I Am a Vegetarian

I've decided to be vegetarian with mum. She has medical problems and her doctor says she has to. I don't want her to be the only one doing it, because she might not stick with it then.

I don't know anything about this, but I'd like for it to work out.

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greenmountaingal · 70-79, F

When I took care of my dad during the last year of his life, he had to be on a salt free diet and I gave up eating salt that year (with no cheating) in order to make sure that the food I was preparing really was palatable.

It was hard for me. I missed salt because I'd always loved very salty foods.

After Dad passed away, a couple of weeks later, I realized I could now eat salt so I ran out to the store and bought a bag of potato chips...and I could not eat them! I had developed a whole different way of perceiving the taste of food. I have never been able to eat a lot of extremely salty food since that time. My experience had retrained my taste buds.