A few days ago, in my non-oppressive relationships class, we were watching a documentary called The Witness. It's about a man named Eddie Lama, who never had pets as a child, and was raised around people who abused animals. One of his friends asked him to babysit her kitten, and during that time he fell in love with it. He immediately became a vegetarian, and explained how cats and dogs are no different then other animals that society deems as food or clothing. It's the perceptions we have of animals, not who the animal is, that decides which ones die. The rest of the film discusses the disgusting treatment of animals on factory fur farms, and his attempt to get this censored information to the public. It truely is the most influential film I have ever seen. I haven't touched meat for over four days, and don't plan on doing so anytime soon.
So, my question is, are any of you vegetarian/vegan? I would love your input on recipes, meat substitutes, vegetarian cookbooks, veg blogs, etc.
xoxo.
I'm a vegetarian and have been for about 10 years. I try to limit my dairy intake by using almond milk, tofutti products and replacing eggs with various substitutes.
ReplyDeleteI have found many great and cheap cookbooks at places like tj maxx and marshalls. But most of the recipes I find and use come from online or just something I make up. A lot of the times I just go to google and type in what sort of vegetarian or vegan recipe I want and find one I like.
I read the following blogs for some recipe inspiration:
adrienneats-http://adrienneats.blogspot.com/
cate's world kitchen-http://catesworldkitchen.com/
chemical free skinny-http://chemicalfreeskinny.tumblr.com/
hibbard kitchen-http://hibbardkitchen.blogspot.com/
the gluttonous vegan-http://www.thegluttonousvegan.com/
Another good website I found just the other day is-http://vegkitchen.com/index.htm
The Whole Foods website (wholefoods.com) has a lot of awesome recipes and is a great place to shop for veggie foods if you have one in your area.
For meat substitutes, I like-Gardein, quorn, textured soy or vegetable protein and tofu. Gardein is vegan but quorn is not. Most products will say if they are vegan or not. I also use scrambled tofu for an egg substitute when I want eggs in the morning. For baking I use bananas as an egg replacer-1 banana for each egg the recipe calls for.
A couple of my go to "recipes" is just cooking quorn chicken tenders or cutlets in italian dressing, salsa, pasta sauce...pretty much anything and adding it to steamed veggies, brown rice, black beans, whole wheat pasta, quinoa etc. Or cooking half a serving of pasta and just loading the sauce with peppers, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, onion and some veggie meat crumbles. Both are fast, easy and yummy!!
I hope this helped some! The film you watched sounds very interesting, I think its great it moved you to this and I hope you find lots of awesome inspiration! And sorry this comment got sooo long!