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Taco Bell around here added something called the "Cantina Bell" menu which is higher quality items for shortened hours at a higher price. They actually have a naturally vegan item now and I can eat taco bell without hating myself a little each time now

Sounds like Silent Hill 2 is essentially the third game.

Also, if you're super lazy,the Sonic Drive-In fast food chain has recently started carrying sweet potato tots but I never trust the oil at a fast food place.

I'm not a fan of sweet potato used the way it frequently is. I like it in casseroles and baked and sometimes as fries but not as part of a "combination" food like tacos (combination meaning foods that are essentially a mixture of basic ingredients with little actual cooking of the completed dish, most of tex-mex ends up in this category)

The soyrizo scramble sounds good. I usually just do tofu and peppers and onions and maybe some potato. I'll have to try that.

Right about that same time though, Bocca turned like 90 % of their products totally vegan. And honestly, I think they taste better anyway. I'm addicted to the soy crumbles - I use them at least once a week now.

Yeah, I use the crumbles frequently too. My enchilada bake wouldn't be the same without them. That said I have a rule that I can only use meat substitutes every other week. Helps a lot with the nutrition levels.

Morningstar makes me sad. They used to be so good and then out of nowhere decided. "Our food doesn't have enough EGG, vegans should be eating more aborted chicken embryo" and like 90% of their stuff become non-vegan safe

Here's something simple to get us away from the meat grossness.

Super lazy vegan food

2 slices rye bread

sauerkraut

soy swiss

thousand island (making sure it doesn't have egg obviously)

vegan margerine

I think you can figure the rest out

Really tasty vegan Reuben.

I'm not vegan, not even close, but post surgery, I have eaten less and less meat -- however, since I need to eat things high in protein, I wonder if its possible to eat this way and still get what I need (minimum of 60g per day)...

Aarty, you can get more protein from veg than meat. The protein per 200 calories is much higher in many vegetables over meats. Check out this list http://www.myfit.ca/foods_highest_protein.asp

Sample from list

1.SOY PROT ISOLATE,K TYPE,CRUDE PROT BASIS : 55g Protein

2.GELATINS,DRY PDR,UNSWTND : 51.1g Protein

3.SEAL,BEARDED (OOGRUK),MEAT,AIR-DRIED (ALASKA NATIVE) : 47.1g Protein

4.EGG,WHITE,DRIED,PDR,GLUCOSE RED : 43.8g Protein

5.SOY PROTEIN ISOLATE : 47.7g Protein

6.EGG,WHITE,DRIED,FLAKES,GLUCOSE RED : 43.8g Protein

7.VITAL WHEAT GLUTEN : 40.6g Protein

8.WHALE,BELUGA,MEAT,AIR-DRIED,RAW (ALASKA NATIVE) : 46.7g Protein

9.NABISCO,KNOX DRINKING GELATIN,ORANGE FLVR,W/ASPRT,LO CAL,PDR : 35.8g Protein

10.SOY PROT CONC,CRUDE PROT BASIS (N X 6.25),ACID WASH : 38.8g Protein

11.COD,ATLANTIC,DRIED&SALTED : 43.3g Protein

12.FISH,HERRING EGGS,PACIFIC,DRY (ALASKA NATIVE) : 38.7g Protein

13.SOY PROT CONC,PRODUCED BY ALCOHOL EXTRACTION : 35.1g Protein

14.SEAWEED,SPIRULINA,DRIED : 39.6g Protein

15.WALRUS,MEAT,DRY (ALASKA NATIVE) : 45.4g Protein

16.KRAFT,JELLO SGR FR LO CAL GELATIN STRWBRY,W/ A,PDR : 34.1g Protein

17.GELATIN DSSRT,DRY MIX,RED CAL,W/ ASPRT,ADDED P,K,NA,VIT C : 32.1g Protein

18.PEANUT FLOUR,DEFATTED : 31.9g Protein

19.SOY FLR,DEFATTED,CRUDE PROT BASIS (N X 6.25) : 31.5g Protein

20.SESAME FLOUR,LOW-FAT : 30.1g Protein

So 9 of the top 20 are vegan with Soy Protein at #1

I'll post some recipes for you Sin, though you might have seen them before. If you're ever in the DFW area, check out The Veggie Garden. This place is awesome, I'm down there at least once a week and more if I can afford it. The foods delicous and the owner Joy is awesome .

I'll also toss out one of my favorite soup recipes. Its incredibly simple but really really tasty.

