I went to a new restaurant in Pasadena tonight. I've been wanting to try it for a while now. It's a vegan restaurant and wow was the food good. Ever since I saw the movie (that I had written a thread about earlier) Food Inc., and now reading a book that my nurse friend at work loaned to me (The China Study) and after the PETA thing on here a few months ago I've been wanting to change the way that I'm eating. So for the last two weeks I've cut my meat or chicken eating more then half and have been choosing other things like meatless tacos or hummus and crackers and fruit with yogurt and nuts. I've already cut out most of the wheat gluten from what I eat so why not give this a try. I decided a long time ago that I would be my own experiment and that's how I would find out the answers that I've been looking for. My nurse friend is trying to go vegan (we are both the same age 49) and she has some health issues and her doctor wanted to put her on a Chemo drug to deal with a problem that they can't figure out yet and she told them to let her try this first. She says that after two weeks she has lost some of the swelling in her legs and is in a better mood. Who would have ever guessed that a non animal product would taste so good. Now if I could only bring home their chefs to cook all of those dishes for me I'd have it made. Now I know we have quite a few vegetarians vegans on this site so lets post some recipes that I could try to cook myself. 
