From: davids@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (David Schwantner)
Newsgroups: rec.food.veg
Subject: What vegies eat
Date: 16 Oct 1992 14:07:29 -0700
Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
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A couple of weeks ago I posted the following request, here are the responses.
Thank you to all who gave the time and effort to contribute. 
(NOTE: contributions are sepereated by a line of "======".)

>One of the things I struggle with as I think of how I would maintain a veg.
>lifestyle is what do I eat? Please don't take this as an ignorant comment,
>but I have always been into maximum variety, and going veg. means learning
>a whole new way of thinking about what I can eat, so therefore, creativity 
>is inhibited by lack of foundation.
>
>So, I would like to hear what a week of eating would be like for a people
>who are firmly established vegetarians. Please try and be concise, and use
>the following format if possible, and I will compile all the responses I
>get by 10/15/92:
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Interesting idea.  I too was worried that all I would end up eating is
snack food.  I'm sure I`ll forget some things....

I am lacto-ovo, so there are eggs and milk and cheese here.

Fri -   break = cereal and orange juice
        lunch = veggie chili from a food stand
        dinner= pizza

Sat -   break = cereal and OJ
        lunch = leftover pizza from friday
        dinner= grilled cheese, onion ring and milkshake at a diner.  I had
moved this day, so forgive all the grease....

Sun -   break = cereal and OJ
        lunch = quesadillas:  tortillas with veggies and cheese baked for
ten minutes or so in the oven
        dinner= spaghetti with a brocolli pesto

Mon -   break = cereal and OJ
        lunch = pizza (still unpacking from the move)
        dinner= something pasta based
        snack ~10am = banana muffin
        snack ~10pm = crackers

Tue -   break = cereal and OJ
        lunch = avocado melt from local food stand
        dinner= homemade potatoe gnocchi
        snack ~10am = banana muffin

Weds -  break = cereal and OJ
        lunch = leftover gnocchi
        dinner= Thai curry.  (birthday dinner)
        snack ~10am = bagel w/ cream cheese, coffe
        snack ~2pm = birthday cake (mine)

Thur -  break = bagel and cream cheese
        lunch = veggie "lousianna BBQ" from a local truck
        dinner= reflied beans with cheese and avocado in a tortilla, corn
        dessert=birthday cake (carrot cake)
        snack ~10am = banana muffin
        snack ~10pm = crackers
-- 
The Purple Puddle Eater
Jack Vinson                     vinson@unagi.cis.upenn.edu     
I'll try to outline what I ate last week:
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Sunday
B - buckwheat pancakes with maple syrup, apple cider
L - bean soup with toasted buns
S - delicious pumpkin stew (recipe from Vegetarian Times magazine) on a
    bed of egg noodles, and corn pone (yummy baked Southern dish)
snacked on french onion Sun Chips (multi-grain chips, from Frito-Lay)

Monday
B - cheerios and milk (usually use Rice Dream, but was out, and had milk
    because of a non-veg houseguest... I don't eschew milk but don't have
    much and use alternatives when possible), a banana
L - grilled cheese sandwich (i adore cheese), dill pickle
S - pasta with sauteed mushrooms & black olive sauce, gelato for dessert
    (Italian ice cream)

Tuesday
B - muesli with Rice Dream, orange juice
L - peanut butter & jam on whole wheat
S - bean burritos

Wednesday
B - cereal & Rice Dream (unimaginative I know, but I love cereals)
L - cold East Indian roti with chutney (I buy them ready-made from a cafe)
S - spaghetti with kale, tofu & sun-dried tomatoes (a new recipe, was great)

Thursday
B - lemon-poppyseed muffin, juice
L - veggie burger at University cafeteria
S - ordered in a pesto pizza with mushrooms, black olives & ricotta

Friday
B - cereal & Rice Dream, apple cider
L - left-over pizza, cold (and boy was it tasty)
S - stir-fried broccoli on Chinese taro root noodles with spicy peanut sauce
    (for dessert, a small bit of cheese and a glass of tawny port)

