Vegetarianism is good for your waistline, animals, and the earth itself. You will get to experience cuisine from all over the world, and if you learn to cook, you can actually save quite a bit of money.
Meat consumption has been linked to heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and kidney disease. Animals on factory farms live their lives in constant pain, and cattle farming has been a major cause of deforestation. In spite of all of this, you may occasionally get a hankering for a burger or bacon and eggs. There are a few things that you can do to ensure that you keep your diet plant-based and keep the cravings down to a minimum.
Find the Perfect Meat Substitute
Although meat consumption might be unhealthy and unethical, people do it every day, and that is because animal flesh tastes good. Fortunately, there are many meat substitutes that you can use in all of your favorite recipes. Selecting the right one for you is the challenging part.
If you are a new vegetarian, your cravings for meat are probably fairly strong. You may want to try Impossible meat. You will find it being served in many popular chain restaurants, and you can also find it at most grocery stores. Its taste is so similar to meat that many people cannot tell the difference.
If you are a long-time vegetarian, you might find Imposible meat a bit too realistic. Beyond products have a slightly less authentic flavor than impossible meat. The burgers and chicken strips taste a lot like the real thing, but you will know you are not eating an animal when you sink your teeth into them.
If you want something that has the texture of meat and an excellent flavor without having the exact taste of corpse, you should try some of the products that have been around for a while, such as the Morning Star Farm or Boca frozen foods.
Try Different Cuisines
When you decide to be vegan, you will find many different types of ethnic foods to try. Middle Eastern cuisine offers many low-fat, high protein vegan recipes such as hummus and falafel.
The Hindu religion forbids beef consumption, and India is considered the cradle of vegetarian cookery. Any vegetarian would be wise to purchase a cookbook of Indian recipes.
The spices in traditional Bhārata cooking are known to be medicinal, and the dishes are easier to make than you might think. Hindus believe that cows are sacred, and therefore, milk is considered the nectar of the gods. Although there are hundreds of Indian vegetarian recipes, the majority of them will call for milk or ghee.
Choose You Restaurants Wisely
It is always best to eat in a vegetarian restaurant if at all possible. However, everyone you know and want to dine with may not be a vegetarian, or you may live in a community where vegan eateries are rare.
Although it may be counterintuitive, some chain restaurants are the best places for vegetarians and omnivores to coexist peacefully. Restaurants such as The Hard Rock Cafe and the Cheesecake Factory offer several vegetarian options.
Chain restaurants will often have dedicated fryers for vegetarian fried food. A smaller locally owned restaurant may not be able or willing to maintain a separate grill or fryer. They will not have as much money as a chain restaurant, and they may use whatever fat they have lying around in which to cook the food. A chain restaurant will have corporate policies, they will state what they cook their food in, and they will adhere to it to avoid a lawsuit.
Once you have been a vegetarian for a while, you won’t be able to believe you ever liked food that had parents. Until then, you can use a few simple hacks to avoid those cravings.
Authoritative Sources:
https://pixabay.com/photos/vegetables-water-droplets-fresh-1584999/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26780279/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghee
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