I'd like to go vegetarian, but it seems hard on a tiny budget.
I can understand. Going vegetarian means you'll have to cut out a lot of those inexpensive packaged/processed foods. Definitely want to budget tightly.
yep and I don't cook at home often especially after many incidents where I let food go bad!!
There are lots of potential reasons to go vegetarian anyway, if you think about it, despite the difficulty. There are moral and ethical concerns, too.
Oh I hear you and I'd like to go vegan even. I keep my meat intake to a minimum already but I don't think I can give up dairy for ever. 
I respect that. The only thing I'd caution you about is to really watch your food ingredients. A surprising number of things contain animal ingredients.
Ideally I'd have my own dairy cow and maybe some chickens for eggs!! I don't eat many processed foods and keep a lookout already for that kinda thing.
Veganism
Veganism is the practice of abstaining from the use of animal products, particularly in diet, and an associated philosophy that rejects the commodity status of animals. A follower of the diet or the philosophy is known as a vegan. Distinctions may be made between several categories of veganism. "Dietary vegans" (also known as strict vegetarians) refrain from consuming animal products, not only meat but also eggs, dairy products and other animal-derived substances. The term "ethical vegan" is often applied to those who
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Jónsi is a vegetarian. He states that he "didn’t go vegetarian because of the animals" but became gradually more concerned for their welfare. Jónsi elaborated that he would find it difficult to date someone who eats meat, saying "I just love animals and I do not want to kill them, cook them or eat them so it’d be hard for me to watch anyone do that." He briefly followed a raw food diet, although he no longer practices