Anyone ever gone on an Indian diet?

I could live with it but the curry smell would eventually do me in. Even though I love Indian food.

How. And yes.

Buffalo jerky and acorn meal pancakes.

There’s some amazing vegan Indian food.

Fry bread is wonderful, especially with honey and powdered sugar.

Sufferin’ succotash

Being vegan is indeed practical and inexpensive. Been doing it for 20 years.

The Indian food in restaurants around me is my only frame of reference, and it’s absolutely swimming in ghee and oils. Many Indian men here in NJ have heart disease symptoms or major cardiac events in their midlife years. It is a tasty cuisine though!

OMG. Butter chicken! Proof that any foreign food covered in gravy is not healthy but oh so tasty.

NOOOOO!

Has anyone asked Elizabeth Warren if she has?

I eat no beef, pork, lamb or veal. Breakfast is usually oatmeal and a latte.. Lunch is often a steamed vegetable or vegetable soup and half a cheese sandwich. Dinner is pasta, eggs, salads, quiche, grain bowl, tacos, chicken and fish in small portions. I've tried sticking to a particular cuisine such as Mediterranean but found it hard to do.

Indian food is traditionally vegan, but I think I could live on Tandoori chicken from my favorite Indian restaurant in the East Village.

So tender, juicy, and relatively healthy — marinated in just yogurt, olive oil and spices. Roasted in a brick oven.

No but I think I tried the Indiana diet.

You’ll clog your toilet and bust your pipes.

[quote] Being vegan is indeed practical and inexpensive.

It’s also an eating disorder and mental illness. Get some help.

R11 "Dinner is pasta, eggs, salads, quiche, grain bowl, tacos, chicken and fish..."

You've had sufficient.

Ha. Read the commas as or. Still funny.

[quote]Many Indian men here in NJ have heart disease symptoms or major cardiac events in their midlife years.

That's probably because they have switched to Western diets, and Indian restaurant food is heavily Western-influenced. They are less prone to physical degradation when they consume the standard traditional diets.

R6 is right!

Are you a home owner, OP?

Curry smell can take 100 - 200K off the price of your house

I love it but it gets into everything

There's a Hare Krishna restaurant near me and it's vegan and delicious. They don't use garlic or onion in their cooking so the smells aren't overpowering.

I love Indian food, but India is the diabetes capitol of the world, so anyone who adopts it for “health” isn’t the sharpest tool in the shed.

What's a "traditional Indian diet"?

The cuisines are varied, depending on the region.

For example north Indian, Punjabi, Bengali and south Indian cuisines (to name a few) are all different from one another, and they're not all vegetarian.

And North Indian cooking in particular is especially rich.

To be fair, what we get in Indian restaurants is their version of holiday food. It would be like judging all American food on a Thanksgiving dinner. At least, that is what an Indian friend told me!

So healthy!

[quote]Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) continue to be a significant hurdle, resulting in a higher number of deaths globally [1]. Compared to Europeans, CVDs affect Indians at least 10 years earlier and impact them during the most productive midlife period [2]. The noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) commonly include CVDs, various cancers, chronic respiratory illnesses, and diabetes, which are estimated to account for around 60% of all deaths [3]. In India, CVDs are the leading cause of death and disability and accounted for 31.8% of all deaths and 14.7% of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) globally in the year 2017 [4]. Although India is experiencing a relative decline in the burden of CVD over the last few years as seen in many other parts of the world, it still remains the leading cause of death and DALYs in the country.

Seafood, occasionally chicken, and vegetables sounds pretty much like the Mediterranean diet to me (the clinical version, which obviously does not include gyros and patatas bravas)

[Quote] Indian food is traditionally vegan,

Not at all. Indian food relies heavily on dairy, from ghee, yogurt, paneer, etc.

According to this article. 20% of people in Indian are vegetarian. There is no mention of veganism as that is not their tradition.

[Quote] Couples are meat eaters in about 65% of the surveyed households and vegetarians only in 20%. But in 12% of the cases the husband was a meat eater, while the wife was a vegetarian. Only in 3% cases was the reverse true. Clearly, the majority of Indians consume some form of meat - chicken and mutton, mainly - regularly or occasionally, and eating vegetarian food is not practiced by the majority.

edit ^people in India^

India is mainly Catholic and Hindu. The Hindus tend to be vegans or more vegan-centric.

Hindus are not vegan and not even a majority vegetarian.

R21 that sounds impossible and frightening

What about Thai food? There are a lot of Thai vegan dishes.

I'm not sure I'd be willing to forego onions and garlic in the food I eat for the remainder of my life.

Alliums are elemental in cooking.

They use asafoetida powder to replace onion, which tastes even worse IMO, it's also called "the devil's dung".

I was obsessed with masala peanuts for a while (was eating a large bag in a week), and I was stinking to high heaven. Get ready to stink from all the spices.

Fuck that. I’ll take a bloody medium rare steak and a heapin’ helpin’ of mashed taters with extry gravy.

[quote] with extry gravy.

That's GRAXY to you, bub!

R34 - why would you have to forego onions & garlic?

Sautéing onions and then garlic & ginger is the base of many of Indian dishes.

Because they make you horny. And Krishna wouldn’t want that.

Going to have paneer makhani biryani for lunch in honor of this thread.

r39 - I was responding to r21's post, not about Indian food in general. I KNOW Indian food uses onions, garlic and ginger - that's why I love it. See below specifically for what I was responding to (it's about some Hare Krishna restaurant):

[quote] There's a Hare Krishna restaurant near me and it's vegan and delicious. [bold] They don't use garlic or onion in their cooking so the smells aren't overpowering.

Also, I just had Indian food last night.

And Indian Diet sounds like a great idea because it has the best vegetarian food in the world.

An Indian Restaurant Diet, is NOT a great idea because, like all restaurants, the food is heavy in oil and butter so the food tastes good

A diet of potatoes, rice and bread is not a healthy diet even if it is tasty.

I've fallen madly in love with Dal Makhani, which is black lentils simmered with tomatoes and spices and a LOT of dairy (butter and cream).

r45: Thanks for providing that link. In reading that, it very clearly illustrates the cornerstone of the Hare Krishna's reasoning for not eating onions and garlic:

[quote] Onions have, almost since prehistoric time, [bold] been attributed aphrodisiacal properties. They are mentioned in many classic Hindu texts on the art of making love, they were the most used aphrodisiac in ancient Greece, and they are frequently included as an ingredient in Roman and Arab recipes. Garlic is a natural aphrodisiac. [/bold] Even Dr. Robinson, an eminent sexologist of America considered it so. It is a tonic for loss of sexual power from any...

It goes on from there and reiterates over and over how onions and garlic supposedly can stir sexual desire, etc. etc.

R20 wtf?

I’ve never heard of the smell of curry permeating so strongly into material that it cannot be “refreshed” out upon selling your home.

I agree about onions and garlic, but you don't even know they are missing, the food is so flavorful and fragrant.

There are many US vegan Indian restaurants, at least in NY. Good stuff.