homeschoolmama
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Cavy Slave
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2005
- Posts
- 535
- Joined
- Oct 14, 2005
- Messages
- 535
I sure hope I don't offend anyone here, but I truly have a few questions. I have been trying to go meat-free for about 6 years now. We are a natural & whole-foods family, (for the most part) by choice as well as for allergies to this that & the other thing.
I am a huge fan of the Vegsource website & recipe archive, and we have switched over to more green choices for nearly everything. My husband & I drink soy milk only, but we've heard plenty of conflicting evidence about the phytoestrogens from soy in prepubescent children & still feed them cow's milk and cheeses. We've tried rice & almond milk, but they won't touch either one. And we haven't found a non-dairy cheese that tastes like anything but goo yet. Does anyone have any suggestions here?
My other question, (please please don't hate me!) is what alternates are there for red meat... that would have roughly the same amount of iron? We do just fine on a meatless diet, and then about once every 6 weeks we just start craving red meat something awful. I'm positive that it's got to be an iron deficiency, but taking supplement pills doesn't seem to work for us. We're addicted to Boca & Gardenburgers, but they just don't work for this craving. Are we missing something? Does it go away over time? Has anyone else dealt with this?
I am a huge fan of the Vegsource website & recipe archive, and we have switched over to more green choices for nearly everything. My husband & I drink soy milk only, but we've heard plenty of conflicting evidence about the phytoestrogens from soy in prepubescent children & still feed them cow's milk and cheeses. We've tried rice & almond milk, but they won't touch either one. And we haven't found a non-dairy cheese that tastes like anything but goo yet. Does anyone have any suggestions here?
My other question, (please please don't hate me!) is what alternates are there for red meat... that would have roughly the same amount of iron? We do just fine on a meatless diet, and then about once every 6 weeks we just start craving red meat something awful. I'm positive that it's got to be an iron deficiency, but taking supplement pills doesn't seem to work for us. We're addicted to Boca & Gardenburgers, but they just don't work for this craving. Are we missing something? Does it go away over time? Has anyone else dealt with this?