Pandora_Box
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| ValentineWiggin wrote: |
Could you incorporate faux animal products into any of the meals your family eats?
Ex- they have pasta with chicken, and you have pasta with some meatless "chkn" from MorningStar or Boca? |
I try to as often as I can. "Denial Bacon" and "Denial Ham sandwich slices". Chicken is actually tofu. I use tofu to replace chicken or egg in a lot of my meals. I actually really love tofu. But the moment I don't have tofu here at the home it becomes unbarable, I miss tofu. |
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aussiebloke
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Pandora_Box wrote: | | TheDarkMage wrote: | | i know this isnt really any help but i wish i was like you in a way. if i was a vegan or could live off a vegan diet then i wouldnt be the pig-at-a-trough that i am. |
Being vegan has allowed me to explore and come out of my comfort zone trying things I would have never tried before. I realize how limited my omnivore diet was when I was a kid. I only ever ate the same things. When I went vegan I have tried Indian food, I have made my own Asain equivalent meals. I stopped wanting to go out because I knew how to make what was made at the resteraunts and make it much healthier too. It's just the social isolation that's killing me.
For twenty years of my life, even as I kid I suffered with the painfulness of psoraisis and eczema. When I was twenty it was so bad the psoriasis growing on my eyelids was scratching the surface of my eyeballs. It was so cake, sore and painful. And all the doctors ever wanted to do was perscribe me more ointment. My skin is super sensitive and it just made things worse. I went vegan as a last resort and everything cleared up.
I tried going back omnivore, but it just doesn't work. |
Thats a good point their are so many foods I would not have tried if I had not become one. eg kimichi, "stinky tofu " (straight out of the jar ) which shocks asians  , natto etc etc. All foods meat eaters find "gross" and an oyster isn't ?
It makes me laugh when meat eaters say vegan food is dull and repetitive the above , mentioned foods are pure unami!.
Though you don't say if you live in a city, I think I would panic if I lived in rural area what would I eat potatoes ? Even a Swiss person like mysslf can OD on Rosti.
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Pandora_Box
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 10:58 pm Post subject: |
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| aussiebloke wrote: |
Thats a good point their are so many foods I would not have tried if I had not become one. eg kimichi, "stinky tofu " (straight out of the jar ) which shocks asians , natto etc etc. All foods meat eaters find "gross" and an oyster isn't ?
It makes me laugh when meat eaters say vegan food is dull and repetitive the above , mentioned foods are pure unami!.
Though you don't say if you live in a city, I think I would panic if I lived in rural area what would I eat potatoes ? Even a Swiss person like mysslf can OD on Rosti. |
I live in a suburban rural area. It's an isolated surburban neighborhood around 1hr to half hour away from the city. But I take the drive to the city because I have to go to college, so I shop as well in the city.
I think a lot of people do not try a lot of foods. Actually I have been a little cruel in that way before. I won't tell anyone my baked goods are vegan and then they say it's really good and then I tell them it had no egg or milk. I ask people if they have allergies of course. But still people are always surprised when something is vegan cause they only assume something from the name. |
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aussiebloke
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:04 pm Post subject: |
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^^^^
I think what I was trying to say is stick to unami rich foods.
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Pandora_Box
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| Posted: Mon Mar 19, 2012 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| Oh sorry. All right I shall take your advice Aussie. lol...I'm sorry for the side trackness of my own reply. |
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