slow and I think corona originated on my mouse wheel 
The computer is about 10 years old and I've played games such as Mass Effect 2 and Skyrim on it.
It still has Visual Studio 2015 installed on it.
Judging from my Chrome bookmarks I still used this two years ago.
Yet it feels as if it's been collecting dust for 20 years.
What the hell happened?
At least this old desktop does recognize my external CD player, so that's desktop 1 - 0 laptop
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Sander Rossel wrote: I think corona originated on my mouse wheel
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i FOUND MY OLD LAPTOP THAT'S BEEN IN STORAGE SINCE 2009. iT WORKS BUT STILL HAS wIN 98, YET I REMEMBERED THE PASSWORD AND FOUND ALL MY VERY OLD PROJECTS STILL INTACT. wHO WOULD'VE GUESSED?
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
-- modified 20-Mar-20 11:21am.
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Just a tiny issue with this laptop: the capslock key is inverted.
"Five fruits and vegetables a day? What a joke!
Personally, after the third watermelon, I'm full."
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Simple. Just invert the key board
CQ de W5ALT
Walt Fair, Jr.PhD P. E.
Comport Computing
Specializing in Technical Engineering Software
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Looks like the caps lock key is the wrong way around, though.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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