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[shootingstar]

Well, Oakleaf unlike you, I know for certain I would need a cookbook for East Indian dishes. So I should clarify, that my natural, no-cookbook tendencies is Far Eastern, non-East Indian cuisine.

In my last job, I worked with a woman around my age, who did want to lose weight (she probably needed to lose at least 30 lbs.) but she seemed to have a tough time thinking or BELIEVING dishes completely outside her Eastern European confines, could even become part of her diet to help her lose weight. At lunch hr. I noticed her continuously surfing websites that used mayonnaise, and I'm sorry, other junk/non healthy/processed ingredients.

Her definition of dieting..I could tell was what she tried to switch for her snacks and offer me stuff that I turned down half of the time: rice cakes with carmelized sugar, granola bars with sugar, etc.

And remember this is living in a large city with a huge range of ethnic ingredient choices, not in a rural area in North America.

[cylegoddess]

Im with oak leaf! sorry to be vague( as I am born vague!) what I mean, is that most people I meet who go veggie get overwhelmed, by too much and quit. so its easy to pick one type to start! but order out too!
the hari krishnas have a great cook book that is easy and yummy.you can get it any any hari krishna kitchen( usally in bigger citys) or I bet, on amazon.
I think its called ;a higher taste