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| Women's Health
Yes,
Vegetarians Can Eat Bacon Cheeseburgers
Too!
By Melanie Jordan, author of "Vegetarians Can Eat Bacon Cheeseburgers
Too!" and "Easy Vegetarian Recipes For Comfort Foods You
Love!"
I still get a kick out
of the looks of disbelief I get when I tell people that as a vegetarian I
absolutely eat bacon cheese-burgers every chance I get. They tell me "I know
what a vegetarian is--it's someone who only eats a bunch of vegetables and
weird stuff like tofu". Or "you can't be a vegetarian if you eat bacon
cheeseburgers". Wrong!
I had been a healthy eater for years, but when
I took the next step and became a vegetarian, I knew that if making that
transition was going to work, I had to find a way to eat food I'd actually
heard of and wanted to eat. I didn't see myself regularly eating tofu. I
didn't want to eat like a rabbit. I was a child when fast food franchising
really came into its own, and today we live in a world where you can have
four branches of the exact same fast food chain within six miles, and twelve
different places to buy a hamburger in one mile's distance! I also had my
favorites from family dinners, restaurants and clipped magazine recipes.
It took some time, but I eventually came to
realize that virtually anything I wanted to eat, had a more healthful
non-meat/poultry version. Forget everything you've heard about vegetarianism!
I'm a full-time pesco vegetarian and I regularly eat delicious food like
bacon cheeseburgers, chicken parmesan, tacos, BLTs and chicken caesar
salad. |
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people will not consider a vegetarian lifestyle, or that those who try it
do not successfully stick with it, is because they try to make themselves
fit their stereotypical image of vegetarianism. They eat things they don't
enjoy, and toss a lot of their old favorites out the window. This goes against
many of their natural eating patterns, so it ends up being only a matter
of time before they can't stand it anymore and go back to what was familiar
and enjoyable. Add to that what I call "meat and poultry eaters peer pressure"
from friends, family and co-workers, and the vegetarian lifestyle, as it
is typically thought of, becomes too difficult.
That's too bad, because some form of
vegetarianism--ideally full-time, but at least part-time to most-of-the-time--is
being pointed to more and more as a great way to maintain good health or
lessen the severity of illness or disease when it does strike. It is in fact,
health reasons that are mentioned most often as why people become
vegetarians.
Please believe me when I say that you can be
a vegetarian in one of its many forms and still eat the foods you love--the
foods you grew up on, and the foods you like to eat out--you'll just find
healthier ways to do so by making substitutions. Of course, in addition to
the "fun foods" I've described, no matter which form of vegetarianism you
choose, you'll be eating more of your favorite fruits, vegetables and other
simple non-meat dishes like pasta that are easy to prepare and that you'll
love too. And there's no tofu required!
So remember, if your image of a vegetarian does
not include eating your favorite foods, it's time for a change in mindset.
Just keep saying to yourself, "I can become a vegetarian, because vegetarians
can eat bacon cheeseburgers too!"
~~~~~
Go to:
Vegetarian Cooking
Made Easy: Step by step instructions to a vegetarian lifestyle.
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Also see:
Vegetarian Diet Info:
Diet and weight loss advice for vegetarians.
~~~~~
Author / "Vegetarians Can Eat Bacon
Cheeseburgers Too!" by Melanie Jordan can be downloaded at the following
URL:
http://www.infopost.com/ItemDescription.asp?navtyp=SRH&ItemI=79967
For a print copy, order directly from the author. E-mail for instructions.
Subscribe to the free e-zine "Vegetarians Can Eat Bacon Cheeseburgers Too!
Update". E-mail to:
veggiecoach@aol.com Web site:
www.vegetarianhealthcoach.com
(c) Copyright 2001 By Melanie R. Jordan
E-Publishing
About Melanie Jordan : Melanie has practiced
some form of vegetarianism herself for over five years, and is currently
a pesco vegetarian. She writes about, and provides personal coaching on,
a variety of topics that she is passionate about related to health, fitness
and food safety, work-at-home lifestyles and e-publishing. Melanie also publishes
a free monthly e-zine for vegetarians and vegetarians in transition called
"Vegetarians Can Eat Bacon Cheeseburgers Too! Update" (subscribe by e-mail
to (veggiecoach@aol.com). More
Vegetarian resources and book purchase information is available at Melanie's
web site Vegetarian Coach's Corner at
www.vegetarianhealthcoach.com.
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