introduction and help with 17 moold.

[Guest guest]

I don't think that processed soy/wheat products are a bad thing. Many of these

substitutes can be made, but these ones already made, are easy to makes meals

with the shorter time for preparation and provide the chewy texture that many

enjoy. They provide lots of variety to meals and you don't make a whole meal

of them. Many times you are adding them to a dish with many other things in it

like a stir fry, casserole, shiskabobs, soup, chili's, pizza, etc....... so

it is not like you are eating a huge concentration of it and only that.

 

Wheat gluten, is great meat substitute and very easy to make, if you choose

to. You can buy it, in a can also already in chunks or slices.

 

On my dad's side of the family, I am a 3rd generation vegetarian, and raising a

4th generation of lacto- ova vegetarians and we are all healthy, with no side

effects of eating soy products or drinking soy milk. We have been eating the

meat substitutes all of my life and most of my fathers life. There is a ton

of misconceptions about soy. It is really a very good legume and very

versitile to make many wonderful things. Processed things often mean, just

mixed together ingredients, like in a recipe and maybe baked or cooked and

ground up or formed in shapes. That isn't a bad thing.

 

A healthy vegetarian diet is a good thing to raise our children with and teach

our children why it is. The next generation will be so much better off than

those raised on meat would be. We have tons of variety in our diet and love

it. I am constantly amazed at the meat eater friends of ours, that have such

limited things that they include in their diet of good healthy veggies and

fruit. Raise your children with your convictions. They love having set

parameters to live within and will really wonder why they can eat meat and yet

you don't. Too wishy washy and confusing to children, IMHO. If you feel it

is unhealthy to eat meat, why in the world would you feed it to your children.

We do feel it is very unhealthy and our children are great at teaching others,

who are curious about their vegetarian diet. Except for us and some families

from India, we are the only vegetarians in our city, as far as I have met. It

doesn't bothe me or our children at all. It is just our way of life. Not a

debatable issue in our home, whether it will be served or whether any meat or

would ever eat it. It just repulses us way to much to even consider it.

 

Judy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

.. Except for us and some families from India, we are the only vegetarians in

our city, as far as I have met. We drive about a hour to church and we have a

nice group of vegetarians in our church family. We have wonderful vegetarian

potlucks. Next week, is another one of those yummy potlucks. We love them.

 

 

 

It doesn't bothe me or our children at all to be the only vegetarians in our

local city. It is just our way of life. Not a debatable issue in our home,

whether meat will be served or whether it any of us would ever eat it. It just

repulses us way to much to even consider it.

 

Judy

 

[Guest guest]

Oh yes, Judy, have every intention of raising our son vegetarian. Its

not just a health issue for us, its a moral issue.

 

And you are right, I don't just sit down and eat a bowl of soy crumbles!

I'm working on having my son eat a little less processed soy, but I am

less worried about it for us. I'm sure its much healtheir than eating

meat, anyway.

 

Ilse