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Vegetarian Club Anyone?

#241
RS said:
Still on the vegan kick, but the last 3-4 days I've been ravenous hungry. Any thoughts on why this might be? I am doing a decent job eating different fruits and veggies each day.
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Likely you're missing some nutrient and your body is translating that need into a desire to eat. Try finding vegan alternatives to some of the things you used to eat (ie. try eating some broccoli to replace the calcium you might have gotten from dairy before... though broccoli has much more usable calcium than dairy ever did, but that's a different topic).

Or try meeting your diet half way and indulge the craving with a bit of vegan junk food. A vegan veggie burger and fries, maybe some vegan cookies.

I certainly don't want to encourage bad eating, even if it is vegan bad eating, but if you go "cold tofurkey" on not eating ovo lacto and don't introduce vegan foods you'll enjoy from time to time I think you'll have a tougher time transitioning to an all vegan diet. Too many people go vegan and then live off of steamed veggies and brown rice 24/7 and then cave on the diet because it's "too hard". Be honest with yourself about your willpower and your own eating habits and let yourself adjust at a pace you can handle.
 
#242
I've been rotating grain/starch, greens, and fruits so I am not eating the same stuff.

For lunch I've been eating fruits (banana, apples, berries, etc.) and a sandwich (PB&J, Boca chik or burger, hummus).

With dinner there is always a green veggie (salad, zuccini, kale, broccoli, or spinach). Main couse is chili, vegan fajitas, pasta, rice/risotto, soup, carrots, potatoes, squash, etc.
 
#243
Wow, that sounds yummy. My guess is your body is craving something probably not the best, like fat. Maybe try some olive oil baked potato wedges.

I recommend you also invest in a good bag of organic sun dried sea salt. Do not get bleached or processed salt. Your body needs salt to live, and it's also something you'll crave, so make sure you are including it in your diet too. Iodized salt is bad for you though, avoid it if you can.

What about a nutritional supplement, like Vega? Just be mindful most aren't vegan.
 
#244
I can't edit my list anymore so the list will be updated from now on from here

*had to change a name on the list*


#1 - Fetusyolk
#2- andrew
#3- dougjwray
#4- COOL AND DEADLY
#5- Blonde Bassist
#6- Planets Collide
#7- ::::BASSIST::::
#8- corrynthia
#9- uethanian
#10- Son of Magni
#11- Joe Nerve
#12- nik1093
#13- cdef
#14- FreaqyFrequency
#15- machine gewehr
#16- spc
#17- KingOvHell
#18- Ol'Bass'ead
#19- Jazzbo
#20- bacehead
#21- chanson
#22- gricko
#23- thetawaves
#24- MaskedJackal
#25- cheesemonkey
#26- Scorsa
#27- TK4108
#28- RS
#29- Bett
#30- Kgoodrich
 
#245
RS said:
Still on the vegan kick, but the last 3-4 days I've been ravenous hungry. Any thoughts on why this might be? I am doing a decent job eating different fruits and veggies each day.
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Are you eating enough carbs? Complex carbs fill you and give you energy. Try a plate of whole wheat pasta with some great veg pasta sauce.

I've been known to eat a whole canteloupe and that filled me up.
 
#246
I've recently learned that traditional cheese has rennet in it. Rennet is made from the lining of a cow's stomach. However, there are veg sources of rennet available.

I just wanted to pass this along for those ethical vegetarians who eat cheese. They would probably want to know that they are eating part of a cow's stomach when they eat regular cheese.


Cheese is made by coagulating milk to give curds which are then separated from the liquid, whey, after which they can be processed and matured to produce a wide variety of cheeses. Milk is coagulated by the addition of rennet. The active ingredient of rennet is the enzyme, chymosin (also known as rennin). The usual source of rennet is the stomach of slaughtered newly-born calves. Vegetarian cheeses are manufactured using rennet from either fungal or bacterial sources. Advances in genetic engineering processes means they may now also be made using chymosin produced by genetically altered micro-organisms.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rennet
 
#247
andrew said:
Likely you're missing some nutrient and your body is translating that need into a desire to eat. Try finding vegan alternatives to some of the things you used to eat (ie. try eating some broccoli to replace the calcium you might have gotten from dairy before... though broccoli has much more usable calcium than dairy ever did, but that's a different topic).

