Admit­tedly, I’m a veg­e­tar­ian year round, but I do enjoy a Yves Hot Dog now and then.

(shame­facedly, some­times cooked with bis­cuit dough wrapped around it. Yum.)

Thanks.

My dd just had to men­tion the smell of McDonald’s not 30 mins. ago as we were pass­ing one. Oh so helpful.

Depend­ing on the man­u­fac­turer a hot dog may not actu­ally have any meat in it. Last time I checked saw dust was okay for Lent.

LOL. Sure, what was I think­ing? And hey, talk about high fiber content!

I hadn’t thought of veg­gie hot dogs. Some of that Morn­ingstar stuff is so much like the real thing that it puts me into that end­less dia­logue about whether it’s in the Lenten spirit or not.

But then, I have a hard time get­ting enough pro­tein if I don’t do things like that. I really don’t like fish or seafood.

you remind me of how this past week­end, as we ate our vegan meal, my kids would have these con­ver­sa­tions at the table like: what do you like bet­ter ham­burg­ers or hot­dogs? etc…

this also reminds me a fourth of july many years ago (before we were Ortho­dox) when some friends asked if they could bring their Adven­tist friends, say­ing ‘we will take care of their food.’ so they show up with those hot dogs in the can thing, and as i read the instruc­tions it says ‘cook until deli­cious.’ to which i replied to my friend, “i dont think i have that much time.”

a Blessed Lent to you!

Morn­ingstar hot dogs.….hmmmm.….tried that.…once. And I tried all the com­peti­tors, too, just to see if there was some­thing out there that was edi­ble. And tonight had veg­gie sausage from Morn­ingstar. All I can say is that I don’t feel so good right now.…and it’s not a spir­i­tual sick­ness. Like the Bea­t­les sang, “The best things in life aren’t soy.… but you tell it to the birds and boys”.

How­ever, I do highly rec­om­mend the Morn­ingstar Black­bean Burg­ers — they’re hon­estly what they are and not soy in dis­guise. No tex­ture / fla­vor prob­lems. Just good.

Yep, you can’t make a hot dog out of veg­eta­bles unless a cow eats them first.
My expe­ri­ence with “soy meat sub­sti­tutes” is I’d rather eat the real deal and go to con­fes­sion. Now if I could only fig­ure out how Pei Wei makes their tofu that firm and with the slight crust, I could eat tofu every night. Besides, I’ve split open many hot dogs and have yet to find a back­bone in any yet. They’re a lot like shrimp!

I’ve never tried Morn­ingstar hot dogs, so I have to take everybody’s word for it that they’re not that good. Their faux chicken pat­ties though are great — maybe just a lit­tle dry. And yes, I sec­ond the opin­ion on the black­bean burgers.

Hm. Won­der where I can find a 24-hour super­mar­ket. Oh yessss, I’ve got those glut­to­nous impulses com­pletely under con­trol.

Eat­ing at a restu­raunt one night dur­ing Lent some years ago for an office meet­ing, some of us were order­ing veg­etable plates. One of the men there said loudly, “Veg­eta­bles aren’t food! Veg­eta­bles are what food eats!”

At an all day school event dur­ing Lent, the school had a snack bar and NOTHING there was suit­able for Ortho­dox meals. I compined to my daugh­ter who said, “Really, mother, who can say what is actu­ally in a hot dog? It might be okay.”

I tried the soy sub­stitues and decided that if you aren’t sup­posed to be eat­ing meat, you shouldn’t PRETEND to be eat­ting meat.

That being said, yes­ter­day I, too, was beseiged by thoughts of McDon­alds.… because I was at home, I’d have had to put on shoes and go out. So glad I wasn’t run­ning errands — I may have succumbed.

PS We’re only begin­ning Lent! We’d bet­ter get pre­pared for a lot more tempataion!

Thank­fully, I find it eas­ier the longer I go — who wants to fall after trav­el­ing a long way?

Well, that’s cer­tainly right. This par­tic­u­lar crav­ing was a bit of a sur­prise. I don’t usu­ally get Lenten crav­ings and I’m not even that par­tial to hot dogs.

Favorite Lenten fast food: Taco Bell bean bur­rito and a side of rice (hold the cheese). Pretty yummy.

One of the gen­tle­men at Church always brings his doc­tored up Taco Bell bean bur­ri­tos to the Agape meal after­wards. Though tech­ni­cally Lenten we often say that the quan­tity and qual­ity of the pot luck is so grand that it can hardly be Lenten.

That’s true. We have potlucks where you hardly notice the lack of meat, dairy, etc. But then, I’ve real­ized that part of the rea­son for that is because there’s so much cama­raderie and good fel­low­ship that you can’t be broken-hearted and con­trite. I fig­ure that that is part of the ongo­ing joy of being in the church. It’s a year-round kind of thing.

It’s def­i­nitely a year round thing. I love Ortho­doxy because it’s the one true faith. I love Church because they are my family.