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So first topic, seeing as i didnt want want to create two seperate forum topics.
When you first started out transitioning to vegetarian or vegan, aside if you grew up as such already, did you come across fatique and even after earing did you still feel hungry and did your stomach make weird grumbling noises? Lol Ive noticed that my legs feel slightly weak, like ive exercised, but i havent lol And as for my stomach ill go full for a certain amount of time but then feel 'hungry'. Ive also been feeling sort of 'nauseous, but not actually wanting to puke. If i drink something everythig subsides. Im just wondering if this is normal and that when i start school on monday if i should carry around snacks of some sorts just in case.
The second topic is just kind of a rant. I was making a salad for dinner and decided to put cucumbers in it because my mother had bought two of them and had left them sitting in the fridge im guessing for quite some time because i noticed that it started to get soft. It pisses me off how much food we waste in this house, even the meat before, she would just leave in the fridge, to turn brown and if it did shed just cook it up and feed it to the dogs. She doesnt even care that its not just a waste of her money, although technically its not, its the goverments cause we're on food stamps which is worse cause when i think about it it makes me feel like im abusing the system, but its a complete waste of perfectly good food. And she doesnt give a shit. It makes me mad. It also makes me mad that 60% of the food she buys is frozen shit. Its not just that i have to eat it, or cant now, but i dont want any of us eating it. Its garbage. I never even see her eat that shit anyways. Frozen TV dinners? Id rather eat crqckers. Its probably what i will be eating for dinner anyhow lol Waste of food, makes me mad and not on my to do list.
When you first started out transitioning to vegetarian or vegan, aside if you grew up as such already, did you come across fatique and even after earing did you still feel hungry and did your stomach make weird grumbling noises? Lol Ive noticed that my legs feel slightly weak, like ive exercised, but i havent lol And as for my stomach ill go full for a certain amount of time but then feel 'hungry'. Ive also been feeling sort of 'nauseous, but not actually wanting to puke. If i drink something everythig subsides. Im just wondering if this is normal and that when i start school on monday if i should carry around snacks of some sorts just in case.
The second topic is just kind of a rant. I was making a salad for dinner and decided to put cucumbers in it because my mother had bought two of them and had left them sitting in the fridge im guessing for quite some time because i noticed that it started to get soft. It pisses me off how much food we waste in this house, even the meat before, she would just leave in the fridge, to turn brown and if it did shed just cook it up and feed it to the dogs. She doesnt even care that its not just a waste of her money, although technically its not, its the goverments cause we're on food stamps which is worse cause when i think about it it makes me feel like im abusing the system, but its a complete waste of perfectly good food. And she doesnt give a shit. It makes me mad. It also makes me mad that 60% of the food she buys is frozen shit. Its not just that i have to eat it, or cant now, but i dont want any of us eating it. Its garbage. I never even see her eat that shit anyways. Frozen TV dinners? Id rather eat crqckers. Its probably what i will be eating for dinner anyhow lol Waste of food, makes me mad and not on my to do list.
If you're just eating crackers, rather than a TV dinner, then I have the solution as to why you're feeling hungry- It's because you're hungry.
Don't completely dismiss TV dinners, or frozen veggies (if that's what you're talking about when you say frozen stuff) they can be good for you. In reality I see crackers as being far more detrimental to you in the long term if you're eating them, instead of something that has a range of nutritional benefits for you (though fresh is optimal, frozen sometimes just has to do)
Why not tell us what your daily intake consists of? It could be that you need more iron in your diet.
Anemia means you're not getting enough Iron.
What I would recommend (and I'm not a health care professional so don't take my word as law) is making sure you're drinking enough juice, as vitamen C helps you absorb Iron. Then ensure that you're adding things like spinach, bok choy or broccolli to your diet. Green leafy vegetables are great sources of Iron, more so than meat, apparently.
Maybe try drinking more water, which I know is a drag I hate water and think it's stupid it doesn't even taste like anything!. Sometimes hunger is actually our bodies wanting more liquids. By the time you feel thirsty, you're actually already dehydrated.
As for your meals, they don't seem too bad.
I never have milk on my cereal. Makes for a noisy breakfast :P
It sounds like you're eating okay, but there's room for some smaller meals in there as well. Fruit is the best one, but not always practical.
I go with nuts (peanuts and cashews as a favourite) or museli bars. I also always have a few little cans of baked beans around.
I'm hypoglycemic. My body uses up the sugar in my blood too quickly, so I have to constantly be refilling. Or at least have something there, in case I start crashing.(For emergencies- There's Mars Bars) Slow release sugars are really good, especially at keeping you full for longer.
I hope that helps a little.
It is really what you are body is used to, what enzymes are produced to help digest what 'normal' foods you eat, and when you change that, your body needs to adjust.
It also sounds like you are not eating enough in general. A vegan needs to eat more than a meat eater in terms of bulk (in general).
When the kids and I do salad night, for example, I use an actual mixing bowl for my salad... but that is in part b/c I can't stand salad dressing. I add nuts to the salad to help counter the negative calorie affect of most of the vegies.
As far as stuff going bad.... last I read, in the US, we waste 60% of the food. That is horrible.
Maybe you could do a once a day scan of the fridge, put it into your routine... do a veggie search. You can pretty much eat all the veggies you want, most are very low, or even negative calorie.
Good luck on your vegetarian adventures!
And I probably will scan my fridge to see what I can use in my pasta dish tonight. If I even have to I'll cook my mom and sisters meals too.
and I'm thinking... you are going to cook your mother and sister too?
Then I reread it. Too funny.
One mistake a lot of people make when they turn vegetarian is that they think they have to live on salads. Not true! And I tried that, and I was ALWAYS hungry! There are a lot of foods that are shockingly filling, and you should always have a healthy snack with you in case you do get hungry! Here are my favorite healthy snacks/meals:
- Celery/carrots and hummus
- Lentil chips and hummus
- Bean salads of sorts
- Homemade minestrone soup (with no meat, but kidney beans, green beans, garbanzo beans, tomatoes, carrots, celery, kale, corn, and peas)
- Apples and oranges (sliced) - easy snack!
- Popcorn (vegetarian but not vegan, and try to get a healthy kind!)
- Any kind of vegan soup -- Trader Joe's sells some great ones
And it's true what others say -- frozen veggies can be just as good. I've relied on them many a time! Additionally, Trader Joe's has healthy frozen meals that are vegetarian/vegan. Ethnic foods are usually your best bet because they'll be high in protein and still taste great. :)
Some government bod over here in UK said last mid-November that 12billion /$19 billion is being binned per year and that was a 13% reduction from 2006-7:
"in part due to increased food prices and difficult economic conditions." and
"about a fifth of all food purchased is wasted and more than half the food that is thrown away, about 60%, could have been eaten."
so good on ye ! for noticing how much food is wasted..
I take orange , apple , pineapple in fact any available juice that I find in my cereal and enjoy it better that I used to enjoy milk in cereal. Or tinned fruit, preferably with some juice in it , in cereal too.
Porridge , which I hated as a kid ,I now love with slices apple or banana or grapes,strawberries etc in porridge and in Thailand some folk loved prawns or shrimps, salmon etc in their porridge.
You can have juice and fruit ( and nuts, Lovely!) in cereal and porridge , or mixed seafood in porridge .
Also, there are a lot of good vegetarian cookbooks on the market, or experiment with one from the library first. There are a lot of recipes online for vegetarian foods, too. Vegetarian Times has a weekly recipe you can sign up for. Be adventurous with your cooking. It's fun trying all these new veggie foods!