A Recipe For a Family Fight

I'm sorry, but I thought Thanksgiving was to give thanks for the harvest? My youngest daughter was a vegetarian (she now eats fish) and it has was never been an issue to accomodate her. It was simple to add extra veggies and grains to a traditional menu. This year I will make her her own salmon welllington along with two dressings (stuffings), one with sausage and apples the other with corn bread and veggies. even vedetarian gravy is easy to find. This should be a holiday to give thanks, not point out differences

This is my first Thanksgiving as a vegetarian. I think it will be OK, but I'm a little worried. I want to be a good host, but I won't cook a turkey. I hope my mother bring one along.

Good Gosh, take your Tofu Turkey Leg, and shove it where the sun don't shine you pathetic heretic !!!

To Newyorker56: You assume just because a person is not eating meat that they are eating healthy. There are plenty of things that are horribly more unhealthy for us than meat (although I disagree that meat is unhealthy). A lot of people think they can get by on stuffing their faces with fries, cheese, pounds of pasta and breads, and a whole host of other things that make people unhealthy. Many diseases are brought on and exacerbated by the hideous diets we (carnivores AND vegies) consume on a daily basis.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Eating_veggies_shrinks_the_brain/articleshow/3480629

We have a few vegetarians in the family, along with some with lactose allergies and gluten intolerances... it's just part of being in a big fmily! We all get together and have a great time no matter what we eat. And there is always so much food that no matter what your diet you can stuff yourself sick! Someone might forget and offer you "unsafe" food, but nobody gets bent out of shape... It's Thanksgiving!

My daughter is a vegetarian. We accommodate Christmas and Thanksgiving for her by buying the 'traditional' items such as vegetarian turkey (which we bring home from England each year) and vegetarian meatballs, vegetarian gravy stuffing without a meat base and cheese perogies. Everybody is used to the idea now, and some are even willing to try out her 'option'. She feels just as much a part of our celebration as anybody else and perhaps a little more.

As a vegan who comes from a family of staunch omnivores, I can say that this is not worthy of an article. Sure, a family member or two will aways ignorantly assume that vegan food tastes bad, but that happens all the time, anyway. Offer to the host to bring a few dishes: roasted/braised vegetables, soup, dessert, or another course that seems benign to the average meat-eater. Mock meats effectively alienate a vegetarian.



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Life is too short to miss, or forgo a holiday (Thanksgiving or other) with friends or family because of your choice of food - this goes for both sides. Coping out by not attending is just not an option. Get over it, don't be selfish!

My husband and I have been veg-heads for over 30 years, although I recently added the occaisional fish and chicken to my diet in response to my doctor's recommendation (my cholesterol was too low!) My son still eats meat, so we do both turkey and Tofurky and I make a side dish of stuffing that's not cooked in the turkey as well as a mushroom gravy option. I also make a vegetable pot pie that is really delicious. Thanksgiving has always been my favorite holiday and I couldn't live without this tradition in our family. Its not that hard to accomodate and I even LIKE leftover Tofurky sandwiches.

I've been a vegetarian for 11 years, and I don't see a problem-I don't eat turkey, but I eat everything else on the table. Everyone is cool about it just as long as you're not broadcasting it to the entire table and putting yourself out. MAC AND CHEESE, MASH TATERS, SWEET CANDY YAMS, HOT BISCUITS, ECT MMMM and Black pepper country gravy is a great vegetarian alternative too...

I've been a vegetarian for 11 years, and I don't see a problem-I don't eat turkey, but I eat everything else on the table. Everyone is cool about it just as long as you're not broadcasting it to the entire table and putting yourself out. MAC AND CHEESE, MASH TATERS, SWEET CANDY YAMS, HOT BISCUITS, ECT MMMM and Black pepper country gravy is a great vegetarian alternative too...

In regards to JerryOfBorg's comment: I am a vegetarian AND am also against abortion. So don't try to put all people, regardless of their choices, in the same group. I found that comment extremely offensive!

In regards to JerryOfBorg's comment: I am a vegetarian AND am also against abortion. So don't try to put all people, regardless of their choices, in the same group. I found that comment extremely offensive!

This is so stupid and such a control issue on all sides. It's real simple. If you don't eat meat, pass on the turkey. If you do eat meat, don't harass your vegie relatives. Hint to both sides: You don't have to have everything your own way. If you have a control oriented veggie person, tell them they can bring/ make their own food and they are welcome to sit at the table with you. They are family. If you have a control oriented meat eater, the same goes for them. .

Thanks Jerry. I think maybe this Thanksgiving I'll put aside my tofurkey and just start scarfing up a nice aborted fetus. MMM MMM. A little over 1 million abortions a year, and over 4 million vegetarians. I must be one of the vegetarians that doesn't have an abortion. Thank GOD! *sigh of relief* Shame on those other 1 million vegetarians that are responsible for ALL the abortions.

Vegan crybabies. I've got an idea. Why don't you vegans skip Thanksgiving altogether if you don't eat meat? We are a nation of carnivores, a nation descendant of carnivores, and will always be a nation of carnivores. If you vegans have an inferiority complex being in an extreme minority (no matter how much this liberal fluff piece tries to make it sound like vegetarianism is taking over), then just avoid the holiday altogether.

My girlfriend has been a vegetarian for 20 years now (she's 33). I am a meat eater. She is not at all judgmental about what I eat, and I am the same way with her (okay, I think she gets a LIT-tle too excited about Greek salads). I have given up turkey for Thanksgiving and it's no big deal. We eat Tofurkey and it's really not that bad at all. It's the company that matters anyway, right?