Going vegetarian?

[YYZ Skinhead]

I have thought of going vegetarian (not vegan because I have soy and broad bean allergies) for a week to see if I can shed some avoirdupois. I developed a taste for bloody beer/michelada, which is basically a bloody Mary with beer substituted for white liquor. V8 with Tabasco and Worcestershire, with no alcohol, doesn't taste as horrendous as straight tomato juice, which is plain old GROSS. Toss out some ideas, You People. Kale? Collards? Celery with cottage cheese? Baba ghanoush (like eggplant hummus)? Mushrooms? What foods do you recommend for a lacto-ovo vegetarian? Props in advance.

 

[WeedHopper]

Red Beans and keep your head under the covers when you go to bed.

 

[WeedHopper]

On a more serious note. I like all kinds of veggies,, but i cant do without my meats. Love a good steak and potatoes.

 

[YYZ Skinhead]

On a more serious note. I like all kinds of veggies,, but i cant do without my meats. Love a good steak and potatoes.

This is my primary obstacle. I am an obligate carnivore, like a cat. I crave beef in most of its incarnations, and I am partial to poultry.

 

[giggy]

sorry i'm a texan and a beef and taters man.

 

[pute]

I live on veggies. Especially now with the garden just now starting to really pop. I do eat meat, Mostly poultry and sea food, but a good steak every now and then. Super foods are dark green veggies...Kale, broccoli and the like. Mrs Pute pretty much keeps me on the south beach diet which is veggies and fruit. I have a smoothie with nuts for breakfast most of the time, no lunch and veggies with chicken or fish for dinner.

My only saving grace is we eat out 3 times a week. I go kinda bad then.

I just picked these radishes.

 

[user 60570]

Beans and rice and kale and chard and cabbage

hummus

cashews pecans almonds Brazil nuts pistachios all raw and organic

black bean burgers with tomato onion pickle lettuce mustard ketchup with sweet potato fries fried in coconut oil

tvp chili

been and cheese burritos

oatmeal Bobs muesli

 

[YYZ Skinhead]

I shall have to try black bean burgers, since black beans are delicious. Particularly with rice and pickled Serrano chilis.

 

[WeedHopper]

I eat Red Beans with damn near every meal. I loves beans.

 

[YYZ Skinhead]

I eat Red Beans with damn near every meal. I loves beans.

What is it with beans and rice? Black beans, red beans, pinto beans, black-eyed peas, et al. They are a match made in heaven. Particularly with pickled Serrano chilis.

 

[pute]

My night to go bad. Home style spaghetti with meatballs. They have the best eggplant in the city but I have been craving pasta!

 

[YYZ Skinhead]

My night to go bad. Home style spaghetti with meatballs. They have the best eggplant in the city but I have been craving pasta!

I am familiar with the pasta craving. Spaghetti and meatballs are divine, but lasagna is my addiction, both with and without beef. Of course, I add hot peppers to all of my red sauce pasta.

 

[pute]

Have to have red peppers with Italian! I love Lasagania as well. But this thread is about vegetarian's. And you are making me hungry again. I went bad tonight but tomorrow it's back to the garden.

 

[WeedHopper]

Stop it ,your making me hungry.

 

[Oldbay]

You may also consider fish now and then. My current and ex both had food sensitivities and a diet based on a heavy helping of veggies (not on baked goods), beans etc... helped a lot. Fish also seemed to be not only fine but helpful.

 

[pute]

I eat fish two to three times a week. I especially like shell fish. I can break a king crab down in my sleep. There are two sea food restaurants close that serve sea food trash. The kind where they dump in in the middle of the table and you have at it. Salmon is really healthy but I don't really care for it. Halibut and cod are my favorite fish.

 

[kevinn]

Crabs and steak for me. And of course a salad,

 

[kevinn]

Now that I think of it, a lobster instead of crab. Crabs down here are too much work.

 

[pute]

That is why I like King Crab. If you know how to break them down it's not too bad but the smaller ones aren't worth it. Gotten way expensive though.

 

[Oldbay]

Blue crabs or nothing
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