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The Vegan Diet How-To Guide for Diabetes
General Tips
Trying New Foods and New Tastes:
- Explore new recipes, new books, and new products.
- Be strict with yourself. It is easier than teasing yourself
with small amounts of the foods you are trying to leave behind.
- Focus on the short term.
- If you have trouble finding recipes you like, please discuss
this with group leaders or participants. There are always solutions.
Convenience Foods:
- Fat-free meat substitutes are quick and can ease the transition.
- Buy prepared salads that are fat-free or have no added fats.
- Use frozen vegetables or canned vegetables instead of fresh.
- Canned beans
- Try low-fat (less than 5g fat per meal), vegan frozen meals
(Amy’s, Mon Cuisine, Cedarlane Natural Foods, and Dr. McDougall
).
On-the-Go: Travel Tips
- Request nondairy vegetarian meals for flights
- All hotels will have oatmeal, pasta with tomato sauce, potatoes,
and vegetable plates, even if they are not on the menu.
- Bring along instant soup cups or instant oatmeal.
Dining Out: Look for ethnic restaurants, especially
Japanese, Chinese, Mexican, and Italian, as they normally have
many vegetarian dishes.
- Japanese: vegetable sushi; miso soup
- Chinese: rice with steamed vegetables (no oil)
- Mexican: bean burrito, hold the cheese, sour cream,
and guacamole; Spanish rice. Ask the waiter to bring out warm
corn tortillas to dip in the salsa and tell them to take away
the fried chips.
- Italian: pasta e fagioli (soup); pasta marinara; ask
that oil be kept at an absolute minimum.
- Thai: vegetarian selections with rice; avoid coconut
milk
- Indian: rice dishes or breads (beware of curries—they
are very fatty)
- Middle-Eastern: tabouleh; hummus with whole wheat
pita
- American: vegetable plate; salad bar; baked beans;
spaghetti; fruit plate; for salads, ask for no dressing, or try
lemon or lime juice, ask that fatty toppings, such as cheese,
bacon, eggs, olives, and avocados, be left off
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