I'm convinced, at the moment, that meat, dairy, eggs, etc are no longer for me.
So, I went vegan and started a multi vitamin supplement. Why a vitamin pill? Easy, we had some here at the house and I read vegetarian/vegan presents 'issues'.
OK. I have been reading about which items are not readily available in a VEGAN diet. Like Omega 3s, B12, etc. BUT, that got me reading about recommended daily allowances for EVERYTHING.
Now I am trying to figure out how to build a balanced daily menu. YIKES!!
Someone tell me there is a program out there that will accept your ingredients and calculate totals of each item.
Right now i am using the USDA Nutrient Laboratory data. It will look up one ingredient at a time and give it back in a text/table format.
THEN, I'd have to take each set of numbers, enter them into a spreadsheet or database and add them up for each recipe.
Once I have it for the recipe decide how many servings it makes and divide. HOLY COW! A lot of work to see IF the meal you'd like to prepare is 'HEALTHY'
THERE HAS TO BE AN EASIER WAY!
I am tempted to design a veggie and fruit smoothie that contains all the daily requirements for EVERYTHING.
ReplyDeleteDrink those every day knowing I have them all covered.
Then I can have one meal where it's purely for the pleasure of eating something I like.
That's sounding like a plan.