<![CDATA[Tanjareen | Official Website - herban vixen blog]]>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 04:21:53 -0800Weebly<![CDATA[Kill Whitey!!!!]]>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:36:35 -0800http://www.tanjareen.com/1/post/2012/01/kill-whitey.htmlPicture
Wanna lose weight but you’re too lazy to work-out ?  The easiest solution is to KILL WHITEY!  No, not white PEOPLE.  (I love them.  They’re the homies.)  I mean eliminate white foods from your diet.  Say no to white salt, white sugar, white potatoes, white bread, white pasta, & white rice.  The really nutritious foods in the Kingdom are colorful. Most white foods have been processed, bleached, & do not digest well in our system.  (Hence, the muffin top.)  For maximum health & digestion, try to eat vegetables from every single color of the rainbow each week.  And when you get the urge to have some white starch or bleached chemical seasoning, consider these alternatives.





white salt –-> coarse sea salt, pink salt, or black salt (FYI Lawry’s Seasoned Salt is not ur friend) 
white sugar –-> real maple syrup or agave nectar
white potatoes -–> red potatoes, purple/blue potatoes (as in photo above), or sqaush
white bread –-> whole multi-grain bread (not fake wheat-colored bread), gluten-free grain bread, or chapati
white pasta –->kamut pasta, quinoa pasta, brown rice pasta, or whole grain pasta 
white rice –-> jasmine rice, brown rice, quinoa, or cous cous ...
‘Kill whitey’ for 2 weeks & watch the inches from your waste fade away!

You’re welcome,  :-) 
Tanjareen
“Too Vain To Gain”
]]><![CDATA[No Meat? Well What DO You Eat???]]>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:19:21 -0800http://www.tanjareen.com/1/post/2012/01/no-meat-well-what-do-you-eat.htmlPicture
Whenever I tell someone I’m a vegan vegetarian they respond with, “OK, but you eat chicken, right?” No, I reply.  I don’t eat animal products.  I’m a vegetarian.  They say “Oh, but you eat fish at least, right?” NO!  I’m a vegetarian.  I eat VEGE-tation.  Defeated they then ask,“Umph, then what DO you eat?” So here are examples of what I may eat in a day:

BREAKFAST – an organic fruit & juice smoothie (no ice cream, yogurt, or chemical powders added. I use bananas to make it creamy & sweeter) – or a bowl of naturally sweetened cereal w/ vanilla almond milk – or tofu scramble w/ veggie bacon & naturally sweetened waffles w/ REAL maple syrup (not maple flavored corn syrup)

LUNCH – an avocado sandwich on gluten-free bread w/ plenty of organic lettuce, tomatoes, red onions, pickles, & sprouts w/ a bag of kettle chips – or a large fresh salad of lots of chopped organic produce w/ homemade vinaigrette dressing or non-dairy Goddess dressing – or a Portobello mushroom burger... 
...w/ a side salad – or veggie chili soy cheese over sweet potato french fries

SNACKS – unsalted almonds, unsalted raw cashews, organic unsulfered raisins, any unsulfered dried fruit w/ no sugar added – fresh organic fruit, jarred fruit in fruit juice (not canned fruit cocktail soaking in corn syrup) – lightly salted kettle chips – popcorn seasoned w/ sea salt – naturally sweetened granola bars w/ non dairy chocolate chips

DINNER – stir fried organic vegetables w/ homemade teriyaki sauce over brown jasmine rice – or same veggies & rice w/ curry sauce – or soy meat tacos w/ a side of Spanish rice, & vegetarian refried beans (no lard) –  or whole grain or brown rice penne pasta under roasted veggies in marinara sauce w/ soy italian sausage – 
or my favorite meal: vegan BBQ ribs, maple candied yams, vegan mac & cheese, curry black-eyed peas, stir fried collard greens w/ bits of seiten “meat” & vegan blueberry corn bread

DESSERT – soy cookies n cream ice cream – or vegan chocolate chip cookies – or vegan oatmeal raisin cookies – or vegan carrot cake – or a gluten-free red velvet cupcake - or vegan lemon cake – or fruit sorbet – or a chocolate almond-milk shake – or vegan brownies w/ chocolate chips

*NOTE:  Fake meats, like soy burgers & veggie bacon, are processed food.  I call them “transition foods” because it makes the shift from a carnivorous diet to a vegan one easier.  But keep in mind, its healthier to eat organic produce, legumes, & grains in their most natural unprocessed state.

