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8月26日 Going BadMost vegetables stay good for about a week and a half. It depends on the vegetable. Tomatoes go bad a little sooner, small hot peppers stay good a little longer, but typically if you're buying fresh veggie produce from your local grocer, plan on eating it by the end of the week. I'm finding out recently that meat doesn't last that long. When I hit the grocery store, I'll typically grab "manager's special" items before the regularly priced stuff. For those of you who don't know, the reason a product is a "manager's special" is because it's about to go rotten. Or already has. And that's exactly what has happened to me several times. I buy a couple steaks, eat one, and leave the other in the fridge for a few days only to find out it's stale is a joke about airline food. So I quit buying the "manager's specials." I bought the regular meat, assuming it would last much longer, like a vegetable. Turns out you only get a couple more days of freshness, if that on pretty much any meat. Chicken seems to hold out a bit longer than pork or cow, but not by much. Overall, the lesson here is to buy your meat on the same day you eat, or the day before at the latest. This takes a bit more planning on my part, but I guess that's just the way it has to be. On a different note, I went to the vitamin shop yesterday and got the best multivitamin, something called the Master Formula. It's brilliant! Going BadMost vegetables stay good for about a week and a half. It depends on the vegetable. Tomatoes go bad a little sooner, small hot peppers stay good a little longer, but typically if you're buying fresh veggie produce from your local grocer, plan on eating it by the end of the week. I'm finding out recently that meat doesn't last that long. When I hit the grocery store, I'll typically grab "manager's special" items before the regularly priced stuff. For those of you who don't know, the reason a product is a "manager's special" is because it's about to go rotten. Or already has. And that's exactly what has happened to me several times. I buy a couple steaks, eat one, and leave the other in the fridge for a few days only to find out it's stale is a joke about airline food. So I quit buying the "manager's specials." I bought the regular meat, assuming it would last much longer, like a vegetable. Turns out you only get a couple more days of freshness, if that on pretty much any meat. Chicken seems to hold out a bit longer than pork or cow, but not by much. Overall, the lesson here is to buy your meat on the same day you eat, or the day before at the latest. This takes a bit more planning on my part, but I guess that's just the way it has to be. On a different note, I went to the vitamin shop yesterday and got the best multivitamin, something called the Master Formula. It's brilliant! 7月9日 Chili tastes better when......you make it with MEAT!!! I never muched liked chili. Red, green, or otherwise chili just wasn't my thing. Not because of the peppers, I love peppers, I just didn't much care for large amounts of beans. Yeah, as a vegetarian that was rough, considering beans are one of the few reliable vegetarian protein sources. But as an unvegetarian, I can now discard the beans and put actual, honest to goodness beef, turkey, and pork in a chile. And it's wonderful. I made a green pork chile the other day, not one bean in the whole recipe. I'll admit, the concoction was a touch salty, but I guess that's to be expected. So, I've just opened up a whole new world of food and flavor by adding chilis to my palatable dishes. And the best thing? I don't have to worry about gas! Another great thing about chili, is besides being tasty with meat, it also fits snuggly into a caveman diet. Unlike the weight loss shake, chili is actually filling, and you can reheat it in the microwave. By the way, I've been taking these new omega 3 supplements. The omega 3 vitamins come in a coated capsule that disolves in the lower intestine so I no longer have to worry about fish burp. Exquisite! 6月6日 A classic revampedAs a vegetarian, I was a big fan of Indian food. I suppose it's because nobody eats cows in their country, but they've figured out how to make a host of wonderful, meatless dishes. Peas, and curries, and little fried vegetable clusters, and massalla, and yogurts galore, the Indians do vegetarian well. Now as an unvegetarian I've been revisiting my favorite classic Indian cuisine, but adding in the meat. I used to make a mean spinach and eggplant curry. I have updated to spinach and chicken curry and its even better, and healthier than ever, because I don't fry the chicken beforehand like I did the eggplant. I've been putting massala in many of my dishes. Massala is an onion, tomato, spice mixture, its the base for many traditional indian dishes, like fried rice is the base for many Chinese dishes. the healthiness of all these veggie/chicken combos is off the charts. I mean, talk about the benefits of vitamins! If I'm not careful, I may have washboard abs before too long. So Indian food is a winner for vegetarians and unvegetarians alike. Whether the chicken, or the pig, or the cow, is chopped