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So, after 17 years of life, my daughter decides she can no longer eat meat of any kind...lovely. well, good for her but im still of the mind that
"If God wanted us to be vegetarians, then why did he make animals out of meat?"

Anyway, so she now needs alternative venues to what i cook. Does any one out there have any ideas? I have already thought of garden burgers, tofu and peanutbutter... she hates beans...*sigh* I just want my kiddo to be healthy. Any help is appreciated.
 
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Seventeen? Abrupt menu change? My response would be: if you don't wanna eat what I cook, make it yourself. She can give you her grocery list, perhaps, but I'd not become a short order cook.

I'm a hard ass when it comes to cooking, though. I fix one meal. If the kids don't want to eat it, there is a selection of microwave meals in the freezer or cold cuts in the 'frig.

Okay -- I get the healthy part.

Eggs? Fish? Or has she gone (pardon the expression) whole hog?
 
impressive said:
Seventeen? Abrupt menu change? My response would be: if you don't wanna eat what I cook, make it yourself. She can give you her grocery list, perhaps, but I'd not become a short order cook.

I'm a hard ass when it comes to cooking, though. I fix one meal. If the kids don't want to eat it, there is a selection of microwave meals in the freezer or cold cuts in the 'frig.

Okay -- I get the healthy part.

Eggs? Fish? Or has she gone (pardon the expression) whole hog?
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Agreed on the short order cooking idea. I only cook one meal. I asked her to come up with some grocery list so i could make sure she doesnt become too anemic. I realised that there are those who can do this without becoming ill.

she wont eat fish...but shell eat eggs. i dont get that but who am i? she says that who is she to differentiate between fish and cow? how can she eat a fish and not feel guilty? my answers are typically vella. cuz fish are slimy and you can't pet them. *shrug*

she swore shed be happy to have more healthy food like salads and cheeses. i said its a good idea since it would suck to be singing infront of an audience and have her teeth falling out.
 
I rarely cook, so my recipes are easy.

Yogurt With Blueberries

Open a cup of organic vanilla yogurt.

Rinse fresh blueberries under cold water.

Add blueberries to yogurt. Stir.

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Wheat Chex with Cranberries

To a bowl of Wheat Chex breakfast cereal, add a clump of dried sweetened cranberries and some milk. Stir.
 
Okay -- you want to make sure she gets enough protein, obviously. (Not an issue for a low carber, like me.)

Nuts. Nut butters -- not just peanut.
Lotsa cheese -- add it to everything
Lotsa eggs -- keep hard boiled ones on hand for salads

Some of the juices (V-8 Splash?) now have that added protein stuff ... but I don't know how bioavailable it is.

Supplement omega-3s and iron.

:kiss:
 
shereads said:
I rarely cook, so my recipes are easy.

Yogurt With Blueberries

Open a cup of organic vanilla yogurt.

Rinse fresh blueberries under cold water.

Add blueberries to yogurt. Stir.

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Wheat Chex with Cranberries

To a bowl of Wheat Chex breakfast cereal, add a clump of dried sweetened cranberries and some milk. Stir.
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but sher, you fail to realize just how complex those recipes are. *fuck i spelled recipes wrong in the title*
ah well...
wheat chex are dangerous. you could cut your gums on those sharp little suckers. god forbid she goes organic as well...shell have to start her own little commune.
LONG LIVE SORBITOL!
 
impressive said:
Okay -- you want to make sure she gets enough protein, obviously. (Not an issue for a low carber, like me.)

Nuts. Nut butters -- not just peanut.
Lotsa cheese -- add it to everything
Lotsa eggs -- keep hard boiled ones on hand for salads

Some of the juices (V-8 Splash?) now have that added protein stuff ... but I don't know how bioavailable it is.

Supplement omega-3s and iron.

:kiss:
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until pay day, itll have to be supped up flinstones and iron. I totally agree with the omega 3's... just gatta have the dough to get them.
thanks sweetie. i think im getting there, but way slow. :kiss:
 
Vegetable 'stir fries' are good, cheap and QUICK, splash some sesame seed oil (few drops) just at the very end for added flavour.

Vegetable 'Tarte Tatin' - onions, peppers, courgette (make sure you wipe it first - you never know where it's been), potato, sprinkle oves herbs and seasoning. Arrange in a pizza pan, little oil - olive for preference, top with puff pastry, bake in medium hot oven 40 minutes, run knife round the edge, and turn upside down onto a plate.

Vegetable Curry - root vegetables, mild curry sauce from supermarket, cook on low heat for 30 - 40 mins (add a few cherry tomato 15 mins from end - they look pretty!) - left overs can be frozen for instant microwave meals.

Green Salads with fresh grated Parmesan are a wow.

Now I'm hungry.
 
vella, also realize this might be a phase and she'll probably get over it... lots o'people I know went through it myself included.

You can do what my mom did. She's been a vegetarian since before I was born but cooked meat for us. She always cooked the meat on the side (spaghetti for example - the meat wasn't in the sauce but put on top of the sauce.) That way you cook one meal and everyone can have what they want.

