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Sometimes you get your biases & impressions confirmed. Elmo's break/cut everything he doesn't understand approach has turned XTwitter into a total bot sewer.

RE: mastodon.social/users/Wikisteff/statuses/111990128902635904

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22 hours left to vote for The Farm Animal Sanctuary to recieve a £5,000 grant that will keep them in food and bedding for another month.

They save a lot of animals that nobody else cares about. It took me 5 seconds approx to cast my vote for them. Please consider taking a few seconds to add your vote.


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Those toms.

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I find it quite interesting that the social norms change in the 1.5 decades I've been (almost) consistently is that:

+The number of people who can accept that excessive meat, fish & dairy consumption is harming the planet & its ecosystems viability has really increased.

-The number of people who can accept that excessive meat, fish & dairy consumption is harming human health outcomes has not really increased.

-Mostly only people who are already are really comfortable being exposed to any sort of discussion (as opposed to specific pets rights).

Parts 2 & 3 are still really quite taboo subjects people tend to shy away from.

So it feels like progress is very slow, even in progressive spaces like the . Am I wrong about that?
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@JetlagJen @vegan @plantbased
I think it's an awesome thing every time someone replaces an animal product meal with a healthy meal. Whatever their motivations it's to be applauded.

If they do it for the planet, or for the species we share the planet with, it's just fitting good karma if they get reduced risks for cancer diabetes atherosclerosis CVD stroke dementia osteoporosis etc.

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Stats worth remembering.

If we ate mostly plant based diets, nature would get around 75% of the planet's fertile land back. Our oceans would recover too. Simplest solution for carbon capture, natural world, climate resilience, food chain preservation & biodiversity. A massive step to a sustainable and safer future for humans.

Studies show that shifting to a plant-based food system would release fertile land the size of combining the entire United States, China, the European Union, and Australia.


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Westernised diets are heavily implicated in land use, water use, petrochems use, energy use, processing packaging refrigeration, overall resources use, eutrophication, pollution, loss of biodiversity, destruction of natural habitats, extinctions, pathogens, soil erosion & depletion, antibiotic resistance, pandemics, food chain collapse.

Yet the industrialised agriculture & food systems central to so many crises only feed 30% of the world population.

30% !

It's only 30% of humanity who need to go back to more traditional local plant focused dietary patterns.

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We need to work back towards eating quite a bit more like our grandparents & great grandparents. With the environmental footprint more like theirs.

Mostly plants, locally grown where possible. Healthy ingredients, less processed, less packaging.

ArtBear OP ,
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3,000 dairy cows produce about the same amount of sewage as a human city of
500,000 people.

There are
1,850,000 dairy cows in the UK. That's the sewage output of
308 million people.

ArtBear OP ,
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If you want to factor the impacts to sustainable food systems of milk purchase you might find this graphic useful.

If you chose to use eg oats plus water while cooking (or make your own milk) as a substitute to where you might have used container milk in the past you have further substantially reduced the packaging, storage transport etc footprint below the graphic.

It's worth noting often emissions analyses almost never include all the refrigeration. A lot of plant milks are both tasty while being shelf stable.

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There are some really crazy things people don't know about healthy plantbased diets. Revolutionary stuff, and easily reproduced in multiple clinical trials, and yet almost nobody knows about it, which is so strange.

Take any omnivore.
Draw their blood and measure how well their blood fights various cancer cells.

Put them 2 weeks on a diet (whole foods plant based type diet ). Draw their blood and measure again their cancer cell killing ability.

Same people, but now their blood typically fights cancer massively more effectively, often averaging around 10 times more effectively.

Then let those people return to their everyday diet and their blood drops back to regular 10 times less effective at fighting cancer.

Eat even for just 2 weeks and your blood gets substantially better at zapping cancer cells. Then if you go back to everyday standard diet in a couple of weeks your blood has lost the cancer fighting super powers.
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No medical team has ever reversed heart disease. Slowed it down with drugs sure, some temporary plumbing work arounds like bypasses yes sure, but no reversals.

Apart, of course, from all the medical teams who succeed by prescribing whole food plant based eating and routinely put CVD & atherosclerosis in to reverse in thousands of patients yearly, and they have the CT scans, angiograms etc to show it.

FIGURE 2 Reversal of coronary artery disease* Coronary angiography shows a heavily diseased distal left anterior descending artery. Right panel shows the artery regaining normal flow configuration and function after 32months of plant-based nutrition intervention, without cholesterol lowering medication.
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    • ArtBear OP ,
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    Late 90s, early 00s, we had incontravertible proof. We can actually reverse , . Not attempt bypass, or slow progression with drugs, but actually restore artery function, reverse the disease.

