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your recipe for these please? Lee
"Landon" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 9 Jun 2011 09:09:05 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>I have seen recipes and for the most part they look like a pain
>>to make. Plus many contain eggs and I can't have them any more due to an
>>allergy. I have eaten the Sunshine burgers. I do like them. Haven't
>>bought any in a long while. But these are the sorts of things I will keep
>>onhand for those times when we need a quick meal.
>>
>>My daughter takes a lot of dance classes. Sometimes we need a meal after
>>school and before class. Sometimes things crop up where I have to run out
>>and do things unexpectedly. There really is no time to cook but daughter
>>needs food for energy. If I have something like this in the freezer, we
>>can
>>have something to eat in a minute. Yeah I know I could make something
>>like
>>this from scratch and freeze it. But if it's inexpensive and I can buy it
>>at my health food store just around the corner, then why not do that?

>
> They are a PITA to make. I make large batches and freeze them between
> wax-paper in "two-to-a-baggie" method. Frozen on a cookie sheet, they
> retain their shape perfectly and I can take them out, throw a couple
> in the pan or on the grill and be eating in 20 minutes from git to go.
>
> If you know someone who makes things at the Health Food Store you
> frequent, perhaps you could buy homemade ones from someone there. The
> store I go to has several people who make a living doing just that for
> others.
>
> Soy *is* good for you. It adds protein in place of meat protein. That
> in itself makes it worth eating. It is, after all, just another bean.
> Unlike other types of beans, it can be used in many more ways.
>
> Don't believe all the nonsense about how bad soy is for you. Soy, like
> everything else in life, must be used in moderation. Anything done in
> excess or to the extreme will harm you.
>
> Water, sex, medications, exercise, all will cause harm or even death
> if done in excess or to the extreme. Soy is no different.
>
> The testing that anti-soy folks like to flaunt is done with gross
> exaggeration of amounts. The typical amount used for testing is FIVE
> TIMES what a typical soy eater uses per/day.
>
> It's said that one gallon of water, spread over a 24 hour period, is
> good for you each day. If you increased that amount to FIVE GALLONS
> each day, it would cause your death.
>
> Does that mean that water is bad for you? No. It means that THAT MUCH
> water is bad for you. It's the same with ALL the soy testing. The
> amounts they use for testing are extreme and no one in their right
> mind would eat that much soy in one day.
>
> The average amounts of soy are determined by combining the amounts in
> ALL of the items usually eaten, not just the beans themselves. One of
> the popular and misleading arguments against soy is that "It's now in
> so many things that you eat more than you think you do". Again, the
> *average* amounts used in testing are determined by including ALL of
> these sources. Then they multiply THAT amount FIVE TIMES and use that
> to determine that it's bad for you.
>
> Most of the testing done in that fashion is misinterpreted either by
> ignorance or intent by the anti-soy people. When cornered on it, they
> either stomp off in frustration or just admit that THEY don't like it
> anyway! Not the type of argument I want to base my own eating on.