I'm wanting to become a vegetarian but I need help?

"I'm wanting to become a vegetarian but I need help?"

Ok if you want to become a lacto-ovo-vegetarian, this is fine, just make sure that you do the best to cover all of the essential nutrients. There are some key nutrients that you need to be aware of. If course the commonly known vitamin B12. But there's some others as well. However a good quality multi-vitamin should help with cover all but one. As some that eats meat, but in a very limited amount, choline can be an issue for lacto-ovo-vegetarians, as this nutrient isn't an essential trace mineral or classed as a vitamin, but was in 1998 classed as being an essential micronutrient. I strongly suggest as time allows, to become more familiar with both the macronutrients, as well as the micronutrients. This micronutrient is not included in a large percentage of multi-vitamins with minerals. So as a supplement, it would need to be added as a separate one.

A lacto-ovo-vegetarian is a healthy diet for many, but it's not for everyone. I do NOT want the fact it didn't work for me, or my late girlfriend tainting things for you. We had given up eating meat, so that our daughter could have it, because one a parent's love for their child, two we wanted our daughter to be healthy. Yet even with our combined knowledge it wasn't enough. That much I will share. more than that you don't need to know.

Now a couple of easy things to make.

Beans and rice. this can be black beans, pinto beans and rice, preferably brown rice, but white will work. Add in some chopped sweet red green, and yellow/orange peppers, some onions, and if you like them some mushrooms. The make a seasoned brown flour gravy to go over top of the mix. It's very filling.

Then there's glazed yams, or sweet potatoes. Using canned sweet potatoes drain off, and save the liquid, about half will do. Place the liquid in a sauce pan, then add some real maple syrup, about a quarter of a cup, add about two tablespoons of dark brown sugar, although light brown sugar will work also, about two tablespoons of butter, although margarine can be used as a substitute, then carefully sift in, and mix some corn starch, place on the stove top and carefully bring to a low boil stirring constantly to prevent scorching, until it starts to thicken. Have the sweet potatoes placed in an oven safe pan. Then pour the mix as evenly as possible over the sweet potatoes, and place them in a pre-heated over set to three hundred fifty degree for about thirty minutes.

Now omelets aren't just for breakfast. They can be turned into a dessert. Make the omelet as you normally would, except swap out everything and replace with some type of fruit. once you have folded it over, them dust it lightly with some powdered sugar, and serve warm.

Also start learning about what nutrients is in food. Different foods contains different amounts of the various essential nutrients, and some lack some nutrients. Now while not perfect, nutritiondata.self.com/ will give a more complete breakdown of the nutritional value of something. However the large majority only cover a few. A simple search can be done, and using various modifiers will pay an important role in the returns you get. Use modifiers such as raw, baked, and cooked, when you do. Below are two examples, and you can compare them against one another.

broccoli raw nutritional value

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and...

broccoli cooked nutritional value

http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/vegetables-and...

Now when you compare the two, before you start, comparing the two, use the drop down at the top, and select the one hundred grams serving size for each. At a glance it may not look like there is much but there are differences, that are there none the less. Some will be obvious easily, others the changes will be smaller. Use the search I gave and just change the food item, and where it can be done, the modifier.

You should head over to the library and pick out a book about being a vegetarian to read. While you are there you can peruse some back issues of the vegetarian times. and maybe check out a cook book too.