Before I went pseudo-vegan, I had a pretty well-balanced, healthy diet. As an ovo-vegetarian, I had a great diet. I did not convert back for health reasons. I do think one can have a very healthy diet and lifestyle without eating meat or dairy. I just really missed certain things. Anyway, I came across an old skinny picture from the height of the almost vegan experiment, and it reminded me that I have been eating just a bit too much cheese and fried stuff lately, as well as drinking too much soda and beer, both body-wreckers. So I am on a mission to get back to the creative, healthy, lean meat and fish, whole grain, olive oil, and rich array of fruits and vegetables diet I enjoyed before. A great website that I used to use for ideas, which I have now added to my links page, is www.whfoods.com. World's Healthiest Foods has a bunch of great, easy to access, fun to read info about healthy foods and what is in them, vitamin-wise. You can design your diet around weight loss, having more energy, upping your iron intake, dealing with diabetes--all kinds of things. So check it out, and wish me luck!
JBS
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Cool website, I bookmarked it. My friends and I feel we do not come close to getting the protien we need.
Thanks! For protein, I like seitan. Milk and eggs also have a good bit of protein. Those lentils burgers are great too. I could eat them every day for a week:) A good vegetarian trick is to use Bragg's Liquid Amino acids on everything instead of salt. It tastes like soy sauce but a little meatier. You should go to the World's Healthiest Foods website in my links list. They have a diet calculator that will tell you what you probably are and aren't getting enough of and what you should eat to get what you're missing. It's a lot of fun, but you have to really think about what you eat and include every little thing or you will get a pretty dismal reading, haha:)
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