:kiss: to your daguhter
 
Roasted whole peppers with any kind of filling are very good and I'm an avid carnivore. You can fill them with stuff like avocardo, egg, tomato and stuff like that.

The Earl
 
Having been a vegetarian for the past five years in a meat-eating family, I know what shes going through.
If you're going to go the she needs to cook her own food route, then I would suggest looking at some of the meat-free options. They have really great products out now that taste great and are basically "mock meat." Personally, one of my favorite brands is "gimme lean." Most of the fake chicken I've tried has been quite good as well.
Remember to make a regiment of protein, though, because for a while when I cut meat out I cut protein out altogether (and became slightly anemic). Which reminds me, make sure that she takes vitamins, especially iron pills, as she probably won't be getting enough iron in her diet.
Also, it is important to see if she wants to go vegan - no eggs or dairy products - or just vegetarian. There are lots of great vegan cheeses out there and soy products as well, if she decides to become vegan. Another way around the vegan issue, for some people, is to buy organic milk and eggs from free-range chickens.
Anyway, I hope this all helps. :) Best of luck.
 
I did a detox last year, totally cut out meat, diary, processed food etc etc so I have a few recipies up my sleeve,some I put on an opinion site....hmmm lets see if any are helpful for ya...

check out this...

Some vegan recipes

and this is a base recipe thing I wrote in another review...

" big clove of garlic
1 onion
2 big carrots
1 celery stick
1 tin of tomatoes.
Mixed veg (courgette, sweet corn, peas, swede , parsnip)
Pinch of paprika
Mixed herbs and spices.

Sweat the onion and garlic in some flavourless oil (cook on a low heat) and then add the carrot and the celery. Cook for a few minutes then add your herbs and spices. (Make it as hot and herby as you like. Use what YOU like but paprika gives a lovely richness and a bit of heat so I suggest you definitely use some) and then add your chopped tomatoes from the tin.
Now you can do several things:

Add water or vegetable stock and make a soup.
Add Kidney beans and make a vegetarian chilli.
Add Lentils or barley and make a thick curry type dish (you will need to add water if you do this)
Add butter beans and make a nice casserole.
Blend it down and use it as a sauce for pasta.

Whichever option you chose you now need to bring it all to the boil, then turn it right down to simmer, put a lid on and leave for at least 30 mins for the flavours to develop."


And Meat can be added to the above for anyone who wants meat adding *grins*


I probably have some other recipies and ideas...I might have to wrack my brains a bit longer to work 'em out!
 
[tongue in cheek]

Offer meals made from 'road kill'. Not only is these a cheap solution to tight household budgets but fits entirely within the ethical constraints of vegetarians, ie: not eating meat raised for slaughter. You are also doing these animals a favour by ensuring their all to abrupt lives were not entirely in vain. Racoon Curry and Moose Bolognaise are nutritous balanced meals sure to delight your offspring. My particular favourite is Squirrel Chowder, there is surprisingly little meat on a squirrel and combining it with a gloopy base stretches the little beast to feed the entire family.

[/tongue in cheek]
 
Beans and rice are the basis of all vegetarian cuisines, because together they provide complete protein. Either one alone is just starch. You have to eat them together. If she's serious about going veggie, she'd better learn to love beans. Otherwise she's going to fall into the typical American "vegetarian" route of french fries and cheese, which isn't good.

The greatest vegetarian food in the world is Southern Indian, without a doubt. Even a confirmed carnivore like me could live happily ever after on Indian food, but I dont know if a 17 year-old would take to it. Anyhow, they do amazing things with beans and legumes: turn them into bread, puddings, creamy dahls, sauces, even chips. If you have an Indian market near you you can get pretty good frozen meals for a buck or two apiece. 5 minutes in the microwave and you're set.

On a more practical note,

-- learn how to make a great grilled cheese sandwich (put a pot half-filled with water on top of the sandwich as it cooks to press it down against the girddle. Fry them in butter with a little bit of oil in it to keep it from burning.) (Try the panini version: french bread with mozarella, roasted red peppers and chopped green olives. Fry in olive oil and use the pot trick or put a foil wrapped brick on them as a press. These are amazingly good.)

-- They don't have to be grilled either. Cheese, lettuce, and tomato sandwichs are great. So is creamed cheese and black oilves.

-- Keep a big box of Bisqwik on hand for pancakes. Pancakes are great for teenaged eating machines and their hordes of friends because they're cheap, easy to make, filling, and taste good. Throw an extra egg in the batter for protein. (Thin the batter with water and make crepes. Spread these with butter and jam and roll them up.)

--You can usually find Falafil mix in the groceries, at least around here. Falafils are fritters made of ground chick peas and spices. It takes about 10 minutes to make a bunch, and then you put them in a hot pita with chopped lettuce and tomato and tahini sauce. They're great. Kids gobble them up.

-- Italians do a lot of good vegetraian stuff. Eggplant parigiana, fried green pepper and egg sandwiches, meatless lasagna. Even pasta with butter and parmigian cheese is good.

