Eating to prevent cancer or to boost your immune system during you battle with the disease before or after chemo, radiation, or instead of… whichever your choice it doesn’t need to be difficult. If you are accustomed to eating the typical north American diet of animal meats and fats, and fast foods and sugar, then this may be a big switch for you.
If someone tells me that it is too difficult, too much trouble, too hard to change their eating habits, then I say you must want your disease. You can choose live giving foods and supplements that come from real god given nutritious food, or choose dead, chemical laden, fat drenched fast food. Now, don’t think I am being judgmental… I am not. I am battling my own demons with a desperate craving for sugar, and it is incredibly hard to find time to exercise every day. So I KNOW exactly how you feel.
So just how easy can it be to eat the life giving “Cancer Diet” way? It’s as easy as the nearest grocery store, health food store, farmer’s market and the internet! Fresh vegetables and fruits grown organically and locally if at all possible, fresh, dried and/or powdered mushrooms, green tea in loose leaf form, dried and/or raw nuts, seeds and fruit, legumes (beans) and olive oil… these are the things that make up an anti-cancer diet. Add some herbal teas, a few supplements like CoQ10, Vitamin D, B Vitamins, omega 3 fatty acids, and iron if you don’t eat meat, alkalized water and liquid zeolite to remove heavy metals, herbicides, pesticides, and viral particles to round off your nutrition, exercise daily, and limit meat and meat products, sugar and grains.
Does that sound hard? Well perhaps I could give you and idea of how that looks. It is summer here in Canada, so we (finally) have access to a seemingly endless supply of fresh locally grown produce. I visit the local farmer’s stand and stock up. Fresh strawberries and blueberries are brought home.. some are eaten and some are bagged and put in the deep freeze for the winter months. Tomatoes by the bushel along with peppers, celery, onions, fresh pressed garlic, cilantro and lime… all thrown together in the food processor, and minced for salsa. This fresh raw salsa will be frozen in small containers, and of course some will be eaten. Fresh picked green and yellow beans eaten raw (and some blanched… dipped in boiling water and then cold water… and bagged for the deep freeze. Beets AND beet tops, fresh carrots, red and green chard, spinach and other leafy greens come into the house and are steamed and served with vinegar and sea salt. Green and yellow zucchinis, fresh onions, snap peas in the pod… these make a great stir fry. Corn on the cob as an occasional treat is so good picked straight out of the field. Peaches, pears, apples, plums,… all of these are grown locally as well.
Often when people find out I am vegetarian they will ask, “What do you eat?”. I always smile a bit… well first of all I sure don’t look undernourished, but aside from that, what I have listed above is just a small sampling of nature’s bounty available to you if you just change your mind a bit about what food is, and learn some new kitchen skills.
The difference between a flavorful, robust vegetarian meal, and one that tastes limp, boring or bland to a former meat eater is something called “umami”. Umami is (a fairly recently discover) fifth taste. It is usually present in meat and gives food body. Thankfully there are several foods available to vegetarians that have umami. These are the foods you should always try to have in an an anti-cancer kitchen. Thankfully they are all loaded with anti-oxidants, and other cancer fighting components, so they not only make your food taste better!
Umami is found in asparagus, tomato, soy or tamari sauce, mushrooms, wine, cheeses (sparingly), green tea, and is multiplied several fold when used in combination. Learn how to cook dishes including at least 2 umami based foods, and your meals will be much more satisfying, and easier to stick to.
Eating your anti-cancer diet should be easy too. Raw fruits and vegetables require very little prep time. Wash and serve, or wash, slice and serve. Prepared meals call for a little more planning. when I am chopping for one meal, I will often chop extra and have it in the fridge for quick grabs. I always have a container of veggies chopped in the fridge. My teens will take some to work for lunch as a salad, and I use them in stir fries, soups, and toppings for our Friday night pizza.
Mushrooms you should have on hand in a number of different forms, and eat some every day, either raw, cooked in meals or sprinkled into sandwiches, soups and sauces and stir fries. There have been many studies done, particularly on the so called Chinese medicinal mushrooms, that prove that they have substances in them that support the immune system, suppress tumor growth, and so much more. It is so easy, even if you live in a rural area like I do, to get whatever you need. Mushrooms… this is a good example. I have cordyceps and red reishi mushroom powder, shitake dried whole, porcini dried sliced, and wild mushroom mix of maitake, porcini, agaricus and woodear, dried and broken, I also have agaricus blazei in liquid concentrate. We eat them in, or on, something every day. I ordered them on eBay! Just do a search on eBay for any of the kinds I listed and you will find some that come from USA, Canada or China.
