help with a meat eating husband

I just went vegetarian again. I have planned out my diet well and i am doing great. I feel better, look better and I know what I am doing is better for the environment. However, my husband still eats meat. He loves veggies and beans but he wants more protein. He HATES tofu no matter what I do to it. HELP!

 

Leave the cranky old bastard alone. He's set in his ways.

 

Have you tried preparing meals with mainstream soy foods yet?

Things such as Morningstar Chik'n Nuggets, Boca sausage links, and Gardenburger Flame-Grilled tend to be popular with omnivores, while tofu just tends to scare many people away.

Keep in mind that you cannot change anyone's eating habits. He has to make the change himself, if he does at all. The best you can do is be a good example and show people that meatless meals can be tasty. It's up to the person on what they want to do with that knowledge.
Anyway, try preparing meals with mainstream, recognizable meatless products. He may not become a vegetarian, but he may eat meat less often. The book "Living Among Meat Eaters" by Carol J. Adams also has practical and compassionate advice on living in a mixed-diet household.

 

...............beat him in his sleep until he converts, best of luck - Peace

 

....or stab him in the heart with a T-bone. That should make him stop eating meat!

 

Good point, my Dad is like that.

Just stand firm, and have mutral respect for each other's diet. He might well come round but you never know.

 

yeah, it is difficult... i haven't been married to meat eater though still, all my friends, well almost, eat meat and I am a talking person, i talk all the time about all kinds of stuff and i often run into the theme of veganism, but meat eaters are so much in their own world with their own myths and beliefs that it is nearly impossible influecing their mind even a bit. You might want to try to show him some of the "Meet your meat" kind of movies (although some immature meat eaters just get more excited and act as if they enjoyed blood and pain and stuff) or just drop some facts about eating meat once in a while - just by the way, not pushing on it (they don't like it ). Maybe he will kind of put the pieces togather and understand what is what and who is who.
I wish you THE BEST of luck! Really! Be strong, we must be!

 

Ever thought about just letting him make his own choice on what to eat. You love him for who he is right? You shouldn't try to change someones lifestyle because of your life choice.

 

....................you have never had a relationship with a women have you?

 

Yeah I have, its working out fine, im getting married june 18th 05. She was anti military, I joined the air force. Shes still with me. I guess she accepted me for who I am.

 

...............wellcongratulation, how ever who said she is not just waiting. Most of the changes happen after the ring is on her finger. GOOD LUCK

 

I am the fiancee to my sweet mr. airforcedrew . I'm not waiting or wanting to change anything about him. If I wanted to change him...well...why would I be with him? I have had that issue in the past with exes, and it just doesn't work and it's not worth it. To the original poster...I understand how being a vegetarian is an important issue, but things can get really sticky if you actually make an effort to change your hubby's ways. If you must, do it gradually, do it quietly, do it undercover. Little hints every now and then somehow to try to get HIM to ask you about it. But if I were you I'd just let it go. He may actually decide on his own anyway that he might want to try it after a while of you having lived this way. I'd wait for that. But if it doesn't happen. Just try to love the man and live with his faults anyway. If that doesn't work out...come back here for more advice .

 

lol...I actually meant to sign in as me first. yeah, that last post from airforcedrew was me. oopsie. Anyway...yeah...what I said up there.

 

If this means so much to you maybe you should hold out on sex until he stops eating meat. I bet that would work.

 

..............yeh thanks for proving my point. Make him think he's making the choice on his own.

 

being a vegitarian isnt the best fucking thing in the world. leave him and his meat alone if he likes it!

 

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yeah, and after he gets fed veggie meat for a month or so tell him that he was on a vegetarian diet. lol.

 

Watch some animal rights videos...invite your hubby to watch them with you. Talk about YOUR feelings about it. Become more educated about factory farms and such and if possible get involved in a Animal Rights/Vegetarian group so your are not so isolated with your diet.
Hubby might follow what youa re doing and become involved. I used to cook meat for bf , then i found out about factory farms and i couldnt do that anymore, couldnt handle meat in the house either, I asked him to watch AR videos with me... when he saw the cruelty and saw how upset i was and how serious i took it he changed towards it.

oh and I dont think i would have stayed with him had he continued to eat meat - not after i became more aware of how terribly cruel it is. I dont mean he stopped the next day it was gradual but if he hadnt cared enuff about it then i would have had to leave. I could not handle sharing my life with someone who is so uncaring for animals, that they would never even gradually stop supporting so much cruelty.