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Setback! Pigged out on Chinese food with family. Lot of sugary, starchy things. Good company and conversation. Maybe should have shown a little more moderation, but it was fun. Back on the wagon with healthy food this morning. 13 percent body fat in 5 weeks? Here's hoping that this reader meets his goal.
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Hey, me too. I was doing fine until I went to Whole Foods yesterday and among other things got a bag of vegan chocolate chip cookies, which I've eaten about half of at this point. I think they are upsetting my stomach. Can that be possible?
What's in chocolate chip cookies that would need to be removed to make them vegan? Besides flavor and texture, I mean. :devil:Quote:
Originally Posted by qimissung
lol. Bad calidore. I have no idea. I was at a Whole Foods, and the sign said "Vegan cookies." They are really, really good. A little too good, if you know what I mean. :D
Milk, I guess. I think you put milk in cookies, and in chocolate chips. I wonder what vegans use instead...
Soy milk, rice milk, almond milk, hazelnut milk, coconut milk. Also cookies can be made without any type of milk.Quote:
Originally Posted by JuniperWoolf
For chocolate chips - dark chocolate chips, "milk" chocolate chips made with the above milks, vegan white chocolate made with the same :biggrin5:
Coconut milk sounds great for cookies. Then you can dunk them in what's left over when you eat them.
Here's another question: Why is vegan pronounced veeg-an instead of vej-an. You don't eat veegtables.
I actually saw something about this on TV a while ago, apparently Vegetarians are not called vegetarians because they eat vegetables, its derived from the word vegetus meaning lively or vigorous.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
With regards to how to say vegan, I think its the way Donald Watson invented it. He wanted it to be said Veegan (spelt as V*gan by some) so it is, its one of those weird things like the Live-er Building in Liverpool. Really it should be the Liver Building as in the body part.
Coconut milk is great, not a fan of the plain stuff, but the chocolate one is brilliant.....
http://i1123.photobucket.com/albums/..._chocolate.jpg
You know, it never occurred to me to check the dictionary. According to Merriam-Webster:Quote:
Originally Posted by Buckthorn
Origin of VEGETABLE -- Middle English, from Medieval Latin vegetabilis vegetative, from vegetare to grow, from Latin, to animate, from vegetus lively, from vegēre to enliven — more at wake
First Known Use: 15th century
Origin of VEGETARIAN
vegetable + -arian
First Known Use: 1839
Origin of VEGAN
by contraction from vegetarian
First Known Use: 1944
Wow. See, vegan can be just as unhealthy as everything else. That does look very tasty, though. Anyone know if it's available in the States?Quote:
Originally Posted by Buckthorn
I miss Whole Foods. But that place really could make you go bankrupt. So many overly-expensive choices. I generally preferred Trader Joe's because of that, and also because they have much better business practices. Whole Foods uses a lot of false advertising. Still, I miss it... and particularly their salad and food bar. Or the cheese. Yes, mmm, the cheese.
:( I don't get a choice, there's only one grocery store within 400 square kms. They NEVER have good tomatoes.
Yup, vegans certainly can be unhealthy. A quick google of "Vegan junk food" always reaffirms that. I don't think that brand of coconut milk is available in the States but this one is: http://sodeliciousdairyfree.com/prod...ages/chocolateQuote:
Originally Posted by Calidore
Back to fitness - I managed to get my swim time down to 56:54. Its only 6 seconds off my best time this year but it all counts!
I agree that Whole Foods is expensive. There are actually only a handful in the area I live in, so it's always a trip. I shop there only rarely as a result.
I did see an article where a woman compared shopping there with "regular" grocery store and was pleasantly surprised to see that Whole Foods was not as exorbiant as she feared.
I'm interested in Trader Joe's. I've heard of it and may be able to shop there soon as they are just now opening a few stores in the city I live in.
Congrats, Buckthorne. I took the day off. Boy, I really needed to rest. It's just that I've been busy. My workout is hardly arduous.
Qimi, I think we’re leading some sort of weird, parallel life. The same day you went with the vegan chocolate chippers from Whole Foods, so did I – almost. I was standing in front of the bakery case at the Whole Foods, in a trance, maybe a stupor, and for a long time, so long in fact that the security guy came over and asked if he could help me. That snapped me out of it and I said, “I reckon not.” And then I dejectedly walked over to the salad bar…but then I grabbed a big ole handful of bon-bons at the check-out stand. Woo-hoo! I ate ‘em all before I even got out of the parking lot.
By the way, I always thought they pronounced it Vee-gan instead of Vay-gan so it wouldn’t rhyme with bacon.
:banghead::lol: Thank you for a good laugh, Sancho, something that's as good for ya as a salad and sweeter than the sweetest bon-bon or cookie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sancho
Umph, I'm STILL laughing. I wasted not a bit of time over my decision. I was walking by, there they were, and right into my cart they went. I ate three on the way home (one does work up an appetite while shopping, doesn't one?).