In this new assignment for Theory of Food II, we had to choose a new diet to follow for a week. The reason that I choose vegetarian, is because despite the fact that I regularly don't follow any restriction, and have normal diet, I really respect those how are vegetarians and the reason why most of them follow this diet, which is basically ethic. To be more specific, the chosen diet was the ovo-lacto vegetarian, and as we learned in class this one composed eggs and dairy products excluding any type of meat. And that's is how the weekend went.
Breakfast
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Lunch
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Dinner
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Monday
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Cereal, banana,
Coffee
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Eggplant
sandwich
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Pastas with
tomato sauce
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Tuesday
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Scramble eggs
with toast
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Pasta with
tomato sauce
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Veggie burger
In brioche buns,
Boston lettuce, tomato and mayo
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Wednesday
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Cereal, Banana
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Eggplant sandwich
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Falafel Pita
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Thursday
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Toast with
peanut butter and jam
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Veggie Burger
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Eggplant lasagna
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Friday
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Cereal and
banana
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Pasta tomato
sauce
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Rice and beans with saute veggies
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Saturday
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Cereal and
banana
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Rice and beans with eggplant alla parmesiana
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Butternuts quash
ravioli
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Sunday
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Muffin coffee
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Veggie Burger
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Veggie pizza
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As we can see wasn't hard to keep the diet during the week, the breakfast didn't change at all; cereal, fruits and scramble eggs are usually there everyday. For the lunch, change the regular tuna sandwich for an eggplant sandwich, wasn't a bad idea either, but I don't know if i would be able to keep up for too long. Pasta, eggplant lasagna and eggplant alla parmesiana are stuffs that i already enjoy, but i end up having way too many eggplant in the end of the week, which to keep with that diet I would have to change. The only thing that I didn't really enjoy was the veggie burger, it doesn't deserve be called "burger".
Working as a chef, is really hard to keep any very restrict diet, because taste everything we do is an essential part of the job, so keep a vegetarian diet as a chef would be complicated, unless you are a vegetarian chef.
As mentioned before, I really respect the vegetarian diet for its ethic. First because the way the animals have been treated now a days is not fair, and very disrespectful, and also, because the population of the world is getting bigger and food in shortage. But, to became a vegetarian I would have to have not just a vegetarian diet but also be a vegetarian chef and that wasn't exactly the plans.
Working as a chef, is really hard to keep any very restrict diet, because taste everything we do is an essential part of the job, so keep a vegetarian diet as a chef would be complicated, unless you are a vegetarian chef.
As mentioned before, I really respect the vegetarian diet for its ethic. First because the way the animals have been treated now a days is not fair, and very disrespectful, and also, because the population of the world is getting bigger and food in shortage. But, to became a vegetarian I would have to have not just a vegetarian diet but also be a vegetarian chef and that wasn't exactly the plans.
