Going excessive on nut purchase

Two blogs ago I wrote about how i want to make vegan chocolate at home with tons of nuts . well, looks like i made a mental record of it which is why i actually dropped by the spice and nuts store the other day and went ballistic with buying two large bags of raisins, a large bag of almonds , a bag of cashews, a bag of tutti frutti bits,a bag of dry coconut flakes and a bag of buchanania nuts(these are tiny nuts that are very interesting tasting).
The fun part is , i never really could recall why i needed to buy nuts in the first place. I forgot about the chocolate bar plan. So, i ended up chomping down a whole bag of almonds just like that.I used some cashews to make yellow vegan cake. Now, now, I suddenly remember about the chocolate and there are no almonds. damn.. and almonds are the best nuts for chocolate.so whatever.

Dryfruits and nuts--Vegan

Dryfruits are concentrated forms of freshfruits.
They are richer sources of minerals than the fresher form of a fruit if cosumed in teh same quantity by weight. Having said that dry fruits are essentially processed in a small given way when compared to their fresher counterparts and therefore all water soluble vitamins are gone. Nevertheless dryfruits are reall nutritious have large quantities of microminerals given the fact that one can consume larger quanities of a dry fruit at a given time than say the same number of fresh fruits.
ONe could eat greater number of dried figs than say freshfigs.
Having said that, It is always a better option to eat fresh figs than dried just so that you don't miss out on the fiber, water content and the water soluble vitamins.

Now coming to the nuts. Nuts contains a high quanity of essential fatty acis . They are yet again good mineral sources as well. But then, many of them do have varying quanitities of saturated fats in combination to the pufas-Poly unsaturated fatty acids. Which is, they are very very rich sources of calories.
Nuts do have fiber but come on, nuts are not hte only source of fiber.Vegetables are a far superior source of fiber without the cholesterol but with the minerals if at all you are looking for a mineral rich fiber source. I would suggest that nuts are better off when used of as garnishes rather than when consumed as is as a snack.Nuts when eaten by the handful are just not right. So, quit eating nuts as a meal. Rather just include a tablespoonful of nuts in your diet every alternate day.That should do.
Nuts and dryfruits do provide minerals for a vegan but i would rather than vegans derive all their fiber and minerals from vegetables which are quite balanced when consumed in large quantities than when nuts are . It is funny when i see vegans going crazy over cashew paste in every damn thing.Serioulsy, come on , cashew does have a lot of cholesterol-Not that cholesterol is bad, but then out own body is perfectly capable of synthesizing cholesterol on it's own from vegetable sources.

Six months without chocolate bars since going vegan

okay, I did make drinking chocolate as in cocoa from rich dry unprocessed cocoa powder, but besides that i never really purchase any chocolate from the store. Funnily, since going vegan six months ago i expected to start craving chocolate bars atleast .Yes, I do crave something sweet right after a meal, but mostly that sweet craving gets satisfied by a fruit-an apple or orange or guava or any other fruit that i have on hand. I do crave chocolate sometimes, as in those chocolate bars but since i have no patience to make vegan chocolate bars at home from cocoa powder, I Just let the craving pass.I did find some very good vegan chocolate bars at the store but never purchased any .Just was trying to save money.Trying my bit to avoid unnecessary expenditure and help the economic recession.See, I may have a million dollars in my bank account but yet i still have a responsibility to only spend wisely.
So yeah, I sure am cotemplating buying some really good nuts and then making some good chocolate bars from scratch from cocoa powder and other vegan ingredients.I mean to add animal breast secreations is what is abnormal really. \
whatever, whatver.

Red cabbage

Red cabbage...ate some the other day..tried boiling some of it..and suddenly i was left with whitish cabbage and purple water..whoooooo.whatever...As usual, no recipes coz i am getting sick of stupid food bloggers who really don't have any recipes of their own and live off of the posts of others.. hmmmm.

SEPTEMBER 2013

Because this is one the MOST VISITED blog entry on my THE ULTIMATE VEGETARIAN BLOG,and since I FEEL SORRY that this blog entry was written in a hurry and is so short and lacking in information,

I HAVE DECIDED TO ADD A POSTNOTE to this tiny blog entry in an attempt to make it more COMPLETE..afterall,the visitors,JUST DON'T STOP visiting this incomplete blog entry.

RED CABBAGE,RED AMARANTH,red or purple vegetables -what do they have in common?


ANTHOCYANINS...a type of pigment...they are antioxidants.

but,but,JUST COZ a vegetable is red or purple ,DOESN'T mean,that once we consume these veggies FULL of antioxidants,We are going to be able to BENEFIT from the antioxidant properties of the anthocyanin in them...

why?

because,no matter what we eat,it gets BROKEN down BY OUR DIGESTIVE SYSTEM...including ALL PIGMENTS.....

The antioxidants we consume,WILL GET BROKEN DOWN BY OUR DIGESTIVE SYSTEMS INTO basic units and then absorbed....Once,broken down,the purple pigments lose their antioxidant compound structure too...and thus don't work as antioxidants anymore.

Most of all complex foods consumed by our body,WILL BE BROKEN DOWN into their respective smallest absorbable unit in our gastrointestinal system...

ONLY CERTAIN VITAMINS though complex in structure get absorbed as is--and which is why,WE consume vitamins as a NECESSARY component of a balanced diet..Our body cannot synthesize certain compounds from the basic units it absorbs via the digestive system and hence it depends on outside food sources for these vital compounds called vitamins.

Maybe,I will write another separate blog entry about vitamins,but,for now,let us come back to ANTHOCYANINS and antioxidants in food!

HAVING SAID THAT,though purple vegetables GIVE YOU NO ADDED BENEFIT IN THE ANTIOXIDANT DEPARTMENT,they however STILL HAPPEN TO BE VEGGIES and hence are great sources of vitamins and fiber..and are nevertheless beneficial to the body.

So,no harm is CHOMPING down more purple veggies!

Having said all this,Final question is,do colorful veggies do any good to our food plates?

YES.

Including COLORFUL veggies in our diet, helps us improve the appearance of our food plates and make us WANT TO EAT the pretty food,and then,we eat more veggies and more food-thus allowing us the benefit of greater intake of food-an energy source for your bodies!

As far as antioxidants are concerned.We don't really need to consume them from an outside source.

OUR BODY SYTHESIZES its own antioxidants as part of various biochemical pathways.As long as we DON'T CONSUME so many toxins(alcohol,drugs,foods that tip the nitrogen balance of the body-namely animal meat),we are JUST GONNA BE FINE!

I know , it has been four weeks..and all that jazz

It is not that i didn't have anything to blog about ..but seriously, I guess i blog at seven different places and sometimes i want to talk about the same thing to all different sections of readers on each blog.. which eventually ends up with me typing the same thing over and over.So yeah, I figured why not use a platform and blog to all places in one go.You shall see in the future how i do that though.