Vegetarian diets are the diet that avoids all the meats, seafood, and poultry. However, they eat dairy-based products as it is not in any form of non-veg food. There are so many health benefits of having a well-planned vegetarian diet. There are mainly three types of vegetarian diet which includes Lacto vegetarian, Lacto Ovo-vegetarian, and semi-vegetarian. The Lacto vegetarian is the one in which people eat plant-based foods and all kinds of dairy products.

The Lacto Ovo-vegetarian is the diet which includes eating plant foods and dairy product as well as eggs. Last one is a semi-vegetarian diet, which consists of eating plant-based foods, dairy products, eggs, and some chicken or fish. It doesn’t include red meat at all. Various studies have shown that having a vegetarian diet will help you in providing all the nutrients which are required by the body. Written below are the benefits of eating vegetarian food.

Helps in weight loss

• If you are looking forward to losing weight, then having a vegetarian diet is the best suitable option for you. It is a great way to lower the body mass index that is also known as BMI. When you cut the heavy fat meat, then you reduce your calorie intake, and it will ultimately lead to weight loss.
• A vegetarian diet helps in lowering the risk of obesity. You should always keep in mind that if you want to lose weight, then you have to follow some of the rules, which include limiting added sugar, drinks, and trans fats. Having a vegetarian diet by following complete guidelines, you can quickly lose your weight in the most effective way.

Lowers the risk of heart disease

• When you cut down the meat from your diet, then it may also lower down the risk of many heart-related diseases. It is a matter of the fact that heart diseases are one of the leading causes of death, so by eating a healthy vegetarian diet, you can add more years to your life. It helps in lowering the blood pressure and cholesterol level of the body.
• The vegetarian diet mainly consists of plant-based foods that are low in cholesterol and saturated fats. If you are suffering from heart disease, then going for a vegetarian diet is the most suitable choice for you. People have now started to pay more attention to their health, and becoming a vegetarian is the first step towards it. Constipation and intestinal disease are also rare in the vegetarian people.

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There are so many benefits of turning into a vegetarian. You will start noticing the changes in your health form the time you start having a vegetarian diet. Moreover, a vegetarian diet is cruelty-free, so it also helps in protecting the environment and life of innocent animals. Many people who have switched to a vegetarian diet say that they feel more fitter and healthier from inside as well as outside of the body.

Yesterday like any other I woke up and laid in bed and planed out my day. What do I have to do? What do I need to do and what I really want to do. My wife reminded me our meat locker was getting low, I thought It was time to go to the butcher for some holiday meats. Kielbasa, steaks, pork chops and my favorite meat sticks flavored with black pepper. For me to make it to this wonderful store in Olyphant I have to drive by three grocery stores. Each fully capable of serving the typical customer. I though am not your typical customer. Not that I am a miss prissy or some other person who looks down on the regular grocery store. But I expect and demand a fresh well produced product. I have had good steak from my local grocers, but I have also had horrible poultry and horrible steaks from these stores as well.

Company is coming so I needed the best meat I could buy. Today I purchased four types of kielbasa (Regular, smoked with cheese , smoked turkey with cheese and plain turkey kielbasa), pepper sticks, kielbasa sticks, Black Angus steak beef patties, smoked pork chops, thick sliced freshly smoked slab bacon, a pork tenderloin, country style boneless ribs and a meaty bone for soup.

I purchased a lot of meat today. I know I could have gone to the super store up on the highway and bought items with the same names as these. A steak is a steak right? Sorry, but that is not the case. The name of the cut is really the only comparison you can make. When you walk into those stores you are in a big box. Nobody says hello and asks how you’re doing or what you are thinking about cooking tonight. I hate to use the analogy of Sam the butcher from the Brady Bunch. But to me Sam was a man you could be proud to call your friend, and even more proud to call him your butcher. The big box just lacks something. Maybe it’s the smell of the smoker or the fact that Sam just doesn’t work there anymore. All of the employees at Bosak’s care about your food and are genuinely concerned with what they can do to help you. Tonight my wife and I portioned out the meats and vacuum sealed them all.

