Paul Succesful family transition stories...

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My Mom raised us to do as we please, her meals were

vegan and she was a horrible cook. She would use

butter and eggs in her baking and she could beat any

baker with her award winning desserts and homemade

bread. I would eat everything I could at all the

neighbors homes, talk about non-vegetarian food oh

brother. I would return tons of soda bottles the

neighbors didn't want to get my sugar fix. She never

let us have Cokes or candy. I'm a sugar-holic to this

day. I couldn't wait to get to my Gran's house and

raid the fridge, I would eat a jar of sweet pickles, a

jar of maraschino cherries, chew up all Gran's gum,

eat a whole jar of that horrid marshmallow cream..LOL

I think if the vegetarian meals are tasty and don't

forget ask your kids to help cook, don't be to strict

with their diet, it doesn't always work.

Donna

--- Paul <fiveqs wrote:

 

> Hi again! Thanks for the replies! I really was

> expecting a lot more

> stories, but it would appear there aren't that many

> families in the

> group that have gone thru the transition.

> Lot of helpful tips. It looks like a big one is

> just planning. We've

> gotten so used to... " What's for Lunch? " Oh, we've

> got a can of

> chicken, we'll just make some chicken salad

> sandwiches " or grab some

> hamburger or chicken breasts or something and make

> a quick meal. What

> we're doing now is just not buying any more of it

> and it will be gone

> shortly. We've been buying (for the last couple

> weeks) grains, beans,

> and substitutes (ie Boca, Morning Star etc.) then as

> we get closer to

> being rid of all the bad stuff moving into keeping

> more of the more

> perishable fresh veggies on hand. (Note;I don't

> think I've ever seen

> veggie dogs ??#!) We've used TVP before, especially

> for Chile etc. the

> only problem being that the local coop used to carry

> medium sized

> chunks (1/4-1/2 " or so). Now they just have the

> little granules and

> BIG chunks 1+ " or so. Need to see if I can find the

> medium ones somewhere.

> Something we just Have to try is this baked

> Seitan everyone's been

> talking about, sound great! We're going to have to

> make another run

> into town (~20mi) for some stuff we're missing.

> We've used Vital wheat

> gluten before but just for WW bread, never had

> Seitan. We've also

> never used nutritional yeast, so we have to get

> some. We've got a

> great rice cooker and breadmaker, both Zojirushi.

> Use the ricemaker a

> lot but really need to use the breadmaker more (we

> have a serious

> clutter issue). We're goos on spices, herbs, grains,

> beans, sea

> veggies etc. (we lived in Okinawa for over 4 years

> and acquired a

> taste for seaweed). We all really like veggie sushi.

> Anyway, I should quit talking :-) I'm doing too

> much rambling. My

> Wife and I are both looking forward to getting this

> done (the kids are

> more like " Yeah, ok, whatever :-)

> Thanks Again!!

> Paul Q

>

>

 

 

Picture yourself in a boat on a river,

With tangerine trees and marmalade skies

Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,

A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Source- Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds - The Beatles

 

 

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