Guest guest Posted September 13, 2003 Report Share Posted September 13, 2003 It might be worth a try Niccii, I definitely want to stay vegetarian and also lose more weight doing it. My husband and I decided to go veggie two years ago. I wouldn't change that for anything. I do feel much better almost all of the time (as long as I eat as I should). I have lost 20 lbs, and need to lose about 25 more. More important is the benefits to our health. We try to eat as much raw food as possible, and it is a rather difficult process to change cooking habits of years and years. I repeat ... definitely worth it. One of my favorite fast foods.. is to take a couple cans of beans, black and mixed salad beans, add many veggies and a vinagrette dressing. Today, I added fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, sweet onions, sweet red pepper, celery and made a dressing of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, dash of lemon pepper, garlic salt, 2 cloves of garlic crushed and a small amount of pure maple syrup. I do this with soba noodles instead of the beans at times. Dolly - nicole Panos Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:57 AM just joined! Hi there!ive read the notes about this group not being active...why dont we help it along? many people go to look for new messages then when they see some continue along...im willing to participate...i am a on again off again veg due to health, and other family issues.. on again now lol i have MANY cookbooks that i could start typing up to share with you all...just give me the go and i will start..im willing to give the effort if all of you are!awaiting your replywarm regardsNiccii Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 14, 2003 Report Share Posted September 14, 2003 yes..im willing to try...your fast food sounds yummy! warm regards niccii , " dsmart " <dsmart@w...> wrote: > It might be worth a try Niccii, I definitely want to stay vegetarian and also lose more weight doing it. My husband and I decided to go veggie two years ago. I wouldn't change that for anything. I do feel much better almost all of the time (as long as I eat as I should). I have lost 20 lbs, and need to lose about 25 more. More important is the benefits to our health. > > We try to eat as much raw food as possible, and it is a rather difficult process to change cooking habits of years and years. I repeat ... definitely worth it. > One of my favorite fast foods.. is to take a couple cans of beans, black and mixed salad beans, add many veggies and a vinagrette dressing. Today, I added fresh tomatoes, cucumbers, broccoli, sweet onions, sweet red pepper, celery and made a dressing of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, dash of lemon pepper, garlic salt, 2 cloves of garlic crushed and a small amount of pure maple syrup. > I do this with soba noodles instead of the beans at times. > Dolly > - > nicole Panos > > Saturday, September 13, 2003 7:57 AM > just joined! > > > Hi there! > ive read the notes about this group not being active...why dont we > help it along? many people go to look for new messages then when they > see some continue along...im willing to participate...i am a on again > off again veg due to health, and other family issues.. on again now > lol i have MANY cookbooks that i could start typing up to share with > you all...just give me the go and i will start..im willing to give > the effort if all of you are! > awaiting your reply > warm regards > Niccii Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 16, 2010 Report Share Posted March 16, 2010 Hello everyone, my name is Cindel (25). I am a wife and mother to two young daughters, Hannah (3) and Kylee (15mo). My husband Russ (28) also joined this group. He has been a vegetarian for 16 years. For a healthier lifestyle we have decided to all become veg-heads. We are also cutting out processed foods. My youngest one is a fantastic eater, devouring anything I give to her. Hannah on the other hand is very picky and I am having a hard time getting her to eat anything that I make. She is pretty much living off of fruit and pasta. Any ideas? Thank you for this wonderful group! Oh and for St.Patrick's day tomorrow I am making tomato and cabbage soup but my father's recipe calls for marrow bone. I'm wondering if I should substitute it for something or just leave it out? Thanks again! Cindel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Maybe use some vegetable boullion in the pot. I think folks used to cook with that stuff to add flavor. I have some Better Than Boullion NoBeef and NoChicken (both vegan) that I use a for flavors in soups. If I don't have it, I do have a vegetable boullion from them as well that I use. I'd guess using stock instead of