Pcp suggested Mediterranean & plant based diet really need more ideas

snowflake954

psuLemon wrote: »

Personally, while i think the Mediterranean Diet isna very good one, if you are focusing on whole foods (which can include red meat), consuming plenty of fruits and veggies, and whole grains, while losing weight and exercise, then you will be in a good place. Where i find people "fail", regardless of the diet they follow, is when they always look and strive to consume replacement foods consumed with their previous diet. For example, a 2000 calorie Mediterranean Diet pizza is likely not going to be beneficial outside of an occasional treat; similarly with baked goods.

Also, a greater focus should be on losing weight and exercise (especially weight training) as it improves your bodies ability to utilize nutrients.

Edited: missed a few words.

Ummmmm.....pizza. It's our usual Friday night treat.

suzij27

When you get a chance, look at https://www.themediterraneandish.com/
I was looking for a Chicken Cacciatore recipe when I found the site. I saw an easy cod recipe there (one from your preferred fish list 😉). Lots of vegetarian recipes and all the ones I've looked at are easy and use common ingredients.

After watching Forks Over Knives on Netflix (no longer available), my husband wanted to eat that way. After 2 weeks and trying many recipes, he decided to just eat plant based meals more often. He missed olive oil and so did I! Since then I've been introducing one or two new recipes a week and keeping the ones that at least 3 out of the 4 us like (very hard to make something everyone likes but it is possible!) My kid are teenagers, so they can fix something else if they don't like what I've made after they've tried it.

Good luck!

PremGandhi

Just a tip that helped me a lot. Switch your bread to Lavash. It is low fat, low sodium. I basically roll my roasted veggies, tofu and some pesto in the lavash and eat it like a frankie. tastes fantastic and fills me up. I eat this like 5 times a week lol.

QueenDriventosuccess

suzij27 wrote: »

When you get a chance, look at https://www.themediterraneandish.com/
I was looking for a Chicken Cacciatore recipe when I found the site. I saw an easy cod recipe there (one from your preferred fish list 😉). Lots of vegetarian recipes and all the ones I've looked at are easy and use common ingredients.

After watching Forks Over Knives on Netflix (no longer available), my husband wanted to eat that way. After 2 weeks and trying many recipes, he decided to just eat plant based meals more often. He missed olive oil and so did I! Since then I've been introducing one or two new recipes a week and keeping the ones that at least 3 out of the 4 us like (very hard to make something everyone likes but it is possible!) My kid are teenagers, so they can fix something else if they don't like what I've made after they've tried it.

Good luck!

Omg thank you so much for posting this .. It started out by my husbands stomach being bothered by meat i dont recall if we are at week 3 or four of only plant based meals or i should just say no meat. We have had pizza with vegetables only and even tried the impossible burger ..which was good. Im not exactly keen on black bean burgers but we do need more options. Tonight my husband made veggie crumbles hamburger helper..it was okay lol

QueenDriventosuccess

PremGandhi wrote: »

Just a tip that helped me a lot. Switch your bread to Lavash. It is low fat, low sodium. I basically roll my roasted veggies, tofu and some pesto in the lavash and eat it like a frankie. tastes fantastic and fills me up. I eat this like 5 times a week lol.

Wow i never heard of it ill look it up... . i cant get with tofu but veggies and pesto yum... Tomorrow im making spinach wrap quesadillas with onions spinach mushrooms and cheese ill see if i still have pesto smiles

kshama2001

While looking for a Mediterranean diet cookbook, I found the following, and thought of this thread:

The MediterrAsian Way: A cookbook and guide to health, weight loss and longevity, combining the best features of Mediterranean and Asian diets

kshama2001

lemurcat2 wrote: »

snowflake954 wrote: »

MikePfirrman wrote: »

Nykeyacox wrote: »

MikePfirrman wrote: »

Try Copymethat. I don't think they are in the app store any longer, but it's an app that can (in Chrome) copy any recipe off the internet with one click. I use sites like Allrecipes or blogs and when I see one that looks good, I copy it, try it and, assuming I like it, it goes into my collection of recipes.

I like Copymethat also because I can also add in my own personal recipes to my collection. It's the best internet tool I've found, by far, to add in new, healthy recipes.

My wife and I eat Mediterranean and try to add in Plant Based recipes all the time. We're also trying to cut out added sugar. While we both lost well over 100 lbs combined, the weight has slowly crept back on her, mostly due to her sugar addiction. The doc wants her to lose a bit of weight again.

Hi Mike thank you so much for sharing the copymethat id love to try it i usually email my recipes to me but that would soooo help me better track them... Thank you.... This is the first time since i lost weight that hubby and i are doing this together. We made a meatless sheppard pie today with morning glory crumbles. Came out nice... Im so in love with Mediterranean style.. I want to make more foods like it.. I hope your wife doesn't give up.. I swear that 30 crept up on me also...but after 3 months im down 20lbs... 41 will not go down like this lol

Oh, she won't give up. She's a fighter. Thank you.

If you load it, you'll likely have to use a Chrome browser, then go to copymethat.com and sign up. Since it's not in the app store any longer, that's how you have to do it now. With one click (in the Chrome browser), you can copy any recipe to your collection. It's so user friendly. Even expensive apps that charge don't rival this.

They have a premium and it's like $25 for a lifetime (super cheap) and helps with meal planning and shopping lists.

Some other ideas -- Oh She Glows Cookbook is wonderful (the one with the carrots on the cover). My favorite plant based (and gluten/dairy free) cookbook. Ambitious Kitchen (a blogger) is another favorite of mine. Her Thai Cashew Quinoa Salad is to die for. Amazing. I also like Minimalist Baker's blog a lot. She's also very healthy with all her recipes.

There's a FB group too for Mediterranean as well. Remember, Mediterranean isn't about all Med flavors, it's more about what you're not eating -- overly processed foods, refined grains, red meats, fried foods. It's more about the style of cooking than eating Italian and Greek. That Thai Quinoa Salad is very Mediterranean Diet -- lots of whole grains, fresh veggies, EVOO and fresh lime juice.

I beg to differ Mike--I live in Italy. The Med diet is UNESCO sponsered. You can change it up anyway you want, eat Asian, Cuban, South American, and eat healthily, but it's not Mediterranean.

Agreed. Med is about specific ingredients and foods common in the Mediterranean. One can eat healthfully (blue zones type diet is what I think we are really talking about) with local foods from anywhere, but I wouldn't call Thai food or quinoa Mediterranean. I eat according to blue zones principles mostly, and somewhat Med, but in that my location and climate is far from the Mediterranean (Chicago), I don't eat a Med diet. I do use lots of olives and olive oil, but also cook with butter, avocado oil, and coconut oil, for example. And I eat lots of avocados and try to eat locally when possible (we are almost out of that season), but again this climate is not Med and has other food patterns, and I don't mean non home cooking, as I normally cook at home from mostly whole foods.

Cool site: https://oldwayspt.org/traditional-diets

I eat a ton of fish, but more commonly salmon, trout, halibut, and Alaskan cod (I grew up in AK).

So this is hilarious, I'm on: https://oldwayspt.org/traditional-diets/mediterranean-diet, and out of no where my brother starts IMing me:

YOU WANT A CANDY BAR? HAVE AN APPLE

FOR CHRISTMAS YOU GET AN ORANGE

(He is channeling our mother.)