Saturday (today)
B - cheerios
L - a Ken & Robert's Veggie Pocket (organic whole-wheat pastry filled
    with, in this case, Chinese veggies and tofu)
S - hasn't happened yet, will probably be either spaghetti with tomato
    sauce or curried beans on rice 

Hope this is helpful.
Lois-Anna Dooley
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Here are some of the things I eat:

Breakfast: Usually a toasted bagel, with tomato slices and orange juice.
                Sometimes, pancakes or "French toast" with maple syrup
                Sometimes leftover rice with curried lentils, or
                leftover pizza.

Lunch:  Brown basmati rice with curried lentils and veggies.
        Whole wheat pasta with spaghetti sauce and veggies.
        Eggplant in tomato sauce over pasta and veggies.
        Bean or split pea soup with crackers, or over brown rice.
        Baked potato, sweet potato, and veggies.
        Above baked potato with bean or split pea soup, or chili over it.
        Hash browns, vegetarian baked beans, and vegetarian sausage link.
        Vegetarian chili with crackers, or over rice or elbow macroni.
        Bean burrito with rice and veggie.
        Whole wheat pita stuffed with spinach, tomatoes, sprouts, etc.

Dinner: Any of the above, with the addition of a fruit dish for dessert,
        generally some pita bread or other whole wheat bread, Health
        Valley cookies.

I find it easiest to use frozen vegetables (although I do buy some fresh).
I like to buy several packages of different blends of veggies and mix them
up. I almost always include broccoli. Some of my favorites are Italian
Blend, Fiesta Blend, and a great peas, carrots and potatoes mixture.

I usually cook up a big pot of brown rice and keep it in the fridge.
Ditto lentils, or bean/split pea soups - those I also freeze. Then
during the week, I always have something good to eat.

There are so many other things - this is just an idea of the sort of things
I eat - didn't include tostados, bean dips, or any fancy recipe cooking which I
occassionally indulge in.
--
Sammy
sammy@cbnewsd.att.com
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Here is pretty much what I ate last week as far as I can remember:

Sunday -
   breakfast: (egg free, dairy free) pancakes with maple syrup 
   lunch: baked potato with spaghetti sauce
   dinner: broccoli and mushroom pizza (no cheese)
   snacks: banana

Monday -
   breakfast: grapenuts with rice dream and banana
   lunch: same as breakfast (I like grapenuts)
   dinner: veggie pot pie (made from homemade bread, potato, broccoli, onions)
   snacks: health valley muffins (fat free)

Tuesday -
   breakfast: grapenuts with rice dream and blueberries
   lunch: fantastic foods instant black bean soup, french roll
   dinner: spaghetti
   snacks: bagel

Wednesday -
   breakfast: cream of wheat with blueberries
   lunch: hummous pita with lettuce, tomato; muffin
   dinner: leftover veggie pot pie
   snacks: 

Thursday -
   breakfast: banana shake (bananas, rice dream, some herbs)
   lunch: burrito with beans and veggies and salsa
   dinner: leftover burrito
   snacks:

Friday -
   breakfast: grapenuts
   lunch: spaghetti
   dinner: sandwich with lettuce, tomato, onions, soy cheese
   snacks: bagel
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freeman-elisabeth@cs.yale.edu \/ "Life is unpredicatable.  Eat dessert first."
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Here's my list (10/4-10/11).  Note: ovo-lacto + occasional seafood.

