This seems to be the thing I hear the most and of course is on the mind of any new vegetarian that works out. It is very easy to get protein into your diet, you do the same things that the meat eaters do, Drink protein shakes! But besides that…the more Raw you eat, the more of the original food you get and that means getting more nutrients. They haven’t been cooked off! I have some videos on YouTube and I post some of them to my profile to give tips and brainstorm with people in the BB’s Gone RAW group here on Bodybuilding.com that can help with protein ideas. Remember that Tofu can be added in place of meat in most traditional recipes and takes on the flavor of spices that are used. So cumin and Tumeric for example will grab onto tofu and you can let the tofu soak in it also. Silken tofu is great for smoothies but you don’t have to go that far. Sun Warrior Protein and Spirutein are great protein powders that add to your daily intake. Also, the nuts and seeds that you eat have protein! there are 2 nice sites that have short protein content lists which I will add below, but here are a couple of great foods besides the obvious nuts ,nut butters and beans:
Tempeh: 18 grams in a 100g serving and you can get this in all kinds of great flavors!
Mung Beans (Asian invasion): these can be added to Quinoa or Amaranth or Brown rice to make a pilaf and taste like tiny split peas They have an AMAZING 24g of protein per 100g serving. And you can SPROUT THEM, which makes the proetin content go UP! Amazing.
MISO: Ok, this is like a triple wammy. Miso ROCKS first of all, and I LOVE Miso soup. You can put sprouted mung beans in Miso soup and add triangle cut or cubed firm tofu and for those of you who are Ovo-vegetarian, I used to put Soft or hard boiled eggs in my miso, then you add Hijiki seaweed and you are getting even MORE protein, wait didn;t you know that seaweed has protein? Miso is like the ULTIMATE power breakfast. OK, I am going to make a YouTube video making my Japanese Power Breakfast for everyone in my BB.com Group BB’s Gone RAW…. Miso has 13g of protein per 100g serving!
Chickpeas: 1 cup has 15 g of protein. This should be too easy! FOODS: Hummos, Pozole soup, add it on salads
THE WEBSITE: this is a great website! http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/protein.htm
It has a link right on this page that says, "How to meet your protein needs" Can;t get any better than that! And watch my vidoes!
As part of the new BB’s Gone RAW! Group I am posting interesting recipes for the group so that they can have interesting ideas and that they can post some of their own as part of an effort to support each other on fun and creative ways to further our raw food goal while maintaining our personal fitness goals and protein intake as vegetarians. The nutritional data wil will be posted soon for this video recipe
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1/8/09 Thursday
Waking: 16 oz Water, 15 million ProBiotic
Meal 1: Egg Whites with Soy Chorizo(, 1/8 c. Organic Vanilla Bean Yogurt (3g protein)
Meal 2: Water, Super Food Nut Butter with Banana (see the new vid)
Meal 3: Soy Dog with a Soy Ice cream Root Beer Float ¼ of one I drank the rest of my son’s)
ACTIVITY: Playground Workout : Basic Body weight exercises: Tricep Dips, Inverted and decline push-ups, inverted pull-ups, scale the monkey bars, Calf Raises, and plank sit-ups on the end of the slide (Video being planned for this workout)
Meal 4: Spinach Veggie Nuggets with Cucumber slices dipped in Dill Tzaziki Sauce, Strawberry, Cantaloupe, Kiwi, Mango and Oat Milk Smoothie plus cinnamon and vanilla.
Meal 5: Vanilla Soy Dream Ice Cream with Almond butter over it. Water
Breakfast- Organic Non-gluten, Non-Dairy Low fat PB Puffs. from EnviroKids, Glass of water.
Supps- 15 billion Pro-Biotics 1 glass bottle of Room temp water(let me know if you want to know why I do this?)
Meal #2- Stewed Cabbage, Peas, Sliced tomatoes, Mushrooms, Corn Chowder, Rice with Black Eyed peas and chopped tomatoes and salsa
Meal #3- Small scoop of Venilla Yogurt Ice Cream
Meal #4: 1/2 Superfood Odwalla Bar, a handful of Snap Pea Crisps (at the playground) and a glass bottle of water
Activity: Chasing down one of my daycare kids,…ok it doesn’t sound like much, but one of them is Autistic and he always gives me good HIIT training, hahaaa. He takes off and starts BOOKING at a moments notice, so I am always looking like a coach on the sidelines!
Meal 5: Sprounted Organic Spelt Tortilla spread with Atrichike and Roasted Red Pepper hummus, Iceberg lettuce, thin sliced bell peppers (red and yellow). One slice or Brie cheese with herbs. 3 cherries….Mmmmmmm
One glass bottle of room temp Water
Snack: Chewy Granola Bar
Meal #6: Super Food Nut Butter Dessert (I need to calculate the calories, but I am afraid to, heehee)
One glass bottle of water, 15 bill ProBiotic, EFA Omega 3 & 6 tablet
Today was a good day. Happy New Year
I took Organic Macadamia~Cashew nut butter and added 1 tbls, of Raw Cacao powder, 1 tbls. of Raw Maca Powder, Hemp Seeds, Flax Seeds, and Hemp oil and whipped it with a fork and added 2 tbls of Wildflower honey sliced bananas and chopped apples. WOW. Dang! Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh…….I am going to be doing this recipie on YouTUbe SOON.
It is so freakin’ Tasty. Also, as a Raw Foodist, I try to stay away from peanuts, but you could use peanut butter. Also you can add in a protein powder if you wanted. I tried not using bananas but it just doesn’t taste the same, although the apples are nice. THis would make a good smoothie base too now that I think of it!
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