OT--Quinoa

who the heck would depend on a single food for 'all their amino acids' (protein) anyhow. maybe those who eat huuuuuge steaks, lol. mixing is all well and good if you know and pay attention to the right foods. i dont make all my ds' meals, he is over 20yrs old now. after convos with him about mixing, i know he could care less what works how. so i thot finding a food like this that gives him a complete protein it has to be good. he'll fix for himself whatever is in the pantry/fridge and has no animal in it. makes me feel better to know about this and keep it in the house. :) jeanne

"Jack Camp> Every single living organism contains those amino acids, in varying

Been away from the US a while eh? (G) A whole lot of people's standard meals are comprised of a chunk of meat, a glop of starch and a duty veggie. That whole meat and potatos mentality. I have have seen a wave of interest in better food rise up over the past couple of decades so I like to think that a lot of people are eating better than that now. Truely though somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century a notion seemed to come up that eating meat was essential to life. Cookbooks I have from the first half of the century talk about not giving children meat until they are at least 5 and being sparse with it until they are older. In fact the only people that it was recomended to eat meat daily were men engaged in hard physical labor as they needed the concentrated energy (fat) from it, else they would have to eat a great deal of other things. That seemed to start changing just prior to WWII, and by the mid fifties we were back to cavmen and vikings and having scorched animal on a stick for supper every day. These days the number of people who actually believe that the only source of protien that humans can assimilate is meat is just astounding. I had a woman at an art show get in may face and loudly proclaim that all vegetarians are liars. Because you can't live without eating meat yanno, so any healthy person who clams to have been a vegetarian for more than a couple of weeks is a liar.

NightMist

On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:44:43 +1200, "nzlstar*" wrote:

Completely coincidentally, one of the quilter's in my group brought a quinoa tabouleh to our quilt group pot luck last night. Very nice dish! (Google gives a lot of recipe variations, all of which look good).

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i cant believe there are still people out there that closed minded about someone else's diet! it blows my mind! DD and i have recently been introducing more and more vegitarian recipes into our diets. we do still eat some meat, but more veggies and fruit. it has shown in our weight loss and skin tone and texture. a good balanced diet of dairy, veggies, fruits, whole grains and legumes are plenty to keep a body healthy. we are on a fixed income, so meat is a luxury, and one we dont get too often. and besides--there's no animal fat in chocolate! amy

There's a good chance you haven't heard of muktuk either. Another Native American food the rest of the world wasn't in any hurry to adopt.

God bless the US Department of Agriculture, we can even compare their nutritional value:

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