Or try meeting your diet half way and indulge the craving with a bit of vegan junk food. A vegan veggie burger and fries, maybe some vegan cookies.

I certainly don't want to encourage bad eating, even if it is vegan bad eating, but if you go "cold tofurkey" on not eating ovo lacto and don't introduce vegan foods you'll enjoy from time to time I think you'll have a tougher time transitioning to an all vegan diet. Too many people go vegan and then live off of steamed veggies and brown rice 24/7 and then cave on the diet because it's "too hard". Be honest with yourself about your willpower and your own eating habits and let yourself adjust at a pace you can handle.
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good advice
 
#248
well hello! i am always amazed at the threads i find on tb.i am now up too late from reading this whole thread, but, i wanna chime in. i stopped eating meat as a teenager, around 1983. truth is i never liked it, but i support the enviro/ethical points of view (though not militantly). mostly, i want eat "naturally" which i define as whole, local, unprocessed, organic. it is NOT a cheap way to live. it was definately easier on the west coast than in the midwest!

my sopabox issue is processed health food. i try to eat whole foods and find that the laundry list of ingredients on conventional foods mind-numbing. problem is, a lot of "health" food and "vegeatiran" food has the laundry list too! i think processed food is part of an unhealthy philosophy the keeps our society out of balance and unsustainable. thus, i am not a fan of the faux-meats. and there have been reports recently of the dangers of isolated soy protein (especially for wymyn). i try to keep it simple and natural. in other words i would rather eat organic, local butter sparingly, than chemical laden substitute butter regularly. its all about balance. and finding rennet-less cheese ( rennet, as i understand, actually comes from the lining of BABY cow's stomachs, grossed out yet?).

and i really like ice cream (occasionaly). so i am not vegan, just vegan friendly. oh, btw, since all glue is horse hoof based, don't lick envelopes!! and you really don't wanna know what "guumy" worms are made from.

anyway, fetusyolk, can i have a number? i gotta tell ya, fetus (can i call you fetus?), between starting the veggie club and the naked club, you are fast moving up the list of my favorite tb'er. these are definitely a few of my favorite things. though both much easier to pull off on the west coast. vegetarian support i can find alrite, but no one wants to take their clothes off out here (or hang around with someone who does!).

but i digress. i don't eat meat. i think fish are animals. and i love veggie sushi.

i am glad to see sooo many vegetarian bassists!
 
#249
My wife just sent me this. Thought it was appropriate.
 

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#254
Ol'Bass'ead said:
Actually, its a bit East of you in Nevada (about 5 miles). I just remember going thru Ames to get there, and Nevada wasnt that big, so I just remember it being Ames.
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yeah, nevada is even smaller than ames. i have some good (vegetarian) friends who live there. we are all going out for sushi this sunday. i will ask them if they know of it.

btw, though it is spelled like the state of nevada, it is pronounced differently (which is very common in iowa, it seems). can you say, ne-VAY-da?
 
#256
Ol'Bass'ead said:
yeah, I knew that. (the pronouncing that is) and if your friends are Vege's, why are they eating fish? Thats meat-muscle, blood and all that.
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dude, veggie sushi. it is possible here in the midwest, but out on the west coast veggie sushi kicks butt. best sushi i have ever had was in portland. vegan tiger rolls.... mmmmm.....

honestly, even if i did eat fish, the idea of eating raw fish when the nearest ocean is 1300 miles away seems really wrong. there is nothing sustainable about flying fish into the midwest just for sushi. :rollno:
 
