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| Vegetarian | Bacon substitute? | Sep 27 2006 19:38 (UTC) |
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| Halloumi is a salty cheese you can grill or dry fry (i.e. fry without oil in a pan). wikipedia entry It's quite salty but yummy with roast veg or tossed in a warm salad. You have my sympathies - when I became a veggie it was still hard to find meat substitutes outside of health food shops in the UK. Compared to then, the choice in every UK supermarket today is staggering! So maybe in another twenty years US supermarkets will be as varied as over here... ;) I've been reducing my meat substitutes, in favour of more veg, hence my "oooooh" at the idea of sun-dried tomatoes. |
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| Vegetarian | Ready replies to annoying questions! | Sep 26 2006 19:59 (UTC) |
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| I don't think arguing the pros and cons of a choosen diet over a meal is ever a good idea. If I point out the reasons not to eat meat, I come over as evangelising and spoiling others' meals. If someone attacks me for my choice, they come over as unsociable. No-one wins, and no-one changes their mind. So to all of those questions I just shrug, smile and say "because I am." If someone wants to pursue it, I tell them why I quit*, at which point the other meat-eaters around the table may well wish the interogator would shut up in order to stop me reminding them of the origins of their food! If the person keeps on, then they clearly are a terrible person to have a meal with and need to learn some etiquette! *I was doing dissection in Biology O-level and had just done a bull's heart. Two days later I looked at the slices of beef on my Sunday dinner plate and said "I can't eat that.". |
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| Vegetarian | Bacon substitute? | Sep 26 2006 19:14 (UTC) |
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| I like the redwood vegi deli biorasher, which I added here a couple of weeks back, but I don't know if you can find that where you are. I used to use the Morningstar ones. I've also replaced it with halloumi cheese in some recipes. I love the sound of using sun-dried tomatoes as an alternative though - I adore them! |
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| Vegetarian | What did you have for dinner? | Sep 26 2006 19:11 (UTC) |
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| Just back from a long trip where I got very bored of the veggie options available in restaurants... Last night I had roasted sweet potatoes and halloumi, with red onion, garlic, mushroom and yellow pepper: recipe on calorie counter (I had to enter yam instead of sweet potato which is a shame as they are not identical, I think). It took me over my daily calorie intake, but I just wanted one of my favourites after all those nasty cheese based meals whilst travelling... And tonight I am about to have a sweet potato and veggie bacon dish: recipe on calorie counter Both of those are based on Nigella Lawson recipes which I've adapted for either seasonal veg or to replace the meat, or both! I use the redwood 'biorasher' veggie bacon. |
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| Foods | How do I get an "A"? | Sep 10 2006 18:05 (UTC) |
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Would it be possible to show the "running total" of the various nutritional parameters on the analysis or food log pages (or maybe as an extra widget on the really lovely toolbar thingy)? Looking at my overall nutritional grades and my calorie intake (both of which seem OK), I suspect my failure to lose weight is due to approaching or exceeding - 100% on the RDA for fat and/or cholesterol. So it would be great to log in and see that I should plan a v. low fat meal this evening, for example, not because of the calorific content but because I'm already at 83% RDA on fats. |
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| Vegetarian | What did you have for dinner? | Sep 10 2006 11:37 (UTC) |
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| Last night I had a courgette and tomato bake, based on an old Elizabeth David recipe which was in the Guardian's magazine yesterday: recipe on calorie-count recipe on Guardian Unlimited I swapped the butter for olive oil (good) and cheddar cheese (less good idea as it didn't melt into the breadcrumb as butter would have). It would work without any butter or cheese dotting the breadcrumb though. |
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| Vegetarian | What did you have for dinner? | Sep 08 2006 23:58 (UTC) |
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| Pasta, with steamed spinach, toasted pine nuts, black olives and cheese in a white wine sauce. The olives doubled the calorie count but are too yummy to resist! [image] | |||
| Vegetarian | Question for vegetarians - fish & eggs | Sep 08 2006 23:43 (UTC) |
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It's in the internal/external definition that the problem arises, though, isn't it? If a pescatarian calls themselves a vegetarian for simplicity (e.g. filling out an airline dietery requirements form) but then says "oh, but I eat fish" then the idea that veggies also eat fish is proglamated outside the 'sub-culture' and a lacto-ovo vegetarian gets asked "but you eat fish, right?" and gets annoyed. Well, it annoys me when I am presented with something I won't eat and am told "oh, but so-and-so is veggie and they eat fish/chicken"! I'm not sure "conscientious eating" quite fits as it presumes that an omnivorous diet (i.e. one including meat, fish etc) is not conscientious. But I know meat eaters who buy their meat from local farms and practically know the cow's name as well as how it was both raised and killed. They are choosing to eat conscientiously by engaging with stock farmers who are as humane as possible instead of buying a prepackaged, desensitised pound of beef of uncertain origin from the supermarket. When I became a veggie it was a moral choice and I evangelised about it: after 18 years, I'm just veggie "because I am" and tend to accept everyone's dietery choices (the majority of "meat-eaters" - in my social scene anyway - only eat it two or three times a week and are otherwise lacto-ovo vegetarian). It helps that - in the UK at least - vegetarianism is broadly understood and accepted now (in a way it wasn't back in the 80s when I gave up meat). I do quite enjoy disproving the myth that all veggies are skinny weaklings though! |
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