Hi I'm new here!

[Mungo's Mum]

Greeting to all from Indianapolis. The daffodils are blooming! Mungo is my cat. He is absolutely horrid but redeems himself by curling up on my lap and purring.

I have been flirting with the vegan diet since January 1. I read The China Study which was very well written and made sense and then found Dr. McDougall. I have bought some of the DVD's and they make perfect sense. My problem is eating. I am pretty good about breakfast. Usually oatmeal with rice milk, sometimes a green smoothie (kale, collard greens, carrot juice, spinach, a banana and frozen berries), but lunch and dinner are usually hard. I hate cooking just for me and I get very tired after working a 12 hour shift and I have trouble finding something healthy to eat.
I have PCOS and I have lost 20 pounds so far this year. I need help and I don't know anyone else who is eating a vegetarian diet. The people I work with refer to it as my "weird-ass diet," my mother can't understand why I don't eat mashed potatoes made with cow milk. Thanks for reading.

Suzanne

[Letha.]

Hi Suzanne,
Sounds like you need some easy eating ideas. How about Eden Beans and rice? Nuke some Steam’N Bag veggies and crack open a can of beans/rice – and you’ve got dinner – easy breezy.

http://www.edenfoods.com/store/index.php?cPath=21_85

http://www.birdseyesteamfresh.com/veget ... occoliCaul

You can also try Ore-Ida Steam n’ Mash Potatoes


http://mwlfood.wordpress.com/2008/12/14 ... -potatoes/

Also quick and easy is Minute Brown rice.

http://www.minuterice.com/en-us/product ... nRice.aspx

And you can top that rice or a nuked yam with a can of Bush’s vegetarian baked beans.

http://www.bushbeans.com/products/bakedbeans.php

Programmable rice cookers are great in that you can set them so that you’ve got hot rice when you walk in the door and they keep the rice warm for hours.

Best wishes.
Letha