Hello I'm considering become vegetarian for health reasons but I'm not really sure where to start. I was looking on the web for like vegetarian 101 info came across this site. My name is Kenneth and I hope you guys can be a resource to me. Thanks to everyone in advance...

You've come to the right place! I'm not really the person to ask about health stuff but I know there are tons of knowledgeable and super friendly people on here. I hope you make the decision to go veg and love it as much as we do!

I just signed up here i was looking for fundraising ideas and it brought me to this site but i love it

I am a girl. I live in Bolivia in south america. I go to an american international school. It really cool because i meet people from all over (Korea holand beglium france india germany austria mexico just to name a few). Ive been a vegetairn for about four years now and am happy with it. I have a boyfriend who is the sweetest person i have ever met and is so good to me i always think about why he choose me and not some other girl that is better but im very thankful for him. My mom died when i was fourteen from spinal brain and pancreatic cancer it was the hardest thing i have ever gone through we were really close. After that i lived with my best friend and her family for a year because my dad hates my step dad whom i love dearlyand made me move in with them which i hated i never had a truely together and happy family after she died after i was fourteen i have never been truely happy i feel until i met my boyfriend who i can talk about to about everything.I go to college in two years and am planning on northeastern but its slim chances ill get into there. Thats me summed up i guess

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Hiyaa!  8-)

My name is Tiv, I'm 18 (um, 19 in two days...!!) and I live in New Zealand!
I've been a vegetarian for probably less than a year, though had been trying to stop eating meat for ages before that. Once I decided that I was just going to CUT IT OUT it became really easy, and it feels so good, I love food and cooking about a hundred times more now.
I study fashion design, and that's really cool, I'm going to have so much fun making myself awesome clothes! Yay. I'm pretty glad there is another vegetarian in my class, me and him sit there chatting about our favourite foods, while the rest of the class give us funny looks. My tutor asked me what tofu tastes like, I hope I've convinced her to try it!!

I should probably sshhh now. But I look forward to getting to know everyone here!
;)b

Oooh....I just noticed this thread!

I'm Hoya, early twenties and blissfully married, and once made a vow to never, ever, EVER cook and marry a man that would love to cook instead.
So I married a man that loves to cook. And he introduced me to the world of gardening.
Which seduced me into the magical world of vegetables and lured me out of my picky-two-year-old eating habits.
Which also got me learning about health.
Which got me learning about nutrition. ((I still don't know much, just vitamins and such. Unfortunately, I still don't know what vitamins come from which food!))
Which got me interested in COOKING. Of all things!

So in the interest of cutting out meats and going vegetarian....I stumbled upon this site.
And my husband came home one day to find me.....*gasp* at the oven!  :o

Heh. So we're new to the vegetarian thing. We avoid processed foods. Live in an apartment in the city. Own land in the country where we grow our own HUGE variety of veggies!  ;)b

And all thanks to this site, I've been cooking up a storm of last years harvest that had left us quite puzzled on what to do with 'em...

Ha. I'll end it at that. Who knew cooking could be fun? Thanks to all of you at VegWeb!

:howdy: to all of you! C'mon innnnn.  :)

Yay!  Friends who don't eat meat! 
I am currently living in China teaching English to indifferent university students.  Hoping to return to the US in the fall to go to grad school (waiting on my acceptance and rejection letters).  I find that it can be difficult being a vegetarian here in China for a couple of reasons....#1 though I speak some Chinese it's not 100% fluent so there's always room for misunderstanding #2 so many dishes here seemed to be cooked with some sort of meat or blood or something in them, even the veggie ones and I'm never quite sure what has meat in it and what doesn't.  I guess the best solution is to cook for myself, which I usually do, but I don't know as much about tofu and fun vegetarian kinds of things as I would like so I end up eating the same thing a lot.  I am here for evil, selfish purposes....those being to leech off of all of your vegetarian/vegan knowledge and use it for myself! (Insert evil laugh here) I'm SO excited to be involved in a community of veggie-lovers!  I feel very happy that my lifestyle choice will be understood and applauded instead of scoffed and mocked.

P.S.  My Chinese friend taught me how to cook pumpkin the other day with Chinese rice wine.  Next week we move on to pumpkin with dates and pumpkin and jasmine flower soup.  Excitement plus!

Hey,
I'm Sean, I've been vegan for almost 10 years now, with some "vegan vacations" thrown in here and there. I've been using this site for years for recipies, but lately I've been laid off and have more time to root around this site so i thought I'd join up. I read some of the previous posts and was suprised to find how many other people said they went right from meat to vegan like i did.