Adapt 3 recipes to vegetarian.
Take 3 of your recipes and adapt them to be vegetarian. Replace meat with beans or vegetable protein to make a veggie burger.
Check out veggie cookbooks.
Look for 3 new vegetarian recipes to try. Once you have a total of 9 vegetarian meals you enjoy, you have a foundation.
Control diabetes.
A vegetarian diet high in complex carbohydrates, and low in fat and sugar can lower blood sugar levels in non insulin dependent diabetes.
Go vegetarian to lose weight.
A diet of vegetables, fruits, whole grain and beans fills you up and satisfies you with fewer calories for long term weight loss.
Going vegetarian is easy.
Grocery stores are always stocked with colorful vegetables and plenty of other vegan foods.
Help the environment.
"To be an envirnmentalist who happens to eat meat is like being a philanthropist who doesn't happen to give to charity" -- Howard Lyman.
Keep a journal.
Record each day how you feel on a scale of 1 - 10, and describe any problems or solutions that you encountered that day.
Prevent cancer.
The overall cancer death rates are 1/2 to 3/4 the population rates for vegetarians.
Think of 3 meals you already enjoy.
To get started, look at the vegetarian meals you already enjoy - like vegetable stir fries, pasta primavera, or veggie stew.
Try out new foods.
Don't just remove meat from your existing diet. Expand your dietary horizon as you become a vegetarian.
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