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That would be very nice of you! Honestly, though; getting enough protein is not a concern for most people.
It is for vegetarians. Just ask me.
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Originally Posted by AnonChick
Not all cheese is made with rennet, and not all rennet is animal-based. No cheese is vegan, because cheese is made with dairy, and dairy generally means milk from a cow, sheep, or goat. But many cheeses are suitable for vegetarians, as long as the rennet isn't derived from the stomach enzymes of animals (which is the traditional source of rennet).
But vegetarian and vegan are two different things.
1. Dentists aren't carnivores. Dentists are humans. Humans are omnivores.
2. Starches contribute to dental caries; meats do not. Starches are a byproduct of plants, not animals. It has nothing to do with digestion; your teeth aren't in your stomach. When you limit your food choices, you increase other choices. Less meat = more of plant matter. More plant matter = more starch.
1.)I could care less what causes dental caries. or what humans are more suited to eat; probably all debatable. Extra information not to what my comment was.
2.) But, eating and digesting meat is very hard for some people versus other foods, especially the elderly or people in weaker conditions. In hospitals when people are debilitated, recovering from surgery, etc. or just weak, they start them with soft foods or pureed ones in their recovery process, not a porterhouse steak or a piece of chicken. Or, maybe the hospital dieticians are all wrong.
3.)The process of digestion starts with seeing/smelling food, biting food, chewing food and swallowing it when various digestive enzymes are released, initiating the process of digestion. If you don't have good teeth, any teeth or are weak and can't chew, digesting meat might be more difficult or energy consuming than another food. The process of chewing, which is required for all meat is very energy consuming, takes time and energy to chew it, hence it is more difficult to digest than some other foods.
4.) Digestion=starts with teeth in the mouth (A & P 101)
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If you all want to carry on about dental issues I kindly ask you to take your discussion to the Health and Wellness forum. This is the Food and Drink forum and this particular thread is about a Vegetarian coming to a Thanksgiving Dinner.
Well, I don't think a vegetarian would have liked the stuffing that was served this year. It was from Auntie Stovetop! I did add extra plain bread crumbs, some extra broth, some celery, diced onion and mushrooms. It actually wasn't bad.
Also served was the famous green bean casserole, cranberry sauce flavored with orange peel, baked sweet potatoes with cinnamon and brown sugar but no maple syrup this year. I wanted to make a quinoa pilaf to go with all this or maybe a corn casserole, but just burned out. I also cooked a small turkey. A hot artichoke dip and cheeses started all this off. It ended with pecan pie and homemade pumpkin pie. A fresh salad would have been nice, but in the past nobody seemed to want it.
Tonight, the tradition. A midnight raid on the 'fridge for leftovers and/or homemade pumpkin pie.
Steamed broccoli leaves with onion slivers, steamed spinach and baked potatoes. An after-meal snack of peanut butter on crackers with Gala apple slices that I now have to make room for.
Because the guests were unexpected, I would heat up some delicious homemade pinto beans that could be served over the potatoes for the protein addition to the meal.
Thanks. The Wiki article implies that chic peas is the standard term, but that is certainly not true in the west. I am pretty widely traveled and very widely read, but I had never heard of chic peas until a few years ago, at which point I looked up the term and learned it was another way of saying garbanzo beans.
My New College Edition of the American Heritage Dictionary lists the two terms as equivalents ("also called...") without reference to regional usage. I still think it must be an east coast/west coast thing. I wonder what people in St. Louis say?
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