i have been meat free for 4 months, vegan for 1-1/2 months. In January my wife and I rsvped for a wedding and I chose fish as my entree not knowing I would become vegan. It is a fancy wedding and I know plates are expensive. We are a week away from the wedding and I completely forgot I made this dinner choice. My question is, should I just suck it up and eat the fish this one time? Or should I chose not to eat it and have my good friend waste his money and feel like a total jerk about it? Please offer real advice and don't be rude.
I need some advice
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See if you can change it. I don't think it's too late. If you can't, just try to keep it light. Play the 'oh silly me' act, not the frantically worried vegan-cum-victim one. As for whether you should eat it, I don't think anyone here can tell you what you should do. If it were me, I probably wouldn't know what to do until the plate was in front of me and the other guests were looking around at the table. But, always, keep it light. 
If it comes to that, try to get people to laugh with you, to empathise.
We are a very friendly forum I have seen seldom few instances of rudeness here.
If it comes to that, try to get people to laugh with you, to empathise.We are a very friendly forum
I have seen seldom few instances of rudeness here.
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gab
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Hi Ronald, I hope that you can change it as Winter.frost suggested.
I have been vegan since March this year, so around the same time as you, and not eating meat became one of my life principles - for me that means whatever happens, bar starvation, I would not eat it. I feel that caving in under social pressure would just make it easier to do so next time: in a pub with friends, in a restaurant with the partner for example.
But it is an individual choice, and you have to make your own - I would not think less of fellow vegans either way. The more vegans (even ones who slip up once in a while), the better for the planet.
Gab
I have been vegan since March this year, so around the same time as you, and not eating meat became one of my life principles - for me that means whatever happens, bar starvation, I would not eat it. I feel that caving in under social pressure would just make it easier to do so next time: in a pub with friends, in a restaurant with the partner for example.
But it is an individual choice, and you have to make your own - I would not think less of fellow vegans either way. The more vegans (even ones who slip up once in a while), the better for the planet.
Gab
Yeah I feel like one meal wouldn't kill me. I just have enjoyed this change so much and I will feel bad eating meat.
