Question of the month: what's the hardest thing about eating out?(staples: COMMUNITY)

Publication: Vegetarian Times

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Finding a meal with a great protein source.

Nanci Lawson

Via email

Not knowing exactly what you're getting. At home, you can read labels, but when eating out, you don't know how many calories and how much fat is in your food, and whether any animal products were really used. The waitstaff might tell you that the meal doesn't include animal products, but the cook may have just fried your veggie burger next to a beef burger, and the buns might include lard.

Todd Towler

Via email

I frequently feel sick after eating vegetarian meals at non-vegetarian restaurants. The vegetarian entrees often are made with cheap oils and mass-produced sauces that my stomach can't handle. Lots of those sauces contain MSG and all kinds of unnatural flavors.

Amy Spiders Petsch

Batavia, IL

Finding foods that don't have meat products hidden in them. It seems that most food servers (I am one myself) aren't aware that chicken broth or...

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