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Annalee Dec 13, 2022

#Food Today's advice column inspired grouse:

Starter salads are not a vegetarian entree!

I am a breathing embodiment of the stereotype that vegetarians love salad. I really do! I love salad A LOT.

And yet, not being a cow, I still cannot digest roughage. Folks who seem to fully understand for themselves and their meat-eating guests that a bowl of greens is not a meal should not have trouble grasping that it is not a meal for a vegetarian, either.

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Annalee Dec 13, 2022

#Food If you are providing a meal for vegetarians and you really don't know what to offer you can go ahead and ask the vegetarians in question. But a good guideline is that vegetarians have the same macronutrient needs as everyone else. Our meals typically contain some combination of carbs, fat, and protein.

Fun fact: lettuce contains none of the above. All it is is fun to crunch. Basically the bubble wrap of the food world.

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Marcus Marcius Marcellus

@Annalee Lettuce is a good source of some vitamins, though, as well as of iron. (But not much iron in iceberg lettuce, admittedly, the funnest and crunchiest sort of all.)