    25years on, very few of us are exposed to this information to make fully informed choices.

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    Things huge food & media corporations will commonly say.

    If you're worried about carcinogens from eating our expensive & highly profitable animal products, why not eat lots of our expensive and highly profitable berry products for anti-oxidants.

    Things huge food & media corporations will NOT commonly say.

    Eating affordable & not highly profitable beans & especially lentils gives you far more anti-oxidents than berries. Use them to replace eating animal products & it's a double win.


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    @wfpb @vegan @plantbased
    There are now 20 times more cattle being raised today than the entire earth's wild biosphere of every type of mammal. From mice to elephants.

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    11 Mt Even Hoofed mammals
    4 Mt Rodents
    2 Mt Elephants
    2 Mt Bats
    2 Mt Marsupials
    1 Mt Carnivores
    1 Mt Primates
    1 Mt Others

    24 Mt total biosphere for wild mammals

    And then we have
    651 Mt of Domesticated Mammals

    This radical shift in the recent decades is essentially is the story of 30% of humanity being marketed over the last 80 years in to regarding all those profitable but bad for us bacon double cheeseburgers etc as indispensable & some sort of god given right that our entire identity (manhood/personhood) hinges on.

    This is also the story of that 30% of humanity developing so many chronic conditions and buying the drugs and hospital procedures to deal with the effects of that eating style of course.

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    @crankylinuxuser
    Hi Josh

    I want to answer you well so you can make up your own mind with pointers for information sources. That will require a couple of posts so bear with me.

    My position is absolutely evidence based, my continued reading in this area over 15years has regularly provided more supporting data as I keep up to date. I am pragmatic not dogmatic, I am for example not exclusively making some allowances for social reasons occasionally, (chasing perfection should not prevent living).

    If the facts change my analysis would follow. For much of my life I used be the Mr.Barbecue type, I didn't actually like what the med studies (& climate change) data I was reading in the 00s said, I really didn't want them to be true for a while.

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    @crankylinuxuser
    yes, it is possible to replace a high fat animal diet like keto with a high fat plant diet. This change from animal to plant does reduce all-cause mortality, chronic disease, cancer, strokes, dementias, erectile dysfunction and other nasties particularly vascular.

    Harvard study 100,000ppl
    A low-carbohydrate diet based on animal sources was associated with higher all-cause, cardiovascular & cancer mortality in both men and women, whereas a vegetable-based low-carbohydrate diet was associated with lower all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality rates.

    There's an over 40% difference in mortality outcome favouring plant based.

    nutritionfacts.org/video/plant-based-atkins-diet/

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    @crankylinuxuser
    However it is also unnecessary & not apparently the best route for T2 diabetes. One also experiences even better reductions to mortality, chronic conditions, cancers etc by going another route. The low fat plant based route, instead of high fat, low carb plant based.

    There are tens of thousands of people who have controlled their T2 diabetes by using healthy plantbased diets that are naturally low in fat, packed with complex rather than refined carbs, fruit, veg, greens, herbs spices and some nuts and seeds. In essence it boils down to eat plants, whole ones, eg brown rice is much better than white, and eliminate the now glug 400calories of olive/cooking etc oil on to that step.

    The only eating plan that reverses heart disease is also an eating plan that reverses T2 diabetes. Low fat plant based uses a safer mechanism than Keto. Instead of adding masses of fat calories and taking carbohydrates away. It uses healthy carbs, and removes adding oils, or other high fat sources like animal products.

    A high fat dietary component is severely increasing the intolerance to carbohydrates. Everyone experiences increasing insulin resistance and sugar sensitivity as you increase the fat in their blood, remove it and it drops. Remove the fats from the diet and the carbohydrate intolerance is massively reduced.

    Keto by contrast is sort of dangerous in that sense as it makes you super susceptible to going off plan even accidentally with carbs.

    nutritionfacts.org/video/what-causes-insulin-resistance/

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    @crankylinuxuser
    There is a huge wealth of supporting data. Many many studies. Intervention. Observation. Population. Double blind placebo controlled clinical trials.

    A number of doctors are quite well known in this area for well publicised dietary interventions on large numbers of patients, observational studies and meta-analysis on risks and reversing T2 diabetes, heart disease and various other things including Neal Barnard, T. Colin Campbell, Caldwell Esselstyn, Michael Greger and so on.

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    @crankylinuxuser
    So @Leisureguy is another someone who has controlled their T2 diabetes entirely through dietary pattern, a low fat, healthy plant based diet. Lots complex carbs, skipping heavily refined ones. He also has a blog filled with ideas & observations.

