Q. Hello ^_^, i am in quite a predicument, i have a yoga final at school and our assignment is to make a healthy vegetarian dish, perferably Indian. so if you could PLEASEEE help me out :D thank u so much!! oh and i need to know by tomorrow so fast answers would be the best please <3
A. Can it be Indian-American?
Stir fry some peanuts on medium low until they become fragrant and start to split
Add a box of corn flakes, some salt, and turmeric, and mix until well incorporated and the flakes are a bit crisp. Add some chili, and turn off the heat. Keep mixing so that the residual heat keeps cooking it. That is, stir for about 1-2 minutes. If you forget to turn off the heat before adding the chili, it burns and turns black. Serve with milk.
It's called "cereal na chevdo" or that's what my mom calls it =)
I hope you have some indian spices on hand. Some other stuff that's easy:
pulao (rice and mixed veggies. Just mix them together with some salt, turmeric, chili, and garam masala, stir, and basically just cook the rice)
Steamed potatoes, mix with some yogurt, salt, and chili. Boom, food. I don't know if it's an actual dish, but we're Indian, we added spices to it, we have it for dinner sometimes (before I went vegan), so I'm calling it a legit dish.
Channa masala aka chole
Shrikhand: take some greek yogurt, add some sugar and cardamon. Add some sliced pista (pistachios) and some crushed saffron if you want to be fancy. It's a dessert. I always hated it, but other people like it.
Add a bit of oil to a pot, add some diced cauliflower, salt, chili, coriander powder, cumin, and turmeric, Cover and stir occasionally until the cauliflower is soft. Serve with some naan or pita bread, or even regular bread (shaak sandwich!)
Kichidi (I would tell you how to make it, but it requires you to have some lentils on hand. if you do, check out majula's kitchen as the person linked to for the recipe.) It's sooooo easy, just stick everything in the pressure cooker, and you're done. Really. It's our I-don't-want-to-cook dish.
If you have some besan/gram flour, you can make some khaman. It's basically steamed cakes, super delish. Or make some pudla (there's a youtube video there, basically it's JUST like making an omelet, but you're using gram flour instead of eggs).
Ragada patties: mash some potatoes, add salt, turmeric, ginger, lemon, garlic, and chili. Because I'm gujarati I'll say some sugar also, but leave it. Combine, and form patties about the size of a golf ball, but flat. Pan fry. Serve with sweet chutney (date and tamarind chutney) or ketchup (how we usually do it because we lazy).
MASALA POPCORN! Pop some corn. In a pot, add some oil, and mix with salt and turmeric. When the turmeric is even distributed, add some chili and turn off the heat. Keep mixing for 2 minutes. Yes, it's the same as the first recipe. But my friends all LOVE it. And it is legitimately Indian.
Stir fry some peanuts on medium low until they become fragrant and start to split
Add a box of corn flakes, some salt, and turmeric, and mix until well incorporated and the flakes are a bit crisp. Add some chili, and turn off the heat. Keep mixing so that the residual heat keeps cooking it. That is, stir for about 1-2 minutes. If you forget to turn off the heat before adding the chili, it burns and turns black. Serve with milk.
It's called "cereal na chevdo" or that's what my mom calls it =)
I hope you have some indian spices on hand. Some other stuff that's easy:
pulao (rice and mixed veggies. Just mix them together with some salt, turmeric, chili, and garam masala, stir, and basically just cook the rice)
Steamed potatoes, mix with some yogurt, salt, and chili. Boom, food. I don't know if it's an actual dish, but we're Indian, we added spices to it, we have it for dinner sometimes (before I went vegan), so I'm calling it a legit dish.
Channa masala aka chole
Shrikhand: take some greek yogurt, add some sugar and cardamon. Add some sliced pista (pistachios) and some crushed saffron if you want to be fancy. It's a dessert. I always hated it, but other people like it.
Add a bit of oil to a pot, add some diced cauliflower, salt, chili, coriander powder, cumin, and turmeric, Cover and stir occasionally until the cauliflower is soft. Serve with some naan or pita bread, or even regular bread (shaak sandwich!)
Kichidi (I would tell you how to make it, but it requires you to have some lentils on hand. if you do, check out majula's kitchen as the person linked to for the recipe.) It's sooooo easy, just stick everything in the pressure cooker, and you're done. Really. It's our I-don't-want-to-cook dish.
If you have some besan/gram flour, you can make some khaman. It's basically steamed cakes, super delish. Or make some pudla (there's a youtube video there, basically it's JUST like making an omelet, but you're using gram flour instead of eggs).
