Poll: What are your diet restictions?

& pretend vegetarian.

& i'm actually surprised "some manner of food allergy" isn't its own category. we ought to have plenty of those.

I'll eat anything.

Same here. I'll try anything at least once.

No restrictions. well, that's not true -- I restrict myself from eating anything I don't like. :-P

no diet, no low-carb, no "free," no low-caffiene... bring on the high-test. :-D

-- Pauley

My meals, except breakfast, must contain some kind of meat.

boo hiss. too tired, will reply in agonizing length, an appropriate response, minimal wordage or fragment sentances and lists in the morning.

yeah.

I'm a Vegan, well I wasn't born on Vega, but my parents are from Vega and we go there on vacation, and some day we are going to go back there to live.

As for my diet I make sure all the animals I eat are dead.

Liveist!

I'll eat absolutely anything... as long as it won't kill me. I'm not a primadonna.

fish and peanuts, unfortunately, will.
*sigh*

I fucking hate allergies.

I only eat stuff I like...

Yeah I was going to say none because I have no restrictions, per se....but anyone who knows me (and has seen my spreadsheet) knows that my tastes themselves restrict me pretty heavily. :)

Well, for Lent I gave up caffiene... does that count?

I gave up chocolate, I think it counts

i dont have any restrictions on what i am allowed to eat, but what i allow myself to eat is usually of the low-fat, moderate carbohydrate low-to-no sugar variety.

although, i do have a lactose intolerance that restricts me from drinking milk and eating yogurt or ice cream. most cheeses are fine :P

sheryls is a lactard! sheryls is a lactard!

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I *occasionally* eat fish. But other than that i'm meat free!

I'm not a true vegetarian because I eat poultry and seafood...didn't realize until about 2 years ago that there's actually a name for that ("penne-pollo vegetarian").

Isn't it pesco/pollo?� penne is pasta...

Oops, sorry....too much multitasking this morning!

If one can be a pesco/pollo "vegatarian" then it seems to me that one can equally be a pesco/pollo/carne vegatarian! About eggs there could be some discussion, but otherwise, either you eat animals or you don't.

It actually comes downs to not eating mammals.

What is the point of that? Parrots are a lot smarter than cows. Why is it ok to eat an intelligent non-mammal and not a stupid mammal? And in any case I don't disagree if someone wants to abstain from mammals, but doing that doesn't give one the right to call one's self a "vegatarian". That would be like saying someone was a "carnivore" because they don't eat grain products.

You eat parrots?

Who doesn't?

Eh. Parrots are gamey. ;P

(She says as her small green parrot, who was playing a game of knockthingsoffofthedeskandwatchthemgoclunk, slips and falls from the desk, then flies back to the cage as if to say, "you did *not* see that". He's lucky he has hollow bones, that bird.)

not everyone who doesn't eat some forms of meat does it for the same reason. i know from experience that sometimes its just waaaay easier to call yourself a vegetarian because its something that people understand and usually don't question. one may not always be in the mood to go into a long-winded explanation of what they will and won't eat and *why* everytime they're invited out to lunch, when just saying "I'm vegetarian" will solve the problem quite nicely.

Ok, sure, but that falls into the category of "white lie" or whatever you want to call it. That doesn't change the fact that someone who eats chicken and fish is not a "vegetarian". They just aren't. It would may be convenient for such a person to SAY they are vegetarian at a steak dinner, but that doesn't make them one. Clearly we DO need a term for people who are chicken and fish eaters, but equally clearly "pesce-pollo vegetarian" isn't that term, because it is an oxymoron.

yeah, i think i'd just say "i don't eat red meat" if that's the case. or "i don't eat red meat, and i also keep kosher." that seems fairly straightforward and understandable to me. but coming up with a longwinded term like pesce-pollo-vegetarian to say "i'll eat animals unless they're mammals" seems like people are trying to claim a dietary stance they don't really hold to.

I thought it was pesco-pollo

unless you only eat chicken and hollow pasta

or I'm ignorant

What if you only eat the hollow in the pasta and not the pasta itself?

i'm a vegetarian, except at mealtimes.

