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I definitely can't get full veggo.
I mean, if there was a vast shortage of meat (and people probably started eating each other), I would happily live on just vegetables, but for the moment I cannot and will not go cold turkey.
Even if I've seen all those slaughterhouse documentaries (thanks, high school).
What kind of food plans do you go by?
Also, do you go to discount stores, or is there any main chain (like Sprouts) that you shop at?
I seriously don't want to stock my house with veggies when they cost both my buttocks to buy them. XD
Oh, and if you mention buying seasonal items, I know. Get the seasonal things.
I'm a firm believed in letting my body talk to me. If I'm hungry, I eat. If I crave something sweet, I'll eat fruit, or recently, an orange-cranberry-sunflower butter wrap with honey.
If I want protein, mixed nuts, etc.
I usually buy my food from the average grocery store. Veggies are WAY cheaper than meat if you buy the ingredients yourself and make things, but the prepared vegetarian food in stores are less healthy and cost much more than they should.
You also have the most control over what you're eating if you buy the ingredients.
Some things are more expensive, or more effort, but most things are cheaper.
Some advice...try sunflower butter. Tis much healthier than peanut. But if you hate sunflower seeds, or are allergic or something, or love peanut butter. Get the kind you have to stir. It's more effort, but it won't clog up your veins with hydrogenated fat.
I was the same way. I was staunchly against going veggie, really attached to eating meat and the PETA videos, though they pulled at my heart strings, didn't faze me. I agreed to be vegetarian for three days, and by the end I realized I really didn't miss it all that much. I'm kind of an animal person, so the guiltless feeling of a meal which didn't kill anything, combined with some really great vegan and vegetarian meals led me to continue being vegetarian. Well, that and the immediate healthy feelings. I was really unhealthy, didn't exercise, barely even walked to the fridge if I could help it. But once I went veggie I had energy, things didn't exhaust me anymore, and I could feel the vitality come back.
Even if you don't go full veggie, though, I am absolutely sure that you'll have results by being vegetarian most of the time, except for one or two cheat days a week. Even one veggie day a week probably makes a difference if it's health food.
And if you ever want some recipes, just tell me and I can post some here or pm them, whichever you prefer.