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In reply to the discussion: What is your diet - i.e. are you a vegan? [View all]laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)but that includes tons of veggies. So I do eat meat products quite a bit, but not every meal. I have a couple of low carb vegetarian books I rely on. My basic diet is coffee for breakfast (lol), a large salad for lunch, and 2 kinds of cooked veggies, a salad and meat for dinner. Sometimes, if there are left overs from dinner (rare, because I don't make much meat, it's too expensive for me and my 4 kids) I will take it to work for lunch.
I tried being vegetarian before, I've tried being vegan - it just doesn't agree with me. Too many blood sugar swings for me. I still have fits of wanting to be vegan/vegetarian and I'll switch for a month or 2...then it catches up with me again and I go back to eating mostly low carb. I think I could be vegetarian because vegan is just too strict for me, but I have lactose intolerance, so my options are limited for animal proteins (I can have SOME cheeses but that's about it)
I rarely eat fish. I have never acquired a taste for it - my brother has a deadly fish allergy that was so bad you couldn't even cook fish in the house and he'd get sick...so we never ate it when I was growing up. I'll have salmon or trout once in awhile but not as often as I should. I do eat shellfish though quite often. But again, it's costly.
I don't eat pork very often either - something about it does NOT agree with me. I've tried organic pork even and it doesn't matter. I'm all bloated, in pain and gassy after I eat pork. Every single time. Like I drank a gallon of milk or something. So, the meat I eat is mostly chicken and beef. When I lived up north I used to have moose and bison added in there too but it's not readily available where I live now.
I try to buy organic, grass fed free range meat when I can - but I cannot afford it most of the time. I still add it in to my diet though to support local organic farmers. I sometimes get organic produce delivery as well. And the last few years I've grown my own veggies in the summer. I always have an over abundance of lettuce, carrots and zucchini, LOL.
So yeah, it's complicated.