EvergreenAlchemist:
Portland Oregon.
Plenty of vegan men here. Promise. All our veggie cafe's and restaurants are full of them, but there is a dearth of veggie women. Explain this to me: there are so many women here on Vegweb - why are there none in my city? Sad
Everyone move here.
Sincerely,
Man from Lame City
I resent the notion that Portland is a lame city. I'm living in Walla Walla right now, and have only briefly actually LIVED IN portland, but I have for almost all my life lived in the small towns about 40 minutes from Portland, I spent most of my time in Portland. I know tons of veggie women in Portland. Tons and tons. Lots of them are lesbians, though...
As for my boyfriend, he's unfortunately not vegetarian or vegan. He is, however, VERY willing to try knew foods. Sometimes he's a little shy, (as in, for three months he says, "tofu sour cream? You're kidding me. That sounds terrible" then he tries it or finally eats it when I put it in a meal I'm making for both of us, and then he likes it and asks me to make it all the time). He's told me sometimes that he's considered just being vegetarian because he basically is, because I do all the cooking. He only gets meat at home really in sandwiches or frozen dinners. Even when we're going out to eat, sometimes he'll substitute meat in his dish (like at asian restaurants) for tofu so I can taste some of what he gets. However, every once and awhile we go out to eat somewhere and he says that the meat tastes so good that he remembers why he isn't vegetarian. Makes me sad
he eats vegetarian probably 80% of the time, though, and he's lactose intolerant so besides eggs and yogurt, he doesn't eat other animal products. He doesn't eat eggs often either, because I don't have them in the house much. He does like tofu. This makes my life much butter. He actually begs me to make tofu breakfast burritos because he likes them better than egg-and-sausage breakfast burritos (veg win there!). Of course, I wish he would go veg, but I definitely do not want to force that on him, because it needs to be his decision. I doubt it will happen 100%, but he's good enough to deal with it.
How I deal with him not being veg? I do most of the cooking. Whenever someone is cooking with meat in my house, they have to use the meat-only cutting board (which happens to be my crappiest cutting board
). Very seldom I will make a non-veg dish if it's what he really wants. He's pretty easygoing so there's not much conflict.
