novella
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Hi Moto,
Making felafels at home from scratch takes time, but there's a mix they have in every American supermarket, in a white box made by the Near East company. You just add water, leave it to sit, and shape it into balls or patties. You don't have to deep fry them, just treat it like a veggie burger. They're pretty easy and nutritious.
You might want to get Mollie Katzen's latest cookbook. Her early books made the classic vegetarian mistake of using whole-fat cheese and sour cream in everything, which is really more unhealthy than eating meat. You should watch that your daughter doesn't do that. Ever notice that people who work in healthfood stores look sallow and flabby? Hmmm.
An important thing to know about is balanced protein. Eggs and meat and fish are whole proteins, but if you're trying to get protein just from vegetables, you have to combine different foods to get complete proteins.
Basic combinations are: rice and beans, tofu and Japanese noodles, peanut butter and good bread, Chinese sesame noodles, veggie burger on bread, hummus and pita. If you look at the typical diet of a vegetarian culture (e.g., Hindu), they eat a lot of variety at every meal and often combine bread or noodles or rice with a legume dish.
Making felafels at home from scratch takes time, but there's a mix they have in every American supermarket, in a white box made by the Near East company. You just add water, leave it to sit, and shape it into balls or patties. You don't have to deep fry them, just treat it like a veggie burger. They're pretty easy and nutritious.
You might want to get Mollie Katzen's latest cookbook. Her early books made the classic vegetarian mistake of using whole-fat cheese and sour cream in everything, which is really more unhealthy than eating meat. You should watch that your daughter doesn't do that. Ever notice that people who work in healthfood stores look sallow and flabby? Hmmm.
An important thing to know about is balanced protein. Eggs and meat and fish are whole proteins, but if you're trying to get protein just from vegetables, you have to combine different foods to get complete proteins.
Basic combinations are: rice and beans, tofu and Japanese noodles, peanut butter and good bread, Chinese sesame noodles, veggie burger on bread, hummus and pita. If you look at the typical diet of a vegetarian culture (e.g., Hindu), they eat a lot of variety at every meal and often combine bread or noodles or rice with a legume dish.
) and keeps a mix of nuts, legumes, seeds around to sprinkle on top of salads and soups.
