warm welcome, roboticchrist

[Guest guest]

Hopefully you have been able to get some of those

questions you posted answered here. I would also

suggest that you can find out a lot of useful

information from many of the popular vegetarian

cookbooks. Linda McCartney's cookbooks contain

some nice, simply worded information on nutrition

and what fruits and vegetables contain which

nutrients.

 

New vegans, and even new lacto-ovo or other types

of vegetarians, are often concerned about getting it

right and not falling short on protein, vitamins, and

minerals. While it is a good thing to be aware, we

needn't become overly concerned or worried about

our diets lacking nutrients if we eat a little bit of

everything, and eat healthy organic foods. Try to avoid

as much processed junkfood as you can, eat some grains,

beans, tofu, colorful veggies, and you will be on the road

to healthy way ahead of the meat-eating crowd.

Toss into that mix a nice multivitamin and

you're golden.

Welcome to the feralveg list!

 

~ feral ~

 

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds

it attached to the rest of the world.

~ John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914)

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, " roboticchrist "

<roboticchrist@h...>

wrote:

> Hi I am a new Vegan and I have some questions for you that I really

> need some advice on.

>

> 1. How do you balance your meals so that you can have adequate

> nutrition and arent lacking in any certain area? (which foods, etc)

>

> 2. What food has what vitamins in it and is there any certain

> vitamin that vegans will be lacking and need to be taking a

> supplement for, if any, and which ones are they?

>

> 3. Now that I dont have the 5 food groups and now are basically

down

> to 2 food groups, what foods should I eat more of to balance out

the

> lack of the " food pyramid "

>

> Well thanks for the help and I had more questions to ask and more

> intelligent ones but I have forgotten them. I really need help

> balancing my meals as that is what I have the worst trouble with

and

> I also get bored very easily with food so maybe some help with

> spicing up food would be appreciated too.