Guest guest Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 I am looking for a family friendly cookbook. It needs to have recipes that are easy to attain and that are moderate in price. After the first of the year our family is going vegetarian. I figure this gives me time to research recipes and stock my kitchen. I also am looking for a weightloss plan that is simple to do. Oh one other thing, how about ideas for lunches for my husband to take to work. Thanks for all your help. Janette Everett WA Meet the all-new My - Try it today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 " Meatless Meals for working families " from VRG is great. Also I'd try vegetarianizing some of your normal dishes like lasagna. Whenever I try to do something elaborate and fancy it never comes out exactly right. Lunches.. does he have a microwave at work? Gardenburger meals are great. Also your can get ready-made Indian meals from some grocery/ health food stores that will be marked vegan or vegetarian. Mostly for my lunches I buy veggie (yves or smartdeli) sandwich slices and make sandwiches for lunch. With the occasional microwaveable meal to mix things up a little. Renee --- J Smith <bbyjn2003 wrote: > > I am looking for a family friendly cookbook. It > needs > to have recipes that are easy to attain and that are > moderate in price. After the first of the year our > family is going vegetarian. I figure this gives me > time to research recipes and stock my kitchen. I > also > am looking for a weightloss plan that is simple to > do. > Oh one other thing, how about ideas for lunches for > my > husband to take to work. Thanks for all your help. > > Janette > Everett WA > > > > > > Meet the all-new My - Try it today! > > > > > > > Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. Learn more. http://celebrity.mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 You can steam the brown rice with all kinds of nuts and beans, like red bean, yellow bean, black bean, green bean, white bean, barley, Quinoa(small small rice), green lentils, etc. A very very small portion of each kind. Cut a portion of sweet potato and steam together. If you want to let your husband bring to work, wash it at night, put a little bit of water and leave it overnight. The next morning, start your steamer, steam for an hour. Select a few color vegetables, like yellow corn, green, purple and white vegetable, orange tomato, wash and cut them into a box and let your husband bring to work, to eat during lunch time. Give him also a box of all kind of fruits, wash and cut, ready to eat, for him to take between meals. Don't take anything that is white, like white rice, white bread, white flour, white noodle and you will definitely loose weight naturally. I have been eating this way for more than 6 months and it is great. Hope it work for you. Regards Chay Loon - J Smith Friday, December 10, 2004 4:24 AM looking for cookbook I am looking for a family friendly cookbook. It needs to have recipes that are easy to attain and that are moderate in price. After the first of the year our family is going vegetarian. I figure this gives me time to research recipes and stock my kitchen. I also am looking for a weightloss plan that is simple to do. Oh one other thing, how about ideas for lunches for my husband to take to work. Thanks for all your help. Janette Everett WA Meet the all-new My - Try it today! For more information about vegetarianism, please visit the VRG website at http://www.vrg.org and for materials especially useful for families go to http://www.vrg.org/family.This is a discussion list and is not intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. edical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 _Amazon.com: Books: The Vegetarian Family Cookbook_ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0767913965/ref=wl_it_dp/104-135 9110-4008715?_encoding=UTF8 & coliid=I1PSP9EDPNPQ1P & v=glance & colid=1GGW1QEZ40QJ2) This is a very good cookbook from Nava Atlas. She also has several others. _Amazon.com: Books: The Vegetarian Lunchbasket: Over 225 Easy, Low-Fat, Nutritious, Recipes for the Quality-Conscious Family o.._ (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/157731087X/ref=wl_it_dp/104-13591\ 10-4008715?_encoding=U TF8 & coliid=ILTH1BAJC5PD & v=glance & colid=1GGW1QEZ40QJ2) I haven't used the above cookbook, but it looks promising Hope this helps. PS I hope no one minds the links - I'm not endorsing Amazon - it's just a handy way to look at what's available and read some reviews. I borrow quite a bit from the library myself. : ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 louise hagler has some great ones (ie-tofu cookery). the farm cook book is pretty good and the peta ones are great. I also heard how it all vegan is good. vegan vittles. of- a good kids cookbook is better than p-nut butter and jelly. good luck. ok- I need to ask one more time. can someone please, please, please send me that chickpea patty recipe? thx c - Renee Carroll<renecarol25 < > ; bbyjn2003<bbyjn2003 Friday, December 10, 2004 9:24 AM Re: looking for cookbook " Meatless Meals for working families " from VRG is great. Also I'd try vegetarianizing some of your normal dishes like lasagna. Whenever I try to do something elaborate and fancy it never comes out exactly right. Lunches.. does he have a microwave at work? Gardenburger meals are great. Also your can get ready-made Indian meals from some grocery/ health food stores that will be marked vegan or vegetarian. Mostly for my lunches I buy veggie (yves or smartdeli) sandwich slices and make sandwiches for lunch. With the occasional microwaveable meal to mix things up a little. Renee --- J Smith <bbyjn2003 wrote: > > I am looking for a family friendly cookbook. It > needs > to have recipes that are easy to attain and that are > moderate in price. After the first of the year our > family is going vegetarian. I figure this gives me > time to research recipes and stock my kitchen. I > also > am looking for a weightloss plan that is simple to > do. > Oh one other thing, how about ideas for lunches for > my > husband to take to work. Thanks for all your help. > > Janette > Everett WA > > > > > > Meet the all-new My - Try it today! > </> > > > > > > Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. Learn more. http://celebrity.mail.<http://celebrity.mail./> For more information about vegetarianism, please visit the VRG website at http://www.vrg.org<http://www.vrg.org/> and for materials especially useful for families go to http://www.vrg.org/family.This<http://www.vrg.org/family.This> is a discussion list and is not intended to provide personal medical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. edical advice. Medical advice should be obtained from a qualified health professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, J Smith wrote: > I am looking for a family friendly cookbook. It needs > to have recipes that are easy to attain and that are > moderate in price. After the first of the year our > family is going vegetarian. I figure this gives me > time to research recipes and stock my kitchen. I also > am looking for a weightloss plan that is simple to do. > Oh one other thing, how about ideas for lunches for my > husband to take to work. Thanks for all your help. It's not a cookbook per se, but I highly recommend the VegWeb recipe database. <http://vegweb.com/> It's extensive, there are reviews from other readers, it's constantly expanding, and unlike cookbooks it's free. I've gotten more recipes from there than I can count. As for weight loss, I have had success with Weight Watchers, which has versions for vegetarians and even vegans. It's not cheap, though. I find the peer support aspect of Weight Watchers to be invaluable, but if you want a do-it-yourself approach, I would recommend simply cutting out refined grains, refined sugars and as much processed food as possible. Eating mostly whole foods makes it significantly harder to consume too many calories. You may want to wait a bit after making the transition to vegetarian before starting an intentional weight loss diet, though. Making multiple big changes in your diet at once will increase your stress greatly and make it less likely that either change will stick. You may also find that the change to veg itself encourages weight loss, at least initially, especially if you avoid loading up on dairy products to replace the meat you're cutting out. Good luck with the transition. Please let us know how it goes. ---- Patricia Bullington-McGuire <patricia The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way ... -- Stanislaw Lem, " Cyberiad " Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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