Today's newspapers are full of the story that, for a healthy life-style, we should increase the '5 fruit and veg a day' to 7 - or even 10! But the Guardian reports on a Liverpool University study which suggests we should give up the fruit, and concentrate on vegetables, instead - identifying sugar as the real culprit!
As a vegan who isn't all that fond of fruit, this is right up my street - but a traditional omnivore might not find this so easy.
The problem with many people's perception of vegetables - which was certainly mine before I became a veggie - is that they are seen solely as an accompaniment to meat in a main course. The 'meat and two veg' syndrome, this could be called.
Now I've been veggie for 12 years and a vegan for 8, my views are diametrically opposite. So much so, that now, instead of thinking 'chicken curry', which was a staple of mine for many years, I'm now thinking, 'cabbage curry' - and making cabbage the centre of the dish. You all might think this is bonkers, but I absolutely relish the taste of a chunk of cabbage stalk (I'm talking of the 'rib' down the centre of a cabbage leaf) when I come across it in my veg curries - so why not?
I've just posted a chilli non carne - made with chick peas - recipe elsewhere on the blog, and I have to tell you folks, it ranks up there with any chilli or curry recipe I made in my pre vegan days. (For dinner tonight, I've just had a bowl of the leftovers…swoon!!!)
Veggies are seriously undervalued!
As a vegan who isn't all that fond of fruit, this is right up my street - but a traditional omnivore might not find this so easy.
The problem with many people's perception of vegetables - which was certainly mine before I became a veggie - is that they are seen solely as an accompaniment to meat in a main course. The 'meat and two veg' syndrome, this could be called.
Now I've been veggie for 12 years and a vegan for 8, my views are diametrically opposite. So much so, that now, instead of thinking 'chicken curry', which was a staple of mine for many years, I'm now thinking, 'cabbage curry' - and making cabbage the centre of the dish. You all might think this is bonkers, but I absolutely relish the taste of a chunk of cabbage stalk (I'm talking of the 'rib' down the centre of a cabbage leaf) when I come across it in my veg curries - so why not?
I've just posted a chilli non carne - made with chick peas - recipe elsewhere on the blog, and I have to tell you folks, it ranks up there with any chilli or curry recipe I made in my pre vegan days. (For dinner tonight, I've just had a bowl of the leftovers…swoon!!!)
Veggies are seriously undervalued!