I hope you find that choosing life will be a rewarding (and tasteful) experience.
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The Incredible Success of a Vegetarian Weight Loss Diet.
Consuming a vegetarian weight loss diet can be one of the best ways to take extra pounds off and to keep them off for good. If you are someone who has been looking to lose weight, chances are that you have tried numerous different diet plans that simply haven’t worked for you. Even if you were successful at initially losing weight, those lost pounds always seem to find their way back. You don’t have to worry about these issues when you follow a vegetarian diet that’s packed with nutritious foods!
There are a couple of differences in your average vegetarian diet and one that’s designed to help you lose weight. This is simply because when there is extra fat to lose, keeping a limit on consumed calories is necessary. But once you have lost the weight that you’d like, you can stop focusing on limiting calories and you can start focusing on living life in delicious abundance.
What Makes up a Vegetarian Weight Loss Diet?
There are four major food categories that make up a healthy vegetarian diet, and there is no exception just because you happen to be trying to get rid of some excess weight. These food groups include fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes. In order to understand what a vegetarian weight loss diet can do for you, it’s important to understand what each of these categories entail.
Grains
The first thing to understand is that not all grains were created equally. In fact, all refined grains should be eliminated from your diet plan for good. They don’t offer any nutritional value and they add a bunch of empty calories to your daily consumption. Instead, focus on whole grains like brown rice, quinoa, couscous, oats, millet and more. Consuming whole grains on a regular basis can help you to fight hunger, to keep blood glucose levels normal and to provide you with necessary vitamins and minerals found in them.
Legumes
The legume family includes beans, nuts and seeds including lentils, sunflowers seeds and hemp seeds. These foods provide a vegetarian weight loss diet with plenty of healthy fats that are needed, protein to help keep hunger at bay, and enzymes known to help fight some cancers. Eat a wide range of legumes such as black beans, kidney beans, peas, almonds and cashews.
Fruits and Vegetables
One can never get enough fruits and vegetables, especially when following a vegetarian weight loss diet. These foods are fabulous sources of vitamins, minerals and antioxidants that can help fight diseases such as cancer, heart disease and even diabetes. Almost all fruits and vegetables are low in calories, and they’re easy to incorporate into a daily routine.
Incorporating a well balanced diet of fruits, vegetables, grains and legumes can help you to fight the bulge for a final time, without ever having to worry about your waist line again. Following a vegetarian weight loss diet for life can help you feel energized, healthy and ready for whatever life has to offer.
By: Diana Garnica
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Filed under Health And Fitness by on Nov 21st, 2010.
India, located in South Asia, is a wonderful place to be since it has been blessed with varied physical features. Seashores, mountains, plateaus, valleys, and a lot more exist here to take you to a paradise on Earth. There is a perfect blend of traditional and modern culture in India and one never feels out of place in the country. India is historically known as the melting pot of several races and you will find yourself becoming very much like Indians while in India because of the love and hospitality the country provides to its guests.
There are several hill stations in India, namely Mount Abu in Rajasthan, Mahabaleshwar in Maharashtra, Ooty in Tamilnadu, Shimla, Dalhousie, Kullu-Manali and Dharamsala in Himachal Pradesh, Shrinagar in Kashmir and Dehradoon, Kasauni and Nainital in Uttaranchal. You will be able to enjoy mountaineering and trekking at these places along with the scenic beauty and delicious cuisine. There are wonderful tourists destinations along the seashores in India, Mumbai, Goa, Vishakhapatnam, Cochin, Chennai, Pondicherry etc. have beaches, water sports, fish and seafood recipes and a lot more for you to relish.
India has several other monuments of interest for the tourists, Taj Mahal at Agra, Char Minar at Hyderabad, the Golden Temple at Amritsar, the caves of Ajanta and Ellora, the stupa of Sanchi, the Buddhist temples of Bodhgaya, the palaces and forts of Udaipur, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Chittorgarh, Ranthambhore, Pune and Konkan are just to name a few. There are several temples and shrines in Benaras, Hrishikesh, Haridwar, Mathura, Vrindawan and many other places.
Awesome wildlife reserves like Kanha Kisli, Bandhavgarh, Sariska, Dachigam, Bharatpur, Ranthambhore, Jim Corbett National Park etc. exist in India where you can experience the serenity of the wilderness and at the same time see the wild animals in their natural habitat. Elephant and Jeep safaris are a major attraction here. You may include places of various types in your customized tour to relish the major flavors of Indian tourism.
