becoming Vegetarian
Dreads and Diets
1st just remove meat from everything you eat.. you can add meat substitutes slowly.. tofu seitan tempeh tvp (textured vegetable protein) whatever falafils instead of meatballs
try diferent veggie burgers and things many are better then others.. at 1st you might like the ones that taste more like meat, later on those ones will not be ones you like.
get a vegy cookbook or 5 they have a lot of amazing ideas
tonight. stirfry some seitan if you can get it, if not tofu, but marinate the tofu in some soy sauce or some other sausce maybe with a ll ginger or something
add sweet and hot peppers any other veggies you like
on the side add 1 cup chunky peanutbutter and about 3 cups water, lil curry cayenne maybe cumin? bring to slight boil then simmer for awhile stiring constantly add any spices to taste simmer it so its still kinda thin but thickened a bit..as it cools it will thicken more
poor that over the stirffry
now nutritional yeaste tastes like cheese (some vegan cheeses are amazing others soso) but adding nutritional yeast to anything automaticly make it taste better .. bland overcooked boild cabage with nutritional yeast tastes fairly good.. add it to [opcorn with garlic instead of butter and yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
a lot doesnt gotta change till you go vegan. order a pizza? instead of pereroni get banana peppers black olives artichoke hearts (my fave) pinaple you name it.
over time you'll find you need a lot less food then when you ate meat as well. I eat about 1/4 what my meat eater freins eat and im stuffed
you can get veggie versions of every peat thing you can think of from shark fin soup to well literaly anything, but as you move away from things that simply replace meat but still resemble meat you find a whole diferent wide range of options
there are mushrooms that grow on tes that do taste like steak, but then you can also find a salad in your yard that are whats normaly considered weeds
like dandilions, I think clovers but don't quote me on that.. those long leaved things that pop up 1 or more stalks with fuzzy lil bud things.. those are called plaintains not the same as the banana like fruit with the samename, but you'd see them every 5 steps or less in your yard.
grow a garden with all your faves like eggplants and peppers and everything you like alt.
to take it a step further learn edible plants in your area an around the country and do some foraging and wildcrafting.
this last trip I discovered sourwood. the leaves have a delicious sour taste and im not a fan of sour things.
every day we pulled several hundred pounds of wild mushrooms out of the forrest and every kitchen serve them almost every meal
on naked and afraid they matched a vegetarian (female) foreger with a survivalist meat eatter
ever 2 steps she stopped to pick up food, flowers leaves you name it
he rushed her along not letting her collect food. he spent soooo much energy trying to fish, catch food and finaly he ate some grubs then a lizard that was exactly 2 bites
because he didn't let her collec food he talked her into 1 bite which made her sick
but with just the stuff she collected in the 1st 5 or 10 minutes, and a lil ore she collected when she just had to get away from his alpha male 'we gotta do it my way' attitude she did far better
she did eat less calories but lot a lot less weight
it took him 4 days to light a fire (she went off on her own had 1 started in 5 minutes) \
so her overall survivability score was double his
oh in fact he got sick from something he ate, tried treating it with an herb, but didn't knlw the plants well enough and iisined himself
i'll also mention raw vegans absolutely dominate the ultramarathon curcuit
and for 4 months as a teen I lived on only oranges and on Fridays (after 3rd week) a plate of brown rice
I literaly bounced and skipped instead of walking..every step was 2 feet into the air
uncontrollable energy