Sunday- Breakfast= Coffee, orange juice, hot cereal
        Lunch= Banana bread, yogurt/fruit shake
        Dinner= Veggie pizza, beer
        Snack= Oatmeal/chocolate chip cookie, herbal tea

Monday- Breakfast= Coffee, banana bread, cantaloupe
        Lunch= Apple, cheese, 2 cookies
        Dinner= Veggie burrito, mineral water

Tuesday-Breakfast= Coffee, banana, Nutri-grain cereal bar
        Lunch= Apple, banana bread
        Dinner= Steamed broccoli & cauliflower, cheese, mineral water
        Snack= Frozen yogurt, herbal tea

Wed.-   Breakfast= Coffee, cereal bar
        Lunch= Green salad, minestrone soup, crackers, water
        Dinner= Scallops sauteed in wine, brown/wild rice, artichoke, wine

Thurs.- Breakfast= Coffee, cereal bar, banana
        Lunch= Yogurt/fruit shake, leftover rice & steamed veggies
        Dinner= Cream of potato/broccoli soup, beer bread, mineral water

Friday- Breakfast= Coffee, fruit salad, hot cereal
        Lunch= Fruit juice
        Snack= Candy bar, herbal tea
        Dinner= Leftover soup & bread, milk

Sat.-   Brunch= Coffee, french toast with berries & yogurt sauce, water
        Dinner= Peanut butter & jelly sandwich, carrot, apple, mineral water
        Snack= Cookies, tea

Sunday- Brunch= Coffee, yogurt/fruit shake, eggs, toast
        Dinner= Black bean burrito, grilled corn, mineral water

Ann.Adamcik@Corp.Sun.COM (Ann Adamcik)
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This isn't exactly the format you asked for since I can't remember exactly
what I've eaten lately, but here are my usual meals:

breakfast choices:
* fruit or popcorn cakes & hot chocolate (I live in Idaho & its cold in the
morning!)
(I'm not a breakfasty person -- on the weekends I like Cream of Wheat, and
sometimes pancakes)

lunch:
* peanut butter & jelly sandwich
* veggie sandwich (french bread w/lots of melted cheese, oregano,
                  tomato, lettuce, hot banana peppers, onions)
* leftover dinners (if I'm at home)

dinner:
* vegetable soup (I make several different kinds)
* veggie fajitas
* black beans w/rice & mexican-ish flavored tomatoes & sauteed onions and
garlic
* pasta w/tomato-basil sauce & mozzarella
* miscellaneous pastas
* pizza
* steamed veggies w/provolone cheese & rice & soy sauce
* stir-fried veggies w/rice
* baked potatoes
* vegetable curry

I have recently finished graduate school and now have a real job, so
hopefully this list will grow!  I hope this helps -- becoming a vegetarian
seems daunting at first, but its worth it to me.  I recommend doing it
gradually -- some of the people on the net say you should do it all at once
or not at all, but I found that cutting out meat gradually helped to
convince myself that this was what I really wanted to do.  I also found
that (for me) if I had a craving for meat the best thing to do was to eat
it and then feel guilty (and after a while it didn't taste very good,
either).  This may not work for everyone, but it did for me.

Good luck!
Jamie Ferguson
(kkv@inel.gov)
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   I have about two weeks of food here.  I believe that you said that
you liked variety.  As for me, I have certain favorite things that I like
to eat over and over.  I hope that this isn't too annoying to you.
Breakfast in particular rarely varies.  So my standard breakfast is:

STANDARD BREAKFAST:  Multi-grain Cheerios with Rice Dream rice milk
                     12 oz. orange juice.

I will only note when I had something different.  Otherwise, I always
ate the standard breakfast; I never skip.
    Also most of the time I don't note snacks.  I usually have several
small snacks throughout the day, like a couple of small pieces of candy,
or a bagel or a banana.  If I do mention a largish snack, I probably had
a weird schedule that day.
    A "bagel" is usually a whole-wheat cinamon-raisin bagel.  If no
beverage is listed, I probably had none or drank water.
    Asterixed (*) items I buy at a Thai food cafe on campus.
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SUNDAY
Lunch:  skipped
Dinner: Veggie Pocket Oriental Style (Ken & Roberts brand, by Imagine Foods)
        grapes