The mouth-watering delicacies of various parts of India will surely keep you glued to India owing to the aroma and the color along with the heavenly taste. These recipes are served at all of the hotels and restaurants in India and there is something for everyone on the platter that will match the taste of the individual. Non-vegetarian as well as vegetarian dishes are present in Indian cuisine and you will definitely remember the taste of these recipes.
There are several shows in major cities that you would not afford to miss if you are interested in the traditional dance performances that will show you a different facet of Indian culture. Indian dance forms, folk songs and plays have a very indigenous flavor of their own and you would not mind enjoying the variety to know India better.
Indian tourism ministry has painstakingly organized and set up facilities that will make your Indian journey truly memorable. The cab facilities and the hotels are up to the mark and there are several options for you to choose from. There is a lot in the Indian market that you would love to take home as a remembrance. Trinkets, statues, ornaments, clothes and a lot more is there that can be purchased here.
So what’s up on your mind? Proceed for a perfect Indian tour experience….
By: George Lucy
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Filed under Travel And Leisure by on Nov 21st, 2010.
Becoming a vegetarian is indeed a challenging choice and if you want to learn how to become a vegetarian, you may need to learn some tips and strategies to help you in making the big shift towards cutting down and totally avoiding animal meat. Whatever reason you have in going for the vegetarian lifestyle, here are a few things that you may find useful.
-Make sure that you are in good shape to be a vegetarian. Some health issues also need to be considered if you want to go for a vegetarian diet. This includes anemia. If you have anemia, it may not be advisable to go for a vegetarian diet. Indeed, you need to consult your doctor if you can go for a vegetarian diet.
- Learn everything you can about being a vegetarian. Being a vegetarian is not just about avoiding animal meat but it is also about respecting animals and standing for the environment as well. Some who want to become vegetarians also do so for the environment. Whatever it is your reason for going vegetarian, it is important that you know what you are doing. Of course, it does not make sense if you invest your time and effort in something that you just know a little about.
Learn how you can get the same nutrition even without animal meat and animal products in your diet. If you think there are limited choices, there are actually a lot of things you can do with plant food. You can even get a good resource or recipe book for vegetarian diet. One thing that you may find useful on how to become a vegetarian is to learn some substitutes that will give you the same nutrients that you need for your body.
Learn the benefits of tofu, which can be a good source of protein. Also explore alternatives for milk, cheese and meat. You can also explore protein powders, veggie burgers as well as nutritional yeasts and other alternatives especially for cheese or other sources of protein and nutrients.
It also helps to find someone or a group that also lives by the same principle of respecting animal lives and protecting the environment as well by being a vegetarian. It helps a lot to have a buddy and someone who also shares your principles as well to make your efforts easy and attainable. It can also help you to be motivated as well. You can actually find a lot of groups who are into a vegetarian diet and this can be helpful in your quest on how to become a vegetarian.
Take everything slow. This is important in your quest on how to become a vegetarian as this will put your health at risk if you do it abruptly. Of course, abrupt change to your food or diet is not good for your health.
Find some resources that will help you learn some recipes and menu on plant foods. This will help you plan your meals and will help you in never running out of vegetarian recipes or menus.
By: Carolyn Anderson
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Filed under Health And Fitness by on Nov 21st, 2010.
If you are visiting Spain, be sure to try the sangria recipe at your favourite restaurant or bar. This is a traditional Spanish drink and you will find it served in most bars and restaurants. Recipes vary from place to place, so be sure to try it with a few meals in different locations. The ingredients used in the recipe can also vary according to the food that is being served.
Sangria is served throughout the country in the summer. In the northern areas, it is considered a summer drink. In the eastern and southern areas of the country, the drink is served all year round. These areas have a warmer climate and tend to have mild temperatures even in the winter. The strength of the drink varies from place to place. In general, it is stronger in bars and tends to be weaker at dance clubs or discos.
Origins of the Sangria Recipe
Sangria originated in Spain. The word sangria is the Spanish word for bleeding. The drink gets its name from the red color of the wine used in a traditional sangria recipe. The drink is also made with white wine. This is called sangria blanco.
Sangria is basically a mix of wine, juices, soda water and fruit. Any young red wine can be used in a traditional recipe. Good, quality ingredients are important in this drink. Wine is the dominant ingredient, so care is taken to use a good wine.
