What do you do if you hate chicken. My daughter is a vegetarian. So for a couple months I kind of stopped preparing and eating meat. Now Im following this plan and its a little touch. I really cant stomach all of this protein.
There are a couple of vegetarians on here that hopefully will chime in soon for ya. But I know that you can use vegetarian proteins on the plan, and there should be some listed in your plan book. A lot of the folks on here use veggie burgers and peanut butter as their protein.
I don't see why you can't incorporate elements of both veggie and carni-proteins from our normal menu books.. That way, your chicken intake is kept to a minimum... Do you eat eggs?
I use more of the vegetarian options than I do meat. I do like fish so have that as it is much lighter. I use soy milk almost every day with fruit to make a smoothie, peanut butter or cheese at lunch or a veggie burger and then have shrimp or fish more often than not. There are some full vegetarians that do the plan incredibly well.
I go back and forth all the time. I eat veggie burgers, red meat, pork, chicken, fish, shrimp, etc. and it hasn't affected my loss rate. I eat the veggie burgers and other veggie products a lot, but since I have to cook for the family, I add in the other stuff too. You should be fine.
Thanks so much everyone. I am so tired of seeing chicken, but I was under ussumption that I coulnt venture over to the vegetarian protients. I love fish, but Im not very good at cooking it. But at least I know I can have other options.
Kayla - I have two very easy and very tasty recipes I posted in the recipe thread. Try the Tilapia w/Horseradish and Parmesan, and the Broiled Fish, Shrimp or Scallops w/Lemon Butter.
Also, Dan and some of the others are fans of the Tilapia Italiano.
There are a bunch of good fish recipies around here and other places..
To tell the truth, I HATE HATE HATE fish... But I've learned to cook it in ways that are at least palatable.
There's a recipe in the forum here for Orange Roughy Italiano.. It's really pretty tasty.. Also, if you're cooking salmon, wrap it in foil with just a spritz of cooking spray and topped with lemon slices or juice, a pinch of lite salt and pepper (and in my case, chipotle chile powder [salt free, of course]) and bake it.. It cooks fast and there's little mess.. In reality, that kind of cooking works for just about any fish..
i do the plan vegetarian and i eat lots of egg beaters, veggie crumbles, veggie burgers (there are so many different varieties!), peanut butter, cottage cheese, etc. as proteins.