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Can anyone recommend to me diet tips for vegetarian preteen and early teen thin girls? Danger signs for nutritional deficits, sources for reading up on this and particularly good and/or easy recipes also welcome. Replies can come to my e-mail or the newsletter. Thank you.
Here are some recommendations & ideas:
Use a cast iron pan whenever convenient -- a good source of iron!
Try brewer's yeast, as a topping for pasta or as a "breading" for sauted tofu slices dipped first in egg + a little oil & salt. Brewers yeast is a good source of vitamin B.
Quiches w/ veggies in them. I do a tomato quiche that tastes a lot like salmon and has very little cheese, only a sprinkling on top.
avocados. (protein!)
beets baked whole, wrapped in foil, 90 min @ 400, drizzled w/ salad dressing & perhaps goat cheese. (iron again.)
Morningstar vegetarian sausages, bacon & chick patties. (I cut these up & cook in recipes as a meat substitute, like chick patties in fried rice, or sausages with shredded Brussels sprouts, carrots & garlic. All good in sandwiches, too, w/ avo and/or tomato & lettuce.)
Trader Joe's Mintz's tofu blintzes
canned garbazo beans, lots of ways, sautéed w/ curry spices, plain in salads, in a veggie cous-cous w/ lots of tomatoes, etc.
Pasta Plus, includes lentils, not as heavy as whole wheat pasta, but has protein.
Buckwheat pasta (Japanese).
Butternut squash soup w/ garlic.
Lentil soup
Lentil salad w/ avo slices & lime juice, on a bed of lettuce.
Fresh beans in season, in soups. Esp cannellinis & favas.
Nicoise salad w/ avo instead of tuna.
Roast nuts, including pumkin seeds & blanched almonds.
Brown rice. Try tossing w/ a little mozzarella & grated cheese + basil.
Olive-oil-sauted tofu cubes added (hot) to (cold) tomato chunks & basil, w/ salt & pepper.
Save all vegetable water for broth (& water soluble vitamins). Make broth with corn cobs & asparagus trimmings.
Explore Chinese recipes. and Mexican -- burritos, quesadillas, beans, chips & cheese. Home-made salsa, great for cooking rice.
Check out Chez Panisse Vegetable cookbook. Simplify stuff if necessary. Good ideas. bon appetit!
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