Even though you haven't given up your steak and bar-b-q chicken yet doesn't mean you cant enjoy the simplicities of a vegetarian diet. I've been living as a vegetarian for close to 10 years and I still do not miss the meals of ol'. If you are just getting started with this dietary transition, try substituting 1 or 2 meals a week with fruit, veggies, and vegetable proteins... Don't try to go to fast and end up not sticking with it... Begin eliminating pork from your diet for 30 days giving your body time to detox it all completely. Once this process is initiated your body will reject it next time you attempt to ingest it. Two months later try cutting the beef for 30 days. Again, you will feel a bit queazy once you try eating it later due to the detox of the meats you haven't eaten in 90 days! Subsequently cut the chicken, and any other animal protein you feel isn't conducive to your health and nutrition.
This process will take 6 months or less and the weight loss will be unbelievable. If you don't believe me just try it out! What do you have to lose besides bad habits and weight?!!?
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Peace
Here's a semi simple recipe to help out with Vegetarian and low calorie cooking/drinking!
ReplyDeleteIt's great to use with sauteed veggies over whole wheat pasta or brown rice. Also great in bloody mary's and even just drinking it like you would V8 as a meal, a snack or just to drink to curb your hunger.
Tomato Vegetable Juice
1 bushel plus a few more makes 3 batches =33 qts.
- 10# clean tomatoes (8 qts.) squeezed thru food mill sq skins twice
- 3 cloves garlic minced (or more if you really like garlic)
- Seperately in another LG pan
- 2 lg onions chunked (I use 3)
- 1/2 bunch or 1 sm bunch celery chunked
- 6 C chuncked carrots (3/4 of a lg bag)
- 2 chuncked green peppers
- Boil & put thru food mill twice (or use blending wand and strain)
- add to pan of tomatoes
- ADD 1/4 C sugar or splenda (I used splenda)
- 3 T salt
- 3 T Worchestershire sauce
- 1/2 t 1 T pepper
- 3 T dill sauce
- 3 T seasoned salt
- 3 T Arizona seasoning (Pennzeys spices)
- 3 T Adobe
- 2 T cumin
- Bring to a boil & simmer until seasoning goes thru.
Add 1 Bunch chopped Cilantro per batch if desired.
Label into jars & ADD 2 T lemon juice to each qt. 11 qts per batch - Process takes about 40 minutes