Guest guest Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Hi, my name is Julie. I am from Pittsburgh, PA. I am a vegan newbie...as of 5 days ago...haha. I am excited to learn some good recipes and vegan tips. Looking forward to being a part of your group. Julie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 On 1/26/08, Julie <julz2385 wrote: > > Hi, my name is Julie. I am from Pittsburgh, PA. I am a vegan > newbie...as of 5 days ago...haha. I am excited to learn some good > recipes and vegan tips. Looking forward to being a part of your > group. Congratulations! I'll bet you're feeling the difference, even after only five days, aren't you? Good for you on making a healthy choice and I'm so glad you joined the group! There are a ton of wonderful recipes in the files section of the group web site and every one of them (unless otherwise noted) has been cooked and eaten by a group member so you know they're " tried and true " recipes. There are lots of people here with great information, so if you have a question sing out. And tell us what you like eating so far! What has been really working for you? The more you share your tastes, the more others can help you find more foods and recipes you'd like. And we LOVE new recipes here, so you're sure to get someone's mouth watering! So glad you joined! Sparrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Hi Julie and welcome! Hey, five days a vegan? Fantastic! Did you go cold, er, tofu from being an omnivore or were you already vegetarian? I can tell you're excited about it, as you should be - great decision! We have lots of recipes here - mostly (well, for the main and side dishes anyway) organized according to regional origin of the dish. Have a look at the Files on our homepage. And ASK for anything you like, okay? Many of our recipes that are veggie can be easily adapted to vegan - I know because I do it all the time myself Looking forward to chatting with you! Best, Pat (Group Owner) ---- Vegetarian Spice: http://beanvegan.blogspot.com Vegan World Cuisine: http://www.care2.com/c2cvegworld Vegetarian Slimming: vegetarianslimming Vegetarians In Canada: vegetariansincanada " Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. " (George Bernard Shaw) ______________________________\ ____ Never miss a thing. Make your home page. http://www./r/hs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 Hi everyone! Yes, I am very excited about it and I feel great! I have already lost 10 pounds in 5 days! I was previously an omnivore. It actually started out as a new year's resolution to lose weight. I tried the no carb/Atkins diet for about a week and let's just say I had a horrible stomach ache. I had had success with weight watchers in the past so I thought about trying that again but I remembered how tiresome it got counting " points " . So I went to the book store to look for diet books and I came across The Skinny Bitch. I read the back of the book and it didn't say much about the diet except that they didn't consider it a diet so much as a life style (which is what I was looking for b/c I will loose weight on a diet but gain weight when I go off of it). So I bought the book, brought it home and read it in 5 hours. It definitely changed my life for the better! The only trouble so far that I have been having is that my local grocery store has very little in the way of vegan foods. Pittsburgh has both Whole Foods and Trader Joe's but they are both within a block of each other and 20 miles/45 min away! Julie , Pat <drpatsant wrote: > > Hi Julie and welcome! Hey, five days a vegan? > Fantastic! Did you go cold, er, tofu from being > an omnivore or were you already vegetarian? I can > tell you're excited about it, as you should be - > great decision! > > We have lots of recipes here - mostly (well, for > the main and side dishes anyway) organized > according to regional origin of the dish. Have a > look at the Files on our homepage. > > And ASK for anything you like, okay? Many of our > recipes that are veggie can be easily adapted to > vegan - I know because I do it all the time > myself > > Looking forward to chatting with you! > > Best, Pat (Group Owner) > > > ---- > Vegetarian Spice: > http://beanvegan.blogspot.com > Vegan World Cuisine: http://www.care2.com/c2cvegworld > Vegetarian Slimming: vegetarianslimming > Vegetarians In Canada: vegetariansincanada > " Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research. " (George Bernard Shaw) > > > ______________________________\ ____ > Never miss a thing. Make your home page. > http://www./r/hs > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 27, 2008 Report Share Posted January 27, 2008 On 1/27/08, Julie <julz2385 wrote: > > The > only trouble so far that I have been having is that my local grocery > store has very little in the way of vegan foods. Pittsburgh has both > Whole Foods and Trader Joe's but they are both within a block of each > other and 20 miles/45 min away! If you look away from " me*t analogues " to whole foods, you'll find that your grocery has quite a bit - though it may not be organic. Someone recently gave me a link to the work of Dr. Neal Barnard because I am battling diabetes, but when I did academic searches for his medical journal articles, I found several that were studies of weight loss in particular, rather than the larger system of problems associated with diabetes. Dr. Barnard claims (and I believe) that the best diet for weight loss has three criteria: 1. vegan, 2. low-fat, 3. low glycemic index foods. If you want to see some examples of just how much vegan food *is* in your grocery store, have a look at the free cookbook for diabetics on his web site. Some of the recipes use tofu and seitan, but most of them use " common, everyday foods " that are in most grocery stores. Here's the link to the cookbook: Recipes for Success - in color http://www.pcrm.org/health/diabetes/pdfs/diet%20and%20diabetes-recipes%20for%20s\ uccess.pdf (http://tinyurl.com/2469s2) Recipes for Success - in black and white http://www.pcrm.org/health/diabetes/pdfs/DietDiabetes_bw.pdf (http://tinyurl.com/29uvzp) Once you move away from thinking of vegan as ways to copy me*t and start thinking of it in terms of the four major food groups (fruit, vegetables, beans, whole grains) a big world of food opens up. You will find a lot of recipes like this in the archives here as well - recipes that use simple ingredients like beans, tomatoes, cauliflower, and lots of different spices. I'm not saying *don't* eat soy burgers and soy crumbles and veggie sausage and veggie hot dogs and veggie lunch " meats " . . . these are good foods that have their place and (if you read labels carefully) are quite healthy. But I just don't want you to get too frustrated because you have to take field trips to buy things like tahini, nutritional yeast, etc. For now, take the field trips to buy the " exotic " stuff and use it with the basic foods in a standard grocery store. It's what's workable now and something better may come later (for example, you might be the instrumental person who helps get a food co-op started in your neighborhood! Sparrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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