I'm a vegetarian but don't eat much protein or iron.?

Question

I eat a lot of carbohydrates. anyone have any recipe ideas to help me out. (no eggs or tofu please)

Answer 1

Drink Milk, eat cheese, Butter for vitamins. Eat Vegitables for Iron and other minerals... you can even try some cereals

Answer 2

I'm a vegan, so I don't do cheese or milk, I get a lot of protein and iron from beans and green leafy veggies. Try also taking an iron supplement, and/or a multi-vitamin. It's hard these days to eat healthy and cruelty-free at the same time. Tofu isn't bad though if done properly!

Answer 3

Beets eat some of them raw about 4 a week
and eat some cooked beets too! Check out your local library about being a vegetarian and
getting good vegetarian recipes. Fruit is much more important than protein.. But if U eat, seeds, nuts, cereals, grains, dark greens, U'll get all the nutrition you need. Orange fruits and Vegetables are great for U

Answer 4

Well, you should be getting plenty of iron from green and leafy veggies (Spinach), and if you cannot stand tofu, you should be buying some form of powder protein to add to some smoothies or something. If you cannot handle that, you should have plenty of nuts and beans for protein. You should really consider a vegetarian cookbook for recipes because I do not know your tastes. It is extremely important for you to get protein!

Answer 5

I am a vegetarian myself so I know how you feel. I try to drink a glass of OJ a day to help absorb iron from the food I do eat. Try putting watercress on a sandwich. Did you know it has more iron than spinich!
I get all my protein from cheese. Try going to:

allrecipes.com/recipes/vegetarian/main.aspx

and don't be afraid to substitute things you don't like for things you do. I don't think that I ever stuck to a recipe from a book!

Answer 6

properly, i'm no expert in this, yet I took a human foodstuff type final semester and it is what we've been advised. green, leafy vegetables, which contain spinach, kale, and so on. are very intense in iron. maximum cereals and breads are fortified with iron additionally. so a techniques as protein, eggs, beans and legumes are a solid source. To get the appropriate effect from protein, you ought to consume beans alongside with rice. i can not remember precisely the way it works, yet once you do no longer consume meat, the only way your physique can use proteins right is whilst they are waiting to offer amino acids. the only thank you to do it particularly is to combine the foodstuff interior the beans with the starch interior the rice. additionally, for iron, in case you cook dinner with an iron skillet, iron actual leeches into your foodstuff, increasing your intake. i comprehend that sounds hokey, even though it is authentic.

Answer 7

Your best sources of healthy low fat protein would be lots of vegetables, sprouts, nuts (nuts have good oils in them IF they are raw) you might be thinking "what! these arent good protein sources" but the truth is before protein becomes protein it is made and built from amino acids. There are 23 different amino acids that your body combines together in the right amounts to make a human protein. 15 of those amino acids your body makes itself, 8 of them must be obtained in foods. Every animal needs these amino acids and its body has to use the right amount of each one to make chicken protein, cow protein, pig protein, dog protein, horse protein etc etc

Many people seem to think if you eat a steak or some other meat or animal product that your body will just absorbe the protein and use it for one of its own. But the human body can't use a cow protein or other proteins because the structure of it is built with the wrong combonation of amino acids. So this protein must digest and be broken down enough so your body can finaly use the amino acids the way it wants to.

The list of foods above are very high in amino acids and many of them comtain the 8 your body needs from food.

Put it this way.. The faster you grow the more protein you need. A calf is born weighing about 75lbs it takes only 4 years for it to reach the adult weight of 800lbs to 1500lbs , and what do cows eat?... They eat mostly grass, some shrubs and some grain. The milk that cows produce is 21% protein, thats not suprising considering how fast they grow, it only takes a calf about 45 days to double its birth weight.

Human breast milk is only 5% protein, it takes a human 180 days to double its birth weight.

People have been made to believe that we need more protein than we actually need. If you are not growing than eating 3% to 5% protein is enough. If you are nursing then about 6% to 8% is recomended.

Too much protein in a persons diet can lead to problems like kidney failure, osteoporosis and other health problems that i can't think of atm. Protein can't be stored in the body like fat can, so any extra uneeded protein becomes toxic and acidic in your body and must be nutralized by your body's calcium and even leeched from your very bones. It will also exit from your bladder, wich over time is hard on your kidneys.

(parsley, spinach, edible sea weeds, raw pumpkin seeds, dried fruit (like raisins) are all good sources of iron.)

starchy foods are low in amino acids and protein but do have a little iron.

Answer 8

Pulses are good for protein and iron. Try lentil soup, mixed bean casserole, etc. Get a good vegetarian recipe book, vegetarians who don't take their diet seriously are at real risk of deficiencies.

Answer 9

You can have soychunks, the common brand name being "Nutrela" which is readily available in all asian stores...Its high in protein. You may also have lots of milk. You can also have lot of lentils which is also good for health as it contains a lot of nutrients.
You can have leafy vegetaqbles like spinach, brocolli for iron intake.

Answer 10

What about eggs? Or tofu?

Only kidding. Beans are delicious.

Fry some chopped onions, chopped garlic and a can of chopped tomatoes, then a can of kidney beans. Simmer for a while, then season.

It's so yummy :)