MONDAY:
Lunch:  *noodle salad:  noodles with greens, carrots, tomato, peanuts, and
        spicy sauce
        Raspberry juice
Snack:  (5 p.m.) banana, crackers, tortilla chips, grapes, small amt.
        cheese (This was at a department function)
Dinner: Taco Bell (10 p.m.):
        3 bean tacos (beans, lettuce, tomato, spicy sauce)

TUESDAY:
Lunch:  Veggie Pocket
        Carrot Sticks
Dinner: Bagel
        Grapes
        Mushroom Loaf (recipe will be posted once I've got it right)
        low-fat vegan cole slaw from health-store deli
        Weight Watchers ice cream bar

WEDNESDAY:
Lunch:  *Vegetable Curry (carrot, potato, squash, green peppers, mushrooms,
        spicy sauce) on white rice
        Raspberry juice
Dinner: 2 bean tacos (Taco Bell)
        frozen yogurt

THURSDAY:
Lunch:  Veggie Pocket
        Bagel
        Grapes
        Low-fat vegan cole slaw
Dinner: 3 bean tacos (TB)
        soda

FRIDAY:
Breakfast:  Malt-o-Meal hot cereal
            Orange juice
Lunch:  Mushroom loaf, 1.5 cups
        1 bagel
        1 cup grapes
Dinner: (Meal at an Indian restaurant--small servings of each of the folowing):
        bread
        tomato&cucumber salad
        green beans and potatos
        basmati rice
        eggplant with spicy garlic yogurt sauce

SATURDAY:
Breakfast:   cheerios w soy milk
             bagel
             orange juice
Lunch:  (Picnic) 2 tofu hot dogs on buns
Dinner: (Banquet)
        fruit: pineapple, grapes, melon
        bread roll
        three bean salad
        potato salad
        hot potato chunks
        cheesecake

SUNDAY:
Breakfast:  Wheaties with soy milk
            Cheerios with soy milk
            Orange juice
Lunch:  (Another picnic!)
        "veggie cutlet" on roll w lettuce & tomato
        tortilla chips
        chocolate cake
        soda
Dinner: bagel
        1 kiwi fruit
        watermelon
        orange juice

MONDAY:
Lunch:  *Vegetarian noodles:  noodles w eggplant, tofu, mushrooms, in
        a spicy peanut sauce
        Raspberry juice
Dinner: Watermelon
        Mushroom loaf

TUESDAY:
Lunch:  grapes
        veggie pocket
        bagel
Dinner: (TB) 3 bean tacos
        soda

WEDNESDAY:
Lunch:  Vegetable curry
        Raspberry juice
Dinner: Bagel
        watermelon
        grapes

THURSDAY:
Lunch:  1 kiwi fruit
        1 banana
        chapatti w rice & cabbage
Snack:  (after blood donation :-)) Cookies & orange juice
Dinner: (TB) three bean tacos
        soda

FRIDAY:
Lunch:  Noodle salad
        Raspberry juice
Dinner: (dinner at Fresh Choice, a salad bar emporium)
        Spinach salad
        bread
        beans
        pickle
        ??couple other salad dishes

I don't have any further records, but I can tell you what I had last
night (Wednesday):
        hummus and tomato on whole-wheat pita; grapes; 1 orange; bagel
And then today:
Lunch:  hummus on whole-wheat pita w tomatoes; grapes; 1 orange; ginger
        snaps
Dinner: mushroom & tomato pizza with scanty amount of cheese
        orange juice

Well, I hope that this didn't arrive too late to be of use to you.  I
realize that there's not a tremendous amount of variety, but this is
what one vegetarian eats.  I do tend to go on kicks; not once do I
list black bean burritoes, but some months I may eat that a couple nights
a week.  I suppose with a lot of people writing in you'll see quite a
variation.  I will be interested to see the results of your survey if
you post them to the net.

Regards,
Michele Coleman
coleman@leland.Stanford.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.food.veg