Vegetarian diet by accident
Without really meaning to, I realize I've been eating a vegetarian diet by default.
I try to eat so many fruits and veggies and I can't remember the last time I ate red meat. Chocolate and butter are still my downfalls. On a typical day, here's what I'll eat if we cook our meals at home, which most times we do now:
Breakfast:
Green vibrance mixed with Rice Dream (Green Vibrance is a powder mix of all kinds of goodness and vitamins and Rice Dream is a dairy free milk substitute)
Papaya with Banana - I'll cut up one fresh papaya and eat it with one or two sliced bananas. Unfortunately, I haven't seem papaya in Virginia =(
Lunch:
Leftovers or a salad. When I saw salad, I mean one of my super salads that takes between 10-20 minutes to make because there are so many vegetables to cut up!
My salad usually included all of these:
Green or Red leaf lettuce (not iceberg because it has no vitamins)
baby spinach
avocado
green onions
red or green pepper
sliced carrots
chopped cilantro
chopped shitake mushrooms
pine nuts or slivered almonds
chopped tomato
For dinner the on Tuesday night I made Quinoa with vegetables. Quinoa is a grain much like couscous or barley and you can probably find it on the pasta aisle at a major supermarket. Quinoa has the most protein of any grain and lots of vegetarians eat it because of that reason. So here's how I made my quinoa:
1 box quinoa (about 2 cups)
diced carrots (1/4 cup or so for all the vegetable add-ins)
diced green onions
diced celery
diced green pepper
diced red pepper
1 pat butter
2 cloves garlic, diced
lots of slivered almonds - however many you like
a pinch or two of dried oregano
salt to taste
add a couple squirts of braggs liquid amino acids (Soy sauce will substitute)
Directions: Start the quinoa cooking. Then, saute the vegetables (use seperate pan)
in butter with a little water mixed in for about five minutes and add the oregano.
At the end, add everything together with a little sprinkle of salt for a yummy, healthy meal.
Also for snacks I eat cheese and crackers, grapes, blueberries, teriyaki tofu (from
the hot bar at our vegetarian grocery store) but my weaknesses are for those bite
size Milky Way nuggets that folks commonly keep in the candy jar at work. I had
five yesterday because they were staring me in the face at Kaiser!
Until I met H I didn't realize how important it was to eat well. Now even if I buy expensive food, I realize it is worth all the money. Fruit, veg, and organic foods tend to be expensive but I feel so much better nowadays I would rather spend money on my body than on buying a new car (or any car, for that matter) or something like that.
I try to eat so many fruits and veggies and I can't remember the last time I ate red meat. Chocolate and butter are still my downfalls. On a typical day, here's what I'll eat if we cook our meals at home, which most times we do now:
Breakfast:
Green vibrance mixed with Rice Dream (Green Vibrance is a powder mix of all kinds of goodness and vitamins and Rice Dream is a dairy free milk substitute)
Papaya with Banana - I'll cut up one fresh papaya and eat it with one or two sliced bananas. Unfortunately, I haven't seem papaya in Virginia =(
Lunch:
Leftovers or a salad. When I saw salad, I mean one of my super salads that takes between 10-20 minutes to make because there are so many vegetables to cut up!
My salad usually included all of these:
Green or Red leaf lettuce (not iceberg because it has no vitamins)
baby spinach
avocado
green onions
red or green pepper
sliced carrots
chopped cilantro
chopped shitake mushrooms
pine nuts or slivered almonds
chopped tomato
For dinner the on Tuesday night I made Quinoa with vegetables. Quinoa is a grain much like couscous or barley and you can probably find it on the pasta aisle at a major supermarket. Quinoa has the most protein of any grain and lots of vegetarians eat it because of that reason. So here's how I made my quinoa:
1 box quinoa (about 2 cups)
diced carrots (1/4 cup or so for all the vegetable add-ins)
diced green onions
diced celery
diced green pepper
diced red pepper
1 pat butter
2 cloves garlic, diced
lots of slivered almonds - however many you like
a pinch or two of dried oregano
salt to taste
add a couple squirts of braggs liquid amino acids (Soy sauce will substitute)
Directions: Start the quinoa cooking. Then, saute the vegetables (use seperate pan)
in butter with a little water mixed in for about five minutes and add the oregano.
At the end, add everything together with a little sprinkle of salt for a yummy, healthy meal.
Also for snacks I eat cheese and crackers, grapes, blueberries, teriyaki tofu (from
the hot bar at our vegetarian grocery store) but my weaknesses are for those bite
size Milky Way nuggets that folks commonly keep in the candy jar at work. I had
five yesterday because they were staring me in the face at Kaiser!
Until I met H I didn't realize how important it was to eat well. Now even if I buy expensive food, I realize it is worth all the money. Fruit, veg, and organic foods tend to be expensive but I feel so much better nowadays I would rather spend money on my body than on buying a new car (or any car, for that matter) or something like that.