How do I balance a Vegetarian/Vegan diet?

I really need to know how to balance a healthy vegetarian/vegan diet. I'm not eating meat, cheese, sugar, junk food, etc. However I am eating eggs. But my body is taking in a lot of fiber. To be honest I really don't know how to eat healthy because I just started. Please help out. I just need balance.How do I balance a Vegetarian/Vegan diet?
You can't have a vegetarian/vegan diet. Vegetarians and Vegans are very different. Vegans don't eat dairy and meat and we don't use animal products/byproducts. You sound more vegetarian. Oh yea and veganism is a lifestyle choice not a diet.

Ok to answer your question.

Try to eat alot of beans, brown rice, soy(tofu), vegetables and fruits. Eat alot of kiwis they're extremely diverse in nutrients. Bananas, almond milk, soy milk. Basically anything that is colorful eat. Don't stick to a minute selection of veggies and fruits. If you have an ample assortment of veggies/fruits you should be fine. C=
Focus on fruit, veggies, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. Occasionally add mushrooms, seaweed, chia seeds, chlorella and nutritional yeast. Processed foods to eat include tofu, miso, seitan, tempeh. If you like milk, use almond, soy, hemp or coconut milk.



Avoid processed foods, especially white flour products and sugar.



Check out the Vegetarian Stater Kit at pcrm.orgHow do I balance a Vegetarian/Vegan diet?
Protein is essential! You will lose a lot from the lack of meat and cheese. Have beans - canellini, chick peas, red beans, back beans. (Legumes) Make a bean salad! Though eggs also have a lot of protein too.



Fruit and Veg also because you will be losing a lot of minerals and vitimins from the meat.

Especially green vegetables for iron.

Have whole grains, nuts and seeds!



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fruit and veg, eat more, after that, eat more... until you just don't eat anything but fruit and veg.

there you go, a perfect balanced diet, fruit and veg :)How do I balance a Vegetarian/Vegan diet?
You need to make sure you eat pulses at least three times a week and fruits and vegetables everyday.

Have a fruit for breakfast and a vegetable/pulses for lunch and dinner.

Make sure you include all vegetables,pulses,lentils and beans(kidney beans,chickpeas,black eyed peas,green peas and many more)



Don't eat mock meat and soybean as mock meat contains sodium and soybean is bad for health( http://rheumatic.org/soy.htm ).

Mock meat is also soy based so too much soy can be bad for health.

Actually even a little soy is bad for health.

What's wrong with soy?

Soy beans are naturally toxic to humans, but they're harmless when they go through a fermentation process, which is how we get tofu. But soy is being used in more and more things these days. Just look through your cabinet. You'll be surprised. Anyway, most companies aren't putting their soy beans through this process because it takes too much time, and time = money.

Instead, they put it through a chemical process, but this rarely gets rid of the soy's toxicity completely.

Symptoms of a high soy diet are thyroid problems, breast cancer, and other complications.

People get these symptoms because they soy they eat isn't fermented.



Mock meat can never be part of a staple diet(food what you eat everyday).

You can may be have it once or twice a month.

Its a luxury and not a need. You need to consume naturally occurring fruits,vegetables,pulses,nuts and grains. Make something like rice and bread your staple diet. You can have rice with vegetables for lunch and bread with pulses for dinner(or you can do it whichever way you like though that's the way I do it). You can have fruits for breakfast besides something else. You will get all vitamins and minerals from fruits,vegetables,pulses and nuts.

Also,don't fall for the myth that says vegans/vegetarians need to take multivitamin supplements.

Vegans/vegetarians don't need to take supplements as they get all their nutrients from fruits,vegetables and pulses.

Supplements are supposed to be taken by people with deficiencies so do not take them unless they have been prescribed to you by a doctor.

Here are some recipes:

http://www.vegiehead.com/index.html

http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/category/…

http://www.indianfoodforever.com/indian-…

http://www.easy-indian-food.com/indian-b…

http://www.indianfoodrecipes.net/vegetar…

http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/category/…





What's wrong with milk and eggs?

For starters, animal products that lacto-ovo vegetarians eat (cow’s milk and eggs) have a strong relationship to DEATH because cow’s milk and chicken eggs are only produced by females. The male has no value in the production system, thus he is often killed. Baby chicks who are unlucky enough to be born male are often gassed, suffocated, or crushed. Male calves are often confined in small crates and slaughtered at a young age to become “veal.”



Next, most milk and eggs come from factory environments, which means that the females who are kept alive to produce milk or eggs suffer tremendously. The cows are often pumped full of hormones and antibiotics, confined to small spaces and fed corn or soy unnaturally, overused and abused, and lastly, they are slaughtered at a fraction of of their lifespan (around 4 years of age when they can live into their teens). The chickens are often crammed into cages or barns, and like cows they’re given hormones and antibiotics, overused and abused.