The food that puts your bp up as well as other food

I am glad to hear you are familiar with the tofu and veggie burgers and actually know some you like. If you don't it can be a long hunt and alot of spit outs.

There are some really good veggie burgers. Morning Star is out of this world. I buy it whenever I'm in America. I buy Tevul here in Israel. It has a lot of yummy vegetarian foods. I happen to love tofu, so I can eat really healthy low cholesterol foods.

Here here.....I totally agree with you. Everything that we "use" to eat was always fine and we never, hardly ever got sick. I did what the doctors told me and stopped eating this and that and I got worse. Read the bible it tells us to eat certain things and meat along with other things is part of our diets. When I decided to stop doing as the doctors say and thought about years ago when we ate what we had and that was everything.....just in moderation we were better for it. I have done this for more than 15 years now and am doing fine. I'm even losing weight by eating right.

I was THRILLED to hear a doctor say last week that they have learned that we need "some" red meat in our diets. I think he recommended no more than 4 ounces per day. He said we just really need to STOP eating a 16 ounce steak in one sitting...instead opting to divide into 4 meals during the week. 20 years ago I was put on one of those diets after a visit to the hospital & of course it just made me want those foods even MORE!!! After getting out of the hospital, I visited my family doctor. I explained my dilemma to him. He looked at me real serious & told me...Ignore what they told you, but you MUST use some common sense!!! He strongly suggested that instead of eating those foods every day, that I have them only ONCE a week. That DID help!!! I love cheese, so instead of having cheese every day, I cooked a good cheese dinner once a week. I can tell you from that experience that cheese taste twice as good when it's the center focus of your meal only once a week!!!! Instead of feeling cheated out of my cheese, I looked forward to that one meal!!! Another thing that helped me get past the red meat issue was beans & mushrooms. I make a lot of crock pot meals because of the convenience of them. Instead of adding red meat to the mix, I added beans of various kinds & Shitake mushrooms. Using a different bean every time also changed the flavor enough I didn't get tired of eating the same old thing. Once I'd finished eating my meal, I realized that I was just as satisfied as if I had eaten meat!!! At the time I was eating, I did miss the meat, but afterward my system was just as satisfied as if I had had a steak supper!!! To get around the no eggs, I used egg beaters when I felt the need for scrambled eggs for breakfast. Here in the southern US we use fat as seasoning in a lot of our vegetables. To get the same flavor without the unhealthy side effects, I now use ham bullion & a splash of olive oil. I still get the flavor of the fatback that was used all my life!!! I also found that using a little extra pepper in place of salt helped cut down on my sodium intake. What I'm trying to say is there are ways around the way we are used to normally eating that can be healthier. You just need to do a little research to find it. As my doctor pointed out...DON'T deprive yourself of anything!!! Just limit what you eat & when or find a healthier way of preparing it!!!!.