[Gemara D'Jessica]
I like photography, cloth diapers, biking, cooking and zombies.
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[52 Weeks]
Breakfast: 
Oatmeal with blueberries
Lunch: 
Salad & water with frozen fruit
Dinner: 
Taco flavored rice & beans with a homemade salsa-ish-type-thing and unsweetened almond milk in a zombie mug
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Breakfast: 
oatmeal
Lunch: 
salad and frozen fruit with water
Dinner: 
Carrot cake pancakes and asparagus (no, I did not eat that entire plate of asparagus. Corey and I shared.)
I will own this jacket one day and take adorable pictures of Asher and/or Kovi in it.
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Some might expect that since the vegan diet contains a form of iron that is not that well absorbed, vegans might be prone to developing iron deficiency anemia. However, surveys of vegans have found that iron deficiency anemia is no more common among vegetarians than among the general population although vegans tend to have lower iron stores.
Tips to get the most iron out of your food:
- Eat iron-rich foods along with foods that contain vitamin C, which helps the body absorb the iron.
- Tea and coffee contains compounds called polyphenols, which can bind with iron making it harder for our bodies to absorb it.
- Calcium also hinders the absorption of iron; avoid high-calcium foods for a half hour before or after eating iron-rich foods.
- Cook in iron pots. The acid in foods seems to pull some of the iron out of the cast-iron pots. Simmering acidic foods, such as tomato sauce, in an iron pot can increase the iron content of the brew more than ten-fold. Cooking foods containing other acids, such as vinegar, red wine, lemon or lime juice, in an iron pot can also increase the iron content of the final mixture.
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Yeah! I do not consider I am “on a diet”. I eat for my health.
The title pretty much says it all. For the month of February, we will be 100% vegan. You’ll be surprised to know that this wasn’t my idea. It was Corey’s. Yes, really. Corey suggested going vegan for a month. I can’t say that I hadn’t thought about this myself, but I never thought Corey would agree to it. Little did I know, he was thinking the same thing! (In regard to going vegan, not in regard to me not agreeing to it. He knew I would agree wholeheartedly!) Honestly, this won’t be such a huge change for either of us. Other than on Shabbat and the occasional cheese or egg added to a weekday dinner, I only eat vegan food. And Corey too, same as me, but he adds fish to his salad at lunch. The only non-vegan thing that Kovi eats (yes, we’re including the kids in this) is yogurt and I’m pretty sure he actually has a mild intolerance because he spits up A LOT after eating it. And Asher has been giving up his cows milk and asking for almond milk. Asher eats yogurt too, but I’ve forgotten to pick up his yogurt before, he asks for it once, I tell him we don’t have any and that’s the end of it. So, I imagine, that will work. So yeah, no more cow’s milk, cheese, yogurt or eggs for a while (and for me, possibly forever…). On a side note, considering blogging a picture of what I’m eating each day in February, but we’ll see if that actually happens.