    If you do investigate this route, there are some real benefits, like you can eat a lot more and still control or lose weight, because plant foods are less calorie per volume. They're also packed with nutrition, fibre and antioxidants not carcinogens. Complex carbs, legumes like beans all release slower which blunts spikes and troughs too.

    Compare my meal I'm eating while writing this to you, huge mound of grains beans veg, I also had rye toast with some nut butter and kimchee too. It's a lot of food.

    Contrast that with the small portion of salmon and a green salad that shrinks to nothing in the stomach. The high fat animal equivalent more in the keto direction.

    Keto style leaves me hungry (which will lead me to failure with weight control, only A-listers with personal training & support teams can stay hungry indefinitely I think). Weight control is important to all eating styles particularly with T2 diabetes.

    I have posted a few random recipes as personal motivation, and its pinned in a thread to my bio in case that is interesting to anyone else.

    RE: catodon.social/notes/9pya7ds5xetgsm63

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    Yummy toast on a blue plate with a bucket of spice tea behind.

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    @crankylinuxuser
    There are huge amounts of proper resources available now, including a really good evidence based run down of medical studies available to date. Which is:
    nutritionfacts.org/

    Good resources for meal planning and recipes for LOW FAT plant based the type but you can pretty much low fat anything by remove the animal stuff, substitute cooking oil instead with water/stock/tamari in pan etc, and air fryer for crispy.

    Some Meal Plan, (Recipe & Testimonials etc)
    www.forksoverknives.com/recipes/
    home.mealplanner.plantstrong.com/

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    @crankylinuxuser
    So, apologies if that's longer & more detailed than you wanted or find interesting! Perhaps it might be useful to someone else at some point.

    If I had to do it all again and boil everything down to what I would, letter to past-me, advise for myself as a super simple plan:

    Buy this recipe book.
    www.amazon.com/Engine-Seven-Day-Rescue-Diet-Plants/dp/1455591165/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
    Check recipes and make sure I'm prepped for ingredients etc.
    Get my bloods & levels checked at Doc.
    Then do the plan, no cheating, like I travelled to a foreign country & could only shop some foreign supermarket.
    3 weeks ideally. It's just 3 weeks, anyone can do something for 3 weeks, even a strict version like that.
    Don't skip exercise.
    Monitor insulin needs etc carefully for changes.
    Observe how I felt at end.
    Get bloods & levels checked at end.
    See if I surprise the crap out of my doctor!


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    @failedLyndonLaRouchite @vegan @plantbased
    The basis of science is when we discover new data, we have to modify our position. Even when we don't like the data. Even if the data supports health benefits from healthy eating.

    8 times more more effective blood at killing prostate cancer cells on a protocol.
    Reversal of prostate cancer growth in patients under a WFPB protocol.
    Blood that barely impacted breast cancer cells became blood that wiped out breast cancer cell samples on a WFPB protocol.
    etc. etc.

    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16094059
    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16965238
    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12772189
    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21325617
    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19279082
    www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24606898
    pressroom.usc.edu/meat-and-cheese-may-be-as-bad-for-you-as-smoking/
    www.theguardian.com/science/2014/mar/04/animal-protein-diets-smoking-meat-eggs-dairy
    www.industrydocumentslibrary.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/#id=qjhf0104

    prostate tumor reversal using a wfpb plantbased protocol.

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    @failedLyndonLaRouchite @vegan @plantbased
    You aer sounding like you need the data I've provided to not be true. Hence you want to quibble about figures for eating protocols. Like is it 6 times better, or 8 times better etc. It's better is the point.

    Exact figures will always depend on the individual, the before diet, the protocol diet, and the cancers in question. The data supports wfpb being better, far far better.

    If you want me to throw out 15years of in depth nutrition research in favour of your position you have to bring more to the table than calling my position bullshit and saying you spent a few minutes on pub med.

    If you bring me some studies showing people on a healthy diet had their blood drawn and tested for efficacy in vitro against cancer cells, then they were moved to a standard americanised diet blood drawn again and the S.A.D. diet gave them massively enhanced cancer cell fighting blood, which returned to baseline after going back to - then that would be something to balance your position with some credible data.

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    Making coconut sweet potato lentil curry and listening to today's new releases like
    - Too Much Too Little
    open.spotify.com/track/6uB9IlAd8cad9y7yDCeALb?si=wzOUcv8ISA2dKe33TV7Pqg

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    @chessert ok, sort of like this.

    Boil kettle, cover noodles (4mins these chow mein), sieve starchy noodle water into large wok. Rinse noodles under cold water set aside to drain.
    Cut onions peppers into heating wok. Add fine cut sweet potato for thick sauce or chunky cut for intact pieces, or mix.

