what is in your typical daily menu?

Question

i am 28 years old and i am considering going vegetarian , or following a raw food diet for the health benefits mostly. however it does kind of concern me that i will not get enough of what my body needs. can someone reassure me that it is possible and maybe someone could give me a typical daily menu for a vegetarian. much appreciated in advance!!

Answer 1

Good lord... fries? Nice try.... 2 points for that one...

Breakfast - Oatmeal or cereal and fruit

Lunch - Big salad with all sorts of veggies, chickpeas, nuts, seeds, cheese if you're okay with that... egg is a possibility... depends on if you're going lacto-ovo or not...

Dinner - Pasta with veggies and marinara sauce, baked potato with broccoli, cheese, sour cream, etc.... veggie burger on bun with some chips and cole slaw... quiches are great, mac and cheese with broccoli... bean and cheese burritoes, rice and beans with cheese... there are tons of choices... four cheese or veggie lasagna...

Snacks are anything you want with fruits, veggies, popcorn, crackers, muffins, banana bread, cashews or other nuts with dried fruit like trail mix... yogurt mixed with trail mix is great!

Veggie pizza... love that stuff... or a veggie sub... yummo... or a grilled cheese and tomato soup... the list is truly endless and a lot of it is stuff you've been eating for years that you never realized was "vegetarian" :)

Answer 2

Most recipes can be made vegetarian by replacing the meat with tofu, tempeh, nuts, beans or cheese. I could give you a menu, but I don't know what you really like to eat.

So, essentially, eat as you do now (it'll be easier on your system) but use a different protein source. If you simply eliminate the meat and don't replace it, you may not feel satisfied.

Instead of ground beef, they have tofu crumbles that you can get at health food stores. That's good for chili, spaghetti, etc. and it has a similar texture.

We also like tofurky sausage. It's tofu with sundried tomatoes and basil and is SO yummy! Texture is similar to sausage as well. This can be added to a LOT of different things - stir fried veggies, with pepper and onions, pan fried and served up in a bun...

Look around your health food store and ask them for ideas. They can show you the ropes and help get you started.

Lindsay Wagner has a GREAT cookbook that's vegan, I think. It's called "Highway to Health" and it's got lots of yummy things in it! Another great vegetarian cookbook is "Moosewood."

You can also check out a bunch of vegetarian cookbooks from the library so you can get the idea and some good recipes as well.

Check with your doctor about making sure you get what you need. We just take a multi-vitamin to make sure we get B12 which is the thing our doc was concerned about.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Breakfast on a work day- Nature Valley peanut butter granola bars, poptarts, doughnuts, etc.
off day- hashbrowns, waffels or pancakes, and eggs.

Lunch- Morningstar or boca fake chickn pattie, fake hotdog, or hamburger. Or peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

Dinner- Pasta, taco with red beans and rice, vegetable dumplings, meatless chilli, huge salad, or just a bunch of sides.

Trust me it's not that hard at all, I'm 22 and I gave up meat when I was 13 and didn't have any of this knowledge. You will figure it out if you really want to do it. But take vitamins because I don't and I catch colds and flus much easier then my meat eating friends.

Answer 4

BK: Green tea with Stevia
1/2 cup of Brown Basmatic Rice & Quinoa with real butter & 1/4 cup of Dried Crandberries
LU: Lambrada Raw Bar Water
SK: 1 oz Dry Roasted Cashews, Water
DIN: 1 Cup of Br.Rice/Qunioa topped with 1 cup of Homemade Veggie Curry. Water

Answer 5

Except for the occasional meal at someone's home, I'm an ovo-lacto-vegetarian. That means I eat plenty of cheese and eggs.

For breakfasts at home, I have two fried eggs and two pieces of whole wheat bread, sometimes with peanut butter. Sometimes, instead, I have special K with milk and bananas and straberries.

For lunch, I almost always have a trader Joe's frozen enchillada lunch, with tofu and black beans and corn. I add parmesan cheese.

Mid-afternoon snacks are often nuts, and once in a while a peanut butter cup.

For dinner, I have a lot of sauteed tofu recipes that I like. I also eat lots of black beans, lentil soup, quiche (cheese, spinach). Lasagne with mozzarella and ricotta cheese and vegetables is also pretty full of protein.

Answer 6

So Food that cause you loss weight base on
low fat vegetarian diet
this is my diet for life

20 Foods You Can Eat in Virtually Unlimited Portions

Corn Celery whole wheat breads
brownRice Peas
Potatoes Cauliflower
Lettuce (all varieties) Tomatoes
Broccoli Cabbage
Carrots Oranges
Black beans Apples
Kidney Beans Grapefruit
Spinach Bananas

Plant-based diets promote slimness,
while Animal products promote overweight.

Foods to avoid
All vegetable oil, (Avocado, Olive oil) NO FRY FOOD
Animal products & Dairies (milk- butter- cheese)
Sugar(honey)
Seeds and Nuts pinute butter

Exercise Moderate


get rid of all following:
any meat, poultry, or fish product.
All dairy products, including butter, milkor margarine
Vegetable oil(Yes, even olive oil)
All salad dressings
Cookies, cakes,piec and icecream
potato chips
nuts and nuts butter
sugary candies

Getting to know new foods,
Breakfast: Fresh Fruites
Hot cereal(old fashion rolls or oatmeal is the best) add
with cinnamon or try strawberries, raisins. Do not use milk.
Cold cereal with soymilk. choose whole grain cereal. soy milk
is free from animal fats. it is free from cholesterol and lactose
that found in dairy product.

Lunch time, Instant soup Hetlth food store have such variety
of splt pea soup , noodle soups and just add water and ready to go.
Bread, bread sticks, pretzels,
vegetables
Fruits
Chickpeas
Black beans on toast
Avoids all the meats egss and dairy and oil
Avoids butter margarine,sour creamand other fatty topping.


Dinner time. Grains and other starches
a. Rice is one of the best foods for slimming down. it is very low in calories and
very nutritious.(brown rice are the best, whole grain spaghetti with tomato sauce).
corn is grain not vegetable. enjoy it without any butter

Legumes(beans, peas, and lentils)
Black beans(Do not skip this one) they are low in fat packed with fiber top with salsa and mustard.

So eat food from plants sources, such grains, beans, vegetables and fruits.
Avoid animal products.
Avoid calorie restrictions,Sugar and alcohol
1 large raw potato=70 calories
70 calories + frying= 440 calories
believe me i try it and i lost 8 -9 pounds in less than 1 months. I tried atkins or southbeach diet or all fad diets, and i was always weak and hungry and all the lost came back after i stoped. but with this i am feel full all the time and losing weight. first you start to loss sizes and then you loss on the scale.
try it and you wont believe it. Source(s)
FOOD THAT CAUSE LOSS WEIGHT(find it at any book store) or amazon. This book is my favorite book ever.

only try it for 30 days and you will see the result.

Answer 7

My usual breakfast is small because I'm not much on eating first thing in the morning. I usually have two pieces of toast, tomato juice, and coffee. Sometimes I add some cheese to the bread and let it melt. I also like Rice Crispies with a banana or some strawberries sliced on top.

Lunch is typically a salad with plenty of veggies. I also like homemade tomato soup and a grilled cheese sandwich. I like refried beans and some pico de gallo on a tortilla, too. And broccoli cheese soup is one of my favorite meals any time of the day.

Dinner is often pasta -- lasagna with veggies, spaghetti with different sauces, pasta salads, etc. I also love stuff like eggplant Parmesan, homemade vegetable soup, and hummus with pita bread. I enjoy stir fried veggies and rice, too. I'm not much on tofu or meat substitutes, so I avoid them.

For snacks, I love a handful of cherry tomatoes or some pistachios or cashews. My husband is diabetic, so we don't do a lot of desserts or sweet stuff. I usually have microwave popcorn or rice cakes around to munch on, too.

That's a pretty good sample of what I eat.

Answer 8

I weight train so I get a lot of carbs and calories
before noon. This is what I'm eating today.

5:00a.m. grape nuts, blueberries- rice milk

7:00a.m. Lunar bar, 1/8 cup pumpkin seeds
sunflower nuts, almonds combined

9:00:a.m. brown rice protein shake mixed with OJ
1/4 cup of french green organic lentils, 1/8 cup millet
1/8 cup amaranth, 1/4 cup spelt, 1/4 cup of split peas
4 servings of steamed mixed crunchy veggies mixed in

11:00 am 1 peach or nectarine, 1 kiwi

noon- 2 tbsp of smart balance Pb on three grain organic
sugar free bread, 2 servings of steamed crunchy
vegetables, 1 servings of steamed soybeans
1/8 cup of mixed nuts 1/4 cup of quinoa

3:00p.m. broccoli with hummus, apple,
1/2 of a big green salad with sesame or caraway seeds
bok choy and mushrooms mixed in Ive's or lightlife
veggie chicken topped with tahini dressing

between 8 and 9 pm other half of green salad


drink water with every meal and in between

Answer 9

Maybe some toast or eggs if your not vegan. Coffee. Basicly any breakfast that isn't bacon or sausages. Lunch can be beans, sandwhich, anything to drink. Pleanty of dinner options, if your only doing it for health reasons fish is a great way to get lots of vitamens. also taking a complex vitamen can help balance it out if your worried you might not be getting enough nutrition.

Answer 10

This isn't raw food but it is vegetarian: cereal. I love cereal, and eat it 2-3 times a day. I choose kinds that are high in fiber and low in fat, like Grape Nuts, Raisin Bran, and my favorites are Kashi cereals.