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What are your favorite foods, especially when you're trying to lose weight? My list of favorites includes:
• Tomatoes, Carrots, Baby spinach-- essentially any salad ingredient with vinaigrette
• Garbanzo beans: oven roasted, or in salads, or used to make hummus
• Actual meat grosses me out, but I can do fake hamburgers, fake hot dogs, fake breakfast patties and fake chicken nuggets. I make dressings with salsa, Vegenaise and guacamole
• Dark chocolate, but one small piece during a fasting period
• Blueberries, strawberries (no sugar!)
• Small glass of red wine, usually with a pasta and homemade sauce, maybe with soy meatballs and salad
• Rice, couscous, tabouli
• Bran cereal with banana and pineapple. May add walnuts and raisins
• Mineral water, green tea and Perrier
I'd be interested in hearing what other people like.
I would like to go vegetarian someday. The protein issue and food combining is a bit confusing for me. Also husband is not on board. He cares about animals but is in denial. When we drive by a field with cows and calves, I point to the calves and say "aren't they cute? look at those babies!" And he always agrees that it is a cute site. Then when I mention that we are going to lunch and he is going to have one of those on his plate (he likes beef), he changes the subject and talks about the weather or something else.
For protein I eat mostly free range eggs (a lot), whey protein drinks and fish and some chicken on occasion. My diet favorite food lately is chopped up fresh spinach leaves. A whole bag is 40 calories. Top it with a little fat free ranch dressing and some chopped nuts and it is awesome.
I would like to go vegetarian someday. The protein issue and food combining is a bit confusing for me. Also husband is not on board. He cares about animals but is in denial. When we drive by a field with cows and calves, I point to the calves and say "aren't they cute? look at those babies!" And he always agrees that it is a cute site. Then when I mention that we are going to lunch and he is going to have one of those on his plate (he likes beef), he changes the subject and talks about the weather or something else.
For protein I eat mostly free range eggs (a lot), whey protein drinks and fish and some chicken on occasion. My diet favorite food lately is chopped up fresh spinach leaves. A whole bag is 40 calories. Top it with a little fat free ranch dressing and some chopped nuts and it is awesome.
I like the spinach with olives, walnuts, garbanzo beans, sunflower seeds. Chickens are the most abused animals on earth, and very social and intelligent. The production of eggs and meat from chickens is an unsanitary, nasty and cruel business. The notion of "free range" chickens is almost always a lie. Food combining is (I think) a pretty outmoded concept and quite unnecessary.
The best way to influence a loved one to eat less meat is to watch films such as:
Earthlings
Cowspiracy
Forks over Knives
Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead
What the Health
Vegucated
Dominion
Food, Inc.
A River of Waste
Really big salads!
I would be willing to do a vegan diet, except the need to go low carb is a big issue.
The compromise would be to buy eggs directly from a farmer that was observed to allow their chickens to roam on real fields and actual pastures.
Then I think it would be possible to be on a low carb vegan diet. I eat a lot of eggs... they're low carb, low calorie and fill you up.
It's possible to have a good veggie burger now, but they're not low carb.
But if one uses low carb ketchup and a lettuce wrap, it's feasible to have a burger with two patties on a low carb diet.
Burgers with fried eggs on 'em are good! Just gotta get creative...
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Originally Posted by KaraZetterberg153
The notion of "free range" chickens is almost always a lie.
True, this is why the treatment of the chickens needs to be personally verified. The label is insufficient.
I know people who basically keep chickens as pets and sell the eggs.
I like the spinach with olives, walnuts, garbanzo beans, sunflower seeds. Chickens are the most abused animals on earth, and very social and intelligent. The production of eggs and meat from chickens is an unsanitary, nasty and cruel business. The notion of "free range" chickens is almost always a lie. Food combining is (I think) a pretty outmoded concept and quite unnecessary.
The best way to influence a loved one to eat less meat is to watch films such as:
Earthlings
Cowspiracy
Forks over Knives
Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead
What the Health
Vegucated
Dominion
Food, Inc.
A River of Waste
I saw the Earthlings trailer. Gut wrenching. That was hard to watch. Watching the actual film would be difficult.
"Free range" is a scam. I've actually seen on the package of eggs where it specifies the number of square feet each bird has. Something like 1.4 SF which is ridiculous. That is the SF of the space they are kept in divided by the number of birds, so not much space at all.
"Free range" is a scam. I've actually seen on the package of eggs where it specifies the number of square feet each bird has. Something like 1.4 SF which is ridiculous. That is the SF of the space they are kept in divided by the number of birds, so not much space at all.
I can't talk because my (deceased) husband was a Viet Nam vet and survivalist, and we had chickens. But scrambled eggs and eggs for baking are easily replaced. Boiled eggs, not really. If you're going to hold off trying to help the animals, your health and the environment, until you're perfect, big mistake. Do what you can.
From what I can gather, people in the AR groups were surprised by this effort by KFC. There have been so many protests at KFC and other fast food companies over the years. MorningStar Farms has some pretty good fake chicken patties and chicken nuggets but the problem with many of their products has been that they still contain eggs. All of that is changing soon:
MORNINGSTAR FARMS GOES VEGAN, SPARING 300 MILLION EGGS ANNUALLY
The Kellogg’s-owned veggie brand debuts a vegan “Cheezeburger” to kick off its journey to becoming 100-percent vegan in the next three years.
by ANNA STAROSTINETSKAYA https://vegnews.com/2019/3/morningst...-eggs-annually
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