Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, October 31, 2014, 12:00 AM
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Classic comfort food — minus the meat
Original post made on Oct 31, 2014
Read the full story here Web Link posted Friday, October 31, 2014, 12:00 AM
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a resident of Old Mountain View
on Oct 31, 2014 at 3:57 pm
I was enjoying this review until I got to
"Though everything on the menu has no cholesterol, no transfat and minimal sugar, be aware that eating vegetarian does not necessarily mean it's exactly diet food. Buffalo wings clock in at 460 calories, half of those from fat, and a whopping 1,590 mg of sodium. A bowl of quinoa power salad has 690 calories."
The passage just quoted pertains not to "eating vegetarian" (should be "vegan"), but only to at least some of the dishes served at this restaurant, and unfortunately many restaurants: too high in salt and fat. And even homemade versions of the "classic comfort food" (the review's header) based on meat and dairy are not something that people expect to be "diet food". If the restaurant finds it necessary to torture perfectly good plant-based ingredients so that they measure up to this dubious standard, after they originate as low in salt and fat, that's an issue with the restaurant, not with the ingredients. It has nothing to do with "eating vegan".
The "Bombay Bowl", which does not claim to imitate any well-known non-plant-based dish, sounds like it stands a chance of being healthful (well-balanced proportions of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and protein) as well as delicious, unless it's over-salted.
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