Female Speaker: I have a pretty busy schedule, which means that I eat lots of stir fries, soups, and salads. One thing that I really like to make when I don't have a lot of time is khichdi. Khichdi is lentils and rice with spices added in and vegetables. I like to add peas, carrots, green beans, and kale. You put the whole mix into the rice cooker for twenty minutes. It's delicious and it's a complete meal and I found out that in Ayurveda, which is traditional Indian medicine, khichdi is used for detoxing the body and for energizing it.
Female Speaker: I love to eat, and I love to go to the grocery store and bring home all the delicious food to cook. I make things like oatmeal and whole-grain pancakes for breakfast. I make things like falafel sandwiches for lunch. For dinner, I'll make hummus and spinach pies, black beans and rice, scrambled tofu. The hardest part about being vegetarian is deciding what delicious food to eat.
Female Speaker: I eat pretty regular food. In the morning, I eat cereal with soymilk on it. Like Silk is a great soymilk to drink. I can't even tell the difference anymore between it and regular milk, honestly. And I'll eat like a pork sausage patty or breakfast link, which are different kinds of veggie meats. Those taste great. For lunch, I'll eat pasta, vegetables, salads, soups, sandwiches. I love sandwiches. And for dinners, we like to eat Mexican food a lot. So we'll do Spanish rice, we'll do burritos, tacos, enchiladas, and we'll just use beans instead of the meat. Or if we want to use meat, we'll use the veggie meat, and it's great.
Male Speaker: Well, for breakfast I usually have yogurt with granola and a banana, and then for lunch I'll have some sort of sandwich either peanut butter or a tofu alternative with a couple pieces of fruit. For dinner, usually rice and beans or a tofu stir-fry, or pasta usually.
Female Speaker: So now that I have turned vegetarian, I find that I'm eating a lot more salad and vegetables than I used to, and definitely a lot more fruit. And just reading up on it, I found fruit is a really good source of vitamins and nutrients as well as vegetables. So I've bulked up on them. I generally didn't eat meat before a lot, but what I've done is instead of eating chicken with my stir fry, I'll substitute that for tofu. I also like ground beef substitute, which is a soy-based substitute for ground beef. I'm still learning, because I am a new vegetarian, I'm still out there looking for new recipes to fulfill my dietary needs.
Female Speaker: I eat everything that's not meat and that doesn't include a lots. I love colorful foods. When I eat, I like to have to plate with a lot of color and I think that's in general a very good gauge of healthy eating. That's a lot of vitamins and minerals in all of the food groups and a lot of non meat protein that way too. For example, hummus and I make a good spinach pie actually. So love the Middle Eastern dip kind of foods, all those different kinds of beans and lentils. I love Indian food and Chinese food. A lot of the Asian food have some really good vegetarian option.
Female Speaker: I eat a lot of salads. Really that's my main thing is that I eat is salads and I tend to eat a lot of darker greens. Also, every morning I have green smoothie. Sometimes I have a raw chocolate smoothies.
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