Sangria is often served in one liter pitchers. The pitcher used should have a strainer on the lid. This strains out ice and fruit, keeping them in the pitcher and out of the glass. You can order the beverage by the glass, but it is usually served in pitchers. At parties, it is usually served in a punch bowl.
Creating Your Own Sangria Recipe
The typical recipe contains red wine, sliced fruit, a sweetener such as honey or sugar and a small amount to triple sec or brandy. A basic recipe is one bottle red wine; two cups clear soda, two cups orange juice, one half cup triple sec and sliced oranges.
The type of fruit can vary according to your taste or with the type of food that will be served. White wine can be substituted for red, if you are making sangria blanco. Be sure to use a quality white wine for this variation. Whether or not carbonation is used in the recipe is another common variation of the basic recipe.
With any recipe, it’s important to allow time for the liquid to blend with the fruit. This enhances the flavour. To allow time for this, mix all the ingredients except ice and soda. Adjust ingredients in the recipe to suit your tastes. Pour into a pitcher and leave in the refrigerator for several hours or over night.
Add soda and ice just before serving. If desired, more fresh fruit can be added just prior to serving the beverage. For parties, pour sangria into a punch bowl. Add ice, soda and more fresh fruit. Add these ingredients just before serving. Serve the beverage just after the final ingredients are added.
Try a variety of good quality red and white wines when creating this beverage. Experiment with a variety of fruits, clear sodas and fruit juices to come up with a few different recipes for different occasions. Make a note of each one and keep these notes for future reference. Try a different recipe at each party or to go with different foods you may be serving.
By: Clinton K. Maxwell
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Filed under Food And Drink by on Nov 21st, 2010.
Cooking for vegetarians can be a bit of a challenge if you are used to cooking meat, poultry and fish but it is possible to make delicious vegetarian starter recipes. You might like to make a vegetarian pate, using mushrooms, cheese or other ingredients instead of meat. Another option is to make baked eggs or mini quiches.
If you want to serve something cold, you can make a fruit and vegetable salad with a homemade dressing or what about a vegetarian soup? Chilled soups are really popular at the moment and you can make a fruit soup if you like. Here are some more ideas to tantalise your taste buds:
Cheesy Vegetarian Pate
To make an easy pear and stilton pate, beat 225g cream cheese and 170g grated stilton cheese with a tablespoon of dry white wine and some salt and black pepper.
Shape this mixture into a roll and wrap it in plastic wrap. Chill it in the fridge for a couple of hours. Slice three ripe pears and dip them in the juice of one lemon to stop them turning brown.
Arrange the pear slices and pate on a platter and garnish with walnut halves and watercress. You can serve any kind of crackers you like with this.
Baked Eggs with Tarragon
What about making tarragon baked eggs? Tarragon is often used in chicken recipes but its aniseed-like flavour is also good with egg dishes. You can serve this with crusty bread or garlic bread.
Grease four ramekins with melted butter and stir together a tablespoon of finely chopped tarragon, four tablespoons of cream and a little salt and black pepper. Break an egg into each ramekin and spoon the tarragon mixture over the top. Bake for seven minutes (or until the eggs are set) at 180 degrees C.
Quick Leek Nicoise
This is a great starter recipe idea for a dinner party. Cut eight leeks into five centimetre lengths and put them in a pan. Add 120ml olive oil, 300ml water, a teaspoon of white sugar and a tablespoon of tomato puree.
Season with salt and black pepper and cook covered for fifteen minutes or until the leeks are soft. Add some lemon juice and serve the leeks hot with some chopped fresh parsley and a handful of small black olives.
There are plenty more ideas for starter recipes that you can choose from if you really want to impress your guests and leave them talking about your dinner party for all the right reasons.
Now all you will need to do is work out what to serve for the main course!
By: Victoria Raw
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Filed under Food And Drink by on Nov 20th, 2010.
When you’re hosting a party or asked to bring an appetizer to someone else’s house, you have a huge selection of easy and delicious vegetarian appetizer recipes to choose from. These vegetarian appetizer recipes are not only easy to make on your own, but can be made with basic ingredients you can find in your local grocery store. Also, you can add different vegetables to a lot of these recipes to make them unique.
One great option when you are searching for vegetarian appetizer recipes is to make bite-size grilled cheese sandwiches. For these adult-friendly grilled cheese sandwiches, you don’t need sandwich bread and slices of American cheese individually wrapped in plastic. Instead, buy some thin loves of fancier bread, like French bread, baguettes, or even mini rye bread, and pair with your choice of cheese, although gruyere or Swiss are delicious, mild cheeses that most people like. Also include a small slice of a ripe tomato inside of this sandwich, as well. Lightly grill the sandwiches in a pan on the oven until the bread starts to brown and the cheese melts and becomes gooey.
