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Binkie The Clown

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4. I don't care for soy "stuff"
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 11:12 PM
Sep 2015

I don't eat things that pretend to be what they are not. I don't like soy "burgers" or veggie "hot dogs" or TVP that pretends to be ground beef.

When I eat yams I eat them as if they are yams. When I eat a rice and beans dish, I eat it as if it's rice and beans.

I have two sisters who are also both vegans. In fact, they became vegans long before I did. But they tend to prepare exotic dishes with tofu, and quinoa, and humus, and other peculiar things I never heard of before. I don't care for that myself. I make pea soup, or a baked potato, or potato/zucchini soup with broccoli and carrots, many different varieties of rice and beans, with different beans and different spices, beans and pasta with tomatoes, etc. Basic down home comfort food, just with no meat, dairy, eggs or refined oils.

As I write this I have a crockpot full of plain vanilla" rice and beans that will go into the fridge at bed time and provide my lunches for the next 5 or 6 days. I'll eat them tomorrow with salsa, and the next day with my homemade chili-flavored topping, and then with BBQ sauce and after that with some fresh tomatoes from my garden. One dish served 4 or 5 different ways. Since I cook for myself I always eat what I like, and when I get bored with one dish I move on to another.

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