Well you can either hide it, shrug it off like "I'm having a vegan day" or "I feel like eating junk today" or whatever, or come out.
I went for about 3 years where we were generally vegetarian (Lyria's choice) but I would occasionally sneak off with one of the people I was out with for a huge steak dinner at the Keg. So. :-) I think if you don't espouse a food style but just eat without comment, it's not too hard... the only downside is if other people are cooking for you. So taking over the cooking is one way to control for that, and then you can make vegan meals, or vegan meals + meat for other person without having to actually say "no! don't put that ham on my plate!"
Our experience with coming out is if you're /not/ prepared for disbelief, etc. don't come out. If you feel grounded and ready to deal with that potential reaction, then it's a better time.
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I went for about 3 years where we were generally vegetarian (Lyria's choice) but I would occasionally sneak off with one of the people I was out with for a huge steak dinner at the Keg. So. :-) I think if you don't espouse a food style but just eat without comment, it's not too hard... the only downside is if other people are cooking for you. So taking over the cooking is one way to control for that, and then you can make vegan meals, or vegan meals + meat for other person without having to actually say "no! don't put that ham on my plate!"
Our experience with coming out is if you're /not/ prepared for disbelief, etc. don't come out. If you feel grounded and ready to deal with that potential reaction, then it's a better time.
Good luck. :)