Another option for vegetarian appetizer recipes is a variety of phyllo pastries stuffed with a variety of vegetables. Phyllo dough is usually sold in the frozen foods aisle at your local grocery store, and is very easy to use. When working with phyllo dough to make vegetarian appetizers, you have a lot of different options. One option is to create a more traditional spinakopita, which is a Greek cheese pie made with fresh spinach mixed with garlic and feta cheese. Cut your phyllo dough into large squares and brush with a little bit of melted butter or olive oil. Then, mix the filling together and spread over half of each square of dough. Fold the phyllo in half to make triangles and pinch shut. Bake in the oven until the phyllo dough turns brown and crispy and the filling gets hot. You can follow the same instructions with other types of vegetables. Try adding shredded zucchini and carrots to cheese and garlic and add to the phyllo dough. Or, if you don’t want to include any vegetables, you can also just pair garlic with feta cheese and use that as your filling.
A third option for great vegetarian appetizer recipes is to make mini quiche. You can buy pre-made tart shells, or you can use pre-made pie crust that you can cut to fit in a mini-muffin pan. You have to read the ingredients, though, and avoid buying a pre-sweetened pie crust or one made with animal lard instead of vegetable shortening. Pour your eggs, cream, and cheese, along with your choice of vegetable, into the mini quiche shells. Some great options for vegetables include a variety of mushrooms, small pieces of broccoli or cauliflower, or cut up some bell pepper and onions. Make sure the mini-quiche are cooked through and have set before serving these bite-size morsels.
By: Werner Wichmann
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Filed under Food And Drink by on Nov 20th, 2010.
You can learn to fix delicious vegetarian meals for even the most discriminative folks.
Being a vegetarian can sometimes have it’s drawbacks. Trying to find new recipes to fill the meals you eat everyday, with out fixing the same ‘ole boring ones can sometimes become a challenge. People who are vegetarians need to make sure that they are getting the right amount of proteins to support their muscle mass as well as keeping a healthy bone density. So make sure and check with your physician to discuss both your vegetarian diet and your health.
Do you find yourself struggling to keep up with finding new recipes so that you don’t get bored eating the same old thing day in and day out? When you want to try something new you will have to spend more of your time to find vegetarian recipes. There are some great vegetarian recipe cookbooks out there.
Say you are having a few of your vegetarian friends over and you want to surprise them with a great tasting meal. Then you can take the guess work of what to fix out of the equation. Just take a look through your vegetarian cookbook, get the ingredients to make the meal and follow the simple cooking instructions, it’s that easy. You wont have to make the same meal twice unless you want to. You will have all the great variety that you want and have fun while you learn to make great tasting meals for you and your family.
By: Sunny James
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Filed under Food And Drink by on Nov 20th, 2010.
In this article, I want to share some of my favorite plant-based complete proteins. There are many other great sources of protein for vegetarians/vegans, but this article will only outline the specific ones that contain all the essential amino-acids.
First off, why be vegetarian/vegan? For me, there were a few specific reasons which motivated me to stop eating meat some time ago. The first one, is how meat and animal products affect your health and digestive system. Animal products are the main reason why people have such high levels of cholesterol. Why take an artificial man-made pill, with a slew of side-effects, to lower your cholesterol when you can just stop eating foods that contain it?
Meat is also very difficult to digest for humans. Our intestinal tract is a lot longer than meat eating predators such as lions, which allows them to digest the rapidly decaying meat quickly.
If you’ve ever seen someone whose body isn’t seriously over-weight, but their belly sticks out abnormally far; this is usually because their colon is very backed up with hard to digest foods such as meat, cheese, and white-bread. This causes serious health problems, one of course being colon cancer (the number one killer in the U.S.), but also the easiest disease to prevent.
Another, is just being aware of how animals are raised and treated in order for mass consumption by humans. These poor animals, are forced into very small areas, live in their feces, fed abnormal GMO laced diets, given growth hormones and antibiotics, which you’re now taking into your own body. These animals are brutally tortured, and killed inhumanely by the handlers.
This torture and fear, gets injected into the animals blood from the chemicals, and adrenaline that the animal produces when it’s experiencing high-levels of trauma. This fear and trauma, transfers directly into that.99¢ quarter-pounder with cheese. Along with the ammonia the meat is soaked in during processing, in order to kill e-coli bacteria (yummy!).
