Allergies, vegan, paleo etc?
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Mostly vegetarian, but fish once a week and sometimes can’t say no to a good steak. Besides that no added sugar or generally no HPF. Favorite sweet is date with strawberry-powder. Well one could consider that processed but shut up 😁
I have no strict lines I draw, but generally I lean towards eating low amounts of beef and cold cuts, for both climate and health reasons.
My philosophy is broadly one of harm reduction, where I don’t necessarily cut anything fully out, but try to choose options that are better for my health and the environment when possible. This basically translates to leaning towards high-protein legume based alternatives as staples - the lunch I eat most frequently is falafel in pita with a variety of vegetables, sauces and hummus: all vegan and pretty respectable with regards to protein - and choosing chicken when I eat meat over other types of meat.
Have you tried hummus grated carrot and sultana wraps? Winning combo.
I have not, but I generally eat out for lunch and don’t do the primary cooking at home, so it might be a while before I get a good chance to try.
In fact, the thing I cook the most is microwaved oatmeal, which I flavour with banana milkshake whey and some milk. Not a particularly culinarily sophisticated meal, but healthy and in the very least vegetarian.
Low sodium diet for my heart - which is shockingly hard to do. In the US at least, it seems like everything has added salt. It’s absurd how much salt is in a can of beans or soup. I do my best to stay away from premade or processed food.
The saddest thing is that I don’t salt my meals when I cook, at least not really. I love to cook but that really hampers the taste in many many things.
Yep it’s hard. I cook from scratch and avoid salt… I try to compensate with heavy flavours like curry spices, oregano etc. You get used to it
40% or more of my daily calorie intake within an hour of waking up in the morning.
Crikey that’s a big percentage, must fill you up for the day though. How hard is it?
I don’t know any other way to live.
Ah I see
Gluten free. It’s not confirmed fully, but I probably have Celiac as one of my parents does and a DNA test said I was a carrier of at least one known mutation. In Japan, there’s not treatment so getting it fully verified would involve adding gluten back to the diet for weeks, being miserable, and getting nothing but higher life insurance premiums. I miss good bread.
I also don’t drink much dairy as it upsets my stomach in large doses. Cheese is mostly fine (at least for ones without a ton of lactose). I pay for, but still sometimes eat, ice cream on occasion.
Other than that, I try to avoid most processed things. Not 100%, but a lot of what I eat is single-ingredient or homemade.
IBS-M here. I’m intolerant to 4 out of the 6 FODMAP groups, alcohol, fatty foods and gluten are also not well tolerated by my gut. It’s pretty frustrating, I can’t eat most fruit and all alliums. I can’t go vegetarian/vegan either, so I have to adapt a lot and eat pretty much the same 4 things cooked differently. I take probiotics daily to mitigate the symptoms, but it definitely takes a toll. The easiest one to deal with is lactose, because of lactase, but the rest is pretty much no go, or I have to endure days of pain and mood problems.
I have celiac - so no gluten for me. Animal products don’t make me feel great, so I mostly don’t eat those. Sometimes soy is bothersome, so if I can, I avoid that too.
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.
You’re saying you’re learning… seitanic 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?
Also add a percentage of flour (up to like 30/40%) to make the texture way more pleasurable but still hold together. You can then mix in 100% seitan strings to diversify the textures even more (and increasing protein count back)
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
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.
Vegans don’t have to only eat specially labeled vegan things, the only thing that qualifies a food as vegan is if it has no animal products in it. You can form a full vegan diet just from what you call “food food”. Obviously you need variety though, and don’t only eat rice.
this may be useful to you
I don’t eat sugar. Well, I guess it’s almost impossible to avoid all sugar completely but I don’t eat sweets, pastries, jam or any kinds of food with high sugar content. I don’t add sugar to any food I make and I always go for the product options with no added sugar if available.
Once you wean yourself off sugar it’s actually not that hard to stay away from it, it’s funny how that works. I have such low sugar tolerance now that eating candy makes me basically feel ill.
I try and avoid sugar which is hard cos I love it, I’m down to 3 small things of chocolate per week. My tolerance is deffo down, if I eat chocolate that day I can’t stomach any more sugar the entire day
I’m with you on this. I even switched my SNACKING away from sugary anything.
I’m veggie because it’s so much healthier, cheaper and kind to animals. It’s not hard to stick to, and I’ve no regrets
vegan
also found out relatively recently (~7 years ago) that i’m mildly allergic to coconut, i thought the itchy mouth after eating it was normal lol
oh, and a wine allergy, it just gives me a headache very soon after drinking anyI don’t eat beans, soy, peanuts, and most* derivatives of. Without going into details, let’s say that my bowels doesn’t handle them well.
*e.g. soy sauce and oil are OK, but tofu makes my body scream murder.
I don’t like bones and cartilage. Only meat I eat is ground.
As a lactose intolerant person, I’d have to say it isn’t too hard.
Good quality butter, cheese and yogurt are still in the menu. For me at least, anything were the lactose is broken down sufficiently.
I guess one might say no chicken as per religious requirements. Other than that, not really anything.
