Barb/ and vegetarian diet

September 30, 2005

Good Morning Barb,

Doing it cold turkey worked for me. Same with cigarettes. I spent the day with the Krishna's and they gave me a free cookbook and samples of food and I went home and tossed all the meat, bologna, chicken and decided to try it for a month. That was over 25 yrs. ago and I have never looked back or missed meat for even one day! I decided if I made this choice I had better get in the kitchen and learn how to prepare every veggie, grain or bean I came across and I pretty much have. I just discovered eating kale from Susie one of the members. I love it too. We will all help you. 25 yrs. ago there wasn't much help out there and certainly no good veggie hot dogs or burgers or even frozen vegetarian food.

My Mom has been a vegan all her life but I never listened to her. I ate her food and also burgers and junk back then too. She made us lots of steamed veggies and pasta and rice dishes but never anything like they have out in the vegetarian cookbooks on the market now. She's been in veggie heaven from some of the dishes I cook up for her.

Enjoy your Friday! Donna babsyjean wrote:

Thanks so much Anne! I am still not real good at picking the right foods. I ate a biscut this morning and got thinking after I ate it...geez...that had shortening in it...YUCK but I didn't reach for the ones with sausage in them like I would have. I went to the health food stores and found some frozen dinners by Amy's Kitchen and got some garden burgers and of the franks to take to the cookout that I am going to at my dads house on Sunday. I have tried to ease into vegetarian way of life several times but always backslide. This time I decided to go all the way into the lifestyle and not try to ease into it because easing don't work. I still eat some dairy foods but not as much as I used to because eggs give me heart burn. So, I will probably be asking a lot of questions and you guys are really great! Thanks for the warm

welcomes! :)Love Barb> > "jandemommy" <jandemommy> 2005/09/30 Fri AM 06:19:11 EDT> > Barb/fibromyalgia> > welcome to the group Barb--I'm Anne and also a fairly new vegetarian. I also have fibromyalgia and giving up meat products and dairy products have proved to be the best thing I have ever done for myself : ). Giving up meat products wasn't hard at all but dairy was to a degree because we live fairly close to an organic dairy farm and the taste can't be beat. But lately my allergies have been so bad that I decided to lay off the dairy for 1 week and see if it helped with breathing. within 3 days I could breathe clearly without medicine but also all my joint pains were gone--no low back pain, neck pain, horrid headaches, nothing : ). I've been off dairy for almost 3 weeks and feel really good : ). experiment and see what works for you and welcome again :

).............. Anne "Welcome to the jungle we've got fun n' games.We got everything you want, honey we know the names.We are the people that can find whatever you may need.Source: Guns N' Roses "Welcome to the Jungle"

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