Allergies, vegan, paleo etc?
Vegan. Almost four years now and it’s the best thing I ever did for myself.
Mushrooms are disgusting. Keep that fungus away from my plate.
Beyond that and a few unusual organs/bugs, I’ll eat pretty much anything.
Vegan. Cause I think its wrong to harm and kill animals just for taste if we have the possibility to eat plant based. Beside that it’s cheaper, healthier and a lot better for the environment.
Vegan as well. Just learned how to make seitan and it feels like straight up magic.
Ohh I tried it myself last year for a BBQ, but I didn’t managed the seasoning so it tastes very blank. But I think if you let it soak the marinade for few hours it would taste great! Do you have a quick tip for me?
And there are some amazing subs now! First time I had a beyond burger I had to check it wasn’t meat.
I couldn’t stick to vegan, so stayed veggie. I use soy milk and vegan marge but I’ve really struggled trying to reduce animal products further. Any tips?
Ohh yess the beyond pattys are pretty solid!
Which “products” give you a hard time? What helped me, was trying a lot of different products. Took me about 1 year to completely ditch every non vegan food. But you have to learn that you don’t need to finde THE product which 100% matches the “original” but rather look for products that you like. Try to realign your eating habits rather than translate your old habits. I have learned to love so many new dishes and foods that I never ate before.
It may sound a bit silly, but when your in the supermarket and want to buy animal products, always think about what your purchase means for the animals. Think about it for 5 seconds and you immediately don’t want it anymore.
Yep that’s what I did when I went veggie! Right now I’m tucking into vegan lentil and sweet potato bake. It’s eggs that are too hard for me, I exercise for hours at a time and on training days have to have a massive amount of pasta and eggs at lunch then main meal at teatime to keep me going. I’ve tried pasta with vegan meatballs, cream cheese etc but it’s not enough. A second main meal is just too much cooking to fit in round life. What protein do you have with pasta!?
What you said, though in my european country it’s not necessarily cheaper. In fact, some vegan foods are crazy expensive. As an aside (not food); i used to buy non-leather shoes pretty cheaply. Then marketing worldwide figured out to call them ‘vegan shoes’ and bam, expensive shoes…
If you’re specifically getting specifically “vegan” products like fake meat or the like it can get expensive, but staples like rice and beans are cheap, vegan, and nutritious.
Rice is not a “vegan” food, it’s just food food. If you only ate rice you’d be deficient in all sorts of things in no time.
I can’t have too much salt because I have Menieres disease. It’s a degenerative inner ear problem which means too much salt makes me dizzy, more salt makes my inner ear swell, that leads to feeling like there’s something in my ear and vertigo.
I’m one of the “lucky” ones. I can control it with diet (at least so far) but, other people can’t. That means they live in constant fear of a vertigo attack or even what they call “drop attacks” which makes you feel like you’re pinned to the ground. Often there’s no warning before they hit.
i have some kind of dairy intolerance (untested, lactase only partially alleviates symptoms), threw up eggs recently and now want nothing to do with them, think gelatin and honey are just gross, and am too cheap/worried about contamination to buy meat and fish
all of this adds up to me being basically some kind of mostly vegan but i can’t take ethical credit for it lol
