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[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Why are you a vegetarian?

All vegetarians by choice are picky eaters. There is no other reason.

[chaoticag]

Actually, some do it for humanitarian resons, others enviromental reasons.

[Mephansteras]

Get a can of mixed nuts to carry around with you. They're high in protein and good fats, so they'll keep you going and you can snack on them pretty easily.

If the sodium is an issue you can just get unsalted almonds or something.

[chaoticag]

I second that, get unsalted, don't eat too much at once, and DO NOT wash it down with diet pepsi. Some lessons are learned the hard way.

[Mephansteras]

I should point out that if you avoid processed/salted foods in general (fairly easy for a Vegetarian) the salted nuts can actually be a good part of your diet. But since most processed food contains sodium it might not be an issue for you.

[qwertyuiopas]

Sodium, is a metalic element that burns upon contact with water.

Just so you know, there is either a naming overlap, or one massive miscommunication.

Sodium is only part of salt, so if they measured quantities of salt and only declared the wright of the elemental sodium in that salt, they can claim to have less salt...

[Mephansteras]

I'm referring to the sodium content that is typically listed on the labels of food, at least here in the US. Its about the only way to tell how much salt is in food from the labels.

[Siquo]

querty: only the sodium-ion part of sodiumchloride is mentioned to differentiate from "the other salt", potassiumchloride. Both sodium and potassium are in ionised form, and therefore relatively harmless compared to their non-ionised counterparts. It's still the same element though, so there's neither a naming overlap nor a miscommunication, there's just several forms in which an element can exist, and all isotopes and ionised forms of an element are still that same element.

[Vector]

Eat what you need. Your brain wants sugar. If you're feeling more hungry because you use your brain more, try fructose tablets or better yet, real fruit.

Alrighty--I've been adding some dining hall fruit (disgusting) and fruit juice (disgusting in an entirely different way), and things seem to be going a bit better.

Have you tried hummus? It is pretty filling and quite tasty and can be eaten slowly.

Yes, hummus is absolutely delicious.  I may need to go buy some to put on top of my rice cakes, because that's the most breadish stuff I've got >_>

Right, I asked the expert (medical/clinical nutritionist/dietician (don't know the correct English term)).

The expert in question in return wanted:
1. To know why I am talking to females on the internet and
2. Making sure that the female in question knows that it's my girlfriend who gave this advice and
3. Me to know that no, she is not jealous at all.


The advice:
Fibres and fat both slow down the rate in which your stomach empties itself. Whole-wheat products, fruit and vegetables (which contain the most fibre) also have the added benefit of being nutricious. Being hungry usually means your body is lacking nutrition, so eating nutrient-rich food should quench that hunger, and the fibres and fat (vegetable oils and fish are better than animal fat) should keep you "filled" longer.

Disclaimer (medical people and their disclaimers...): This is just "general" advice, it all depends on your current diet, and consulting a dietician may be wise, especially if you're undernourished (your starvation period may have caused undernourishment). Undernourishment is independent of your weight, and means that your body lacks certain specific foodstuffs, such as vitamins, minerals, fibres.

Thank you so much ~  I was recently checked for nutrients, and they said I'm good for all the basic ones.  I've been drinking some whole milk, which also helped me out.  Unfortunately, good fruits and vegetables are kind of hard to come by at the moment, so I don't get to eat them really frequently.

Proteins fill you up. Since you're a picky eater vegetarian and hopefully not stupid a vegan, you should eat eggs and cheese and stuff. I think certain pulses and nuts also contain protein.

Yeah, working on it.  I'm not a vegan, because I'd shrivel and die.  So currently I'm getting a lot of protein from... milk, whoo-hoo >_>  Seriously, they serve pretty much nothing without meat and with cheese over here.

My advice on this is lentils. Surprising high calory count, and protien. Other sources of protien include soy beans, beans in general. How is your current eating plan? If you don't get the right amount of nutrients, you will always crave food.

Last but not least, make sure you take the right nutritional suppliments. This is very important when living a vegetarian life, and you will want to look out for the B vitamans speciffically, especiallly since B12 can only be found naturally in fish guts and algae.

Also in flax seed oil.  I have a bottle of it in my refrigerator, which I should probably start drinking at some point.  I think I also have a nice big sheaf of nori around here somewhere.  Beans (especially lentils) are hard to get, but I eat a load of chickpeas whenever I can get them.  Unfortunately, that's generally the best I can do by way of beans with the materials I have right now, so I'll work within the current framework for a bit and then start thinking about buying more stuff.

Why are you a vegetarian?

I'm a picky eater.  In more seriousness, I was raised by a vegetarian mother who once, when I was very hungry and the only food available contained meat, convinced me out of eating until we could get home in a few hours by telling me a nice long story about meat packing plants.  I don't know when that was, but it was when I was fairly young.  Anyway, I stopped eating meat more than once a year around then, and eventually I just stopped completely.  Nowadays, it makes me sick, so it's just not worth it.

Additionally, my mother would give me the guilt trip of my life, and she already gives me enough guilt trips.  I'd rather just forgo the meat and forgo the lectures, because she'd bully me into vegetarianism again.

My relationship with food is a long and kind of aggravating one =/

Get a can of mixed nuts to carry around with you. They're high in protein and good fats, so they'll keep you going and you can snack on them pretty easily.

If the sodium is an issue you can just get unsalted almonds or something.

Got a bag of unsalted almonds :3  They're delicious and seem to work quite well for study food.

I second that, get unsalted, don't eat too much at once, and DO NOT wash it down with diet pepsi. Some lessons are learned the hard way.

Don't drink soda, so no problems there.


Thanks for the advice, everyone

[florian]

Where are you? Do you cook by yourself, or do you eat in some kind of canteen? Do you have access to kitchen equipment?

[Vector]

Where are you? Do you cook by yourself, or do you eat in some kind of canteen? Do you have access to kitchen equipment?

I'm in a dining hall thinger.  So yes, I eat in some sort of canteen.  I really don't have access to kitchen equipment.  My situation will likely change in some ways over the summer/fall semester, however, so I'm welcome to any and all advice.

[florian]

If you need a cookbook, get How to Cook Everything Vegetarian. This is one of the most comprehensive and useful cookbooks that I know.

Try simple soups. Most are pretty easy to make and are rather filling. Risottos on the other hand are pretty easy to fuck up and require constant stirring, but I personally find them exceptionally tasty and nutritious. They also are very cheap, if you use canned ingredients and cheap rice.

What is your budget?

[Vector]

What is your budget?

Hrm.  That's going to be a fun conversation to have with mother dear.

[Leafsnail]

Hmm... have you considered thay ou could have some other problem?  I dunno, feeling hungry all the time could be a sign of inability to digest things or somethin'.  You say that eating certain things makes you feel sick - have you looked into this?  Eh, probably nothing.

Also, anecdotal evidence would suggest that East Asian food can be a bit... insubstantial.  After all, you always feel like you need another Chinese meal just a bit after, riiight?

As for practical advice... hmm... stir frys, risottos and soup tends to work well in my book.  Pasta or pizza once in a while could also work.

[Vector]

Things that make me feel sick:

Meat (specifically shrimp, which is the last time I ate meat [accidentally])
Oatmeal
Eggs
Cheese
Chocolate

That's the kind of general list.