After I stopped consuming meat, I noticed a shift in my level of awareness and consciousness. My body felt a lot lighter and energized. I didn’t get angry as easily, and could think faster and more clearly. Meat stopped looking appetizing, and I lost taste for it completely. Vegetables, fruits, and grains started to taste a lot differently than before, I started to crave them instead of a hamburger. My relationship with animals, and my pets changed as well. It’s a pretty amazing shift once experienced.
Here’s the vegetarian complete protein guide. This is all of the plant-based complete proteins that I try to include into my diet as much as possible:
• Quinoa – By far my favorite, quinoa is very easy to make, and goes great with any dish. You can get quinoa usually in the bulk section at grocery stores, and health food stores for a decent price. To prepare this, you can soak it in water in the refrigerator overnight, and then mix it with soup, pasta, salads or taco’s just to name a few. You can also cook it like rice, just put one cup into a pot, with one cup water or mushroom broth and spices, boil quinoa until soft, and all liquid is absorbed.
• Chia Seeds – Another good one, these are best sprouted in the refrigerator for 2-3 days, rinsed, then blended into smoothies, oatmeal, salads, or dressings.
• Hemp Seeds – A very delicious and nutritionally dense seed. Can be eaten in many different ways such as raw, cooked, hemp milk, added to smoothies, salads, cookies, and bread. They also contain a very high amount of essential fatty-acids, which are crucial to the human diet.
• Spirulina – A plant which is found in the sea and fresh water. You can purchase this in either tablet, or powder form, and add it into your smoothies. The absolute best form I’ve found is at Healthforce Nutrition. Their Vita-Mineral Green has a very high amount.
• Amaranth – This grain contains no gluten, and is often referred to as “the crop of the future”. This seed along with quinoa, make a very good Tabouli salad.
• Buckwheat – This grain is cheap, hearty, and makes wonderful pancakes. Last year, Madison and I made buckwheat pancakes at a local farmer’s market, and everyone loved them! The recipe we used is in the Healthy Recipes page.
• Soybean – A complete protein, however, I try my best to limit this from my diet as much as possible. After doing some research, I’ve decided Soy may do more harm than good.
For other sources, there’s a brand named Ezekiel that sells complete protein bread, English muffins, and cereal found in most health food stores that we love.
I’d love to hear some of your own recipes that include any of these complete proteins. If you’d like to share, I have a place in my healthy recipes page where you can tell everyone all about it!
By: Sean N Burrows
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Filed under Health And Fitness by on Nov 20th, 2010.
When going on an active camping trip, planning vegetarian meals is not only a healthy and wholesome choice, it is less likely animals will come foraging for food near your campsite. With some forethought and preparation you can cook many vegetarian meals for your family while camping. Here are some ideas on making camping a pleasant experience for a vegetarian or vegan.
Bring several kinds of grains. Grains are not only easy to cook but fill you up too. A good grain to bring along on a camping trip is the high protein Quinoa. Other grains like rice, bulgur, polenta and couscous provide an ample amount of vitamins and fiber in a vegetarian diet. Dried pasta is another healthy and easy option for meals at a camp. Packaged pasta sauces like pesto are incredibly quick and easy to make while camping.
Root vegetables like potatoes, carrots, sweet potatoes and jicama can last a long time without refrigeration. They can be wrapped in a foil and cooked over a grill or tossed into several kind of one pot dishes.
Dried herbs and spices have a long shelf life, are light weight and add a lot of flavor to practically all dishes. If you like your food spicy bring red pepper flakes or black pepper to add fire to your recipes.
There are several fruits that can last a few days without going bad. Some of these are oranges, apples and mangoes. Another option is dried fruits like raisins and dates.
Before leaving, make small bags of trail mix with granola, dried fruits and nuts that can be eaten while walking or during other activities.
Canned beans like ***** peas and kidney beans don’t require a cooler and provide the meaty texture in many meals.
While camping try to make one pot meals like a vegetarian chili, or a mixed vegetable and bean rice to make clean up easier.
Try to complete as much prep work at home as possible. Bringing precut bags of vegetables and spice blends makes cooking at the campsite a lot easier.
Small tetra packs of soy milk and regular milk are good alternatives to sodas and juices.
Finally, there is always the old stand by, peanut butter and jelly. Cashew butter, nutella or soynut butter are good alternatives too.
By: Sanka Mani
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Filed under Travel And Leisure by on Nov 20th, 2010.