    Add spices, chilli flakes, cumin, coriander, nutmeg, garlic, ginger, cardamom, tumeric, black pepper, pinch cinnamon & ground cloves.

    Split most way down & add lemongrass stalk if u have it, remove at end, if not... lemon or lime wedges at serve.

    Add good measure of dry lentils. Let them hoover up the mixed starchy noodle water and spices. Add a tin of chickpeas in water not drained.

    As it starts to dry add a can of coconut milk. Simmer. Use lid as needed to prevent going dry, and/or hot water from kettle if needed.

    Add fresh or frozen veg. Baby corn, spinach, kale, peas, sugar snap peas all favourites.

    I added an extra can of beans (black eyed iirc?), drained.

    I like to serve this recipe with a splash of tamari at plating up, it needs less than adding during cooking and lentils already absorbed tons flavour.
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    Making sausage sandwiches! I'm like a trailblazing culinary genius with this amazing idea I invented!!

    I will say I really like the Linda McCartney Red Onion & Rosemary bangers. Proper tasty!

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    Keeping that recipe for healthy habits self motivation.


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    Batch cooking enough to have extra meals to heat up is a great time (& healthy motivation) saver. Easy ways to vary things a bit is really helpful to prevent food boredom.

    Chopped red onions, red peppers and tomatoes. Give them 15mins in airfryer. Heat up leftovers from psot above, add new stuff on top with some spring onion.


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    8minute meal?

    I had less than 10 minutes before a neighbour was coming over to do weights together. I want some food ready for after when I'd be really hungry.

    I threw 2 cups of oat groats (pretty much intact whole oats, can be used a lot like rice) and 2 cups of dried beans (black turtle in this case) into a jug and covered with water to quick soak for a couple of minutes and also swirl rinse them. They both have similar pressure cook times of 22 and 25 minutes.

    Grabbed a load of frozen veg from the freezer and spices.

    Sieved the grains and beans into the instant pot pressure cooker.
    Added generous shakes of chipotle spices, smoked paprika, cumin, black cumin, turmeric, black pepper, ginger and garlic.
    8cups water
    lots of frozen veg, sweetcorn, green beans, spinach, baby corn, carrots, garden peas, okra.
    Gave everything a really good stir and set for
    25minutes on high pressure.

    Hour & a half later after working out it's all done & hot, tasty and filling! Served with a splash of tamari, dried chives & nutritional yeast.


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    I particularly liked how the oat groats and black turtle beans make this really filling, so quick to make but also really budget friendly. Dry beans are much cheaper than canned and actually easier to use than tinned this way.

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    Freekeh lentils!

    2cups freekeh grains, 2 cups lentils.
    Mix in load of spices.
    2 tins chopped tomatoes.
    5 cups water.
    Rough cut veg and greens -kale, spinach.
    7mins, instant pot on high.


    @vegan @cooking @cooking @vegancooking @wfpb @plantbased

    2x cups freekeh grain
    2yu cups Freekeh plus 1cup red lentils 1 cup black lentils
    Looking in to the instant pot pressure cooker

    ArtBear OP ,
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    I threw 500g of mixed beans (10 types) in a container and added water to them sunday night. By morning, monday they had doubled in size pretty much, but the important part is the cooking time drops and is much closer together for the different bean varieties and closer to the black rice cooking time I wanted to pair with.

    I stirred a lot of spices and chili into the rice, then added 750 ml of water. Stir in all of the beans and water. Add lots of fresh and frozen veg, give it another good stir.

    The pot would be maybe too full if the beans hadn't already been soaked, but they've already increased in size and properly stirred the rice will fill the gaps in between things.

    Then about 8-10 minutes in the instant pot on high should be enough with natural pressure release.


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    rice and spices.
    Water, beans, veg added to the rice n spice.

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    Today (Tuesday) I made a lentil wok dish. Lots french & red lentils in with boiling water and lot of spices, garlic, ginger, chillies.
    Red lentils 29%Protein 3%Fat
    French lentils 27%Protein 4%Fat

    After 10mins added veg. All protein comes from plants. The ratios might surprise you if you check:
    Mangetout 57%Protein 3%Fat
    Garden peas 29%Protein 3%Fat
    Carrots 11%Protein 2%Fat
    Cauliflower 26%Protein 3%Fat
    Broccoli 27%Protein 6%Fat
    Green Beans 20%Protein 4%Fat

    I also added some tricolore quinoa and a bit more water.
    tricolore quinoa 15%Protein 14%Fat

    Quinoa is like 15% protein, oats 14% and black rice like 11% - it's much closer together than the 'buzz' about quinoa would suggest and lower than most legumes and veg. Grains do pack more calories per gram.