--Personally, I think tofu isn't worth eating. It has no flavor, and, despite what they say about it "soaking up flavors", the stuff is pretty water proof. Still, a lot of people--women especially--love the stuff. Because it;s made from soybeans, Tofu on rice provides complete protein.

--Make your own refried beans. Take a can of cooked pintos and squash them in the pan with a potato masher while you're heating them up. Add about a quarter cup of cooking oil to them and stir them till they get creamy, and hit them with a little salt. These are very good, and if you serve them with corn chips, the corn and beans give you complete protein too.

Okay. I'm fucking starving now.
 
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shame, vella

I'm disappointed that the first thing you want to do is make it difficult for the girl. Arguing with her about a cow or an egg will only drive her deeper and you'll have a vegan on your hands.

carson's very sage advice should not be neglected. Meat-optional meals, like he says, are the key to harmony in the home. Vegetarian spaghetti, just marinara, with sausages on the side, optional. And so forth. I do cooking for mixed groups that way. My idea of vegetarian is based on the kind your daughter now is: lacto-ovo, meaning cheese and eggs are okay. Believe me when I say this is the easy kind. God it's hard to avoid all that entirely, and then you really do need to stock TVP, various bean-curd products, and all that jive, all the more since she doesn't eat beans.

For a vegetarian crowd, I just cook with stuff I like. If everything in a dish is good, the dish will be good, whatever it looks like! I make a meat thing on the side and we're golden.

Recipes! Look for a good Mediterranean cookbook. A lot of Mediterranean food is just vegetarian to start with. I like Nick Stellino's, but there are thousands. Same for a good book of Indian food recipes, like Mahdur Jaffrey's, which is fabulous. Then you have "real" food, and yet if you use a veg. broth instead of chicken stock, your vegetarians can chow down happily.

The thing I made last night was very nice. I cut the little caps out of the top of six Anaheim chilies, and boiled them until they just began to lose the bright color they get when they first hit the heat. Then they'll be soft enough to work in the dish.

bag of grated jack cheese and a handful of chopped candied cherries, the kind they sell for cakes. I would have just used raisins, but my young guest doesn't like cooked raisins. Toss these together and stuff the mix in the peppers. Anaheims are long, big, mild, light green ones. Mild being key.

I got out a little pot, chopped some green onion (shallot) into it, slopped a little olive oil in, and set them to a low flame. Stir a little while you chop a fat clove of garlic or two slim ones. Toss those in, too. They can sweat a little, but they don't need to soften or toast, so they go in later than the onion. Two tablespoons sugar, stir, it'll seem to vanish. White wine, a decent amount, say a third or half a cup. fresh basil leaves (a lot!) and then some tomato sauce from a can, the plain kind, just tomato. Then dried oregano, or fresh if you have it. The kitchen should be smelling very good about now. salt and pepper. Let the sweet red sauce boil and cook a bit.

Arrange the stuffed peppers in the bottom of a 9 x 12 inch baking pan, like a lasagne pan. pour all the sauce over, more jack on top, bake. I used 350 because Karen was baking a cake on the top rack. After a bit the bubbly sauce and slightly browned cheese will look perfect, and if you have some luck, there'll be a couple of blisters on exposed peppers! Yum.

This is a mild dish, so we served hot sauce with it for those who want heat.

But I made the thing up altogether. Anything good you throw in will be good, is the point.
 
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Like it's been said here, Italian is a winner. Keep it simple.

Smashed tomatos, red onion, garlic, basil, salt, black pepper and a whiff of red wine. Possibly some parmessan on the plate. The only difference for a non-veg version is less salt and some smoked ham instead. So it's easy to combine.

Indian tikka and asian stir frys works great without meat too.
 
A note in defense of tofu: You have to drain it! And that doesn't just mean pouring the water off. Cut the brick of tofu in half and press the halves between two cutting boards (or two flat surfaces) and put a weight on the top board (big cans or what ever you have handy). Make sure you elevate one end of the board so the excess water drains off. Lots of people don't do this and the tofu can't soak up flavors (as Dr M alluded to) because it's already full of water.

My recipe suggestion would be Thai Pad with tofu. Even the boxed varieties of it aren't bad; add the tofu and bean sprouts and life is good. :cool:

Much luck to your daughter and you might check out Laurel's Kitchen ; it's an excellent resource for day to day recipes that balance vegetarianism and nutrition.

Yui
 
TheEarl said:
Liar - what the hell is that in your av?

The Earl
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Isn't it his reflection in a mirror (or mirrors)? :confused:
 
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I was raised by vegetarians and I survived just fine through age 24 without ever eating beans. It is more than possible to be a vegetarian and not eat them.

As long as she's an ovo-lacto vegetarian, she can get enough protein from cheese, eggs, other milk products, nuts, and so on. One of the main problems with American diets is that we get too much protein, actually.

Every vegetarian's tastes differ. I love Morningstar Farms' meat-free products, but a friend of mine who's a vegetarian hates them because she thinks they taste too much like meat. ::sigh::
 
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