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I made my first health trip to the grocery store and bought greens, salmon (in envelope), tomatoes, walnuts, and I already have mushrooms for salads. Also bananas. Am I right in thinking alvocados have high cholesterol? Also I bought no-fat dressing and some more soy yogurt. Eating out will be my downfall but I am going to give it a try.
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Ethical Eating
My latest cholesterol count was too high (233) so I am officially giving up cheese and other high cholesterol food. I have joined an Ethical Eating Group at church and have signed on to a 21 day vegan plan at
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Wow, Mom. They must have really scared you to get you to go Vegan!!
ReplyDeleteYeah, 233 is HIGH!
I wouldn't recommend torturing yourself, though....it's harder to stay with a draconian diet than a sensible one.
No plant foods have cholesteral. Avocados are high in fat but it's good fat. For your dressing you should try Spectrum Foods Vegan Ceasar Dressing. It's got 9 grams of fat per 2 tbls so it's not no fat but low fat and its again, the good kind of fat.
ReplyDeleteA really good sandwich to make with avocados is roast a bell pepper in the oven by cutting in half longways, seed it and place on oven tray with a couple of 1/4" thick slices of onion. Spray with a little cooking spray (olive oil spray is best) and roast at 375 for about 20 minutes. Then put on toast with Veganaise (or low-fat Naysoya).
BTW, salmon is an animal not a plant and is therefore not vegan but it is okayed on the Monteray Bay Aquariums seafood watch list so it is ethical.
I just finished my first home-prepared sald. Lettuce and baby spinach, tomato, had to throw the mushrooms out as they were bad, walnuts, salmon topped with a little Balsamic vinegar dressing. I had too many walnuts and not enough salmon which I can adjust next time. Uncle Sam's suggestion sounds good without the bread. I have followed Twiggy's practice of eating a sandwich with one top, both insides, and one bottom.
ReplyDeleteMy friend John tells me I should eat broccoli for protein so I will start adding that to my salad.
You'd be even better off if you would learn to like beans.
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