    Overall it's a really high protein % dish. Lots of fibre, lots of nutrients. And really low fat, which is great.

    Served here with some rocket leaves and the black rice bean veg pressure cook dish from post above. Lemon juice & tamari at serving.
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    Wok dish on the hob, partway through cooking.

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    I can buy organic dry beans often for almost the same price as conventionally grown dry beans.

    About £3 of organic black beans could cost about £16 as cans.

    Even if you don't have a pressure cooker they're easy to cook, especially if you stick them underwater to soak a while before. Some types require no planning at all like lentils.

    Less waste too.

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    Worth repeating.

    Lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans, red beans, black beans and similar all contain way more antioxidents than blueberries! No cholesterol. No saturated fats. Loads fibre. Loads protein. Loads nutrients.

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    @unspeakablehorror @vegan
    Oh agree entirely and eat both. Lentils are vastly cheaper than blueberries though. I bought 5kg of lentils for £8 which makes about 10-15kg to eat. Cheaper blueberries are £10 /kg so £100-150 vs £8.

    That said, I think we understand little of the complex natures of complete foods yet. Time after time we find that the attempts to extract the "active" ingredients to make supplement/pill forms, in fact do not deliver the benefits of the original whole foods. Thus demonstrating there are complex relationships we don't understand yet.

    For that reason variety is always sensible, and superior than selecting a 'best' ingredient and over using that one too much.

    My best habits, when I achieve them are to eat lots of types of vegetables and greens and whole grains (including whole grain pastas and breads etc) and fruits & berries and legumes, with some nuts & seeds (linseeds, walnuts, brazil nuts, fenugreek seeds, black cumin seeds, tahini cacao etc keep it varied like everything).

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    @StanWonn @unspeakablehorror @vegan
    Yes me me too, mixed bags also great, plus they don't get forgotten a day or 2 and pass their best so readily!

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    @unspeakablehorror @vegan @plantbased
    Isn't it funny how.. 'big food' repeats science really selectively... 👇

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    My favourite way to cook mushrooms, sliced in a pan with tamari or soy sauce, maybe some chili. Simple delicious. Great for adding to all sorts that way, including salads.


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    Potato, chickpea, peppers, kale & beansprouts stir-fry.


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    Mushrooms appear to have unique nutritional benefits not replaced by eating other food. I'm preserving here some self motivation for simple mushroom dishes.

    Put wholewheat pasta or noodles on.

    Sliced mushrooms into a large pan or wok.
    big glug of tamari or soy sauce. (the savoury umami taste makes the mushrooms excellent)
    can add sliced chilies, ginger garlic spices etc.
    cover with lid, want it to stay liquid.

    Add stirfy veg towards the end it will contribute more tasty liquids too as it cooks if covered.


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    prep salad. beetroot, beetroot leaves and lambs ear here.

    Quickly dress with lemon juice nutritional yeast. then add wholewheat pasta on top and more lemon juice, nutritional yeast and powdered chili.


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    wholewheat pasta added.

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    Wok / pan cooking like this with lid on, makes for a thick mushroom veggy gravy/soup, which can be ladled out to a mug.


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    Thick tasty dark mushroom soup in a mug.

    ArtBear OP ,
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    Fresh mushrooms release a lot of liquid, but they also absorb some liquid back in over cooking duration too. Meaning spices, herbs, tamari, veggy flavours etc all combine to give them a rich layered taste when the mushrooms have plenty of liquids available.

    Lift the mushroom + veggies with a slotted spoon / spatula etc so they dress the pasta and salad but don't make it totally swim with too much juices.

    Here's the meal assembled. Pretty quick to make, very tasty, and really healthy.


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    @Thebratdragon
    If you're allergic to mushrooms, you can do the similar by replacing the mushrooms with lentils. Especially green, black, brown types that will keep more structure. Give them some cooking time and have a kettle of boiled water handy (or steal from your pasta pan etc) as the lentils will need a bit of time to swell up with enough available liquids, tamari spices etc before you add the veggies at end.

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    @Thebratdragon
    Try cooking lentils, (no oil) in plenty of tamari and spices, veggy stock works great too, they absorb all the flavours and taste pretty damn yum that way :D

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    @Thebratdragon
    I feel your loss, & I'm sorry to hear that, I'd be really sad to not eat mushrooms again.

    Is it all mushroom types for you?
    @vegan @cooking @wfpb @vegancooking @cooking @plantbased

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