filling foods? Meghan

[Guest guest]

<P>I think you might be limiting the items you eat, too much.  Maybe

because you are new to vegetarianism, you don't have a full

realization of everything you can eat. I always read the labels to

insure it's vegan.  I've been a vegetarian all my life (62 years), and

a vegan for much of that.  I like and eat virtually every fruit and

vegetable there is.  I almost always get filled, usually, overfilled

because I like them too well.  I have never taken vitamins until

recently.  Now I take one a day, recommended daily dose, multivitamin

and minerals (giving in to my lady doctor who I dearly love).  I have

used several different brands but I always try to check very carefully

to insure they are vegan. Taking handfulls of mega-dose vitamins is

uncalled for and may be hazardous to your health.</P>

<P>One question several people have asked is if it costs more to be a

vegetarian.  Over all, my food bill is about half of everyone else (

non-vegetarians) that I know.  I determined this by actually comparing

grocery bill reciepts for several years.  I shop at regular large

supermarkets, not health food stores where the prices are generally 4

to 10 times higher.  I buy right off the regular shelves, not the

health or specialty departments.  I always read the label to insure

vegetarian.  I prefer organic but only buy it if it's close to the same

price, which in the large supermarkets I shop in, often are.  (Sorry,

but I don't make enough money to always be perfectly health and

socially concious, however it's always vegetarian or vegan) </P>

<P>I can fill up, and even overfill, a grocery cart for 50 to 100

dollars.  The persons in front of me always pay twice as much (but of

course their cart contains some dead animal body parts (meat, they call

it), which almost doubles their bill.  The people around me always ask

how come my bill is so low.  They never notice, on their own, that I

don't have any dead animals in my cart.     </P>

<P>Some of the things I eat are; pizza, spaghitti, tacos, enchalatas,

lasagnia, Chinese food,  chile, lentil-vegetable stew, and much more,

all at least vegetarian, usually vegan. I generally don't try to buy

artificial meat since I don't want my food to look or taste like dead

animal body parts and bodily fluids.  I do buy a fair amount of soy

based food such as tofu and soy milk, both of which I love. </P>

<P>Down here in South Texas, in my city (Corpus Christi) of over a

quarter million people, there is not one vegetarian eating

establishment, but you can usually get them to fix you something.  ( We

do have a Souper-Salad, which has a lot of things a vegan can eat). 

If I'm going out with a group or to a large social function with a

fixed carnavore entree,  at possibly one of the large hotels, I usually

call ahead and let them know I desire a vegan menu.  I have always been

accomadated, even when I have had to let them know, only when I

arrived. </P>

<P>I hope some of this is helpful.                              

William The Scot</P>

 

 

 

 

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