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Does anyone know if the properties of red wine for reducing cholesterol are also true for Zinfindel wine?, Which i understand that this delightful rose is actually from a red grape and not a mixture of the two...
I did embark on drinking one or two glasses...
So i have to ask myself, is alcohol vegetarian?
Well the answer is yes, although some beers, wines and spirits use non vegetarian clarifying agents such as gelatine, egg white (usually from battery hens), isinglass (from the swim bladder of the...
So i have to ask myself, is alcohol vegetarian?
Well the answer is yes, although some beers, wines and spirits use non vegetarian clarifying agents such as gelatine, egg white (usually from battery hens), isinglass (from the swim bladder of the...
So i have to ask myself, is alcohol vegetarian?
Well the answer is yes, although some beers, wines and spirits use non vegetarian clarifying agents such as gelatine, egg white (usually from battery hens), isinglass (from the swim bladder of the...
Well i spent the last few days being very busy, as a result i forgot to bring in my lunch of mixed fruit on 3 of the days for which I chose not to eat, but infact have a water lunch.
This type of lunch can work but I do believe that your body...
Dreaming of Christmas...
Now when your on a diet, you have to set yourself targets... Well one of my targets is Christmas. I don't just mean the reason for it, but a day off from eating health food, a day when you eat everything including the trimmings....
I remember the last company i worked for and my boss's wife having an interest in being a white witch, well she span a weight on the end of a string and told me that my blood group was 'A'.
Now those people in this blood group, apparently can accept...
I was asked by a friend in the supermarket last night '
What does a doctor need to know before he makes you become a vegetarian?'
Kidney and liver chemistry are the chief resources to base the decision on whether a person would
benefit...
Being a vegetarian at weekends has to be harder than during the week, not to mention the temptation to eat junk after having two glasses of red wine.
Another thing about being a vegetarian is the light headedness that you can get when drinking, its an...
So this morning, i couldn't wait for the weekend and endulged in a wholemeal muffin with smoked salmon and virtually fat free cottage cheese.
Absolutely fantastic, o how i miss bread, but wholemeal is ok...
I woke up this morning and forgot to eat, after a couple of hours I noticed that maybe my body had adjusted to not always wanting food, afterall yesterday i discovered that i had lost 8kg or just over half a stone, well what will i be like in 9 months,...
Well today i visited the doctor for a check up and after a brief discussion i discovered that eating chicken was important. Naturally i didn't cross examine the doctor for i assumed his opinion was well informed, infact i gotthe distinct impression that...
Well the first problem of being a vegetarian has arrived; Being bored...
Last night i found myself bored of the idea of noodles and pasta and as a result, ended up eating alot of fruit, this of course plays havoc with my bowels.
I noticed a problem...
The weekend Barbeque...
Well all went according to plan, the wine flowed and the meat was cooked, some wonderful smells and alot of beautiful looking meat products, but i resisted well...
I did however have alot of soy sauce on noodles, which left me...
After passing the 2 week mark i noticed a slow down in weight loss, however this could be due to my new interest in red wine. Perhaps i should switch to Vodka!. I understand that Vodka is good for weight loss, but can lead to blindness and kidney...
This weekend will be a test... As I will be having a party and throwing a couple of shrimps on the barby, well not really shrimps, but you get the idea. However I won't be able to eat anything i throw on it, as everything...
I have a couple of friends staying for the weekend, which is fine in its own right, but they are meat eaters and breakfast will demand that i provide them with the usual bacon and eggs etc.
But i thought i might just sneak in some of that fake meat ...
Being a vegetarian, means that you spend more time in the fruit and veg section of the supermarket looking for something out of the ordinary.
A benefit to the circulation of blood, is a Papaya.
Deliciously sweet with musky undertones and a soft, butter-like...
After discovering brown bread that has .3 grams of saturated fat, I spent the weekend sipping red wine (2 glasses) and eating brown bread with cottage cheese, aswell as eating fruit... As red wine is good for the heart, I have decided to become...
With the fridge working, I headed off to the supermarket picking up my mum on the way...
Mum's are great, they have a whole heep of dietry suggestions and will always tell you about some relative who lived until he or she was a 100 by eating nothing...
I discovered that the fridge is a vital item in a vegetarian diet, mine of course failed to work on day 6 and so i was forced to run to the local electrical store and purchase a new one.
However i discovered that you can't just plug it in and use it,...
Day 6 begins with the fridge door open all night, warm milk and no yoguart...
You have to ask what can the day ahead hold, with just fruit and radishes to eat for lunch, breakfast becomes a problem, so i skipped breakfast.
However by the time i got...
After 5 days of vegetarian living, i have found a new interest in food, its quite interesting to find that food types you hated when 15 years old, become tasty in your 30's.
Starting a day with the first meal, this a really is a tough one, you have to...
Unlike nieghbouring counties, Cheshire which has an orange rose, Grows its own......