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Tahini Oat Cookies.
Love this adapted recipe. I have finish the first batch and will bake another tomorrow.
Tahini Oat cookies. Oven 350
Ingredients
5 T tahini (sesame butter)
1/4 cup honey. Or liquid sweetener
3/4 cup oats (dry)
1/4 tsp cinnamon
1/4 cup Raisins (optional)
A few tablespoons of soy milk (optional)
Mix dry ingredients
Fold tahini, honey, cinnamon and raisins into the oats until incorporated.
(If too dry add a few tablespoons of soy milk mixing thoroughly after each spoonful.
Place on parchment covered cookie sheet by the spoonful 2" apart. (I spread the dough out into a square, pressing down the middle and built up the sides until the square was level.)
Cook for 10 to 15 minutes. The edges should be a bit brown.
Cool on a rack and cut. Makes 9 cookies.
Vegan or plant based traveler.
One of the stumbling blocks when I was first following Dr.Esselstyn's healthy eating plan, was travel. Was that life finished? For me that would be sad, indeed. I love to travel and coordinate tours to share places with others. I was going to make it work. I have been to 3 countries and taken a lot of domestic trips as well as functioning close to home. With my "card" explaining my eating plan, I have been very successful. Many people following the blog about eating and my trips have said that they felt better about their own future.
My Near Travel Future
I have been preparing for my France and Turkey trips by checking out all the vegetarian-vegan restaurant and grocery store choices available in the places I will visit. I feel like a first time as a plant-based tourist. Whew. There are lots of places listed as vegetarian, vegetarian-friendly, vegan, gluten-free and more as you can read from Veg Paradise below. And now the big HOWEVER. Many people, especially restaurant owners, interpret "vegan" and "vegetarian" in dramatically different ways. Some think that means no meat and some think just no cows. Some understand the no meat part but load the plate with cheese, cream sauce and fish based sauces for Asian dishes and eggs. There are eaters who are incrementally vegetarians and those who will not wear shoes or clothes made from animals or eat honey. Big spread there. So if I think telling someone I am a vegan-vegetarian explains everything and I can relax and await my perfect meal, I am delusional. I thought "nothing-with-a-face-or-a-mother" would be the perfect phrase but that can and has also been misinterpreted. It was explained to me that an egg doesn't have a face.
I wrote about my "card" before but will mention my Plant-based-Card again. I carry a 3x5 index card with the following. I translate it into the languages I need and use it in the States as well.
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Dear Chef. Stroke survivor
I can eat fruits, vegetables, grains, legumes, and pasta prepared without any oil.
I do enjoy herbs and spices as well.
I do not eat meat, dairy, chicken, fish, eggs, nuts, avocados, or oil.
Thank you for your help.
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I have already traveled to Turkey, France and Ireland. With my card, I never missed a meal. Some chefs were so supportive, sending out dishes that looked like photo-shoots. The food tasted even better. I do not use the "V" word on the card because I found it a trigger word for some restaurant staff who perhaps think a client is just doing it as a fad or for attention or to complicate life for them. It is also the reason I openly mention "stroke survivor." For me, eating this way might prevent a 3rd event. Carrots and cauliflower are easier to live with than the thought of another carotid artery surgery. Plant-based eating plan works. Yeah health.
In Case Of Emergency. Anti-Deprivation Fear Kit
it seems that I find myself in the worst situations with no good food choices when I do not prepare.
I rarely go out of the house without some food. I always travel with lots of what I can eat and I have herbs and spices and sauces with me when dining. Bit extreme but it allows me to relax.
Even at home, there is a stockpile of cooked ingredients that we can blend up to make a mélange or put in salads or soups. That lesson is learned.
TYPES OF VEGETARIAN DIETS from Veg Paradise
This whole site is wonderfully informative. http://www.vegparadise.com/basics.html#Seeds
First, let's define the many categories that encompass the term vegetarian. Often we hear people say they no longer eat red meat, just chicken and fish, so they consider themselves vegetarians. These people are not vegetarians, but we hope that someday they will become vegetarians. True vegetarians follow a diet that avoids animal flesh and includes only plant-based foods like whole grains, legumes, fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds.
LACTO-OVO VEGETARIAN: Eats no meat, poultry, or fish, but includes dairy products and eggs in the diet along with plant-based foods.
LACTO VEGETARIAN: Excludes all animal products except dairy products. Includes all plant-based foods in the diet.
OVO VEGETARIAN: Excludes all animal products except eggs. Includes all plant-based foods in the diet.
VEGAN OR PURE VEGETARIAN: Vegan is pronounced "vee gun." Some people distinguish between vegan and pure vegetarian, considering the pure vegetarian one who eats no animal flesh, no dairy products, or no eggs, and follows a strict plant-based diet for dietary reasons only. While vegans follow a diet consisting of plant-based foods only, they are further committed to a philosophy that respects animal life and the ecology of the planet.
*As a result, vegans also do not eat honey because many bees are killed in the process of forced procreation to maintain the beehive and the continued production of honey. Frequently, large factory beekeepers kill off their hives late in fall or at the onset of winter. The practice is partly for convenience and partly for economic reasons. Rather than maintaining the hives throughout the winter, bee farmers find it more economical to start with a new beehive in spring.
Vegans do not eat refined cane sugar, because it is clarified over animal bone char in the final steps of the process that makes the sugar white. Instead, vegans choose unrefined sweeteners such as evaporated cane juice, maple sugar, maple syrup, date sugar, Sucanat, and agave nectar.
Vegans also avoid gelatin which is made from the bones, skin, and connective tissue of animals.
Because vegans consider the ecology of the planet a priority along with concern for animal rights, they shun the use of leather, wool, silk, goosedown, and any foods or goods that have been processed using animal products. Their concern is that the planet's future resources have been harmed and animals have suffered in order for these products to come to market.
FRUITARIAN: The frutarian has a simpler diet consisting mainly of fresh fruits and some vining foods that are technically considered fruits, but have been used as vegetables. These vegetable/fruits may include cucumbers, tomatoes, avocados, bell peppers, nuts, and seeds, as well as leafy green vegetables. Yet, there are differing opinions about which foods are or are not acceptable to those following a fruitarian diet.
RAW FOODIST: Those who follow the raw food diet, sometimes called a living foods diet, include all fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and soaked and sprouted grains and legumes. Further, the raw foodist does not cook or heat the foods above 118 degrees, but eats them close to their natural, raw state in order to preserve their valuable enzymes. In addition, they will warm some of their foods in a dehydrator with a temperature regulator. In order to preserve the valuable enzymes that raw foods contain, some warm food to temperatures no higher than 105 degrees, while others will tolerate a little higher heat at 115 to 118 degrees.
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