Forums: January 2010 Kickstart Forum Archive: A not so sweet menu?
Created on: 01/03/10 07:48 PM Views: 1628 Replies: 6
maggie Joined: 01/01/10 Location: Pennsylvania Posts: 15	A not so sweet menu? Posted Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 7:48 PM It all sounds too sweet to try. From day one: I really like oatmeal - as is- but not with apples. I would never be able to drink a smoothie. It sounds sickeningly sweet. I can't imagine ruining good pancakes with something as sweet as a blueberry. Does anyone else find the sweetness of these menus disagreeable? Life is a song worth singing.
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Susan Levin Joined: 12/26/09 Posts: 1212	RE: A not so sweet menu? Posted Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 8:07 PM We really try and encourage people to eat a variety of foods from four food groups: fruits, vegetables, beans, and whole grains. However, there is no reason why you HAVE to eat fruit. Feel free to leave those off your menu. You do want to make sure you get those colors in your vegetables and legumes though. Each color represents essential vitamins, minerals, and phytochemicals. This may be a good time to remind people that they should make the menus their own. Personalize them. Thankfully, there are so many varieties of plant foods that leaving some recommendations off of the menus and adding others can be an endless and entertaining project. Thanks for your input! Susan Levin, MS, RD PCRM Director of Nutrition Education
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Mindy Joined: 01/03/10 Location: Illinois Posts: 1	RE: A not so sweet menu? Posted Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 8:26 PM I have always been amazed how many people LOVE sweet food and how sugar is added to so many foods that I, personally, think are better without the sweetness. (i.e., salad dressings.) I prefer recipes for chopped fresh veggies tossed with oil, vinegar, garlic, & such. If a recipe calls for anything sweet (like fruit), I just leave the sweet thing out. Ever since I read a book called "Sugar Blues" years ago, I've not had the craving most people seem to have for sweets.
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summerperk Joined: 01/01/10 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 40	RE: A not so sweet menu? Posted Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 8:31 PM I do like the sweet! I don't care for eating just a piece of fruit, so I really like that there is fruit in some of the dishes. Plus I just like sweets in general--I'm one of those people that ruin a perfectly good sweet potato with brown sugar. I do appreciate that when I eat in a healthy manner I become more sensitive to the tastes of foods and find that I don't need to add extra sweeteners though--like brown sugar. Thanks for the variety in the menus and resources to find substitutes!
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Wild4Stars Joined: 12/27/09 Location: Florida Posts: 832	RE: A not so sweet menu? Posted Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 8:38 PM I love fresh fruit. I don't find it overly sweet, but refreshingly juicy. I eat apples and bananas almost every day, sometimes grapes. I LOVE fresh apricots. I can't imagine not eating fresh fruit. I can't imagine thinking it isn't good for me. Vikki ~ Wild4Stars@gmail.com
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klmchan Joined: 12/29/09 Posts: 24	RE: A not so sweet menu? Posted Sunday, January 3, 2010 at 10:00 PM I like savory foods better than sweet, too. But that is still easy to achieve on a vegan diet. Try the Hoppin' John (black-eyed peas over rice) for breakfast. My husband and I often eat such things as beans over rice or toast, or a hearty hash made of diced potatoes, red and green peppers, onions, brown rice, other leftovers that sound good, and lots of seasoning.
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dollgirl Joined: 12/28/09 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 135	RE: A not so sweet menu? Posted Monday, January 4, 2010 at 7:57 PM These menus are merely guidelines of what one can eat during a day. A simple solution to it being to sweet for you would be eating plain oatmeal, not putting the blueberries in the pancakes and replacing the smoothie with another healthy snack item that isn't too sweet for you. www
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