Today I got enough food for about fourteen meals. I spent about sixty-six bucks and a half hour of my time to get the meats. Sure Bosak’s isn’t a Wegman’s, I couldn’t buy my wife’s favorite hair spray there or Christmas lights or a big plastic tub to store junk in there either. Bosak’s only sell groceries. I was talking to a man in line who purchased those two slammer steaks in the photograph. He spoke of the meat he was purchasing as if he had a vested interest in the transaction. He was as proud as a man who had just purchased a new car. We chatted for a couple minutes and we both went our separate ways. We most likely will never meet again, but we both will always share the joy of seeing those two huge steaks freshly cut to order. I hope he cooked them to perfection and the meal will be a lasting memory.

The “farm to table” concept, also known as “farm to fork” is a practice many restaurants are promoting as a way to eat fresher foods, produced locally, while supporting small business in the region. People who are ardent supporters of the movement of eating locally produced foods are called “locavores.” While there is no national standard for what geography constitutes “local”, many restaurants and groups advocate a one hundred mile radius as “local.”.

In Atlanta, there are a number of hot farm to table establishments, serving a variety of cuisine in nearly every budget category.

Miller Union
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At Miller Union, 999 Brady Avenue NW, you’ll find Southern cooking with authentic recipes taking advantage of locally raised ingredients. A frequent contender for James Beard awards, Chef Steven Satterfield blends his knowledge of regional cuisine and his relationships with local growers to turn out unique lunch offerings Tuesday through Saturday and full dinner service Monday through Saturday. At dinner, open with grit fritters with country ham or the seasonal soup of the day. Georgia pastured chicken is one dinner entree, and house made andouille with okra-sweet corn purloo provides you with an interesting option. Fish, beef, and seasonal vegetable plates are paired with locally focused sides.

Seed Kitchen and Bar
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Marietta’s Seed Kitchen and Bar is farm to table focused with Chef Doug Turbush dishing out entrees with both Thai and American Southern influences. The restaurant serves dinner seven nights, features a lunch menu Monday through Saturday, and changes things up with brunch on Sunday.

Starters include Iron Skillet Cornbread and Pork Belly Steam Buns. The dinner entree menus covers a full range of dining choices including beef, fowl, seafood, and pastas.

Meals are complimented with American and international craft beers, new takes on vintage cocktails, and a hand-picked wine list designed for the best menu pairings. Seed is at 1311 Johnson Ferry Road.

Empire State South
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Empire State South holds court at 999 Peachtree Street, with upscale Southern cuisine. Heavily dependent upon regional growers and suppliers, Empire South serves breakfast and lunch Monday through Friday, dinner seven nights, and Sunday brunch. They also offer a “to-go” lunch program, and have an extensive coffee bar on site.

Luncheon sandwiches include Fried Chicken Po’Boys, Roast Pork Shoulder, and Roast Beef with horseradish on honey wheat. Plate offerings range from Rabbit Roulade to Smoked Trout; the ESS Superfood Hangar Steak is accompanied by fresh greens and vegetables.

Farm Burger
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With “Farm” in their name, you know Farm Burger is serious about serving casual food sourced locally. Farm Burger takes advantage of its own local eco-system of suppliers. You can build your own burger, adding fresh condiments and toppings to a grass fed, antibiotic and hormone free beef patty ground fresh daily, or choose a chicken or veggie patty as a base instead. Fries, rings, and creative sides are available, along with a special burger and salad at each of the four locations every day. The Buckhead location is at 3365 Piedmont Road and is open daily at 11 AM.

The restaurant is WITHIN the “zone of extreme taxation”.

There are NO vegetarian menu items on the menu that I can see. They have several selections of fish if you prefer that, but obviously this is a steakhouse and the menu shows it.

What to say about Sullivans? I’m inventing a new phrase: “Don’t stray if you want to stay”.

