Vegetarian at an Office Picnic: What to Do?

[ginnyinWI]

12. trust me, nobody will notice what you are eating. if they do, they are rude.

Everyone mostly looks at their own plate. You can take or leave what you like. Nice offices will think to have a vegetarian option, but usually you can find something. If it is "make your own sandwich" you can leave off the meat, etc.

At the last thing I went to, I did that, and ate a moderate amount. And some piled their plates really high and ate it all--and complained that they were too stuffed. I wonder why. As a formerly fat person I know where they are coming from, but you have to use your brain when you eat, whether for weight or food sensitivities or whatever. It isn't smart or even fun to say, "oh just this once". And there are a lot of people eating more intelligently now--they just aren't in the majority.