Originally Posted by Iceblossom

I was a vegetarian myself in my younger years before I became more comfortable being an omnivore. My hubby has always been a carnivore even before he discovered keto. But my son and dear daughter in law are full vegan which always complicates the holidays a bit.

Son is 30 now, went vegetarian about 12 years back (they've been full vegan about 3 years now) so I've had a lot of the different offerings over the years. Some are definitely better than others. When I was vegetarian I didn't care for analogs (term for foods meant to look/taste/replace meat) and the technologies of living in Alaska during the 70s probably didn't help. But one of our favorite places now is a Vietnamese vegetarian restaurant run by a buddhist nun. Even my hubby would swear many of the dishes you would just never know it wasn't meat.