Vitamins with protein?

I'll be the fist to admit I need a little more protein. I probably get about 35 grams a day. Thats not horrible if you ask me, but a little extra could help.

I am 'hopefully' going to the local health food store, to get a vitamin without gelatin, so I was wondering. Are there any good multi-vitamin with protein. Vegetarian vitamins, with out gelatin, of animal fat and such?

Thanks ahead for any help provided!

-Meranda

Protein pills only appear in David Bowie's 'Space Oddyssey' as far as I know... (one for the oldsters there)   You can buy protein shakes, however.... that could be a solution.  How about simply finding more protein-rich vegetable foods and incorporating them into your diet?  Beans, lentils and chickpeas are excellent, for example, and very versatile.... burgers, casseroles, hummus.   Quinoa grain is another. Nuts, seeds, tofu, soya protein, quorn, dairy products, eggs... all great sources of protein and all delicious.  Deliberately plan your menu so that you get some protein at each meal and you shouldn't need supplements.

My Problem is that I have a very... er unsuportive mother. She thinks I should eat 2 peanut butter sanwhichs and live with it (though peanut-butter has fat like no other.) But thank you for the information, I'll have to try and get my mom to by more beans and such.

Sounds like mum doesn't want you to be vegetarian?  And would that be for practical reasons (cooking you different food to everyone else?) or because she has health concerns?

It's very difficult when you're not paying for the shopping to insist on a special diet.  Could you postpone your vegetarian ambitions until you leave home perhaps?  Or could you offer to cook some vegetarian meals for the whole family and try to win them over that way?

In the meantime... baked beans in tomato sauce aren't a bad protein choice.

Other sources of protein becides peanut butter includ, nuts, beans, lentils, whole grains and tofu.  I really like vegetarian chile, which has lots of beans for protein.  You could also try refried bean burritos.  Beans and rice, multigrain bread, and oatmeal for breakfast are still more ways you could incorperate protein into your diet.  Good luck!

Trid

There's nothing wrong with peanut butter....last I checked, it has no animal products, so I'd call it "vegetarian". 

Get out of the habit of thinking something has too much fat in it.  Nuts are loaded with good, heart healthy fats.  They are also good for your brain as well.  Fat free, on the other hand, is kind of dangerous since every cell in your body requires fat for cell walls.  The right kind of fat will help you to feel full longer, and it helps you to lose weight by reducing insulin resistance while increasing your HDL ("good" cholesterol). 

If you're really opposed to nuts, someone rattled off a great list of beans, legumes, soy products and certain grains.  If you're looking for protein powder, the health food stores often stock soy protein powders.  You can even find them unflavored and unsweetened, or sweetened with stevia versus regular refined sugars.  Try looking at Whole Foods - I seem to recall Jay Robb has a decently balanced soy protein powder that's stevia sweetened.

 

 

I would definitely add a protein powder/shake to your diet.  As a vegetarian, the hardest thing is getting enough protein.  That will help you maintain muscle, which in turn burns fat.  If you add a protein shake mixed with soy milk that would add approximately 30 grams of protein.  You could also throw in a banana and peanut butter with some ice, which becomes a tasty shake... 

I struggled with getting enough protein too after becoming vegetarian, but gradually worked towards eating a ton of beans, legumes, soy, veggies and fruit, etc (as the others have mentioned). I have to agree with the peanut butter comment - I eat the natural, organic kind and it tastes just so much better, tastes so much more filling, not "fake" like the common brands that are packed with all those extra ingredients that you don't need. Anyway, here is one of my favorite ways to get some protein: I love eating Kashi's Go Lean cereal. In one cup it packs 13g of protein and plenty of other healthy highlights! If you drink milk, you can add some extra protein to it that way too! Good luck!

I don't know about a vitamin with protein, but there are some good ones that are vegan.  This is the one I take and I'm very happy with it.  They are very reasonable price wise as well.  It's Deva Multivitamin and Mineral Supplement - you can get it with or without iron.  Here is a link ...

http://www.mothernature.com/shop/detail.cfm?s ku=46924&rfr=FRG&zmam=1000941&zma s=18&zmac=110&zmap=46924