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You can't go wrong if you serve them a totally vegetarian meal. The variations occur when you add another food group into the mix. For example, ovo-vegetarians also eat dairy. pescetarians also eat fish. To create a vegetarian diet, you need complete proteins that are plant based. Quinoa and soy (including tofu) are complete proteins. Another option is to create complete proteins by combining incomplete proteins, such as legumes (beans or nuts) and bread, or beans and pasta, or rice and beans. Gelatin and corn are other incomplete proteins. As long as you complete the nine essential amino acids that your body needs to repair/replace/build human tissue, your food cobinations will be correct. An incomplete protein is like a sign that has all consonants but no vowels. Your beans are your consonants and your rice are your vowels.

My grandmother was from the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. Her mother was from a Catawba Indian tribe, which is where I believe this recipe originated from:

Grandmother Nonnie's Pasta Salad

Large Elbow Noodles
Tomatoes
Cucumbers
Kidney Beans
Mayonaise (I use Hellmans, Grandmother used Dukes)
Salt
Pepper
Scallions (optional, Grandmother included them but I don't)