Are any of the forum members living the vegan or vegetarian lifestyle? If so are there some (online) resources you can recommend? What I'm looking for is some serious weekly recipies that will allow me to maintain a meat and fish free diet whilst keeping all my vitamin and whatever levels up. I also go to martial arts training 3 times a week + I cycle a 160 Km a week so the diet should also supply me with enough calories to keep me going.

I wanted to get into this too, not just because i'm overweight, but meat just grosses me out sometimes lol
plus i was reading some shit Nym said in the thread about JJ on vacation lol they do use a lot of chemicals

I'm vegetarian. I got into this because my mother suggested me so. I think it will be too steep to go from meat directly to vegan, even for me when I don't eat meat, fish and eggs for almost five years now it would be an overdose. Keep up the green lifestyle!

not a vegetarian, but i have had some "bomb vegetarian pizza"...

here's a recipe i've posted some places.

i'm vegitarian unless my dad finds fresh roadkill vennison or if i fish in some small untouched lake. or if i raise a chicken and kill/clean him myself (hasn't happened).

i don't trust factory farming and i oppose it vehemently.

ive always loved sloppy joes on toasted bread, i think the sweet but spicy flavor is rediculous. with a side of collard greens or green beans.

however, i have been boycotting factory farmed meat for environmental reasons and health reasons. i'll eat a chicken if i grew him and killed him myself, or vennison if my dad found it freshly roadkilled by the side of the road (true story, and it's delicious, i still have some in my freezer)

anyway. the average joe would not be sloppy if he was vegitarian. but i've found a solution.

lentils. dark lentils can replace meat in sloppy joes, and the result is just as good, the flavor a little different but really good. lentils, see, are all protein, as is meat. the flavor of cooked lentils and ground beef is comparable, for sure - the texture's different, but there's still this satisfying, meaty flavor. that's why you can make a great meat tasting spread by boiling lentils down ad down and down.

however, using mustard powder, soy sauce, brown sugar, shitake mushrooms, green pepper, chili powder, and paprika, you can slow cook lentils into something that is damn near exactly like a sloppy joe - and regardless, really goddamn delicious.

interesting

pt3r i'm a veggan have been for 6years now. I sugeest that you take a vitamin perhaps a one a day. Now if you are gonna go for the green style of life. 1st you need to know the Vegan Food Pyramind and what serving's so here you go . !st Grains and Starchy Veggie's 6-11 servings per day 2nd Veggies 3 or more servings per day 3rd 2-3 serving's per day of dry beans ,nuts, seeds, peanut butter , tofu and other soyfoods 4th Dairy 2 servings per day . now if you gonna go all veggie and not do milk then you do soy milk and soy cheese . Fruits 2-4 servings per day . Now for Vegans 3-5 teaspoons of vegetable oil ( for calories and essential fatty acid ) you don't need to take that if you do the one a day vitamin with b12 . Now I'm gonna give a couple of meals to go on . But also if you can't wait for me to type it all up . I'm getting all the info from a book called VEGETARIAN MAGIC the website is www.bookpubco.com. You can buy it also . Who said the one on Sloppy Joes . Try this one out .

1 small yellow onion diced
1 red or yellow bell pepper diced
1 1/2 cups of pure or distilled water or vegetable broth
1 cup fruit -sweetened low - soduim ketup
2 tablespoons of vegetarian Worcecstershire sauce
1 teaspoon hot sauce
1/2 teaspoon liquid hickory smoke ( optional )
1/4 cup brown rice syrup
1 1/4 cups textued soy protein granules


1st. Simmmer the onion pepper and garlic in the water untill tender
2nd Add the ketup Worcestershire sauce, hot sauce , liquid hickory smoke and brown rice syrup , cover and simmer
3rd . Fold in the textured soy protien , cover, and simmer for 15 to 20 min untill tender
4th Adjust the spices as desired , Add more liquid as needed
Seve in a whole wheat pita as a sandwich or over pasta, brown rice or potatoes .
This makes 6-8 servings
And it has 134 Calories , 8g of Protein
0 fat , 24g Carbs 2g of Fiber 51g of Calcuim
336mg of Sodium

and wow I didn't think that it would take me this long to type it out .. and now enjoy the veggan life style !!! C'ya my mushroom burgers are grilling

i'm with you Nym

i won't touch meat.

im sorry but.....
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meat hating sissys lol

yo i am vegetarian. i've been about every style eater, vegan, raw food vegan, primal (raw meat and dairy), etc. i finally stabilized at vegatarian. that seems to be where i find i maximize my pleasure. eating too outre is psychologically straining (for me anyway) and eating meat i feel like i'm deadening some of my senses but plain old vegetarian is a nod to my higher self but still doable.

but, you know, diff strokes...

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I'm vegetarian....