What kind of food do Buddhists eat? What are they not allowed to eat?
Answer:by: Venerable Nicolas Thanissaro
Mahayana Buddhists tend to be vegetarian - not eating meat or fish. Theravada and Vajrayana Buddhists tend to eat anything that is going. In Buddhism generally we don't have prohibitions about particular types of food - but we may have prohibitions about when we eat it (see Eight Precepts and monastic precepts) and the amount we eat of it (eating too much is seen as a bad thing as it leads to mindlessness). Also drinking alcohol, smoking or consuming non-medicinal drugs is generally prohibited for Buddhists.
