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veggies and vegans
Posted: Friday, February 26, 2010 - 14:10
March 1st i signed myself up for the kickstart diet and am now reading the kind diet by alicia silverstone. i became a vegetarian about 7 years ago and am now deciding to take babysteps into a vegan life...
anyone have recipes or suggestions or good books/ websites about vegan living?
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Wife and I have been veggies for almost 40 years. Our daughters grew up meatless, experimented, and now are back. (Although our eldest - babymaker - will occasionally hit the Chicken McNuggets because she says they don't taste like real meat.) Langhorne is a veggie, too.
We were vegan (I think before it was called that) until my wife got pregnant and suddenly was repulsed by the very idea of soy milk.
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AWESOME!!! I'm mostly vegan, but i will eat dairy if i HAVE to. Have you been on vegweb.com? It has a ton of awesome vegan recipes. Lemme know if you have any specific recipes in mind, I'll hook you up!
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"The Grit" is a veggie restaurant in Athens GA. I believe it has a website. Been there and amazing food!
check it out
wife and I vegheads for 21 years. Lots of good recipes online - i like the ones with pictures so i see what it looks like first - so i dont end up with a soup bowl of compost-looking nast.
we try to change it up so i dont have any recipes necessarily to share. somewhere on this board (search for "recipes") is a pretty long thread with some kind of recipes
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I did the vegan thing for a while, but it wasn't for me. I have a couple of very good vegan cookbooks that are collecting dust if you would like me to send them to you.
Thank you! I am going to look up vegweb.com now. I have been a vegetarian for 7 years however after seeing the documentary earthlings my mind was made up to become vegan.
I would LOVE to turn my daughters diet over to vegetarian/vegan however she loves meat. Shes 6 and i dont know how to go about doing the change or how to make sure she is getting the right protein. I dont really cook meat much b/c it literally makes me ill but when i do its chicken. The good thing is she loves tofu so i have to look up fun ways of cooking that so she can eat more of it.
soulshine that is so nice of you to offer them to me and if you arn't using them i would love it!
Today is the first day!!! i think the hardest part will be staying away from dairy....thanks everyone for your help.
graceful1003- just pm me your address and I will pop them iin the mail for you!
http://www.theppk.com/ A good and amusing resource
Protein is not really an issue. Be sure you get your B12 - dark green leafy veggies or a supplement. Meat analogs are a good transitional product.
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"Technology to wipe out truth is now available, not everyone can afford it but it's available." B. Dylan
Rejoice always, Mark
Agree w/ Mark, but the problem isn't consumption of Vitamin B12, it's absorption. B12 is a fickle but very important nutrient. You probably will eat plenty of it, but it's hard for the body to absorb. You might want to take a B12 supplement - I'd do some research on it and talk to your doctor.
I'm an omnivore by the way. I just remember stuff about B12 from my pre-med days b/c it's also the vitamin that is leached by your body when you drink alcohol and that's what causes hangovers. That's right kids, it all comes back to booze.
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i was JUST reading about this...i will be picking some up today.
Thanks!
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Wife and I are new vegetarians and are flirting with veganism. I was wondering if any of the bandmembers are veg or vegan?
I don't think so. Carnivores one and all.
so, they only eat meat?
I pretty much stalk everything Avett, and Joe Kwan posted this vegan recipe not so long ago. It's a tofu dish. http://www.tasteontour.com/tofu
My husband and I have been vegetarian for over twenty years. I tried veganism for a few months, but gave it up. Fortunately, we have a small dairy farm about five minutes from our house where we can buy non-homogenized, low-heat pasteurized milk, and variety of great cheese.
I'll occasionally read vegan cookbooks, and an author I'd heard recommended was Sarah Kramer:
http://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&tag=mozilla-20&index=blended&link_code=q...
I picked up her _La Dolce Vegan!: Vegan Livin' Made Easy_ and _How It All Vegan!: Irresistible Recipes for an Animal-Free Diet_ from the library and enjoyed them...fun books to look at and good recipes.
I love meat, so I feel a bit intimidated writing here (I am amazed at how many of you are vegans and vegetarians [you bunch of hippies]), but I am a part time bookseller and I know that the book Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook has done well at our store. it is available pretty much everywhere.
thanks for posting that Lynn. I'm not sure I can make the (massive) leap from vegetarian to vegan - i just love cheese pizza a bit too much. However, a book like that might inspire me to try some meals and see what is possible w/o dairy.
thanks again!
I was trying to eat a healthier diet a while back and found that I accidentaly gone about 2-3 weeks with no meat. I couldn't believe it because I always thought I could never live without it. I am very strongly considering trying a vegetarian diet. I also love cheese so I'm not certain I am willing to give that up. I don't really care about milk. I figure I will get enough calcium if I am really concentrating on making healthy vegetarian choices.
Could someone shed some light on their experience with the pros and cons of dairy? And does that include all dairy? I have read that goats milk could be a more acceptable option.
The only reason I was ever a veggie was mostly from a moral stand point... I'm just an animal lover through and through and we've all watched the slaughterhouse movies/videos... which still haunt me by the way.
Anyway, I can appreciate the food chain and circle of life and all that, so I try now to only eat local, pasture fed animals that were given a humane life, basically. Also venison killed by people I know personally, so I know they were hunted in a responsible way.
I only eat meat a couple times a week, because of this. So, this leads to lots and lots of searches for vegetarian recipes online (so many good ones!) even thought I'm not a veg.
Sidenote, I was reading through the archives on Joe's blog, and noticed a post showing what Seth ordered, and I believe it was a vegetarian meal, complete w/ veggie sausage patties (that Joe thouroughly enjoyed) so it sort of put in the back of my mind that Seth was a veg, but of course this was never confirmed.
anybody eat a raw diet? I'd love to hear someone's first hand experience.
Linda, I've been trying to eat healthier too and have realized that I'm eating less and less meat as well. I know for a fact I could never do the vegan thing but I've been considering becoming a vegetarian and probably will try it out for real at some point this year.