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I think that's the problem with a lot of people who try to go vegetarian and fail, honestly: they try to replace meat with meat substitutes and have the mindset that a meal is a vegetable, a meat, and a starch. The great vegetarian food I've had is not just copies of "meat dishes" but actually vastly different dishes that are created for and designed around the ingredients in them... not trying to achieve something like meat.
I was vegan at one point (a very short time after my cancer treatment when my ex-nutritionist had the fear of animal products and any type of dietary fat in me. These were half truths and based upon very small studies with very small differences in survival). I enjoyed it, but found it much too difficult to maintain, and I believe a big part is because I wasn't "ethically" involved, but doing it to save my own hide. I was also avoiding overly processed stuff, so it was really hard to find "quick" meals. Now I am about 70-80% vegetarian, which means that the vast majority of my meals don't involve meat, and I likely go a week on occasion without consuming meat.
I was vegan at one point (a very short time after my cancer treatment when my ex-nutritionist had the fear of animal products and any type of dietary fat in me. These were half truths and based upon very small studies with very small differences in survival). I enjoyed it, but found it much too difficult to maintain, and I believe a big part is because I wasn't "ethically" involved, but doing it to save my own hide. I was also avoiding overly processed stuff, so it was really hard to find "quick" meals. Now I am about 70-80% vegetarian, which means that the vast majority of my meals don't involve meat, and I likely go a week on occasion without consuming meat.