Home-style noodle soup

1 tbsp Olive Oil

1 large onion chopped

2 medium carrots chopped

1 Celery stalk diced

6 cups vegetable stock

pinch of turmeric

salt and fresh ground pepper to taste

6 oz fettucini broken into thirds

1 tbsp minced fresh parsley

In a large saucepan, heat the oil and add the onion, carrots, and celery.

Cover and, stirring occasionally, cook 5 minutes.

Add stock, salt, pepper, and turmeric.

Bring to boil then reduce to low heat and simmer, uncovered, for 20 min.

Add noodles and cook till tender (about 10 min)

stir in the parsley and taste to adjust seasoning.

Simmer 5 more minutes.

Serve.

Mind if I ask where you're from?

I'm currently residing in Texas sin' though in another year or so that will change.

Hiya sin' I'm also one of our resident vegans though I've been somewhat capricious in my attendance lately ^_~

What edition, out of curiosity?

3.5

Sorry, Math fail. he's ECL 21. 7 HD + 2 Level Adjustment + Template with +2 Level Adjustment + 10 levels of Barbarian = 21

So, the player I wasn't sure of? ECL 19. So that means our party is ECL 14 x2(not really) ECL 19, ECL 13 x3 and ECL 12....

Average Party level? 14. Even if you factor in the brokenness of the ECL 14 characters as actually being ECL 16. But then that means 3 people are 2-5 levels above what the rest of the party can handle >.<

The power level difference? yes. The GM has to fudge 75% of rolls to not kill weaker party members and some still die every 2-3 sessions.

He's been DMing since highschool and he's in his late 40s. However he's always been kind of rubbish at the numbers side of the game. The players are great in session. Its outside that there's an issue.

They've responded to any attempt to work with them to fix their characters with calls of "witch hunt" and threatening to leave the game. They've been with us in our monthly game since the spring. The Dragonkin is the DMs brother and will btich and moan but not quit. They were making witch hunt claims over me trying to figure out why the game was unbalanced and realizing it was ECL and letting the GM know what the actual Average ECL was.

I'm trying to help my DM fix the balance issues in our game. There are 3 of our 7 players causing the problem. The problems being 1, the Dragonkin "Beast of Legend" didn't count his 7 HD into his ECL and so his ECL is 7 higher than he said. 2. Two of the players are playing a race from a third party publisher which has an ECL out of line with its power level AND they forgot to factor in their HD. making them 2 levels higher than they said and more because of the race. 3. The two playing the weird race are playing Gestalt characters from Unearthed Arcana which is a variant only supposed to be used if the whole party is Gestalt and creates characters that do not scale with standard classes.

What would you guys do to fix this?

See I'd never have known. This description would never lead me into Fantastic Forum in the first place to see the tag line on Men of Action.

The Fantastic Forum!

Men of Action (Figures)

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Could we get a forum for tabletop gaming? Board games, miniatures, RPGs? I never know where to put threads on that and while I can make guttural noises about video games I can have long in depth discussions on tabletop gaming. I know we've got at least a few other Warhammer/D&D people out there.

My husband finds the weirdest crap. They have Metallica covers....

WTF, Choir nerds discovered metal??

Spotify Link

Opening Credits: Do What You Want - Guster

Waking Up: Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Part 2 - The Flaming Lips

Average Day: Milk Man - Deerhoof

First Date: You Have Killed Me - Morrissey

Falling In Love: Oh! Sweet Nothing - The Velvet Underground

Love Scene: Succexy - Metric

Fight Scene: Exquisite Corpse - Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Breaking Up: I'm Not Sorry - Morrissey

Getting Even: Fuck the System - System of a Down

Getting Back Together: Pale Blue Eyes - The Velvet Underground

Secret Love: Red Oyster Cult - Guster

Life's Okay: What's Up? - 4 Non-Blondes

Mental Breakdown: The Widow - The Mars Volta

Driving: Elephant Woman - Blonde Redhead

Learning a Lesson: A.D.D - System of a Down

Deep Thought: Torn - Natalie Imbruglia

Flashback: Der Tanz Der Schatten - Theatre of Tragedy

Partying: Bloody Mary - Lady Gaga

Happy Dance: Poster of a Girl - Metric

Regretting: Magic Mountain - Blonde Redhead

Long Night Alone: In Our Gun - Gomez

Death Scene: Get Myself Arrested - Gomez

Closing Credits: The Origin of Love - Hedwig and the Angry Inch

MetalHeart hit up my call on Facebook before I even posted about it here. I only have 3 or so invites left.