More on vegetarian foods in assisted living facilities.In response to the Note from the Coordinators in Issue 3, 2003: I thought you might be interested in an experience I had while touring a retirement community in our area. The lady we were supposed to meet for the tour was a little late, so we looked around the main building on our own. I noticed that the list of entrees for the week was posted and not a single vegetarian vegetarian /veg·e·tar·i·an/ (vej?e-tar´e-an) 1. one who practices vegetarianism. 2. pertaining to vegetarianism. veg·e·tar·i·an n. One who practices vegetarianism. option! I mentioned this to the guide and she said they hadn't had·n't Contraction of had not. hadn't had not hadn't have even thought of the possibility of vegetarian retirees! I hope I prevailed upon her the fact that many vegetarians are retirees, and many more will be joining the ranks of the newly retired with the aging of the baby boomers See generation X. . I think the message is one that needs to be promoted to the many retirement building projects that are cropping up everywhere. We are vegetarian, and we are here! While vegetarians can surely survive on side dishes side dish n. A dish served as an accompaniment to the main course. Noun 1. side dish - a dish that is served with, but is subordinate to, a main course entremets, side order , why should we when just a little imagination produces such marvelous entrees? Thank you for your great magazine; I always enjoy reading it from cover to cover whenever it appears in my mailbox A simulated mailbox in the computer that holds e-mail messages. Mailboxes are stored on disk as a file of messages, a database of messages or as an individual file for each message. The standard mailboxes are usually In, Out, Trash and Junk (Spam). . K.C., via e-mail |
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