Quote Originally Posted by kc261 View Post
Most vegetarians I have known are also pretty big on eating organic foods and such, so MSG isn't a problem for them. I'm not sure it is related to you being vegetarian anyway. MSG bothers lots of people.

I'm pretty sure in ramen, the MSG is in the flavoring packet, so you could eat just the noodles. I bet you can flavor them up by adding veggies to the water. There are ways to make a pretty tasty vegetable-based soup stock.

If you want/need to get MSG out of your diet, for the most part your only choice is to avoid all those packaged processed foods.
I know it.. and we do buy a lot of organics!
It's just, well my family doesn't have a whole lot of money. So sometimes it's difficult to go to Trader Joe's instead of ALDI.

No, the MSG doesn't have anything to do with being a veg, except I feel like I have to become a vegetarian all over again with foods I didn't even realize were bad.. When I became veg I'd say 25-50% of my diet was gone, and now 75% of my current diet I have to eliminate or watch out for.
Basically I hardly have 15% of my original diet left. :[