Sullivan’s is part of a chain, like Chili’s or Applebees. OK maybe not that bad. In this case it is a part of the Del Frisco Restaurant Group. Quote: “Based in Southlake, TX, DFRG owns and operates three contemporary, high-end, complementary restaurant concepts: Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak house, Sullivan’s Steakhouse, and Del Frisco’s Grille. Each of our three concepts offers steaks and other menu selections, such as chops and fresh seafood, complemented by an extensive wine selection”. A look at their web site shows 19 locations scattered all over, from Anchorage to Wilmington. Ours in Omaha is downtown at the corner of 15th and Farnam, straight west of the downtown library.

The atmosphere is clean and the service is good. Sullivan’s in Omaha has a bar area and a dining area. The bar area can be crowded if busy but the dining area is fairly large. The bar area has a menu with burgers, nachos, and other sundry items. The restaurant lighting is soft and it is easy to carry on a conversation, even when we were seated once near the kitchen. There is an area down below the main dining area that is nestled in the wine room and can be used for private parties. The wait staff is dressed nicely and they all match in attire, so it is easy to spot them when needed.

Because of the location you will want to take advantage of the valet parking, which is a quite reasonable $5 plus whatever gratuity you choose. It is reasonably quick and efficient. Just pull up right in front of Sullivan’s and avoid having to walk too far in a downtown area sometimes devoid of available parking. Reservations are probably a good idea, although as a quick test while writing this on a Friday morning, a Friday night table for four was easily available within 15 minutes of my preferred time.

Examining the dinner menu, there’s a variety of steaks and a surprisingly large (for Omaha) selection of fish as well. Be aware though, as I will warn you several times, the pricing is a pricy la carte if you stray too far from their fixed menu. On that note, the Prix Fixe Menu does include a selection of four appetizers, four different salads, and three entrées, all meat/fish. Although we have never visited for lunch, there is a fixed price menu there as well, with a salad, entrée and one side item. Everything we have had at Sullivan’s was excellent.

For wine, stay at the low end and the markup is typical. We ordered a well-known California Merlot and it was about a 100% hike, which in the restaurant world is not outlandish. As I write this, the wine menu is not available online so possibly it varies by location, but this precludes me from remembering what else was available and making more comments in this area.

So “don’t stray if you want to stay” – do not stray from the Prix Fixe Menu if you want to stay within an at least somewhat reasonable price range. They will add on, so for example if you order the Prix Fixe but want a larger filet steak they will tack on a few bucks. But to order individual items can potentially really cost you. A two-person dinner at the Sullivan’s in Omaha, with wine and a few of these Prix Fixe modifications will run you about $170 including the tip.

Its hard to say for sure if the breakfast I ate as a child was really that unhealthy. Although today my breakfast of yesterday is not recommended. Things like sweetened cereals, cinnamon pastries, brownies and eggs predominated our breakfast. That is when we ate breakfast. Of course today we all know we need to eat a healthier breakfast as it does provide the fuel for the day. And now there are statistics to show that kids who eat a healthy breakfast do a better job in school. I looked hard and long at the cereals, pop tarts, frozen meals and making my own various meals. What would I eat if there were no health implications: Cinnamon roll, 2 eggs over medium, toast loaded with butter and jelly, Lots of BACON and a big glass of chocolate milk. Can you really ever eat to much bacon? Drink to much chocolate milk? Sure you can. Its funny how our parents ever made it to be so old. Based on what the doctors of today tell us we will be lucky to see forty. So I went to the natural department at Wegman’s. Looking for a healthy breakfast choice. Here is a healthy breakfast any kid could could eat. Making him or her eat it though that’s a different story.

Peppermint Tea. A nice warm tea. No sugar or caffine.

Gorilla Munch: No refined sugar. It really is almost as good as the old Captain Crunch. But to be honest its not as good as the captain with crunch-berries. Try measuring out what the serving is. Its always on the side of the box. My bowl was only about a third of the way full. I ate about three servings before I measured it. I was eating way to much! I guess I need a much smaller bowl.

Rice Dreams: Tastes almost like low fat milk. Organic that is a plus. Banana: A healthy piece of fruit. Doctor would never say no to that.

Grape juice: The 100% grape juice is a favorite. Although I do like the new V-8 blends.

