In the Mood for Food - Vegetarian Month

Hey Everyone! In the Mood for Food explored vegetarianism this month. Despite that most of us are meat lovers this was an interesting experience. We all tried to strive for eating a vegetarian style meal once every week, or even one meal every day. A study showed that 7.3 million Americans are Vegetarians and that another 22.8 million follow a “vegetarian-inclined” diet.  Most reasons people go vegetarian is either to stay healthy from diseases, lose weight, to live longer, to build strong bones, to have more energy (as long as you make sure you keep your protein intake high!), to spare animals, and your plate is sure to be full of color :D.

This month as our monthly meal together we decided to do veggie burgers (just some advice: Boca burgers are better than Amy’s veggie burgers) with individual sides, which some included hummus with carrots and apples with yogurt. If you have any questions about vegetarianism or want resources we’ve found http://www.vegetariantimes.com/ to be very useful and fun :D It was fun to talk about the experience of trying to live a lifestyle very different from our (except for one of our members who is a vegetarian and shared what it is like to be a real vegetarian). We talked about how it could be fun to be a vegetarian but we would struggle to not have a carb heavy diet.

We also filmed our commercial for VIP explaining what we’ve done and how we’ve grown through this project. It’ll be shown at a VIPie event towards the end of November so can’t post details on what happened this month but maybe next month ;)

For fun here is a recipe we found: “Sweet Potato Salad with Apple and Avocado”. Since it is the fall season sweet potatoes are very popular and this is a fairly healthy main course meal with about 3g of Protein and only 179 calories! Go to http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipes/10866?section= for directions on how to make. It has apples, cilantro, lime juice, olive oil, avocado, corn, pumpkin seeds, and sweet potatoes! A great vegetarian dish for the fall season! YUMMMM!  This is the recipe we recommend (its delicious!).

Hope you had a great October. We'll let you know Living on a Budget month works out next time!

Love,

In the Mood for Food