Want advice from vegetarians: meals and health benefits?!
1) What are your favorite vegetarian dishes to prepare? I'm looking for healthy stuff, so please don't say cheese pizza. Haha. Also, I'm a very busy student, so nothing too complicated or expensive please!
2) Health benefits. If you're vegan or vegetarian, have you experienced any positive changes in your energy level/overall health?
Basically, I would like to seriously reduce the amount of meat in my diet. I'm not sure yet about going completely vegetarian, but I hope that won't stop members here from helping me out. I'm interested in trying healthy vegetarian meals and getting into the habit of shopping/cooking that way. This is largely because I'm disturbed by the happenings of factory farming, but also because I'm interested in potential health benefits.
I'm not looking for judgment regarding my indecision about vegetarianism, by the way. This is a difficult issue for me, but this is part of my effort as a newly independent young adult to consume much less meat than I was raised consuming, and to learn to make ethical food choices. If you're willing to help me, I'm very appreciative.
Answers:
1. whole grain pasta, vegan pizza made from scratch, meatless shepard's pie (also from scratch), bean burritos, tofu sandwiches, peanut butter on toast.
2. mmmm not yet. I've only been a vegan for about 1 1/2 months. I think my body's still detoxing.
btw congratulations on possibly going vegetarian! =D I really recommend this website for recipes, grocery item suggestions, and information about vegan/vegetarianism: www.tryveg.com
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I have not noticed any benifits from it except i feel lighter and healthier my favorite things to cook are stir frys cause they are pretty easy but make sure you look up how to cook tofu because there are sometimes a few steps you have to take to give it a firmer texture
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So far my favorites are vegan chili and ratatatouille. Do the cooking on weekends, freeze it, and let it last all week.
Govegan.com has all kinds of recipes.
Since 1967 I have been an ovo-lacto vegetarian and I am not dead yet - but I'm working on it. ;>)
Brown rice, Tofu, soy milk, Red Star nutritional yeast for most B vitamins - plenty of veggies, fruit nuts and grains.
Most of these things take very little time to prepare - but things like beans and rice need time to cook but 5 minutes to add the salt, oil and water. So it is not complicated. Also sprouts, etc.
It can become a very entertaining adventure. Herbs and oils, and most health food store are happy to help you along the way.
Very subtle things begin to happen to you that are too difficult to explain to most friends. A hint: If beer and alcohol can have an obvious affect on your person - then what might happen if you change your diet? Just something to think about.
I'm not Jewish or a Christian, but if you do desire to eat meat - then try to find Kosher meats - Meats without the adrenalin running through it. I don't think that McDucks sells Kosher type meats.
Enough of my ramblings.
it can become addictive...
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