Re: Anne's veggie dilemma.

[Guest guest]

> It sounds like you're not much of a vegetable lover.

I don't think this is true. Anne has been trying out a wide variety of

vegetables and has found most of them to be tastey. I think that, like so

many of us when we started on the Beach, she hadn't thought much about

vegetables before. She probably ate a tiny bit at lunch, like lettuce and

tomato slice in a sandwich, and a salad or a hot veg with dinner, but not

necessarily any for breakfast on a regular basis.

The South Beach way of eating has really challenged me to think of different

ways to get so many vegetables into me and my family each day. We ate

veggies like I described above, but nothing in the volume the South Beach

recommends. And we *like* vegetables!

--

Ann

You spend your life fighting dirt, and when you die they bury you in it.

hayakawa@...

North Bend, Oregon, USA

[Guest guest]

Well -- Here's Annie -- and I've been gone all day and haven't seen the original

post or

what it said. But if you're talking about me, then you're right. I wasn't

used to veggies at

every meal (and often in between) and this is taking some getting used to. I

like them just

fine, but because I didn't eat half as many as SBD recommends, I wasn't familiar

with all

the ways of cooking them or the vast variety that are out there. So, compare me

to

someone who always has seen veggies in two-dimensional black and white, and who,

suddenly acquires 3-D technicolor vision. Suddenly there are new elements of

taste and

design to learn. What goes with what. What overwhelms everything else. etc.

how to

cook, just a whole new vocabulary. And the standbys-- because we have to eat

veggies

at every meal -- don't hold up as " interesting " as much when you have to eat

them so

frequently and in such volume.

Thanks, Ann, for answering this for me.... I will go look at the original post

when I get a

chance.

I FINALLY got my computer back and plugged it in. Email isn't working yet

(online is tho),

and alll my original applications are in LA and I'm in Boston, and the 30-day

working

versions they give you with the operating system have all " expired " supposedly,

and so, it

looks like I'm still stuck with this online email for a while. damn! But at

least I don't have

to share computers anymore.

Anyhow -- I'll try to respond, if there was something addressed to me, as soon

as I get a

chance. Meanwhile, I have a whole lot of set-up work to do. Everything --

EVERYTHING

-- got killed in the " repair " process. Luckily I had the documents backed up.

I just

checked the portable hard drive and it looks like they're there. .. .

but I sure lost a lot of cool email info where great recipes had been stored....

enough venting...

later, folks!

Thanks

Annie in Motion Now!

-- In South-Beach-Diet-Getting-It-Right , Ann

wrote:

>

> > It sounds like you're not much of a vegetable lover.

>

> I don't think this is true. Anne has been trying out a wide variety of

> vegetables and has found most of them to be tastey. I think that, like so

> many of us when we started on the Beach, she hadn't thought much about

> vegetables before. She probably ate a tiny bit at lunch, like lettuce and

> tomato slice in a sandwich, and a salad or a hot veg with dinner, but not

> necessarily any for breakfast on a regular basis.

>

> The South Beach way of eating has really challenged me to think of different

> ways to get so many vegetables into me and my family each day. We ate

> veggies like I described above, but nothing in the volume the South Beach

> recommends. And we *like* vegetables!

>

> --

> Ann

> You spend your life fighting dirt, and when you die they bury you in it.

> hayakawa@i...

> North Bend, Oregon, USA

>

[Guest guest]

Aha -- Here it is!

Thanks for the time and care you put into this, .

I'll keep your recipes. But, I do think that Ann captured the essence of

what was

going on with me, and probably explained it better than I could have.

I might add, too, that, as a young adult, coming from a family in which cookies

and

pastries had never been served, one of the first things I did when i started

earning my own

money and cooking for myself, was to buy a different type of bagged cookie every

week or

so until I had tasted every different kind! And candies, too! Boy, was that

fun! Funny how

I didn't do the same thing with veggies. Of course, I had to COOK those, and

read recipe

books, and hadn't a clue about what was what-- and that, of course, was many

long years

ago,.... but I did also, at one point, when I was but a thin reed in the wind,

experience a

cookie epiphany as well!

Annie D. ;-)

>

> :-)

>

> It sounds like you're not much of a vegetable lover. That takes time to

> adjust to.

>

> One thing worth trying --