Vegetarian Club!

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My mother only eats raw food.. nothing cooked, so thats 1 diner, i am vegan/vegetarian thats another, my step moms and brother and sister eat meat 1 more. and my other sister has OCD, has to cook her own, and shes highly allrgic to some stuff so another... thats 4 =) not to meantion we make homemade dog food...


lets say the meat-eaters have chicken and rice, i'll have a fake chicken patty with rice, mom will have raw sushi , and sister will have homemade special chicken patty things made out of beans, and rice so were all eating the same type of stuff except differant

 

[trigan]

Tempeh is basically a fermented soy cake, more texture and taste than tofu. It holds up a little better than tofu in some recipes because it's more solid, and it takes marinades really well. That's without looking up a 'real' definition in the dictionary, but that's the basic gist of it. Even around where I'm at in the US it's not available everywhere, but if you know where to go you can find it. Hope that helps!

I made my first tempeh meal yesterday. It was as follows:

100 grams of Tempeh =150 cals
210 grams of Tofu = 210 cals
fried in a teaspoon of oil. 41 cals
2 toast = 180 cals
quarter parsnip and 2 mushrooms fried in a teaspoon of oil = 80 cals
I used 5 heaped teaspoons of thick bisto roastpork gravy to make lots of gravy.

Incredibly I found that I felt full up when I had only eaten half of this. I forced myself to continue eating but I still could not eat three quarters of one toast after I had eaten almost everything on the plate.

I have had meat dishes having the same amount of calories in the past 4 weeks but have mostly felt not quite full after I had eaten them.

This tempeh meal has made me wonder whether tempeh has some kind of chemical in it that decreases appetite. Does anyone know ?

Thanks.