This recipe for lemon potato salad with mint sounds easy and yummy for an upcoming summer meal on the patio. I always cut any oil in a recipe right back, sometimes even to zero. For example, I brown onions without oil. Instead I add a tablespoon of water or veggie stock. Add more as it dries out. The onions caramelize just the same and you save yourself a lot of calories and, according to the experts at Forks Over Knives, damage to your cardiovascular system, specifically the endothelial cell lining of your arteries.
There is one vitamin that all vegans and vegetarians MUST take as a supplement, and that is vitamin B12. There are two reasons for this. First, vitamin B12 is an "essential" vitamin, which means it is something we must have otherwise we will develop a deficiency disease, but it is a vitamin that is not made by our bodies so must be consumed from food or supplements. Food is always better than supplements, but because of the nature of vitamin B12 we basically have no option other than to take a vitamin B12 supplement. Which leads to the second reason why we need to supplement vitamin B12. Vitamin B12 is actually created by bacteria in soil and is not found in plants. In the past, we were able to get the small doses of vitamin B12 that we need from the residual soil left on plants that we ate. However today we don't forage for food, and most of us don't grow our own vegetables, but rather we head off to the supermarket or grocery store and buy bags of triple-was
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