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Going to Entertaining Vegetarian Friends

by on Thursday, June 12th, 2008

Flicking through the cooking book creates a lot of ideas, yet many of the recipes contain meat as their main ingredient. Here are three simple veggie-friendly party food ideas:

Honey and Mustard egg-fried rice

Boil three cups of black rice until cooked and leave to soak in ice cold water. Heat two tablespoons of honey with a tablespoon of oil and two teaspoons of wholegrain mustard in a separate pan, whilst simultaneously frying an omelette (3 eggs). Drain rice and fry with mixed beans. Mix in honey and mustard sauce, serve.

Rice filled Red Peppers

Fry a large onion in oil and simultaneously boil (in vegetable stock) enough rice to fill the peppers you need. Once the rice is cooked and drained, mix in the onions and some peas. Horizontally slice off the pepper tops and fill with rice mixture. Place a slice of blue cheese on top and place in a preheated oven (180º C) for 20 minutes and serve.

Bruschetta

Dice a medium red onion, 1 garlic clove and 4 beef tomatoes and mix in a bowl with 2 tablespoons of olive oil, one tablespoon of sugar and two tablespoons of basil. Drizzle olive oil onto 6 slices of Ciabatta bread and place under the grill for 2 minutes until golden brown. Spoon the mixture onto the bread and serve.

The benefits of Carrot

by on Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

There are loads of reasons why you need to eat carrot and carrot is one of the food that the vegan always eat as well.

The benefits of carrot are:
1. It’s good for your eye, enriching your eyes to see things clearer.
2. If you need to have vitamin A or beta carotene to your body, you don’t have to spend a lot of money buying the expensive vitamin pills but just eating carrot.
3. Carrot juice has anti-carcinogen properties so when your kids ask for the pepsi or coke next time, give them the carrot juice instead.
4. Carrot can slow down the aging processing because it contains with beta carotene which is also known as anti-oxidant.
5. Good for skin, girls.

There might be some other benefits about carrot, don’t hesitate to spread your knowledge about vegetables here.

Keep on eating vegetarian food

by on Tuesday, May 13th, 2008

It is a hard time for vegetarians that have rice as the biggest food source. The price of rice has gone up really quick the last the last month. Some say the price have gone up to quick to be normal and blaming investors to play with the price to make money.

But still eating vegetarian food is way better for you and other people since you spend so much less resources when making vegetarian food.

Keep on eating vegetarian it can help other people starving in other places and it makes you feel good and healthy as well.

Home Made Veggie Burger

by on Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Did you know that you can eat a tasty burger without eating meat at all? Well I can tell you that you can and I can ensure you that they taste betters than a meat burger. You can make these tasty burgers in many ways, for example with nuts, potatoes, soy, vegetables, mushrooms and eggs. I can guarantee a very tasty result which we blow away your average meat burger. Not are you eating healthier but you also protect animals and support the environment. Veggie burgers are not a new invention because the first veggie burgers were actually made way back in 1982 so next time when you feel hungry for a burger try a veggie burger. now you can even buy them at Burger King.

Free Carbohydrate and sugar diet

by on Thursday, May 8th, 2008

I used to gain weight up to 12 kilos and I can lost 12 kilos that I gained within 3 months, what can I do? I stopped eating carbohydrate and sugar. It’s exactly the rule of Atkin, Atkin rule is that if you want to diet and lose weight, you have to stop eating carbohydrate and sugar because carbohydrate is the food nutrition which will give you the energy to do things but since you stop eating it, the body will use the fat in your body while you’re doing the activities instead.

The pros are that you can lose the weight very fast and I can eat some other things I want like steam chicken or anything except carbohydrate and sugar. But the cons are that I feel tired all the time, I feel like I have no energy and I walk like a zombie. Anyhow, after losing weight with the Atkin’s rule, you have to be careful not to come back and eat a lot of carbohydrate, otherwise you will gain weight back again very fast because your body hasn’t got the carbohydrate for long time, so they will absorb it and keep it to your body.

Anyway, many nutritionists claim that atkin’s rule is not good for health and they think diet is very easy by just not eating more calories than you’re losing it by doing activities.