going pescetarian?

In which a girl who has been eating meat nearly every[other]day decides to cut it out of her diet.

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Vegan Ice Cream….RECIPES

Vegan Cherry Garcia

Acai Berry 

Lavender Coconut

Effortless Nutter Butter Ice Cream

Maple Ice Cream

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Roasted Shrimp Pasta with Lemon Cream Sauce

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More Foods of the week! 

1. Grilled Cheese and fries from In-N-Out! Bless California

2. It may not look like it but it’s a tuna salad sandwich accompanied by some mayo and spinach. 

3. Oatmeal and Bananas because that’s the only way I can get to school with some energy coursing through my body. 

4. Pancake and eggs after a hard day of working on a cardboard boat for physics. 

5. Some bow tie pasta, potato bread, and beans

6. Tempura shrimp and vegetable samosas [thank you Costco]

7. And finally, some fro-yo because the temperatures are going over the 80s

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Pancakes

Time: 14 minutes  |  Price: $6  |  Amount: 4 pancakes

Ingredients:

1 cup all-purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

1 tsp salt

1 tbsp sugar

1 cup milk

1 egg

2 tbsp melted butted

Syrup

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Steps:

1. In a bowl, mix together the flour, baking powder, salt, and sugar.

2. After they’re mixed, add in the milk, egg, and melted butter.

3. In a pan, put some oil in and heat it up.

4. Pour in about ¼ cup of the batter into the pan, and do so for the rest of the batter after.

5. Once they’re done, pour as much syrup as you want over them ……. and  EEEAAAAATTTT!!!! :D

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Ice Cream Waffle

Time: 15 min | Price: $7 | Amount: 4 Waffles

Ingredients:

- 1 cup all purpose flour

- 1 egg

- 2 tsp baking powder

- 1 cup milk

- ½ cup butter (melted)

- 1 tsp vanilla extract

- ½ cup sugar

- syrup

-vanilla ice cream

- fruit of your choice

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Steps:

1. In one bowl, mix together the flour, sugar and baking powder. (dry ingredients)

2. In another bowl, mix together the milk, butter and vanilla extract. (wet ingredients)

3. Combine the wet and the dry ingredients and mix in the egg.

4. Preheat the waffle iron.

5. Put the batter in the waffle iron.

6. Cook until golden brown

7. Once waffles are done, scoop a spoonful of ice cream and place it on top.

8. Add your choice of fruit on top of the waffles.

9. Drizzle syrup on top to your heart’s desire.

10. EEEAAAAAAAATTTTTTT!! :D

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Marshmallow Oreo Bars

Time: 13 minutes  |  Price: $5  |  Amount: 16 Bars

Ingredients:

- 1 Oreo package

- 1 bag of marshmallows

- 3 tbsp of butter

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Steps:

1. In a plastic bag, put the Oreos inside and crush them until there aren’t any chunks.

2. Put the marshmallows and the butter in a large bowl and melt them in the microwave for 2 ½ minutes.

3. Right after, mix in the crushed Oreos.

4. Line  your pan with aluminum foil, and pour the mix into the pan.

5. Let the mix cool down in the pan for about 8 minutes.

6. Cut them into 16 bars.

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Tortilla Pizzas

Time: 14 minutes  |  Price: $5-7  | Amount: 4-5 pizzas

Ingredients:

- Tortillas

- ½ cup Pasta sauce 

- 4tbsp BBQ sauce

- shredded mozzarella cheese

- topping of your choice (pepperoni, mushrooms, ham, onions, olives, etc.)

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Steps:

1. Preheat the oven at 425°F .

2. In a bowl put together the pasta sauce and the BBQ sauce and mix. 

3.Spread the sauce on the tortillas.

4. Put as much cheese as you like on top.

5. Then add on your toppings. 

6. Repeat steps 2-4 for the rest of your tortillas.

7. Put them in the oven for 7-8 minutes.

8. Take them out of the oven and let them cool for a minute or so.

9. Cut them into slices.

10. EEEEEAAAAAAATTTTTT!!!!! 

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California Rolls

Time: 25 minutes  |  Price: $10  |  Amount: 45 pieces

Ingredients:

- 4 Dry seaweed sheets

- 4 imitation crab sticks

- 1 avocado

- 1 cucumber

- warm rice

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Steps:

1. First cook the imitation crab sticks in boiling water.

2. Lay out one sheet of dried seaweed and apply a thin layer of warm rice on the seaweed.

3. Slice the cucumber into long sticks and the avocado as well. 

3. On one side of the seaweed, put one cooked crab stick on the edge following the cucumber and avocado.

4. Roll the side of the seaweed with the crab stick, cucumber, and avocado inward until you read the other side of the seaweed.

