511. For those who can use them, good vegetables, prepared in a healthful manner, are better than soft mushes or porridge.—Manuscript 3, 1897 (CD 322.1) MC VC

512. Vegetables should be made palatable with a little milk or cream, or something equivalent.—Testimonies for the Church 9:162, 1909 (CD 322.2) MC VC

A Part of a Complete Diet VC

513. The simple grains, fruits of the trees, vegetables, have all the nutritive properties necessary to make good blood. This a flesh diet cannot do.—Letter 72, 1896 (CD 322.3) MC VC

[In the Adequate Diet—483, 484, 486] (CD 322) MC VC

Plenty of Vegetables VC

514. We are built up from that which we eat. Shall we strengthen the animal passions by eating animal food? In the place of educating the taste to love this gross diet, it is high time that we were educating ourselves to subsist upon fruits, grains, and vegetables.... A variety of simple dishes, perfectly healthful and nourishing, may be provided, aside from meat. Hearty men must have plenty of vegetables, fruits, and grains.—Letter 3, 1884 (CD 322.4) MC VC

[For the Helpers’ Table—444, 651]
[To Take the Place of Flesh Meat—492, 649, 765, 795]
[To Take the Place of Rich Foods—312]
[Not Relished by Those Accustomed to Transgressing Nature’s Laws—204, 563]
[Flesh Diet Vegetables Secondhand—482] (CD 322) MC VC

515. The Lord intends to bring His people back to live upon simple fruits, vegetables, and grains.—Letter 72, 1896 (CD 322.5) MC VC

Some Cannot Use Vegetables VC

516. In a medical institution there are varied appetites to satisfy. Some require well-prepared vegetables to meet their peculiar needs. Others have not been able to use vegetables without suffering the consequence.—Letter 45, 1903 (CD 322.6) MC VC

A positive injury is done to the system by continuous meat eating. There is no excuse for it but a depraved, perverted appetite. You may ask, Would you do away entirely with meat eating? I answer, It will eventually come to this, but we are not prepared for this step just now. Meat eating will eventually be done away. The flesh of animals will no longer compose a part of our diet; and we shall look upon a butcher’s shop with disgust.... (CD 407.1) MC VC

We are built up from that which we eat. Shall we strengthen the animal passions by eating animal food? In the place of educating the taste to love this gross diet, it is high time that we were educating ourselves to subsist upon fruits, grains, and vegetables. This is the work of all who are connected with our institutions. Use less and less meat, until it is not used at all. If meat is discarded, if the taste is not educated in that direction, if a liking for fruits and grains is encouraged, it will soon be as God in the beginning designed it should be. No meat will be used by His people. (CD 407.2) MC VC

When meat is not used as it has been, you will learn a more correct way of cooking, and will be able to supply the place of meat with something else. Many healthful dishes can be prepared which are free from grease and from the flesh of dead animals. A variety of simple dishes, perfectly healthful and nourishing, may be provided, aside from meat. Hearty men must have plenty of vegetables, fruits, and grains. Occasionally some meat may have to be given to outsiders who have so educated their taste that they think that unless they have meat, they cannot keep up their strength. But they will have greater powers of endurance if they abstain from meat than if they subsist largely upon it. (CD 407.3) MC VC