#257
#1 - Fetusyolk
#2- andrew
#3- dougjwray
#4- COOL AND DEADLY
#5- Blonde Bassist
#6- Planets Collide
#7- ::::BASSIST::::
#8- corrynthia
#9- uethanian
#10- Son of Magni
#11- Joe Nerve
#12- nik1093
#13- cdef
#14- FreaqyFrequency
#15- machine gewehr
#16- spc
#17- KingOvHell
#18- Ol'Bass'ead
#19- Jazzbo
#20- bacehead
#21- chanson
#22- gricko
#23- thetawaves
#24- MaskedJackal
#25- cheesemonkey
#26- Scorsa
#27- TK4108
#28- RS
#29- Bett
#30- Kgoodrich
#31- EBodious
#32- SoyMilkHero
 
#258
EBodious said:
well hello! i am always amazed at the threads i find on tb.i am now up too late from reading this whole thread, but, i wanna chime in. i stopped eating meat as a teenager, around 1983. truth is i never liked it, but i support the enviro/ethical points of view (though not militantly). mostly, i want eat "naturally" which i define as whole, local, unprocessed, organic. it is NOT a cheap way to live. it was definately easier on the west coast than in the midwest!

my sopabox issue is processed health food. i try to eat whole foods and find that the laundry list of ingredients on conventional foods mind-numbing. problem is, a lot of "health" food and "vegeatiran" food has the laundry list too! i think processed food is part of an unhealthy philosophy the keeps our society out of balance and unsustainable. thus, i am not a fan of the faux-meats. and there have been reports recently of the dangers of isolated soy protein (especially for wymyn). i try to keep it simple and natural. in other words i would rather eat organic, local butter sparingly, than chemical laden substitute butter regularly. its all about balance. and finding rennet-less cheese ( rennet, as i understand, actually comes from the lining of BABY cow's stomachs, grossed out yet?).

and i really like ice cream (occasionaly). so i am not vegan, just vegan friendly. oh, btw, since all glue is horse hoof based, don't lick envelopes!! and you really don't wanna know what "guumy" worms are made from.

anyway, fetusyolk, can i have a number? i gotta tell ya, fetus (can i call you fetus?), between starting the veggie club and the naked club, you are fast moving up the list of my favorite tb'er. these are definitely a few of my favorite things. though both much easier to pull off on the west coast. vegetarian support i can find alrite, but no one wants to take their clothes off out here (or hang around with someone who does!).

but i digress. i don't eat meat. i think fish are animals. and i love veggie sushi.

i am glad to see sooo many vegetarian bassists!
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You can surely join the club, #31! Welcome,
thanks for posting everything you have and you can definately call me fetus :p

SoyMilkHero also takes #32. He PM'd me, but seemingly hasn't posted here.

Sorry for the really late update and no posts but i have indeed had many things come up, but i'm back :hyper:

on with the march!
 
#259
Reporting in.

I had to eat some cheese pizza while I was in Colorado (the other veggies with me "didn't like cooked vegetables on their pizza" ***? :scowl:), and these slices were pretty huge. I scraped off most of the cheese, but left some on (I don't really have anything against cheese, it doesn't harm the animal to draw milk, I just don't like most of it personally)

I got sick. It wasn't bad cheese, it was just way too greasy, and I would have to get back into the groove of eating it slowly. Still, I don't miss it. I still do the honey and feta thing, and occasionally egg whites, but haven't eaten anything else in over two years without getting sick.
 
#260
FreaqyFrequency said:
Reporting in.

I had to eat some cheese pizza while I was in Colorado (the other veggies with me "didn't like cooked vegetables on their pizza" ***? :scowl:), and these slices were pretty huge. I scraped off most of the cheese, but left some on (I don't really have anything against cheese, it doesn't harm the animal to draw milk, I just don't like most of it personally)

I got sick. It wasn't bad cheese, it was just way too greasy, and I would have to get back into the groove of eating it slowly. Still, I don't miss it. I still do the honey and feta thing, and occasionally egg whites, but haven't eaten anything else in over two years without getting sick.
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While obviously it's your own choice and i'm not in any position to tell you what decisions to make, i would argue that the horrible conditions that cows have to endure in factory farms during the milking process are indeed painful.

And as someone earlier on in this thread brought up, rennett which is found in most cheeses (being the inner lining of a baby cow's stomach) is somewhat inarguably non-vegetarian friendly :hmm:
 

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