How to become a vegetarian

Vegetarianism - eating food of vegetable and dairy origin with the renunciation of fish, meat products and eggs. If you've decided to become a vegetarian but don't know where to start, our article will help you.

Switching to vegetarianism

Before becoming a vegetarian, you should first prepare the body, gradually excluding smoked, sausages, introducing boiled ones instead, switching to dietary meat... It is better to refuse the broth itself, as it contains cholesterol, hormones, and salts.

To switch to vegetarianism without injuring the body and taking all the benefits from it, follow these steps:

1. Give up fried, smoked and fatty meats by switching to boiled ones. It is allowed to eat up to 100 g per day. Gradually reduce the consumption, first every other day, then every two, every three days, and so on until you give up completely.
2. After you have stopped eating meat, you need to eliminate all other animal fats. Use plain vegetable oil instead. It is very useful if you will not subject it to heat treatment, but eat it raw, for example, in a salad.
3. Swap meat soups for vegetable soups. To improve the taste, use herbal spices, mushrooms, celery.
   
4. Switch to lean cereals. You can add cottage cheese, fruits, vegetable dressings to them.
5. Be sure to eat boiled or stewed vegetables once a day.
6. Once a week, do one fasting day, completely avoiding all food except vegetables. If your body responds positively to this action, you can gradually increase the number of days per week.
7. When preparing meals, try to use a minimum of food.
8. Stick to the rule: do not fry what is cooked, do not boil what is eaten raw.
9. Limit the amount of food you eat per day.
10. Try to eat as many fresh vegetables, fruits and berries as possible.

If you do everything gradually, you will eventually feel comfortable, full of energy and lightness.

It is worth noting this point that vegetarianism is divided into several types:

• ovo vegetarianism - includes the rejection of all types of animal products, with the exception of eggs;
• lacto-vegetarianism - only milk products are allowed in the diet;
• lacto-ovo vegetarians - eating milk and eggs;
• sand vegetarians - fish, vegetables and fruits are consumed;
• pollo vegetarians eat chicken meat;
• vegans - completely abandon all types of animal products, without exception.

Vegetarian menu for the week

With a vegetarian diet, you need to have breakfast with cereals: oatmeal, rice, wheat, barley. You can add fruits, berries or vegetables to them. For cooking porridge, you can use: milk, soy milk, water. This breakfast will help you feel full, but not feel heavy. Plus you get all the vitamins you need.

For lunch, thick vegetable soup is perfect for the first, you can make a puree soup. So that you do not get bored with its taste, combine new ingredients every time. For example, one day cauliflower and mushrooms, the other broccoli and carrots. Use a variety of seasonings.

For the second, cook potatoes, pasta, spaghetti or rice with salad, vegetable cutlet, and baked mushrooms. For salad dressing, use plain unrefined oil, and it is better to fry in olive oil.

Dinner should be low in calories, but good to fill. Use legumes, peas, mushrooms. And treat yourself to a delicious dessert in the form of a cake or pie.

Based on all of the above, we offer you a vegetarian menu option for seven days.

Monday

Breakfast: oatmeal porridge with honey, compote.

Lunch: soup in the form of carrot puree with croutons, boiled rice, salad, tea.

Dinner: stewed olives and potatoes, cabbage and apple salad.

Tuesday

Breakfast: rice porridge with cottage cheese, juice.

Lunch: beetroot soup, boiled potatoes with zucchini cutlet, coffee.

Dinner: Salad of radish, apple, lentils with carrots, a piece of pie, tea.

Wednesday

Breakfast: porridge with milk with berries, coffee.

Lunch: soup made from several types of cabbage, rice with stewed vegetables, tea.

Dinner: baked zucchini with tomatoes, rice.

Thursday

Breakfast: pearl barley, fruit, tea.

Lunch: mushroom soup, baked vegetables, juice.

Dinner: spaghetti with wheat germ and sauce, yogurt.

Friday

Breakfast: millet porridge with grated apple, juice.

Lunch: borscht with mushrooms, a piece of pastry, coffee.

Dinner: vegetable stew, boiled potatoes, tea.

Saturday

Breakfast: rice porridge with pumpkin, juice.

Lunch: carrot soup with zucchini, buckwheat with gravy, tea.

Dinner: barley with eggplant, casserole, tea.

Sunday

Breakfast: oatmeal with berry puree, tea.

Lunch: vegetable soup with peas and tomato paste, salad, tea.

Dinner: rice porridge with vegetable cutlet, cake.

Vegetarian cuisine: recipes

Vegetable soup

For cooking you will need:

• litere of water;
• potatoes 300 g;
• carrot;
• celery;
• a tomato;
• Bell pepper;
• spinach 200 g;
• cream 100 ml;
• turmeric tsp;
• salt;
• pepper.

Preparation:

1. Prepare vegetables, wash, peel. Cut carrots, peppers and celery into strips, tomatoes and potatoes into cubes, spinach can simply be torn.
2. Preheat a skillet and fry all vegetables except potatoes.
3. Add a spoonful of turmeric and set to stew.
4. Pour water into a saucepan, put on the stove and bring to a boil, add potatoes, cook for ten minutes.
5. Add stewed vegetables, spinach, cream, cook for a few more minutes.

Teriyaki beans

For cooking you will need:

• rice vinegar tbsp;
• soy sauce 100 ml;
• brown sugar 80 g;
• sesame oil tsp;
• bulb;
• a glass of beans;
• red bell pepper;
• vegetable oil;
• ginger powder tsp;
• corn starch 2 tablespoons;
• sesame seeds

Preparation:

1. Soak the beans for four hours, then put them on low heat and cook for an hour.
2. While the beans are boiling, prepare the dressing: mix 100 ml of water with vinegar and sauce, add ginger, sesame seeds, sugar, send to the fire. Bring to a boil and leave for three minutes.
3. Add starch and cook until thick.
4. Cut the pepper into strips, the onion in half rings, fry for 5 minutes, add the beans and 2 tablespoons of teriyaki sauce, sauté a little.
5. Turn off heat and let the beans steep for another ten minutes.