As a handy quick snack I used to like the only vegan item in the Pot Noodle range - Original Curry. Oh, please don't judge! However, now it has CHEESE! Why? Also may have milk and egg. So I have to...
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As a handy quick snack I used to like the only vegan item in the Pot Noodle range - Original Curry. Oh, please don't judge! However, now it has CHEESE! Why? Also may have milk and egg. So I have to...
Nearly a year since my angioplasty and still on the Caldwell B Esselstyn diet of plant food with only 10% calories from oils. An easy change for me since I've been vegan for about 40 years. It just...
Oh dear - on several levels. Wife decided our memory mattress was failing in that it was too hot and it failed to recall its original flatness and was now a 3D map of valleys and mountain ridges. I...
Before the angiograms and medications my total cholesterol was 5.8 LDL 3.5 and HDL 0.8 with triglycerides 3.4
In US terms that is Total 224 LDL 135 and HDL 31
It's all moved in the right...
It's not a problem to include coconut oil within the Esselstyn diet as long as the fats intake is no more than 10-12% of the total energy consumption. Note that the article appears to take 30% as low...
For cooking and on salads, mostly olive oil. I'd bake my own vegan biscuits using vegan margarines or corn oil. They've changed a lot over the decades so it was hard Tomor marg in the 1970s then PURE...
Hi Robin, yes I've had my cholesterol and other tests over the years and they've always been slightly on the high side-- too slight for the doc to warrant any meds for. BP just a tad too high at 145...
Sadly the National Health Service in the UK do not allow our GPs to order Homocysteine tests even where the doc agrees that it would be useful to have such data, especially in cases like mine with a...
There I was, a vegan for 40 years and a keen long-distance cyclist, so my arteries must be clear, right? Nope. Of course I knew all sorts of unhealthy food can be vegan and my parents' families all...
Hi Andy. I was born in Hannover, Germany - small world.
Yes, I agree food branded vegan will likely be vegan. I'm a bit obsessed with having enough protein and often find shop vegan burgers have...
The only sure way to ensure a truly vegan burger is to make it yourself - and it's not difficult. Just roughly blend onion, peppers, cooked mixed beans and whatever else you fancy. Main problem is...
Anyone know which UK shops sell a form of seaweed that is palatable cooked or raw?
I'm keen to ensure vegan kids have enough iodine. I can get mind from mulivit tabs but kids don't have iodine in...
I should have mentioned that the ground nuts are for nut roast and nut paste / pate.
My baby grandson, ah and my wife, prefers the nuts to be almost a flour!
Can anyone recommend an electric nut grinder? I've tried search engines but they keep directing me to coffee grinders and while they often double up as spice and seed grinders are not always the best...
Essy, you crease me up! Ha ha. All this thread is for your moving to Cyprus and you never went!
Di, are you writing again yet? If you want a writing buddy just send me a message.
Eeplox, I'm...
Thanks folks. The scares over soy products in the 1990s still pervade some websites - ie the plant oestrogen may cause hormonal problems long term. Sadly the UK IPP baby milk, which was organic and...
Yes, I did that too. Heinz believe that babies should only have vegan soya milk on medical advice. My son has been told this too by other milk producers. The power of the dairy industry is awesome...
Thanks.
Weirdly your first link is Heinz Nurture and if you look at the ingredients tab it contains fish...
We were lucky and able to breastfeed our babies but now one of those is having their own infant soon and breastfeeding is not going to be an option. I can remember being able to buy 'follow-on'...
I found a vegan cafe in nearby Weston-Super-Mare last year but sadly forgotten its name. Glastonbury Tor features in my sci fi book if anyone is interested.
Geoff
I won't be out to Cyprus again until Easter 09 when another residential writers week takes place. One of our members lives in Paphos and he is on the hunt for a large house, hostel or small complex...
Hi there, Di.
I couldn't find a health food shop in Paphos in March this year. Do you know of one or two? I found soya milk and soy yogs, etc in the small site shop at Aphrodite Hills :)
Geoff
It's not a good idea to have an unusually large amount of any one food. Eg tomatoes.
I slip off the raw food wagon now and then, lured away by processed veggie convenience foods, but I always feel...
Luckily, kids do perceive helmets as being cool these days - probably because you'd be suicidal to ride off road and do tricks without one. Two of my pupils are now dead, who would have been alive if...
Raw works very well indeed for me. My blood pressure descends to normality, cholesterol too, I have to have sea kelp tabs to keep iodine up or my thyroid is under active. Raw cereal muesli for...
On a cycle tour of around 350 miles I stayed a couple of nights at Bridges Youth Hostel, which is on the Shropshire / Welsh border up in the Stiperstones hills. Tough to get there, but the...
I find that eating nothing but raw food for a couple of weeks or so, not only allows a few pounds to melt, but makes me feel alive, alert and energetic.
Geoff
Sorry if this is too late! I was in both Northern and Southern Cyprus in the last few weeks. In Paphos, the Debenhams food hall and some resort shops - eg the Aphrodite Hills, has plenty of soya milk...
Last year at a Literary festival, I was introduced as "The fattest vegan I know!" My jaw dropped - enough to stuff in a whole banana - because I knew I was a bit podgy, but this wasn't a...