up into the bowl is only secondary to the great flavors of the five C's: curry, coriandor, cloves, chili powder, and cardamom. Oh, and make sure you get your vitamins online too! 5月9日 The Trouble with Diet CokeI must confess, I drink Diet Coke. And I drink a lot of it. I've been drinking diet coke ever since it was invented. I loved it thirty years ago, and I still love it today. I can go through 40 or 50oz of diet coke in a day if I'm not paying attention. I know this doesn't have much to do with the vegetarian vs. carnivore debate, so we'll call it a "bi-partisan" issue. Completely happy was I drinking down that artificially sweetened beverage until recent years. More and more studies are popping up about the harmful effects of diet soda, specifically diet coke. One of the studies suggested that diet coke wasn't any better than regular coke because the body fooled itself into thinking it was taking in sugar, and reacted accordingly. Oh my! Not my favorite beverage! Other studies warn of the harmful health effects of artificial sweeteners. I'm less inclined to believe these studies. Nevertheless, there have been many. So, what is a former vegetarian to do? I'm thinking of going "all natural" (no, not naked, at 71, that's not a good idea). I'm thinking of only eating whole foods, organic or for the most parts non processed. I know there is a liberal definition of "organic." I guess I'll just have to use my good judgement. That means no weight loss shake, not that I'd take those anyway. But I'm also thinking of giving up the best multivitamins in exchange for real foods. Hmmmm, maybe not. Finally, just for fun, here's a man my son's age who wrote a post on abs on a high fat diet. It's pretty entertaining. 4月17日 A little bit of eggplantBack when I was a vegetarian, one of my staples was eggplant. You can put almost anything on eggplant and it takes on a different flavor, sort of like tofu except not as gunky and processed. I guess chicken is the new eggplant for the non vegetarian, though I'll admit, I've been slipping back into my eggplant ways. I made a chicken parmesian the other day (I know, not healthy in the least!) and it just wasn't as good as the old eggplant parmesian I spent my youth cooking. The tricky thing about about chicken, is the consistency. Eggplant is soft enough you can do several things with it. You can make pastes like baba ghanoush. Or you can even fry it until it is cripsy! Chicken, however, is always lumpy and chewy, no matter what you put it in. With the exception of chicken salad, the bird doesn't paste well. And fried chicken is just too much grease for me! So, I may be a meat eater, but some things I think the vegetarians really do have the better idea for. This month I couldn't find any good health blogs to link to, so I found a post from a blog I already linked to about orthorexia nervosa. I also started looking into people searches. Check out the links if you get the chance! 3月7日 Tuna Fish Salad and the Best MultivitaminsI've been eating quite a bit of tuna fish salad recently. I'm not talking about the typical mayonaise, relish, and tuna paste that people spread across crackers that smells foul and usually tastes worse. I'm talking about a bed of spinach, topped with fresh tuna, vinegar, oil, mushrooms, and a dash of almonds and feta cheese. This salad is a sort of best multivitamin in itself. It's got all the vital omegas that come with the tuna. It's got a healthy amount of Co-enzyme Q10 which is found in abundance in tuna. It has beta glucan for the immune system which comes from the mushrooms. The feta cheese contains many of the necessary B vitamins as well as amino acids. The almonds also contain omega 3 amino acids, and the vinegar contains vitamin C. Now that I think about it, my new unvegetarian lunch is probably one of the best multivitamins I could make while still eating whole foods. The only problem is, I usually end up eating a handful of cheese-itz along with lunch which is just doom when it comes to the carbohydrates. Or even worse, I'll down a couple chunks of Hershey's chocolate. Whereas chocolate is supposed to contain many antioxidants, those little dark chocolate nuggets wrapped in gold contain more sugar and calories than I should really be taking in one day. 2月5日 The Myth of SisiphusDid I spell that right? The dude who rolled that boulder up
the mountain. 12月18日 Holiday Cooking for an ex-VeggieHoliday ham was never a tradition in my house, apart from my former vegetarian lifestyle, the family just never made ham. Instead we would have an assortment of casseroles, and mother was always kind enough to split the best dishes in half and make a vegetarian version and a non-vegetarian version, so people (namely me) could try the dish no matter what the diet. This year, though, I'm done with casseroles. I've decided to have a healthy Christmas. I may well cook a ham. But, most likely I'll go with a Christmas fish. Perhaps a salmon, or tuna. No better time to get tons of orac value through omega 3 vitamins than eating fish at Christmas. A good salmon is also filled to the brim with proteins, just as much as ham. The only real decision left is whether I carry the seafood cuisine through every dish this Christmas or whether I keep it relatively traditional besides the fish. 11月16日 The spectrum of vegetarians Most people think of vegetarianism as an either or. Either you don't
