dreads= veggie

hey amy goats milk is better for you than cows milk, so if you can get it, do! i LOVE feta and i can get goats milk cream cheese here too, it's sooo good!
better carbohydrates if you have a problem with blood sugar levels are baked sweet potatoes, and baked butternut squash rather than regular potatoes or white rice. also, steamed greens are a really good source of vitamins and minerals and protein, and they're a slow release carbohydrate as well. and they're DELICIOUS!!!! i eat baked butternut squash at least twice a week YUM! it's easy, just throw it in the oven whole at 350 degrees for about an hour. buy the smaller ones, they taste better.
i like to make nut milks. i soak raw nuts in water overnight, then rinse them off, put the whole lot in a blender, add some water. blend it all until it's really smooth and add a little bit of honey and spice, or just chill it and drink it. if it's too thick for your liking, you can strain out the "pulp" or just add more water. it's SOOOO yummy! (i used to be 100% raw, now i eat mostly vegetarian, cooked and raw, but with very little dairy, wild meat MAYBE once or twice a year, and eggs)
also, you can make homemade granola with nuts. i put dried figs and a mix of raw almonds and cashews in the food processor, until it's chopped coarse, then use nut milk and hemp hearts. DELISH!! YUM! now i'm starting to get hungry, i better stop! LOL

 

i'd like to get a milk cow too, to make my own cheese and have fresh butter and cream, and milk, but they're a HUGE responsibility. they have to be milked twice a day otherwise they stop producing.... sigh.... i don't know if i'm really ready to be tied down by a cow! LOL

 

i want a pig, but not to eat =]

 

That all sounds yum. Yes to the butternut squash and ditto on the cooking method.... stupid shops here...can't get it in the regular supermarkets and have to make a special trip into the city to buy it. That nut milk sounds a bit too tasty!

Well I've had a veggie week so far, and today we went to check out the organic meat range. My husband is up for the plan of lowering our meat consumption in order to budget for organic. We're gonna aim for two meat meals a week (sorry...is this completely out of order in the veggie thread? shit... sorry if that's the case...doh). We got two meals worth of organic meat for the price of maybe four non-organic meat meals. I'm glad to have finally got round to doing this because it's been bugging me ever since I moved to Norway, but money has been a factor.

I had a look at the different veggie meals...burgers and sausages and stuff...but I really don't want to go down the soy route. I'd rather support some small-scale Norwegian farmers trying to do the right thing than a bunch of agricultural giants churning up a load of land to grow soy. Plus Norway is still very behind on the whole ethical shopping thing, so I think it's a better choice to support the small businesses taking a risk in a slow market for what they believe in.

Oh and...what's granola?

 

I'd rather be tied down by a whole farm than one small human baby thing

 

no, not unbiased... but, still. i used to live in southern alberta, canada (now i live in northern alberta), it's feed lot country, and it's horrible, horrible, horrible..... i would NEVER judge ANYONE for eating meat. fact of the matter is that i actually really enjoy the taste of it, but i just cant. not after living near feedlots and seeing these things.... but i also have access to wild meat pretty much whenever i like, and we shoot at least 2 deer and a moose every year.... so, why WOULD i eat factory meat when i can get the good stuff ? but, yeah. i still don't. i might have a bit of stew a couple times a year. but i do love eggs and cheese LOL!

 

HI!!! yeah, it's me i promise i'm going to try to figure out how to attach a pic or something here... LOL

 

Cor a moose must feed a family for a while! They have moose sign-posts here, but I've yet to be convinced the animals actually exist anywhere round our way They're bloody huge....where are they all hiding?!? lol

 

granola.... hmmm, i don't know what the english term for it would be... it's basically like, a crunchy, sometimes sweet combination of like, crispy rolled oats - like porridge, but dry crunchy and sweet instead of cooked - nuts and dried fruit. it's mostly a breakfast food, but you can get granola bars too....

i think if you can support local farmers and get meat from sources that you know are not as damaging to the environment and violent for the animal, that's great.... but i totally understand about the money thing.

have you tried making veggie lasagne? i usually make it with a layer of spinach and cottage cheese with an egg mixed in there to thicken it up, then i make a fresh tomato sauce to put in there.... it's sooo yummy! oh god. i've been on master cleanse for 10 days, i'm just coming off of it today, and all this talk of food is just driving me insane!!! LOL

 

at least you could take the small human baby thing with you places though! even with the dogs it becomes an issue where even leaving for the weekend turns into a major orchestration of whos going to check on them, etc... especially because with a great dane, you can't always take him with you...
but yes. no children for me either... my sister can do that!

 

i saw 5 moose on the way to work thismorning! 3 young bull with tiny little new horns coming out and 2 young cows.

 

Hello. I just happened on this phrase "....blood and puss in milk...." This is the first time I've had this particular concept in my brain, and my response is wtf?!

Comments, anyone?

 

The idea is that a cows utter becomes so inflamed from being "overmilked, that it scabs up, arent white blood cells puss and blood all the same, just ones inside and the other is out, so once a cows udder gets pussy that puss goes into your milk. But im fairly certain this is a myth fda or someoen has to keep their eye out

 

well I've never heard that myth Sounds like a bunch of crap to me

 

It seems plausible with the mastitis that dairy cattle suffer from...

 

I've toyed with the idea to quite using cow milk. This puss and blood thing seems plausible- Enough to influence my decision~

 

Yeh....although it's really not an idea I want to toy with it's sort of made me a bit bleeeh. Do you suppose organic milk is any better? Surely the higher animal welfare standards mean the cattle are not milked so severely and given the same health problems? Antibiotic use etc is limited, which must mean the cows have to be kept healthier so as not to need the medication... hence maybe less mastitis etc... ? *hoping*

 

granola: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granola

it's good dry or with fruit and milk in cereal.

 

AHA!!! yes. that's exactly what granola is thanks zilla!

 

Possible, though I just assume go to soy-milk.