Ragada patties: mash some potatoes, add salt, turmeric, ginger, lemon, garlic, and chili. Because I'm gujarati I'll say some sugar also, but leave it. Combine, and form patties about the size of a golf ball, but flat. Pan fry. Serve with sweet chutney (date and tamarind chutney) or ketchup (how we usually do it because we lazy).
MASALA POPCORN! Pop some corn. In a pot, add some oil, and mix with salt and turmeric. When the turmeric is even distributed, add some chili and turn off the heat. Keep mixing for 2 minutes. Yes, it's the same as the first recipe. But my friends all LOVE it. And it is legitimately Indian.
How to ease in to vegan lifestyle?
Q. I've teeter-tottered my whole life between a vegetarian life-style and meat-eating life style (mainly chicken, i don't like red meat).... and I just read the book "Skinny B****." After reading it I have decided I want to go vegan, how did you approach this new life style? Did you go cold turkey or did you slowly work certain foods out of your diet. In the book, it says to start with one bad item and not eat it for a week and then the next week to get rid of another bad item on top of the first item, etc. etc. I'm afraid that if I just work on one item than it will be easy to just give up on this new life style and go back to my old habits.... cheese please! I'm changing my eating habits b/c I love animals and don't want to contribute to the cruelty they go through. By just getting rid of only cheese and not the rest of the bad stuff, I feel like I'm not fulfilling my goal b/c I would still be eating other animal products. What do you think? If you have gone vegan, how did you do it?
A. Just take whatever time is needed for you to adjust. Don't let anyone tell you to go "cold-turkey" if you aren't ready. Getting ahead of yourself will just cause you to eat the wrong foods if nothing else is available or to not get enough food, which will make you hungry and sick. Then you'll blame it on being veg instead of poor planning.
You need to learn how to cook, those companies that actually do cater to vegan eaters usually charge an arm and a leg even if their food sucks just because it is heat-and-eat.
I'm vegan and these are some of my favorite things to eat:
Breakfast: bananas, cream of wheat with brown sugar and soy butter, cereal, pancakes or french toast with real maple syrup, vegan "sausage" patties, smoothies.
Snack: BRUSSEL SPROUTS =) no joke
Lunch: VEGAN "SAUSAGE" SANDWICHES, sandwiches with vegan deli slices(Tofurkey is the only one that's kinda funky), fruit, dinner leftovers, couscous salad, vegan sushi, potato or pasta salad.
Dinner: sloppy joes, "sausage" and gravy with homemade biscuits, Spaghetti and Trader Joe's "meatballs" or TVP, lasagna, Thai pad see ew, pad khi mao(drunkard's noodles), pad prig king, tofu+eggplant with basil sauce, yellow thai curry with tofu or vegan chikn and veggies and jasmine rice, Indian dal with homemade roti or dosai, channa masala, aloo gobi, vegetable or minestrone soup, pizza, STEAMED "PORK" BUNS with potstickers or spring rolls, sweet&sour/orange/lemon chikn, vegan pho or wonton soup, baked tofu, BBQ homemade seitan (tastes like BBQ'd ribs), kabobs
I use these sites to find recipes:
http://www.foodnetwork.com
http://vegweb.com
http://www.recipezaar.com
There have been vegan Olympic gold medalists and a vegan woman can create an ENTIRELY NEW,HEALTHY HUMAN BEING INSIDE OF HER. Many of these children stay vegan and grow up to be perfectly healthy adults. So just keep yourself educated about what you eat and don't let anyone tell you that a veg diet is lacking anything essential.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lewis
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/advocacy_933_ENU_HTML_(Draft).htm
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If you want to become a lacto-ovo vegetarian, the transition should be quite simple. Almost all meats have widely available commercial replacements. All that you have to do is replace any flesh in your diet (beef, pork, poultry, seafood) with meat analogs or just leave it out altogether.
You should keep in mind that a journey such as this can be quite short but should just be the beginning of a longer one to a plant-based diet with no animal products. This is because of the reality of factory farming in which animals that are kept alive to produce milk, eggs, etc suffer much more and longer than animals that are raised to a certain weight and then slaughtered.http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/
http://meat.org
Some people use the word "vegan" in reference to this idea, but be aware that applying that label to yourself should always come with the inclusion of wise activism and advocacy.http://www.veganoutreach.org/advocacy/index.html
Two extremely important examples of this are that you should never speak to someone about vegetarianism/veganism without their consent and genuine interest or as a comment on what they are eating AND your dietary beliefs should never be used as an introduction or explanation of who you are as a person. Veg*ism should be something that comes up AFTER people get to know you and they offer you a situation that makes it confusing to withhold the information/discussion. Also, if you are presented something that you choose not to eat or you are
ordering food/eating together somewhere/picking the best place to eat.