eat meat, you'll never hurt a living creature, and you save whales in
your spare time, or you're a gluttonous texan with a five gallon hat
and a steak on every plate. I believe vegetarianism is more of a spectrum. At the extreme end there are raw foodists. These people are even more hard core than vegans. Not only will they eat no living creature and only eat all organic food. They will only eat food raw. They believe cooking actually destroys the nutrition of the food. I dare you to try this diet for more than a month without going crazy. A little less hard core are the vegans. These people don't eat any animal products whatsoever (no milk, cheese, etc...) but a strict vegan will only eat food that has died naturally. They will eat apples that have fallen from the tree, but not apples that have been plucked. Then there are the mainstream vegetarians. These people don't believe in killing cows, but they don't mind having some milk with their cookies, and they don't mind plucking pears, but no animals for them. Next there are the fish eating vegetarians. I believe this is probably the biggest category, I believe mainly because veggy people tend to like sushi. And finally, there are the fad vegetarians. These are skinny teenagers and twenty-somethings who use the vegetarian card simply as a way of being anorexic in public. Avoid these people. Is my spectrum lacking? I'd love to hear any feedback. And while I'm here, I've got a few nutrition links to go along with my rant. The benefits of vitamins and omega 3 supplements are both good places to go for vitamin information (veggie or non veggie alike!) 11月2日 Vegetarian Does NOT equal healthyThere is a mythical consensus that vegetarians as a whole are healthier people than non vegetarians. Maybe that's because we typically equate the vegetarian lifestyle with the natural lifestyle. Vegetarians are people who like to camp. They save whales and participate in rallies and they know people in Alaska. But it's not true! Some of the most unhealthy people I know are vegetarians. I have a friend who has a teenage daughter who recently became a vegetarian. Her mother told me she was going veggie so she wouldn't have to become a bulemic. Does that make any sense at all?! Anyway, there is a way to be a very healthy vegetarian, but it involves getting plenty of vitamins and supplements. One of the best multivitamins out there that I've found is something called the Damage Control Master Formula. Check it out when you get the time. 10月15日 Iron Supplements and Vegetarians I've taken iron supplements for quite awhile. I'd heard that iron was good for women, especially menstruating women. I'd also believed that one of the only sources for iron was red meat, and since I wasn't getting any red meat I'd be better off taking the iron pills. I recently found out there there is an abundant amount of iron in many green vegetables (doh!) and now that my diet is primarily the meat and the veggies (I'm cutting out the grain), I figure I'm getting an overload of iron. Then I read something about the harmful of effects of too much iron. What is this?! You don't want a defficiency but you don't want to much. Should I take the pills or not?! The study sampled 1000 elderly males and 1000 elderly females, and out of the random sample, only 3% had an iron deficiency, while 13% had too much iron in their system. I figure I'll stop the pills. Also, I found a couple health blogs worth checking out. I don't read too many other blogs, which is sort of unfair since I want people to read my own. But, I did read these two, and I might stick with them, if they keep posting weekly. The first health blog is about a vitamin product called the damage control master formula. It's nifty! The second blog is about how to relieve stress. I know we could all use a little relief now and then. 9月11日 30 Years AgoI became a Vegatarian in 1976. I was 23 years old, I wasn’t a proponent of animal rights, I just believed vegetarianism to be a healthy lifestyle. The habit stuck, and I went thirty years without even eating animals, not even a sardine. I am now 54. I have had some health problems recently (not quite ready to discuss) and I’ve decided I need to change my lifestyle again. One of the first things my doctor told me to do was to get more proteins and amino acids in my diet. I wasn’t getting nearly enough omega 3’s. Omega 3’s are the healthy amino acids found almost everywhere…..in fish. So, two months ago, for the first time in over thirty years, I ate fish. I can’t say that it was an awakening of my pallet, an explosion of new taste, but I wasn’t disgusted by it either. And now, I am no longer a vegetarian. I am working my way into the carnivorous world slowly. I’ve been eating sea foods mainly, though I did eat chicken Florentine a week ago. I still haven’t worked my way up to cow, but it’s on the list. This blog is my journal of my new life as a non-vegetarian. |
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