So what did I get from my eating experiment? You can eat a healthy breakfast that leaves you satisfied. Our friends and family with all of those pesky food allergies most likely can eat this meal. I always read the ingredients and try to stay away from any ingredient I cant read. Servings per container is very important too. That can of green tea may actually be three servings. That full size candy bar may be 2.5 servings. My grandfather lived to be 84. There was never a day in his life where he didn’t have something fried or bad for him to eat. They like the egg yolks runny and cooked in bacon grease. Are we reallyt better off? He never read a box that’s for sure.

Eating habit is something that can determine your health, as all we eat somehow affects our body either in a good or bad way. Eating habits can cause severe disorders, also, as excessive eating leads to obesity, and less eating leads to under nutrition or mental health problems. There are millions of people who are suffering from disorders that occur due to improper diet strategy.

Any health-related issue can be cured by taking the right amount of food at a specific interval in a day. A dietician can help you follow the right diet plan by giving some ideas. It has become necessary to have a good diet strategy to live a healthy life. Many people follow a proper diet and thus living a peaceful and healthy state of mind.

Nothing is much precious than your health; your irregular eating habits can first spoil your health, then courier and almost everything. You might be considered an unimportant thing, but it’s crucial to be healthy and fit. Let’s find out why it is so

Significance of a diet strategy in life!

• A Diet strategy is a diet plan that is made according to the nutrition requirements of the body. Nutrition inadequate amount in a body helps a person fight against any health-related problem. Not only it increases your immune system, thus make you more active and resistant to a deadly virus like a corona.
• You might have seen that corona has not affected people who have a great immune system, but you might not have to think about how their immune system is so strong. The reason for a great immune system is a great diet strategy that includes the uptake of all nutrition that a body requires. Diet strategy consists of the components of a food rich diet. A dietician or nutritionist can help you achieve the right diet plan for your body.

The power of the right diet strategy!

• As we mention earlier right diet plan can help you acquire a healthy body plus a peaceful mind. Any type of disease, either severe or minor, can be cured by the right diet plan. Even minor problems like skin acne, pimples, itching, or anxiety can be fixed by such a method. Food is our immediate need, and we need this time to time, but have you wondered how this food intake affects our body.
• Food is a source of all nutrition and minerals that our body needs from time to time for proper function. A minor change in the uptake of food nutrition can cause illness to us. Therefore following the right strategy can help you know which food diet you should take to better the body and its part.

Conclusion

We have mentioned all the aspects related to a diet strategy. A diet strategy is necessary due to the change environment and modernization. Many people are not taking food rich diet for better growth, which is why they become weak and get prone to diseases quickly.

To say that McCormick & Schmick’s specializes in seafood is an understatement. The menu is printed daily, and boasts 32 to 40 fresh catches, ranging from Massachusetts scallops to Mahi Mahi from Ecuador. For those that delight in oysters from the raw bar, there are always eight varieties from which to choose. And, as McCormick & Schmick’s only offers farmed oysters whose environments are strictly monitored and controlled, they are shucked all year long.

John Gallagher, General Manager of McCormick & Schmick’s at the Boston Park Plaza Hotel, explains that the restaurant serves farmed oysters because farming yields a more consistent product than those that are grown wild. Joe Hafner, Sous Chef, adds that oysters are farmed similarly to any crop. He explains that oyster seeds are placed either directly into sand or in suspended trays, racks, bags, bells, etc., to which they attach themselves and grow. These seeds filter the ocean water and sand and in doing so grow shells and flavor their plump flesh with the essence of the environments in which they’re grown. Reaching a marketable size usually takes between two and three years. Farmers plan years ahead and have oysters staggered enough to always have some on hand for sale. The water temperature is strictly monitored, and if it rises above 60 degrees, oysters enter the reproductive phase, rendering them inedible, which usually occurs during the summer. Farmers, however, are able to drop racks deeper in the ocean to control the temperature and continue growth year-round.

There are oysters for every palate at McCormick & Schmick’s. All are served on the half-shell atop crushed ice, accompanied by a lemon wedge and cocktail sauce. Not sure what to order? Hafner describes East Coast oysters as having a high salt content, bigger flatter shell, and a briny, beach-flavored finish, whereas West Coast oysters have a deeper cup, smaller meatier oyster, and a sweeter aftertaste, which he deems better for beginners. To better acquaint oneself with the varieties, Hafner also suggests ordering the Sampler, which doles out the top six oysters of the day.

The Charlestown Pond Oyster of Rhode Island, Gallagher’s favorite, is harvested only for McCormick & Schmick’s, and is the best East Coast seller. Its flesh is flat and silky, and its flavor begins salty, but lingers a subtle sweetness. Hafner prefers West coast oysters, and favors the Kumamoto oyster of Humboldt Bay, California. These oysters are cupped in smaller and deeper shells, and although meatier then the Charlestown variety, are creamy in texture and are much sweeter throughout. Other top sellers are St Simone oysters of New Brunswick, California and Golden Mantle oysters of Vancouver, B.C.

Celebrate the true essence of National Seafood Month at McCormick & Schmick’s by savoring the unadulterated tastes of farmed oysters.

Tasting Notes

Rhode Island, Charlestown Pond Oysters

Guide price: $19.90 per dozen

Just to ensure our editorial integrity, I had to go to McCormick & Schmick’s and check out these oysters (what a miserable job I have!). I sidled up to a plate of freshly shucked specimens that were deftly plated by Joe Hafner, Sous Chef. They are a smallish brown oyster in an attractive pale shell. I downed half a dozen, with a little lemon and a couple in the European style, with a small splash of white wine. I am not sure how you could taste an oyster with horseradish, but that’s a personal preference. They are sweet, not too strong and have a very delicate and subtle flavor. The liquor has a soft salty taste without a brackish finish. The flesh was not over chewy (something I hate) and they really did go down well! Definitely a great oyster for an appetizer with a glass of wine.

As a young girl I often contemplated the meaning of an old adage posted on the wall of our pantry: Haste Makes Waste. A cobweb-veiled woman bent above the words, scrubbing the floor. I could almost hear the impatient dismissal of hair from out of her eyes, the whoosh upward from a corner of her lower lip. About the same time I developed the entirely wasteful habit of scarfing food. I sat at a table of six, clutching my fork with a white-knuckled fist, and vacuumed food off of my plate. It was a proven fact that one of my big brothers would swipe it if I couldn’t get to it fast enough.

Fifteen years later, the truth of those words is abundantly clear. Haste has wasted our means of nourishing ourselves—it has depleted our soils, filled us up with scary chemicals that we don’t even try to pronounce, and threatened our very existence on this planet. And it seems that the answer may not be a strictly organic diet—or strictly vegetarian, or vegan, or local in the frigid North and arid Southwest. In fact, it may not strict at all, just slow. Take my habit. If I choose, now, to decelerate my consumption (there are no big brothers nearby to steal food out from under me) I will not miss out on calories. I will, however, ease the stress on my digestive tract; I won’t confuse my stomach with inadequately-masticated items, jam my upper intestine with overflow, or flood my lower intestine prematurely. I will give my body a few moments for recognition, reaction and absorption. I will give the bodies sitting at the table beside me reason to do the same. And most significantly, from an environmental perspective, I will give my mind time to consider the intricacies of the foods I am raising to my mouth.

I believe this simple act of consideration can serve as the impetus for ecological consciousness. As we re-acquaint ourselves with food, we will inevitably, eventually, better understand and take care of the land from which it comes.

Let’s imagine another scenario: You are standing inside the door of your favorite restaurant, waiting patiently. Name on the list (party of two), glass of wine in hand (on the house). It’s after nine and with a growling stomach you’ve been watching satisfied customers celebrating a 60th birthday party; they lean back, howling with laughter with open mouths full, a napkin sliding off the knee as grandchildren crawl over their feet. You swirl and sniff your Merlot. You are salivating. I’m sure many of us have been there. And we’ll do it again and again. It is your favorite restaurant, you are having an evening with your sweetheart, and it is always, invariably, worth the wait. We wait because we are in love, and because the food is irresistible.

The moral of my stories is this: if it is too fiscally burdensome, or geographically impractical, to have a textbook environmentalist diet, we can still eat responsibly. Selfish as it may seem at a glance, the first step toward eating with the future of the planet in mind may be to indulge. To take care of our bodies, our souls, and the earth, let us eat slowly.

Sometimes a sandwich is just a sandwich– two slices of bread around some sliced meat with some cheese and a few extras. Sometimes, however, a sandwich is a gourmet treat that must reach a high level of expectation. When you live on the east coast, sandwiches are an art form and a crucial part of the culture on that side of the country and any that bore fall to the bottom. When you want that perfect pastrami sandwich, thinly sliced meat piled high on artisan bread, cheese melted perfectly in between with the precise amount of mustard to accent, not overwhelm, you need to know your resources. The intent of this restaurant review is to tell you where you can locate the best mouth-watering pastrami sandwiches, a signature in New Jersey. Some folks would direct you to nearby New York, but New Jersey have some amazing locations within their own borders. Here are some of their favorite joints to score an authentic, delicious pastrami sandwich that will stand out from any other sandwich you’ve ever had in the past.

Town Hall Deli
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Located in South Orange at the corner of First and Academy Street, this local jewel claims to be the home of the original sloppy Joe. The innovation does not end there, as proven by the deli’s line of old-fashioned soda and a unique after hours policy. From 10:00 p.m. until 3:00 a.m., Thursday through Saturday, the restaurant delivers from a special menu. Serving delicious pastrami sandwiches since 1927, Town Hall Deli offers lettuce, tomato, mayo, mustard, along with cole slaw and pickle chips to grace them.

Harold’s New York Deli Restaurant
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Harold’s advertising sends love from New York to the New Jersey location in Edison. Everything on Harold’s menu is huge, including sandwiches designed to feed two to five people.

You may request your sandwiches from nine different kinds of bread, dressed as you like them with a generous amount of cole slaw on the side. Locals recommend getting extra bread to make sandwiches at home because they are so loaded with meat! Contributing to its popularity is Harold’s pickle bar, which claims to be the largest in the world!

The Kibitz Room
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You will find the best corned beef and pastrami sandwich deal in all of Cherry Hill off of Evesham and Springdale Road. The website assures us that size does matter and then taunts us with photos of enormous sandwiches you can almost taste by looking. The Kibitz Room prepares all ingredients on site for maximum freshness. The Courier Post repeatedly names the Kibitz Room as the best deli in South Jersey. The Kibitz Room is also famous for their Great Big Mouth Full challenge which consists of six and a half pounds of meat, six slices of bread, beautifully dressed with cole slaw and Russian dressing. If the challenger can eat it all in 55 minutes or less, it is free of charge. Smart money suggests bringing the $50 to pay for it and a few friends to help finish it if you fail!

Lox, Stock and Deli
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You will find this gem at on Ryders Lane in Milltown. The Lox, Stock & Deli have a make-your-own feature is a plus at this kosher deli offering single, double and triple decker sandwiches to satisfy the hungriest customer. The menu is extensive, offering much more than sandwiches since 1998. They cater everything from kosher baking goods, to small appetizers and h’orderves, to gourmet entrees and sides. Whether it’s dine-in, take-out, or catering you’re looking for, this place will give you that quality only New Jersey deli owners can deliver.

Hobby’s Delicatessen & Restaurant
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Located “just a block from the Rock” in Newark, Hobby’s Delicatessen serves beautifully thin-sliced pastrami with all the fixings you could want on fresh rye. Hobby’s bakes all their bread on site for freshness that cannot be beat. Layers upon layers of pastrami, bread and creamy cole slaw create a kosher treat that will warm your heart. The homemade soups are delicious on the side if there is enough room in your stomach for them!

Of course, a restaurant review can never fully communicate the tasty goodness of mountains of hot pastrami, dripping the juices from melted fat through fresh rye bread smeared with just a touch of hot mustard or Russian dressing. It is best to try them all and decide for yourself! Just be sure to share the results when you find that perfect hot pastrami sandwich next time you’re in New Jersey.