When you you hold off on the subject until it's necessary and then act like it isn't a big deal at all, people are usually surprised and WAY more interested and curious than if you were to bring it up when someone's eating or just using it as a conversation starter.
A responsible vegan ALWAYS studies the subject of their own health and how to keep their body completely provided for in every sense. http://www.veganhealth.org/sh
To neglect their body is to define a plant-based diet as unhealthy and is the opposite of helping the animals.
Just to clear things up, the vegetarian/vegan diet is not composed of salads, vegetables, fruit and fake meat. Fruits and vegetables are always important but they DO NOT make up the largest portion of any healthy diet.
A balanced plant-based diet includes grains(breads, pasta, rice,cereal), legumes(soy, beans, peas, lentils), fruit and vegetables.
http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/food_groups.html
http://www.peta.org/accidentallyVegan/
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/eating.html
Being vegan can be an art, one whose challenge is to take things that involve the suffering of the innocent and change them into something free of cruelty.
A vegan woman can create an ENTIRELY NEW,HEALTHY HUMAN BEING INSIDE OF HER. Many of these children stay vegan and grow up to be perfectly healthy adults. So just keep yourself educated about what you eat and don't let anyone tell you that a veg diet is lacking anything essential.
Technically the term "vegetarian" does imply that you don't consume anything that comes from the body of an animal that requires killing it. Many ingredients such as gelatin and glycerin are found in many candies, Fig-Newtons, and many of other foods as well as rennet found in many cheeses.
http://www.happycow.net/health-animal-ingredients.html
The best thing to remember is to take your time so that for example: when you are comfortable not eating beef and pork you can then give up chicken when you are sure you can make the commitment permanently.
Depending on your age or reliance on parents or regional options, it may not be best to give yourself a label. The important thing is to do your best to make progress and be committed to your compassion towards animals. Never put your focus onto what you or other people use to describe yourself.
If you meet someone that talks down to people for eating meat, dairy, etc or to you because they think they are "more veg" than you, laugh in their face and tell them they are a disgrace to the entire philosophy. People like this only hurt the idea of veg*ism AND the animals. The point of all of this is to live compassionately and and as free from cruelty as you can, all the while maintaining your health and a positive attitude. People who don't maintain either, need not open their mouths and represent our beliefs.
If you actually choose to read all of this, I hope it helps. If not, feel free to e-mail me if you have questions.
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PS - Are you still having a problem with the puppy peeing in the house? I work for the local SPCA, training dogs and would like to help if I can. =)
alfyakuza@yahoo.com
You need to learn how to cook, those companies that actually do cater to vegan eaters usually charge an arm and a leg even if their food sucks just because it is heat-and-eat.
I'm vegan and these are some of my favorite things to eat:
Breakfast: bananas, cream of wheat with brown sugar and soy butter, cereal, pancakes or french toast with real maple syrup, vegan "sausage" patties, smoothies.
Snack: BRUSSEL SPROUTS =) no joke
Lunch: VEGAN "SAUSAGE" SANDWICHES, sandwiches with vegan deli slices(Tofurkey is the only one that's kinda funky), fruit, dinner leftovers, couscous salad, vegan sushi, potato or pasta salad.
Dinner: sloppy joes, "sausage" and gravy with homemade biscuits, Spaghetti and Trader Joe's "meatballs" or TVP, lasagna, Thai pad see ew, pad khi mao(drunkard's noodles), pad prig king, tofu+eggplant with basil sauce, yellow thai curry with tofu or vegan chikn and veggies and jasmine rice, Indian dal with homemade roti or dosai, channa masala, aloo gobi, vegetable or minestrone soup, pizza, STEAMED "PORK" BUNS with potstickers or spring rolls, sweet&sour/orange/lemon chikn, vegan pho or wonton soup, baked tofu, BBQ homemade seitan (tastes like BBQ'd ribs), kabobs
I use these sites to find recipes:
http://www.foodnetwork.com
http://vegweb.com
http://www.recipezaar.com
There have been vegan Olympic gold medalists and a vegan woman can create an ENTIRELY NEW,HEALTHY HUMAN BEING INSIDE OF HER. Many of these children stay vegan and grow up to be perfectly healthy adults. So just keep yourself educated about what you eat and don't let anyone tell you that a veg diet is lacking anything essential.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Lewis
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/advocacy_933_ENU_HTML_(Draft).htm
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you want to become a lacto-ovo vegetarian, the transition should be quite simple. Almost all meats have widely available commercial replacements. All that you have to do is replace any flesh in your diet (beef, pork, poultry, seafood) with meat analogs or just leave it out altogether.