**TJ’s VEGAN TIP: You can use avocado in place of cow cheese on salads, sandwiches, & burgers.

Hope this helps,
Herban Vixen Tanjareen
“Too Vain To Gain”
]]><![CDATA[Why I Don't Eat Meat...unless it showers first!]]>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:20:08 -0800http://www.tanjareen.com/1/post/2012/01/why-i-dont-eat-meat.htmlPicture
As a sistah from Inglewood, I’m often asked how I can dare pass up fried chicken, neck bones, or that plump turkey on the holidays.  I’ve been hesitant to post this because there’s no quick way to answer.  So alas here’s the story…

When I was 7 years old my mom’s friend was a vegetarian & she seemed super cool to me.  Years later, my 9th grade health teacher was vegetarian & she was extremely energetic.  Because of these 2 women, I’ve been very interested in the importance of maintaining optimal health.  So at the age of 14, I stopped eating red meat.  Like many Americans, I really thought a diet of poultry & seafood was Oh So Healthy, so I ate this way for years.  But for some reason I couldn’t get rid of a lil pouch on my belly no matter how much I exercised. In 1999, as I began to study holistic healing, I learned some amazing facts.  Even chicken & fish are harmful because human beings were not designed to be carnivores.  Our teeth & intestines prove that.  And our poor health confirms it! Did you know?... 
...More Black people have died from degenerative dis-eases than were killed during the entire slave trade?!?  We have gotten too comfortable with losing our elders to health problems & mistakenly calling it “old age”.  Heart attacks, strokes, cancer, diabetics, hypertension, osteoporosis, gingivitis, obesity, dementia, high cholesterol, fatigue, pneumonia, the flu – ALL dis-eases are preventable!  We give ourselves these dis-eases with what we put in & on our bodies.  Animal flesh, animal secretions (dairy), chemicals, & negative thoughts are what create disharmony in our bodies.  We’re the only animal in the kingdom that drinks the milk of another species.  WTH?!? We eat mostly chemicals.  No wonder 1 in 3 Americans will acquire some form of cancer in their lifetime.

My grandparents on both sides are no longer living.  Most of my aunts and uncles are gone.  My cousins are sick.  My own father was on dialysis for 10 years before his recent kidney transplant.  Dis-ease.  Dis-ease.  Dis-ease.  I’m sure you have some relatives that were on 12 different medications for several years before they suffered some slow unsightly death.  It’s the American way!  So I’ve decided to break the cycle.  In August of 2000 I did The Master Cleanse (only cayenne-maple-lemonade) for 10 days.  And when I ended my fast, I decided to only fill my Temple with foods that would edify me.  I’ve been a vegan vegetarian ever since. Afterall was there an ice cream parlor, steak house, or mini bar in the Garden of Eden? I believe health is wealth.  What good is a trillion dollars if you can’t get out of bed to enjoy it?

Trust me: I was raised on eating everything ‘from the roota to the toota’, so I know what I’m missing.  I love food that tastes great just like you do.  But I’ve found delicious vegan substitutes so that I can still eat what I was raised on.  There are vegan versions of bacon, sausage patties, hamburgers, hot dogs, Italian sausage, cheese, milk, butter, taco meat, pate, chicken nuggets, sliced lunch meat, Turkey roast, even BBQ ribs.  My favorite meal is vegan soul food.  Just switch the ingredients of YOUR favorite recipes & enjoy!

Tanjareen
“I don’t eat meat…unless it just got out of the shower”
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