Healthy vegetarian

[Jinty168]

Hi I’m new to this forum Looking for low fat veggie meals any suggestions?

[Kai--]

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Have been exploring Chef AJ’s low-fat cooking videos, Jinty168: m.youtube.com/user/therealc...

Maybe you might get some ideas 💡 from her too?

[Plus, she might crack you up. 😂 ]

☺️ 🙏 🍀 🌺 🌞

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[Jinty168 in reply to Kai--]

Thanks

[Kai-- in reply to Jinty168]

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Welcome, Jinty168. 😌 🙏

Have you a favourite food 🌽 🥦 🍉 or meal 🥙 🍵 🌮 you enjoy? 🤔

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[Activity2004 Administrator]

Hi and welcome to the group, Jinty168 . Please feel free to continue posting and commenting, asking questions, taking a look at the Topics/Events/Pinned Posts/Polls sections for ideas and information about recipes/suggestions you can try. Also, you can meet the other members of the group.

Do you have any food allergies?

[PandQs]

Hi Jinty168, This might not be what you’re expecting as a suggestion, but as someone who spent years looking for low fat options, yo yo dieting and getting bigger and bigger, I would suggest reading up on why fat is not necessarily the enemy of weight loss, and look for low sugar/carb meals instead. It may not be a lifestyle for you, and as I’m not vegetarian I don’t know how difficult it would be for you to follow as a choice, but reading about it, I’m now convinced that low fat diets made me fatter over time and I’m now LCHF (low carb, high fat) and a convert to avocados 🥑 🥑 😀 .

[Matt2584 in reply to PandQs]

I agree with PandQs.

A low fat intake gets you nowhere.

The body needs fat... FACT. It is what kind of fat that matters.

Saturated fat is what the body needs.

I have seen/heard the various sources of how saturated fat is bad for you... it isn’t, it’s all rubbish.

There was an article I read from a so called “Harvard scientist” saying coconut oil (which has saturated fat in it) is basically poison.

If it was basically poison then I would be 6 feet under by now.

In the corrupt world we live in today it is all about THEM making money while spreading lies everywhere.

I hope you don’t eat margarine.

Margarine has trans fats which are dangerous fats.

This can harden inside the body and clog up your arteries causing heart attacks.

Why did margarine come out in the first place?

Well they didn’t make it by accident, that’s for sure.

[andyswarbs in reply to Matt2584]

Sadly just because you are okay today says very little about what effects the fats are having on your insides in the long term. If interested there is research looking at the effects of saturated fat immediately after eating. It takes 6 hours for the body to recover. So eating this day after day, meal after meal means in the long term that recovery does not happen. Eventually continued eating may get the better of you. I hope not. I hope you are an exception, perhaps because of good genes, good other dietary choices.

A danger for vegetarians in particular (and I speak as someone who was veggie for 40 years) is they focus on eggs, cheeses and milk.

It is all about the long term risk... Of course long term for some might be sooner rather than later.

[deejames in reply to andyswarbs]

As a vegetarian I would agree that vegetarians when starting out focus on getting protein from dairy. More so in the past but now when there is such an availability of recipes, ingredients and prepared foodstuffs it is much easier to plan menus with the emphasis on legumes, tofu and quorn to supply protein.

When I first stopped eating meat there were very few tinned beans for instance and lentils meant split red and nothing else unless there was a specialist shop. Store cupboard supplies whilst more expensive make life much easie

Having said that i shoukd go and soak some chickpeas. I seem to eat them nearly every day !

Dee

[Matt2584 in reply to andyswarbs]

Yes, veggies focus more on dairy and dairy or (processed dairy/factory farmed dairy) is another cause for heart diseases.

I know somebody who is a veggie and had heart problems and her problems lead to a brain injury.

There is an informative video called What The Health that explains about the fake foods that can cause heart disease and other problems.

[Zest]

Hi Jinty168

Welcome to the Healthy eating forum. There are some 'low-fat veggie' meals here:

allrecipes.co.uk/recipes/ta...

Hope you are enjoying the week so far.

Zest

I am popping back with a link to the NHS information page on Vegetarian Diet as well - so you can have a look, if you're interested - as there's some helpful information there:

nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/t...

Zest

[TheAwfulToad]

Have to agree with the posters above regarding fat. You might be interested to know that there are several vegetarians on the LCHF forum:

healthunlocked.com/lchf-diet

and I'm sure they'd be happy to give you some ideas.

Apart from the health benefits, dietary fat is what makes your meals filling and tasty. Artificially removing fat (and by implication adding calories from starches) tends to make people over-eat. Excessive reliance on dietary starch puts you at risk of chronic inflammation, heart disease, and diabetes.

+1 to the avocados suggestion, btw!

[sunny369]

my favourite veggie meals are curries, dahls, chillls, soups, - numerous recipes can be found online. You can make them low fat or add fat - for years I ate low fat (I don't now) so if I was following a recipe for say - a chilli and it said 'fry onions first'' I just omitted that step, and didn't top it with cheese and sour cream. Nowadays I would go for sour cream, avocado and a sprinkle of cheese on my veggie chillis but you can easily just tweak that kind of food to suit your needs.