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I'm half Chinese. That means I eat anything that twitches. And I eat ALL of the animal. Chicken feet (yummm!). Pig's trotters. Ducks' tongues (I kid you not!). If it moves, I'll eat it. But also, very little of the animal is wasted -- almost all of it is edible as far as the Chinese are concerned.
That said, some of the most delicious food I have tasted are vegetarian meals cooked by Buddhist monks.
Gotta eat meat. I've been eating leaner and building some muscle over the last few months as well as losing fat. I have no idea how I would consume enough protien let alone enough calories to get and stay fit and as active as I like to be without the concentrated nutrition of lean meat, poultry and fish.
6 delicious meals a day will let you mix and match what you eat and give you enough calories. If you ever want to talk protein, I guarantee I'll make your head spin. Unless someone is interested we'll leave that topic alone though. It is definitely a bore.
I eat six meals a day. but cutting my body fat to where I want it means keeping the carbs way down. Read Ketosis diet here. Its hard though and I can't do it too long or too often without cheating:)
I'd love to talk protein though. most vegetarians I know pay way more attention to diet than most everyone else and there is always stuff to learn.
Send me a PM and we'll talk some diet balance.
I've been an ovo-lacto vegetarian for about eleven years, perhaps a bit more.Quote:
Originally Posted by mattg
Oysters don't twitch but they are alive when eaten :) (unless deep fried, which is another excellent way for them to go).Quote:
Originally Posted by majurey
I love my medium rare ribeye but I don't eat meat often (say once a week) - no special reason, other that I like non-meat food quite a bit too. I pretty much eat anything that doesn't creep me out (e.g, no fish eyes, snakes, dogs, or pumpkin-pie-tasting-sewer-rats). Actually shrimp and crawfish look pretty creepy, but since I first ate them in their tail state, I didn't hesitate too much when sometime later I had a giant bug with tentacles on my plate. Soft shell crabs were pretty adventurous to eat too.
I have never really understood the vegetarian-for-health-reasons thing
I operate a small family farm and we grow quite a bit of the food we consume. All of the commodities we grow here are healthy whether it is from the garden, pasture, chicken yard or bees. Some of the meats we grow and consume are certainly less fatty than others; rabbit and chicken being particularly lean, and the pork and grass finished beef is as lean as is reasonable.
I have always subscribed to the school of thought that a balanced diet and active lifestyle are the real keys to health. I have vegetarian acquaintances and relatives who go through all kinds of wild gyrations to replace high quality protein in their diets when they could just as easily sit down to a nice broiled rabbit who's fat content is less than some fruits and the quality of the protein cannot be replicated by substitution with beans and rice or tofu.
I think that this is doubly important for children and pregnant or nursing women as their protein requirements are huge and plant based protein is not of the same quality as animal protein for building muscle and connective tissue... or so I have been told.
You're absolutely right that eating lean meats would be "easier" to get the protein balance right, however, there is no difference in protein quality consumed during regular meals. So long as you continue to balance your diet and stay active, meat is not necessary at all for being a healthy human being. I still eat cheeses and eggs, though I stay away from cream and milk most of the time as these seem to be pretty easily replaced. Completely cutting out the eggs and cheeses seems to have an adverse health effect, though this can be balanced out with supplements and "dietary yeast" :td. Anyway, I'm plenty healthy, plenty fit and very happy though I more than understand that other alternatives are available to be in this same state.
Thats one of the things I am talking about! When one eats an egg, they are eating the same basic animal proteins that are found in roast beef... so help me understand what the difference is? Frankly, unless you are only eating the egg whites and throwing out he yolk, a healthier meal would be the actual chicken breast when you start examining fats and cholesterol.
Same thing with cheese an milk. Assuming its real cheese or milk, you would get far LESS fat for the same protein by eating a lean cut of beef... it just seems like trading apples for other, less furry, apples.:shrug: