Im in highschool and im trying to become a vegetarian what are some vegetarian meals that i can make at home?!
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Pita with hummus and veggies is a favourite of mine. I usually load a whole grain pita with hummus, spinach, tomato, red pepper, and cucumber. They make an awesome lunch.
You can also make sandwiches with basically any vegetable as the central flavour. Bagels are usually vegan friendly, salads are awesome, and pasta dishes can usually be loaded with vegetables.
Often times, I make whole grain pasta, and then add olive oil, garlic, onion, roma tomato, and spinach. It's delicious hot or cold. Cheese can be added to it, however, make sure it is rennet free. I usually don't add cheese, because I am vegan.
Vegweb.com is a GREAT website, as stated by Clarke. You can search by ingredient, ethnicity, type of food, etc.
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Beans + grains are needed for whole proteins. There are 20 Amino acids your body can code for. Beans are lysine rich. Grains are methionine rich. You need both to get a complete protein.
Seaweed is a good snack since it will help you get nutrients you might otherwise get from fish. Seaweed containing DHA or EPA is especially good.
Hummus is good. Nuts and almonds are good for protein. Any cheese with vegetarian rennet is good. (most cheeses have animal rennet.) Apples + peanut butter, almond butter or Nuttella are all good.
B12 supplmentation (methycobalamin, not cyanocobalamin) is important. You can use nutritional yeast as a base for a good cheesy sauce, and it contains B12.
Vegetable juicing is also good. Take a vegetable that you'd normally eat, mix it with water and put it in the blender. Pour the mush through a strainer while stirring with a spoon. The juice that comes out the other side is very healthy. (Though vegetables like carrots will have juice that's high in sugar.)
If you're vegetarian, not vegan, eggs are a potential protein source as well. If you don't want eggs, tofu + tumeric and maybe some fenugreek can make a nice tofu scramble.
Blended silken tofu + sugar + coco powder and some other ingredients can make a vegetarian pudding.
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What I make for school is the original PB & J! :)
Even noodles in a cup (check to make sure they don't put chicken bits in)
Soups (veggie, tomato)
And then I just add some kind of fruit or veggie, filling ones like an apple, banana, pear... or maybe 2 cps asparagus, a well sized cucumber, half a cup soy beans...
All good stuff! You can even bring oat meal, some days. What ever floats your boat.
Anything with beans or tofu. Accompanying it with a starch is important for releasing the protein. That's why you often see beans with rice.
check out this website: http://vegweb.com/