Thursday, November 20, 2014

Be a vegiteriman and save the planet

If you remember your high school biology, you might remember the 10% rule. It says a cow must eat one hundred pounds of grass to gain ten pounds of flesh, the other ninety percent is given off as heat, carbon dioxide and waste. So it makes good accounting sense to eat the plants instead of the cow. Now there is more data on this. Nature has a new paper out on this issue. Here is a write up by RDF. Go for the lowest point on the food web to save the world.
Vm

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Recipes to follow

I've been cooking and photographing like crazy, and as I am processing the data for the blog, here are two Hufpost articles to whet your appetite. grains and seeds;
Vman

Sunday, October 26, 2014

The Spiralizer

Well I've been doing this with a standard peeler, but this looks ok, but the acid test wasn't all that great. But for the money I might try it.

Saturday, October 25, 2014

Food Misconceptions from Mentalfloss

I heartily endorse the first one on MSG, a very tiny percent of the population may have an allergy to it, but far less than people that have peanut allergies. And the one on washing your chicken....my chicken pecked the heck out of me for trying that.....
Here is the link

Friday, September 26, 2014

Meatless day ending in Y

I don't usually get all a quiver over many of the nutrition stuff posted on the net, but this one sings out to me on reasons to cut back on buying or eating meat farmed on a large scale. When meat becomes less of a focus for our meals and at best a seasoning, we will leave the world much better for it.

Wednesday, September 3, 2014

Miracle vegan noodles.

I hope these catch on, but I'm not a fan of the price. Whole wheat for me still.

Monday, August 25, 2014

HufPo says eat these and live forever

I on the other hand say eat these and love the goodness inside and the taste outside.

Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Foods that you can freeze

Here is a quick vid on freezing foods. Vegiteriman! likes to add ascorbic acid (vitamin C). You can grind up vitamin tablets in a morter and sprinkle the fruit or veggie with it to cut down on browning,

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Foods not fit to eat

I have also heard that the cashew pickers experience severe damage to their fingers,so I try not to eat them. As for the others...way ahead of you.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

Huffpo on 10 fad foods

A good article on some fad foods, some are great ways to increase your pallet of veggie foods, and others are not so great. Try and buy local or near local to lower the carbon cost of shipping some foods, and enjoy.
Huffington post

Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Saturday, March 29, 2014

Diet Soda Problems

It's been documented that those who regularly drink diet soda have problems maintaining weight; the idea is that your sweet detectors in your bowels are turned on by the artificial sweetener, but don't get the calories associated with that, so they keep a person hungry for sweets until they are fed. Now HufPo has an article here that shows older women may have a higher risk for certain cancers. As always more info and research is needed, but really, just stay a bit more natural and drink tea or water, and use honey or sugar for sweetening. If you do have weight concerns, the act of sweetening with sugar will make you more aware of what you put into your body.
V!

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

I have a few problems with this.

7 Foods Science Proves will help you live longer on HuffPo has some right things and wrong things. First science doesn't prove anything, proofs are for math geeks, science only accumulates data and makes and inference based on the best data they have; and it can change if newer data becomes available, and that is what makes science so powerful. So to to prove say blueberries make you live longer, we'd have to feed you and your identical twin identical diets, but one of you gets blueberries and the other doesn't. So no go on prove.
Second, Omega-3 Fatty Acids are found in many things other than salmon. Anchovies, sardines and other benthic organisms all contain them. But so do many grains and plants flax seed and chia seeds being the best for us Vegitarimen/women! So, like all studies and things posted on the web, take it with a grain of salt!
Go forth and Vegitate!

Sunday, February 23, 2014

new grains from Huffpo

I haven't tried all of these, but will soon. Anyone tried some of these? let us know.
Here

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Thursday, February 13, 2014

Sid Ceasar

With the passing of one of the inventors of TV comedy, I had to post this. Sometimes we VegitariMan/Women! take ourselves a little too seriously.

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Quick Facts About Gluten Free from HuffPost

Less than one percent have gluten issues like Celiac's, and some have issues called non-Celiac gluten sensitivity. Here is a quick fluff piece by the Huffington Post
Enjoy
V!