Calling all vegetarians!?!
Calling all vegetarians!?
What do you do to get your protein and stay healthy? I'm am a quasi-vegetarian. I don't eat red meats or chicken. I do, however, eat seafood only because I didn't want to make my lifestyle choice difficult on my significant other and my parents (i.e.: inviting me to dinner, etc)... also this gives me more options when we go out to eat. Anyway, any health tips are welcome! I usually stick to veggies, rice and beans.
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Beans, legumes, whole grains and *soy* products. My first & still all-time favorite veg cookbook is "Laurel's Kitchen" by Laurel Robertson: wonderful book; explains alot; beautiful illustrations (wood block prints). Other favorites are "The Versatile Grain & the Elegant Bean" by Sheryl & Mel London, "From a Monastery Kitchen" by Elise Boulding & "The New Vegetarian Epicure" by Anna Thomas. Once you get into tofu & miso (& tempeh), try "The Book of Tofu & Miso" by William Shurtleff & Akiko Aoyagi. For a political bent, read "May All be Fed" by John Robbins & "Diet for a Small Planet" by Frances Moore Lappe.
I usually get my protein from nuts, beans, soy, soy milk, eggs, and chocolate (the best nuts are cashews and black beans are delicious)
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I take mult-vitamins. peanut butter is great ...nuts, beans, eggs, and tofu are good too
There's also that Tofu stuff.
But eggs, beans and nuts all have protein as well. If you're concerned about eating eggs being anti-vegetarian, just remember that a chicken lays something like 320 eggs per year, whether they're fertilized or not. So you're not killing a baby chicken, the eggs you buy are not fertilized.
I eat a lot of beans, tofu, tempeh, and other soy products, seitan, nuts and nut butters, seeds, mushrooms, and quinoa.
rice, beans, legumes, whole grains, veggies, fruit, seeds, nuts. everything have at least a little protein value (well, healthy things as close to nature as possible)
nuts and beans!
take a multivitamin daily :]
Leafy greens like spinach, kale, collards, and even lettuce are actually great sources of complete protein as well as calcium, iron and other nutrients. Current research suggests that we should have 1-2 bunches per day! Check out...
Been doing the Vegan thing for 11 years now and am thriving. Best tip I can offer is to eat the rainbow, vary
your diet, especially the colors of the veggies you're eating
get all the colors, you'll get the nutrients. C'mon up to boston, I'll cook you up a killer vegan dinner. -jack
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Please read the link below. It explains how overblown the whole protein deficiency thing is. There are plenty of other reputable sites out there that corroborate with this.
Protein is is every single food that we eat (there's roughly 2 grams of protein in a large banana, for instance). You shouldn't need to worry about protein specifically if you are already eating a healthy diet (and especially if you are already eating eggs and fish).
Tofu, miso and nuts.
If you feel that your protein is lacking, take whey/soy protein powder along with soy milk. TONS of protein there.
beans, bagels(they have some that have added protein that doesnt come from animals), practically everything, peanut butter, nuts...
There is no such thing as a quasi vegetarian. Either you are one, or not. Regardless of that, protein is the easiest nutrient to get and almost everything has it. I get the bulk of mine from whole grains. A whole wheat bagel has 10 grams by itself.