Great Vegetarian Recipes, for your ‘Special’ Friends
4 Comments | Written on July 31, 2012 at 3:00 pm, by Bill Sertl
You know who you are: Vegetarians, those guests who announce just before everyone sits down for grilled cheeseburgers, with thick-cut bacon, that they — um —don’t eat meat. (Just kidding, you would never do that.)
But who are you really?
According to the Huff Post Food Blog, and based on a recent Gallup study, you are more likely to be single (8% vs. 5% married). And your ranks haven’t grown much. Self-proclaimed vegetarians account for about 5% of the U.S. population, down from 6% ten years ago. The researchers wrote that “vegetarianism in the U.S. remains quite uncommon and a lifestyle that is neither growing nor waning in popularity.”
Researchers also found that 2 percent of people surveyed considered themselves vegan (with the traditional meaning of vegan meaning that you consume no animal products).
What a relief? Fire up that grill and toss on the burgers. But better clear some space for a round of grilled vegetables, just in case “they” show up.
Learn to love vegetables with these great grilling recipes!
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Dinner Tonight | Tags: Grilled Vegetables, Summer, Vegan, Vegetables, Vegetarian
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4 Responses to “Great Vegetarian Recipes, for your ‘Special’ Friends”
You might want to check those numbers since vegetarian and vegan numbers are definitely up. When people educate themselves on what the meat industry is doing to what we eat it is not difficult to pass on the meat and poultry.
WOW. Such dripping sarcasm. I have many vegan and vegetarian friends and family (perhaps all of them being that small percentage quoted?) as well as meat eating friends and family and not once have I ever known anyone, whether vegetarian, celiac disease (better known as gluten-free diet) or any other “special” person as you call it to not tell their host they were a vegetarian, not to mention most of us are not so wealthy as we do not personally ALREADY know the diet of our friends or family whom we are inviting. Well DUH Bill, this vegetarian subscribes to the newsletters as do others that do not eat meat so this insulting opening certainly makes me say adios to this newsletter, there are plenty other worthy more respectful ones out there that know vegetarians also subscribe to recipe newsletters.
Wow. Really? That is probably the most judgmental recipe post I have ever seen. Were you trying to help people to provide meals for vegetarians or make vegetarians aware that they are an unwelcome burden? And, no, I am not vegetarian.
Well said, Michelle-and thanks! I, however, am a vegetarian & I too find this post to be very judgmental. It’s not like “we” vegetarians parade around bragging about our eating habits (we all have our own likes and dislikes, right?). Otherwise, there’d be no need for cook books since we’d all be eating the same, mundane meals over and over again. And I feel that I speak for many of “us” when I say, I feel horrible in the situation stated above-declaring we do not eat meat when attending a dinner where meat is being served.
I thought this was a professional website, not one that is full of judgmental, biased recipe bloggers.