You should keep in mind that a journey such as this can be quite short but should just be the beginning of a longer one to a plant-based diet with no animal products. This is because of the reality of factory farming in which animals that are kept alive to produce milk, eggs, etc suffer much more and longer than animals that are raised to a certain weight and then slaughtered.http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/
http://meat.org
Some people use the word "vegan" in reference to this idea, but be aware that applying that label to yourself should always come with the inclusion of wise activism and advocacy.http://www.veganoutreach.org/advocacy/index.html
Two extremely important examples of this are that you should never speak to someone about vegetarianism/veganism without their consent and genuine interest or as a comment on what they are eating AND your dietary beliefs should never be used as an introduction or explanation of who you are as a person. Veg*ism should be something that comes up AFTER people get to know you and they offer you a situation that makes it confusing to withhold the information/discussion. Also, if you are presented something that you choose not to eat or you are
ordering food/eating together somewhere/picking the best place to eat.
When you you hold off on the subject until it's necessary and then act like it isn't a big deal at all, people are usually surprised and WAY more interested and curious than if you were to bring it up when someone's eating or just using it as a conversation starter.
A responsible vegan ALWAYS studies the subject of their own health and how to keep their body completely provided for in every sense. http://www.veganhealth.org/sh
To neglect their body is to define a plant-based diet as unhealthy and is the opposite of helping the animals.
Just to clear things up, the vegetarian/vegan diet is not composed of salads, vegetables, fruit and fake meat. Fruits and vegetables are always important but they DO NOT make up the largest portion of any healthy diet.
A balanced plant-based diet includes grains(breads, pasta, rice,cereal), legumes(soy, beans, peas, lentils), fruit and vegetables.
http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/food_groups.html
http://www.peta.org/accidentallyVegan/
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/eating.html
Being vegan can be an art, one whose challenge is to take things that involve the suffering of the innocent and change them into something free of cruelty.
A vegan woman can create an ENTIRELY NEW,HEALTHY HUMAN BEING INSIDE OF HER. Many of these children stay vegan and grow up to be perfectly healthy adults. So just keep yourself educated about what you eat and don't let anyone tell you that a veg diet is lacking anything essential.
Technically the term "vegetarian" does imply that you don't consume anything that comes from the body of an animal that requires killing it. Many ingredients such as gelatin and glycerin are found in many candies, Fig-Newtons, and many of other foods as well as rennet found in many cheeses.
http://www.happycow.net/health-animal-ingredients.html
The best thing to remember is to take your time so that for example: when you are comfortable not eating beef and pork you can then give up chicken when you are sure you can make the commitment permanently.
Depending on your age or reliance on parents or regional options, it may not be best to give yourself a label. The important thing is to do your best to make progress and be committed to your compassion towards animals. Never put your focus onto what you or other people use to describe yourself.
If you meet someone that talks down to people for eating meat, dairy, etc or to you because they think they are "more veg" than you, laugh in their face and tell them they are a disgrace to the entire philosophy. People like this only hurt the idea of veg*ism AND the animals. The point of all of this is to live compassionately and and as free from cruelty as you can, all the while maintaining your health and a positive attitude. People who don't maintain either, need not open their mouths and represent our beliefs.
If you actually choose to read all of this, I hope it helps. If not, feel free to e-mail me if you have questions.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
PS - Are you still having a problem with the puppy peeing in the house? I work for the local SPCA, training dogs and would like to help if I can. =)
alfyakuza@yahoo.com
New healthy lunch ideas that are easy to make?
Q. I want to try new healthy things for lunch, I eat a turkey and lettuce on whole weat bread sandwich with some type of fruit everyday. I want to try something new!
A. http://www.vegiehead.com/index.html
http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/category/subji-vegetables/
http://www.indianfoodforever.com/indian-breakfast/
http://www.easy-indian-food.com/indian-breakfast-recipes.html
http://www.indianfoodrecipes.net/vegetarian-indian-recipes/index.html
http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/category/snacks/
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_menus/collections/healthy_vegetarian_recipes
http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/category/subji-vegetables/
http://www.indianfoodforever.com/indian-breakfast/
http://www.easy-indian-food.com/indian-breakfast-recipes.html
http://www.indianfoodrecipes.net/vegetarian-indian-recipes/index.html
http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/category/snacks/
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_menus/collections/healthy_vegetarian_recipes
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