Thank you for this thread! I turned vegetarian on January 1st, and funnily enough my best friend did as well and we hadn't even talked about it.

I don't find it so hard to quit meat, what's hard is to find places that don't have meat in every meal they serve and have parents who find you ridiculous for quitting meat and who don't really make special food for you.

Anyone else feels purified ever since they stopped eating meat? Because I do.

Anyway, thanks again for the thread.

Oh, I also forgot to mention Subway's veggie steack sandwiches. Delicious!

you do know they're making everything on the same counters and with the same utensils as every other one of their sandwiches....

I noticed that the last time I was in there.

I never understand why people always bring this up. Yes, you're a vegetarian/vegan, and you don't eat meat, but you're not allergic to it. You're not going to break out in hives if your sandwich is cut with the same knife as meat; and don't worry the vegan police won't arrest you either. You're not saving any animals by demanding to have your sandwich made on a different surface. I never really cared for subway, the veggies aren't very fresh, and their breads not too great either, also the stores always have a weird smell to them; and hasn't it been said that the fake meat there isn't vegan, though that might not be true.

And before someone comes at me with some ridiculous extreme, yes I would understand complaining if your food were to be cooked in bacon grease or if you were to have a meal cooked in a pan that just had steak in it. That's understandable, from that you could get the animal fat added to the meal, and we all know what too much fat does to a vegan.