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Valerie has been making several meals a night trying to meet her family's different tastes and needs. Though she and her husband eat meat, her three children have decided that meat is not for them. At a young age they all declared they no longer wanted to eat meat since it comes from animals. Valerie and her husband have supported their decision but they want to make sure that the family meals are meeting all their nutritional needs. In the Emeril Green episode Meat Me in the Middle, Emeril introduces Valerie to dietician Katherine Tallmadge who dishes out all the details on vegetarian nutrition.
Choosing a vegetarian diet, or just cutting back on the amount of meat is better for the environment, says Tallmadge. Vegetarian meals use less water and energy to produce. But there's no need to sacrifice nutrition!
