I'm writing just to give a few suggestions and perhaps to be heard.  I am a vegetarian who is training to run my first marathon this year.  I'd run the half two years ago and figured that I would go all out this year.  Well, anyway, I do tend to tweak the recipes that I find on here to meet my needs and to substitute if I am going out on a long run (anything over ten miles) to add extra proteins. 

My thought is this... I've been using the recipes found herein for the last few days and find that most of the meal plans include a TON of fruit.  I don't mind eating the fruit so much but I would like to see more vegetables.  I had the potstickers the other night for dinner and while they were good, that was the only vegetable that the entire days worth of meal planning included.  And if you know what a potsticker is, that's not a lot of room to fill the tiny little triangle shape with veggies.

Please add more to featured recipes so that I don't have to do so much substitution please.

Thank you!

I'll pass along your suggestion.

Pat Baird, MA, RD, registered dietitian

SueKru08:

 I'm writing just to give a few suggestions and perhaps to be heard.  I am a vegetarian who is training to run my first marathon this year.  I'd run the half two years ago and figured that I would go all out this year.  Well, anyway, I do tend to tweak the recipes that I find on here to meet my needs and to substitute if I am going out on a long run (anything over ten miles) to add extra proteins. 

My thought is this... I've been using the recipes found herein for the last few days and find that most of the meal plans include a TON of fruit.  I don't mind eating the fruit so much but I would like to see more vegetables.  I had the potstickers the other night for dinner and while they were good, that was the only vegetable that the entire days worth of meal planning included.  And if you know what a potsticker is, that's not a lot of room to fill the tiny little triangle shape with veggies.

Please add more to featured recipes so that I don't have to do so much substitution please.

Thank you!

 

 Hi Suekru08,

Heres a great vegi chilli with no substitution that is great and there is also a website called healthy eating that I found and they publish a lot of great reciept thats easy onthe wallet and the calories(fat grams also) check this out........................

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 I'm also a vegetarian and was a bit disappointed yesterday to find that so many of the Alli recipes/meal plans included meat.  So, last night I weeded through about a dozen of my older copies of Vegetarian Times magazine.  It turns out that there are a plethora of recipes in that mag that are easily adaptable to my Alli guidelines.

Take a look if you can!  btw, you can probably find collected older copies of VT on one of the online auction sites - cheap.

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 I LOVE this veggie sandwich I make for lunch:

2 slices of wheat bread

1 slice of low fat provolone cheese

4 slices of red onion

4 or 5 slices of mushrooms

2 tomato rings

3 red pepper rings

Some alfalfa sprouts

And I use Garlic Hummus (about 1 1/2 tablesppons) as my spread

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