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The Dish That Made Ree Drummond Give Up On Vegetarianism By Erica Martinez Nov. 11, 2025 9:00 pm EST

When you look at Ree Drummond's most popular recipes on her Food Network page, you see things like pot roast, sausage gravy , and holiday bacon appetizers. These and many more are hardly considered to be vegetarian dishes. But the popular television star known as The Pioneer Woman did, indeed, live a meat-free lifestyle when she was in college in Los Angeles. After graduating, she met the man who would eventually become her husband at a bar in Oklahoma. Not long after they started dating, Ladd Drummond cooked a steak dinner for Ree. She recounted on the Biscuits and Jam podcast , "I took a bite and I was no longer a vegetarian. So, I think I was vegetarian

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