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brimstoneSalad wrote:Once you're done with the cream cheese, you can replace it with a custom nut cheese blend, and that will provide a lot more zinc and nutrition in general.
Walnuts, sunflower seeds (keep sunflower seeds minimal, since they have a weird taste; they're just cheaper than others), almonds, strawberries/blueberries/whatever berries, sucralose/stevia
Put the nuts and seeds in first and blend to a coarse powder, then add in berries and some soy milk (just enough to get it to blend smooth in a thick past), then the sweetener (and maybe a pinch of salt) at the end. Vanilla optional.
I mainly use thawed frozen berries, those are much cheaper. You might also want to add some lemon juice (just use the cheap bottled stuff).
You can mix up a big batch each week; it should last in the refrigerator.
The recipe seems good, I'll try it out!
ThatNerdyScienceGirl wrote:And that put me at 1700 Calories and 83% Zinc. I had to eat a serving of Sunflower seeds to bring that up to 100%.
I would suggest eating more calories than that. It's much harder to meet your vitamin and mineral quotas the lower your calories are.
It should be easy to lose weight (if that's the goal) on 1900 calories plus some moderate exercise.
That's another issue I have, while my calories fluctuate, I can eat as much as 2300 in a single day, or I can eat as low as 1500 Calories in a day. I am trying to eat more, but I literally have to force myself to eat even when I am not hungry most days just to make it to 1800. I eat on average about 1800-1900 a day, but most days it just seems like I am forcing myself to eat. I used to eat upwards of 3500 Calories a day before I went vegetarian, now I find it hard to eat enough most days.
That's one major benefit of being vegan; really hard to overeat (which is one of the biggest health problems most have).
Lots of fiber is a good thing. You probably just have to get accustomed to eating a bit more volume.