just any additional water would probably do. HTH MIssie On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Cindel <lollipopfairy69 wrote: > > > Hello everyone, my name is Cindel (25). I am a wife and mother to two young > daughters, Hannah (3) and Kylee (15mo). My husband Russ (28) also joined > this group. He has been a vegetarian for 16 years. For a healthier lifestyle > we have decided to all become veg-heads. We are also cutting out processed > foods. My youngest one is a fantastic eater, devouring anything I give to > her. Hannah on the other hand is very picky and I am having a hard time > getting her to eat anything that I make. She is pretty much living off of > fruit and pasta. Any ideas? > > Thank you for this wonderful group! > > Oh and for St.Patrick's day tomorrow I am making tomato and cabbage soup > but my father's recipe calls for marrow bone. I'm wondering if I should > substitute it for something or just leave it out? > > Thanks again! > Cindel > > > -- ~~~~~(m-.-)m http://mszzzi.zoomshare.com http://www.flickr.com/photos/mszzzi/ http://twitter.com/mszzzi http://www.derbylite.org www.VeganOutreach.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 17, 2010 Report Share Posted March 17, 2010 Hi Cindel, Welcome to the group! Just wanted to say that you shouldn't beat yourself up over your daughter eating only fruit and pasta - I think we've all had times where our kids didn't eat what we hoped and wished they would . vegetarian or not. :-) We've been vegetarians for 21 years and our son has been for his whole life (5-1/3 years), and he still goes through phases of eating only specific things. I really like some advice I read (can't remember where, but I really read it) :-) that we should look at what our kids eat over a span of a week or a month, not a day. And really, our son will have a day where he seems to eat only grains and protein and won't eat any fruit, then a few days later, he eats fruit like a fruit bat and very little else, then he'll have a day where he eats tons of everything, and anything we offer. I like the idea of looking at it over a longer term, we feel more relaxed. And I'm sure our kids are more healthy than some of us were as kids and surely more healthy than kids in prior generations, eating the standard American diet, etc. For ideas, you could try focusing on things that she really likes to eat, and introducing variations on it until she likes a new food. For example, she likes pasta . you could try different kinds of sauce for it like tomato sauce one time, cheese sauce another, a thai peanut sauce another .and toss in veggies slowly, even grated so the size and texture aren't a big deal. Or we sometimes introduce something as a big, huge, fun event - " yayyyy, everyone! Dinner's ready! It's confetti pasta! " And you can grate raw veggies on top of the pasta to look like veggie confetti. We also call broccoli little trees, beans are little rocks, and we need a giant to eat them. :-) Cauliflower is snowy trees. We recently started making " sky scrapers " out of banana slices layered with peanut butter and a blueberry on top of each, with blueberry streets in between (yeah, a slow fruit week here). :-) We learned " ants on a log " from PBS Sprouts website - celery spread with peanut butter and a line of raisins on top - got our son to start eating celery and bring raisins back into his repertoire (they were popular a couple years ago, and then lost popularity recently). We've made veggie sandwiches that look like monsters with olive eyes on top of the bread rolls, red pepper smiles, grated beet and carrot hair, etc. And anything he helps cook ends up getting eaten, so he is invited to help a lot when he's not eating a lot. :-) Best of luck! :-) Lorraine On Behalf Of Cindel Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:42 PM Just Joined! Hello everyone, my name is Cindel (25). I am a wife and mother to two young daughters, Hannah (3) and Kylee (15mo). My husband Russ (28) also joined this group. He has been a vegetarian for 16 years. For a healthier lifestyle we have decided to all become veg-heads. We are also cutting out processed foods. My youngest one is a fantastic eater, devouring anything I give to her. Hannah on the other hand is very picky and I am having a hard time getting her to eat anything that I make. She is pretty much living off of fruit and pasta. Any ideas? Thank you for this wonderful group! Oh and for St.Patrick's day tomorrow I am making tomato and cabbage soup but my father's recipe calls for marrow bone. I'm wondering if I should substitute it for something or just leave it out? Thanks again! Cindel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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