Actually it’s important not only what you eat, but when exactly you eat as well. Vegetables, for example, are better absorbed after 1 p.m. Sweets in their turn (including chocolate, raisins, cakes, honey, etc.) are better to eat in the morning and during the first half of the day.

In case you eat sweets before 2 p.m. you get maximum use out of it. Because at this time they are better and in a proper way absorbed by our body, and what’s more important it make you feel no wish for eating something sweet after lunch and eat less sweets in general. It really works.

Of course a light dessert for dinner will not hurt you if you don’t have digestion problems.

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For example, vindaloo – it’s complex fried mix widespread in central and South-West districts of India. Commonly it contains mustard seeds, cumin, ginger, black pepper, shambala seeds, cloves, coriander seeds, red pepper, and tamarind. Vindaloo is mainly used for cooking sauces and served with rice.

Garam masala (meaning literally ‘warm spices’) is a mix of fried and mashed spices widespread in Nothern districs of India. It may contain almost all possible Indian spices, but commonly there are following main ingredients: cumin, coriander seeds, black pepper, bay leaf (these are the basic of the taste), and in smaller amount there are cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, and cardamon.

At the meantime it could be a matter of religious and ethic contradictions. Imagine the situation when a person who has strong vegetarian beliefs based on his/her religion (such as Hinduism or Buddhism) is for some reason lives in the surrounding of meat-lovers. Not everyone is able to take it easy. And there is commonly a tendency among people to speak in support their opinion. Here comes a sort of a conflict: defend what you think is right or show tolerance in attitude to other person opinion. If one person likes strawberry and the other one hates it – it’s not a problem because none them will argue much that it’s worth or not worth eating. But then eating (or mostly not eating) something is based on religion discussions of this matter could be offencive for one of the parties.

My new friends have opened a cafe where they cook only Indian vegetarian meals. All staff there are Krishnaists (they used to be Christians). They made this choice absolutely consciously. But they don’t treat people who eat meat as evil people. And it’s great when we are able to be tolerant in attitude to other people.

Green color
You can made pasta look green with the help of spinach or broccoli. Just chop it properly and add to the dough. How much? – It’s up to you. The more you add the deeper color and taste you get.

Red color
For this you will need beet roots. You can use both boiled and smashed beet roots as well as juice of fresh beet roots.

Orange color
This color you can get by adding carrot, curry, red pepper or tomato. Each of these products has its own tint of orange color, and of course has great influence on the taste of pasta in general. Choose the one you like most.

Yellow color
If you add some saffron or lemon juice you will get yellow pasta: golden-yellow in the first case and light-yellow in the second.

And finally chocolate…
Yes, chocolate pasta is a special vegetarian meal. It’s mostly used in cooking desserts. When making it we add cocoa powder and sugar, and get brown pasta with gentle chocolate taste.

What else color could you made your pasta? Please share.

There is one more important ingredient for absolutely all meals no matter what exactly you cook. We talk about your thoughts during the process of cooking.  Someone may think that it’s ridiculous, but it really makes sense. Our food is not only a combination of ingredients that go through a certain processing. It’s also a very strong energy that could be both positive (if you cook with love and there are only positive thoughts in your head and in your heart) and negative (if you argue or think over and over some troubles and/or offences).

As I said energy of a person who cooks is strong enough to be passed on to the food. So, if something goes wrong don’t let your negative words and emotions go out. Smile and you will find a way to save your healthy vegetarian meal and its healthy energy.

Ingredients:

• mashed potatoes
• mushrooms
• 3 tbsp flour
• 2 onions
• 1 egg (or its vegan equivalent)
• vegetable oil

Fry mushrooms with onion and let them cool. To mashed potatoes add the flour and egg, and mix well. ‘Pastry’ has to be sticky. Divide it into balls, put some mushrooms inside of each one, and pinch together the edges. Thus you get pasties. Before serving fry them from both sides.

Serve hot or cold – as you wish.

Just mashed potatoes with fried mushrooms would not be so tasty, right?

You know that if you just turn on your imagination you can make even very simple vegetarian meals look romantic and show your feelings in such way. By the way cooking is a way to express tender feeling not only for women but fir men as well. I would say especially for men who didn’t use to cook in general but who really want to make this evening special and surprise their girls.

By the way this holiday is a great chance to join vegetarianism (if you still haven’t) just to show how much you love someone.

There are so many types of grapes that you can hardly believe it (most of us can only distinguish red grapes from white ones), but not all of them are good and tasty for eating. Some are grown specially for making wine. For some countries this fruit is the main source of making money. People there grow grapes, make wine, and sell it out.

Grapes can be eaten raw or used for making jam, juice, jelly, vinegar, drugs, wine, grape seed extracts, raisins, and grape seed oil. The last two ‘products’ are often used in vegetarian meals mostly in bakery and desserts.

Do you know any good recipes using grapes? Please share!

Of course one of these foods is chocolate. It contains ‘hormones of happiness’ and indeed helps people feel emotionally and physically better.

This effect of food is one of the basic reasons why business people have their important meetings, negotiations, and contracts signing at restaurants. It’s a fact that full business partners are more likely to agree with you unlike in case when they are hungry. Full person is a happy person who is calm and open for your offers.

If your business partners are vegetarian then why don’t you arrange a meeting at a vegetarian restaurant where they can enjoy their favourite vegetarian meals and feel comfortable. In case you have friendly and close relations with your business partners you can also order a dinner from a vegetarian food delivery service which you have already tried out by yourself. It would be also nice.

So, how do vegetarian meals help in weight loss? The most important point is the absence of animal fat (it’s not only about refusing from meat). In general when a person stops eating animal products metabolism changes, and these changes are always for good.