*ducks*

and not because you like animals, but because you hate vegetables!

o/~I hear the screams of the vegetables...o/~

"There's plenty of room for all God's creatures...

...right next to the mashed potatoes."

(source unknown)

-- Pauley

if it's classifiable as food, i'm likely to try it. the few items i categorically won't eat are all based on the "yick" factor, and not any dietary or allergic restrictions.

i try to be virtuous and eat mostly complex carbs, although i've pretty much fallen off that wagon these past few months. and i always try to supplement my meals with chocolate, whenever possible. :D

som meet hurts my stomec bcaws penguns relly cant eat red meet. fishs ar vary vary gude but meet somtims maks me not hapy.

i relly lik lam vindelu tho.

I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian for 16 years. Then I got pregnant. For the first two trimesters I stayed veggie, but for the last couple months I was like "ohmygodwantmeatnow!" Andy and I had a routine of going for my prenatal check and then going for Chinese buffet where I would eat huge platefuls of pork dumplings.

After Maddie was born, I tried going back to being veggie, but I'd already been hooked by the dark side. Pork has lost its appeal though and I have never liked beef--even the smell of it makes me feel queasy.

I eat fish and poultry now, which I guess makes me a pesce-pollo vegetarian, but that just seems like a stupid term. I eat dead animals-- how am I a vegetarian?

I eat whatever i want..hee hee. i am young and have a speedy metabolism.. *oh yeah*
just kidding. i know it won't last long. so i'm enjoying it now.
well, i do have one restriction at the moment- no meat on fridays. lent. so i get olives on my pizza. :) yum olives. only black though. i don't like green olives, in any form.

duuuuude, your like, from close to me. I used to live in Blue Bell...rock.

hey, i know where Blue Bell is! cool!

green olives was a food i didnt like until i was 24 o.O

along with most�seafood, wine, bleu cheese, sweet pickles/relish and ketchup.

whoa.

An American who didn't like ketchup until the age of 24? Where's your page in the Guinness book of records? ;-P

I don't like ketchup either....
:P

You aren't 24 yet. ;)

I don't care. i still don't like it. :P
I also don't like excessive icing on cakes and stuff. *shudder*

hrmm..agreed to a point. For me, it depends on the type of icing.

The only icing i like is the icing on ice cream cake. i guess it's the same, just frozen, but it tastes a lot better that way. less pasty.

i don't mind a small amount of good buttercream icing or ganache, but those mounds of shortening-based "frosting" on some cakes revolt me. if i'm faced with that stuff i try to scrape as much off as possible and just eat the cake. :)

that's the stuff i'm talking about: the "frosting" you speak of. makes me sick...eew.
I like cake though. and sometimes cake has good icing, used sparingly.

NO FISH! FISH BAD!!!!!

feesh!

vegetarian *and* kosher, you insensitive ipod? :P

i used to eat fish, but now i opt for the vegetarian futo maki when i go out for sushi. when i can find a soy alternative to milk, i'll usually have that instead of real moo juice... though i do enjoy cheese a great deal. and soy cheese is just not cheese.

no, soy cheese is crap.

for some reasons cheese does not set off my belly and it makes me a very strange lactose intolerant.

Silk is the One True Soymilk, kthxbye ;)

(i'm sure there is a less-commercialized one that is fantastic but let me tell you something about Toledo... ;)

Mmmm. Chocolate soy milk!!!!

does like one glass of lowfat milk set you off? I thought maybe I was lactose intolerant for a while, but really for me, I think it is just a matter of fat, and amount and the weather and the stars. In other words my innards are irritable because while too much ice cream is death, cheese or a bowl of cerial with milk is no problem.

when andrew was lactose intolerant as a young'un he never had trouble with cheese of any sort, or yogurt either -- just milk, ice cream, pudding and such. the cultures and aging of cheese/yogurt really seemed to make a difference for him.

but he grew out of his l.a., so maybe the childhood sort of intolerance isn't as all-encompassing as the typical adult form.

and soy cheese is just not cheese

so true. And you poor Canadians don't even have easy access to raw milk cheese...

what's that? unpasteurized?

Yup. It's unpasteurized (due to EU regulations it mustn't be heated beyond 40� C) and untreated in any other way.

hth