Do you and your mate have mismatched eating habits?  

In my case, I'm the meat eater who is married to a life-long vegetarian. My husband has been a vegetarian his entire life. He has never had a McDonald's hamburger or mom's homemade meatloaf and he'll never understand what crispy, bacon really taste like. He's never had it.

I love food. I never thought I could date a vegetarian - let alone marry one. To me, sharing meals is an important factor in a relationship.  So trying to have meals together at home and out is difficult. While it is not a relationship breaker - obviously not if we got married - it is something that we have to think about constantly.

I'm not trying to convert my husband to the evil ways of eating meat and he's not getting all high and mighty trying to convince me that soy products are the way of the world. They're not - sorry, there is absolutely no substitute for real bacon, but I can and have been learning to compromise on my veggie/soy/tofu intake. But, what I'm not willing to compromise is on the taste.

It's definitely not hard to find a vegetarian restaurant (especially if you live in Los Angeles where they're about as common as a Starbucks), but it is hard to find one that both a vegetarian and a meat eater consider to be worthy of a second go-around. And these days, we know no one has the time or money to spend making two meals, going to a so-so veggie restaurant or buying double groceries.

Food is the backbone of our culture and preparing and eating food together is how relationships are built - and learning to compromise is part of building that relationship.

So, my husband and I decided couples who eat together, stay together.

I created "Meat Me In The Middle" to be a place where meat eaters and veggie eaters can share videos - funny and informative, cartoons, stories, give recommendations on restaurants or post some of your favorite recipes.

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