Maggie is too funny! She’s a healthy eater just like her mom 😉

Good luck, I hope you win!! I agree with Sarah above – I wouldn’t expect someone to serve me a meal that they couldn’t eat due to dietary preferences. The way I see it, the host is being generous by inviting you over in the first place!

Try your sammie with green apples! Mmmmm. 🙂

I liked Abby’s response. Although, I still feel a slight guilt when not providing my meat eating guests with some animal protein….

Haha Maggie is so cute, that is a funny coincidence!

Congrats on the marathon! Thought you might find this interesting: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/section/Marine-Corps-Marathon-2010-Ready-or-not-graphic/index.html

Being a meat eater in a family of vegans I feel if you are going to someones house, you eat what they serve. My mom and sister are vegan so sometimes it is hard to find a meal that works for them but I have always found something and found some great recipes in the process. If we are having a special dish that I can not make vegan they will bring their own stuff (dressing, veggie burgers etc.) If we go to their house I plan on eating vegan food. They are making it and I am not going complain.

Most people are scared to try it and I find it “selfish” that you cant step outside your box and try something new. Eat meat for all the meals you dont have with your friends!

I love then paw on your arm (nearly wrote hand!)…there is nothing quite like that.

When I host a meal, I try to cater to the guest with the most restrictive diet unless it’s unreasonable (e.g., a kid who won’t eat green food). I would expect other hosts to do the same, and if the most restrictive diet is their own, that’s how they should plan the meal. Although my husband and I are not vegetarians, we have a few favorite vegetarian dishes that we prepare fairly often, even when it’s just the two of us for dinner.

VOTED! Hope you win! You’re such an amazing woman with such a big heart

Vegetarians may be morally against supporting the meat industry, but meat eaters shouldn’t be morally against eating a meal without meat for once in their lives! So I say serve guests the same food as you serve yourself in YOUR house. If they complain, just explain the carbon footprint they are avoiding by eating vegetarian for one single meal. They have the option of eating veg, but you DON’T have the option of eating meat. Plain and simple.

And I totally made a grilled brie and apple sandwich this weekend…SOOOOOO GOOD!

Hehe Maggie is so cute! I have a cat who loves pumpkin, I always thought he was weird!

I’m no longer an “official” vegetarian– but I still eat meat-free 99% of the time, and never cook meat at home, except for Thanksgiving. (when a friend does the turkey for me!) 😉 I would never expect a vegetarian to prepare a “meat dish” for a dinner party– that’s crazy! Especially when there are so many tasty alternatives.

And when my husband and I were the “difficult” guests, in our vegetarian and vegan years, I always offered to bring a dish that we could enjoy and share with others, so the host wouldn’t feel pressured to change his or her meal plan.

My pup LOVES apples, too! Really, she gets excited when I start chopping up ANY fruit or veggie– she’s a health nut, I guess! 😉

My pup, Button, looooooves banana. Everytime she catches me making a banana & PB sandwich I have to give her some 😉

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Haha – that’s how Niko is with sweet potatoes. As soon as I break out the peeler she’s at my feet, begging LOL
I voted for ya girl!

My pup loves apples, too! As soon as she hears the sound of a knife going through an apple, she is up off the couch and under my feet in the kitchen. So funny!

I love putting apple butter on my grilled cheese sandwich. It really is a great combo!

Way to go with giving all the money to charity. I know with the husband’s business getting off the ground that $10K must be tempting. I’m really impressed!

My parents dog is also apple crazy. I don’t know what it is about the apples!

I think someone asked above too… What is your favorite cheese to use? Brie and apples is always a good combo, but I’d be willing to be adventurous if it came with a good recommendation!

Rascal uses the same technique when he wants my leftover food. He knows that he isn’t allowed to wine or really “beg”, he just stares until you feel uncomfortable. He and Maggie should have a staring contest.

My grandpa always says, an apple without cheese is like a hug without a squeeze. haha reminded me of your sandwich!

I never enjoyed cooking meat, since I’m vegetarian that is true even more. However, i understand that most people dont agree with me. My mom always call me prior to familly dinner to discuss the menu and im thankful to that, everywhere else I go I most of the time have to bring my own food but I dont feel strange about it, it’s part of the deal. When I invite people over I cook vegetarian food cause i wont serve to others something I wont eat. When I have a meatlover boyfriend I cook him meat even if i dont enjoy it cause been vegetarian is my decision, i dont want to influence other, everyone make their own choices in life. I believe in freedom of choices, wont try to convince anyone… but I can show them that vegetarian food can taste better than traditional food! 🙂