5. Once you have your roll, cut it into pieces with a sharp knife.

6. Repeat steps 2-5 for the rest of the California Rolls.

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Week 12: foods throughout the week. 1. White rice with mixed vegtables and cooked thilapia. 2. White rice, veggies, cooked thilapia (now with some brocolli!) 3. HEALTHY LITTLE TREATS So me and my friends wanted cheesecake but wanted to be healthy so we decided to make these little treats First- grab some greek yogurt and slap it at the bottom of the cup Then- drizzle some honey. Put some fresh fruit on top of it as well as some granola and grab that honey again and put more on top Finally- shove it in the freezer for about 30 minutes and your treat is done! 4. ORIGINAL PANCAKE HOUSE Veggie omelet, chocolate pancake, and hashbrowns 5. Grilled cheese because why not 6. Quinoa and rice, broccolli, thilapia, and a berry blended smoothie 7. Spaghettie and feta cheese on top and a side of cherry coke soda

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Hashbrowns

Time: 15 minutes  |  Price: $6  |  Servings: 2-3 people

Ingredients:

- 5 potatoes

- salt

- grounded black pepper

- 4tbsp butter

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Steps:

1. Peel the potatoes.

2. Shred the potatoes and wash them in water.

3. In a pan, heat the butter.

4. Then put a hand full of the shredded potatoes in and sprinkle some salt and grounded black pepper to taste.

5. Cook the potatoes until they’re brown.

-Repeat steps 3-5 for the remaining shredded potatoes-

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Take Action on Earth Day! This Earth Day, we want to make a statement that can’t be ignored. We need as many people as possible to watch the groundbreaking feature-length environmental documentary “Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret”, exposing the most destructive industry facing the planet today. On April 22nd, let’s share the truth about who is really destroying our planet!

“Cowspiracy may be the most important film made to inspire saving the planet. - Louie Psihoyos, Oscar-Winning Director of “The Cove”

“A documentary that will rock and inspire the environmental movement.” - Darren Aronofsky, Director of “Noah” and “Black Swan”

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–Five times Emma Watson totally nailed it in her HeForShe interview for International Women’s Day

[2/5]: “It’s what makes you human.”

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I can't eat meat but that's not gonna stop me from devouring this whole bowl of mac&cheese

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Environmental reasons why not to eat meat

(Besides the fact that you’re killing animals) According to the Environmental Research Web, eating less meat will help save water. And living in California where we have a massive drought, I feel like people should strongly cut out meat or eat less of it. I want to keep taking 20 min long showers. “livestock farming requires large amounts of water to produce the cereals used as animal feed”. We spend so much water on animals, that already 1/3 of the world’s population is already living in places where there isn’t enough of water. 8% of water consumption world wide is being used because of this. Yet why aren’t we doing anything about this situation? Why are we letting 1/3 of the world suffer when the other 2/3 can just at least decrease the amount of meat they’re eating. Instead of going for the meatball sub, go for a veggie one. Instead of having chicken in your rice, replace it with tofu. I promise it won’t kill you (unless you’re allergic).

According to the ICIS website, “To meet the demand for beef only, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research estimates that by 2050 we will need a cattle population of 2.6 billion animals.” This is insane. Why are we going to sacrifice that many animals for our own greed?

We’ve already cut down Earth’s precious trees and have place buildings where forests originally were, so why are they planning on using up more land for this selfish action? A million of acres of land will probably be needed to reach this probable expectancy of meat, which just sounds ridiculous. We have “Already over the past 50 years 17% of the Amazon rainforest has been lost, mostly due to forest conversion for cattle ranching”, how much more of the Earth are we going to destroy before it destroys us?

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Week 11

So it’s the middle of April which means that May is quickly approaching. This also means that my parents are expecting me to go back to eating chicken and beef because I’m still in my “growing age”. 
The past week, my mom has offered me to eat chicken which I denied, which resulted in my getting lectured by both parents that this whole Pescetarian business better end once school is over. They told me once I’m 18, I can do whatever I want and go back to being a Pescetarian. But the thing is, I want to stay as one. I’ve felt better about myself while not eating it, and those chest burns I would get from time to time hasn’t returned since I started this way of life back in January. Of course my parents aren’t going to listen to that, they’ll blame it on the junk food or somehow even tie my chest burns to the computer.

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Week 11: foods from the week 1) Headed off to the Spice Hut and got a "Masala Dosa" which was basically this thing bread with potato inside that you can dip into some sauce. 2) Pancakes and eggs for breakfast because why not. 3) Went to Ikea for the first time and treated myself (well my parents did) to some smoked salmon, mashed potatoes, and some veggies. 4) A plate of Quinoa&Rice along with some cooked vegetables. 5) Tortilla bread that we slapped a 7-layer bean dip in because we don't have any more peeta bread. 6) White rice with a slice of cooked Tilapia and veggies Yuumm

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Week 9 and 10 

Here’s a few pictures of the food I’ve eaten throughout the week. 

For the first time, I went to Red Lobster and ordered Tilapia tacos. 

My best friend came from a visit from Utah, and of course we had to go get CREAM which was insanely good. 

For breakfast, we headed over to the Original House of Pancakes and got an Apple Pancake, with a side of eggs as well as a piece of a Dutch Baby and Hasbrowns. 

Made a spontaneous trip to Maz Restaurant and I almost freaked out because I thought the soup had chicken but it was really just corn. My parents surprisingly didn't scold me for not choosing any meat besides fish to put on my plate. 

Then finally, my mom entered my room while I was doing an insane amount of Calc work to give me rice, carrots, broccoli, and fish.