Our meat comes from a local butcher shop, so it's probably not product of a concentrated animal feeding operation (CAFO). I know for a fact that the beef we eat was raised in a lady's backyard - my mom works with her. But our chicken and the little bit of bacon we get are of somewhat indeterminate origins.
When eating with *B* now, I feel really guilty about eating meat. When we eat out at a restaurant, *B* always gets something vegetarian. When at home, if I make something with chicken, I feel bad because I know he has reservations about eating it. But the problem is that I have not found vegetarian meals that I like. While he's happy eating lentil soup and vegetable curry, I'm not. I haven't had pork loin in well over a year, and that used to be one of my go-to meals. I just don't like sweet and sour chicken without the chicken (a meal we had last week).
Day to day, I deal with this fairly well. I'm grumbly, but I manage. I eat meat at school and when we go out. In prepping, though, this issue is almost painful. I see tons of interesting freezer meals on Pinterest and others' blogs, but they're usually based around a meat. All of the vegetarian meals I see seem terrible to me.
The problem is that I'm very picky when it comes to vegetables. I don't like onions and tomatoes unless they're cooked and diced fine. I don't like olives, most beans, peppers, cucumbers, winter squash, arugala, beets, turnips, or rutabegas. I also don't like any kind non-cow milk cheeses like chevre. I'm not a huge fan of barley, quinoa, or couscous. I would kill a bowl of fettucini alfredo with broccoli with no problem, but *B* isn't a huge fan of pasta.
What this boils down to is that my freezer is stocked with two types of food right now: food I'll eat and food he'll eat. I can't find enough meals that will satisfy both of us so that we don't get sick of them.
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