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?
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!?
I was vegetarian 7 years ans now am vegan for 2 years and honestly it’s way nicer. I recently and accidentally bought a veggy “Currywurst” and am donating it to the food bank. It was a really strange feeling to consider eating it because else it would go to waste.
But yeah cheese honestly I don’t miss it, in the beginning was a bit annoying. But you don’t miss it since there’s good enough replacements.
About the pasta:
Have you tried seitan? Or maybe look into protein shakes if you need quick intakes like that
I bought it pre done in glasses in a zero waste store, so there has to be online ways too. I just buy the powder that you then mix with broth etc (make a roast with redwine etc if youre fancy) into a kneaded dough. boil it, roast it if u want, and finish in the oven.
instead of buying powder that you mix with water, you can also make it yourself for dirt cheap. its literally just the protein component of flour “gluten”. so you take flour and rinse it (videos online if needed) in water. then rewash the remaining clumps until you all the carbohydrates are washed out (coloring the water white).
its suuuper high in protein/g even higher than meats, since it literally basically only protein;
that said make sure to complement it with other amino acid profiles that are high in lysine (legumes/nuts/seeds/nutr. yeast) througout the day (PDCAAS, a concept overtaking the widespread biological value)
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!?
I was vegetarian 7 years ans now am vegan for 2 years and honestly it’s way nicer. I recently and accidentally bought a veggy “Currywurst” and am donating it to the food bank. It was a really strange feeling to consider eating it because else it would go to waste.
But yeah cheese honestly I don’t miss it, in the beginning was a bit annoying. But you don’t miss it since there’s good enough replacements.
About the pasta: Have you tried seitan? Or maybe look into protein shakes if you need quick intakes like that
Seitan? Oooh no! Is it expensive and/or hard to cook?
I bought it pre done in glasses in a zero waste store, so there has to be online ways too. I just buy the powder that you then mix with broth etc (make a roast with redwine etc if youre fancy) into a kneaded dough. boil it, roast it if u want, and finish in the oven.
instead of buying powder that you mix with water, you can also make it yourself for dirt cheap. its literally just the protein component of flour “gluten”. so you take flour and rinse it (videos online if needed) in water. then rewash the remaining clumps until you all the carbohydrates are washed out (coloring the water white).
its suuuper high in protein/g even higher than meats, since it literally basically only protein; that said make sure to complement it with other amino acid profiles that are high in lysine (legumes/nuts/seeds/nutr. yeast) througout the day (PDCAAS, a concept overtaking the widespread biological value)
thats what it looks like
I had no idea there was powder thanks so much! Any brands you’d recommend? I’ll get some now