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I was a semi-vegetarian for six years in middle school/high school. Then I went back to eating meat for four years . . . and now I think I'm going vegetarian again (full-out this time -- well, lacto-ovo, not vegan).
The problem is that I'm a waitress, so I eat a lot of my meals at work (I usually only eat one "meal" a day and most of the time that's at work; the rest of my food intake consists of just snacking on fruit, bagels, cereal, etc.). I also recently stopped eating deep-fried food (french fries!
), so that sort of leaves me with limited options. I'm not neurotic about stuff being cooked on the same grill as meat or anything (the switch is more for health reasons than moral ones), so that's not a big deal. Fortunately we have veggie burgers and they are pretty good, but beyond that I'm basically limited to house salads, a couple different soups, and pasta without meat. That will get old in a hurry, so I'm trying to figure out what kind of modifications I can make to other foods that will leave them meatless but still edible. Suggestions?
A second problem is that I used to be very picky about what I ate (and still am fairly picky) so there's a lot of stuff that I've never had before. For example, I just discovered the deliciousness of pita and hummus earlier this year. What's out there that I need to be broadening my horizons to that hopefully is not too exotic/scary? Haha.
Third problem is that I don't really cook. I can and will if it's worth expending the effort, but usually I'm too lazy and it's easier to just pop a bagel in the toaster. What snacky-type foods or easy-to-prepare stuff can the rest of you guys not do without?