Current Events > Hmmm.i wonder how difficult it is being Vegan...

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I would never be vegan or vegetarian.

Itd be very difficult for me

I was off dairy for 5+ years for health reasons and just reintroduced literally in the last month. For me not having cheese and sour cream was a bummer because I make a lot of tacos and burrito's. The vegan substitute cheeses are horrible. I have tried all the supposed best ones and they are all disgusting to me. Also a lot of vegan stuff relies heavily on soy and if you are avoiding soy being dairy free can be even more problematic.

Giving up milk even as a heavy milk drinker was pretty easy and I found some pretty good substitutes when it came to almond, oat, or other options. It depends on the brand and which flavors but I found a couple good ones. One chocolate version is plant based and made from "pea protein" and is delicious and taste just like chocolate cow milk. It is yummy.

I found some pretty good dairy free yogurts and other products. All in all outside cheese if you can stomach the sometimes absurd prices of the dairy free stuff there is some pretty good stuff out there. And even without substituting I just got used to not having any dairy. It really wasn't bad except when I made tacos and craved shredded cheese and sour cream.

For me meat is a different story. At one time during the last decade while I was dealing with this health issue I was gluten free, dairy free, soy free, and low fodmap. Going meat free would simply have left me with damn near nothing. I have a meat heavy diet because for the longest time it is all I could eat without causing major issues.

I simply depend too much on meat and also enjoy it too much to give up. Currently with my health issue I'm just gluten free, soy free and am really enjoying having dairy back in rotation to be be able to have some yogurt, cottage cheese, and when I made tacos, shredded cheese and sour cream.

If I had to I can go dairy free again though I would prefer not to but I will not give up meat. Side note even though this has nothing to do with being vegan I'm impressed by some gluten free versions of things that are indistinguishable from normal wheat made versions. They have done REALLY well in this area.

Vegetarian is easy. Vegan, not so much.

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Depends on the person I'd say. I love chicken, beef and dairy. Most of my meals involve at least one of those. So for me, being vegan would be really hard.

DrizztLink posted...

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Chicken isn't vegan?

bsp77 posted...

Vegetarian is easy. Vegan, not so much.

This. It probably wouldnt be too different for me to go off red meat (Id have to check the sauces I use to see if any of them contain it) but I like fish and egg too much.

Dark_Arbron posted...

This. It probably wouldnt be too different for me to go off red meat (Id have to check the sauces I use to see if any of them contain it) but I like fish and egg too much.

Well, fish isn't vegetarian. That's pescatarian and what my wife is

If you can talk about it all day and to everyone, then you can be vegan. The hard part is making sure everyone knows.

bsp77 posted...

Well, fish isn't vegetarian. That's pescatarian and what my wife is

Fair. Even if I had to go on such a diet for health reasons (as in advised to by my doctor, not reading some shit on Facebook) I wouldnt subscribe to the label. Not vegan, not vegetarian, not pescatarian, just a human being who eats things.

I've been vegan for over six years now and I've never found anything about it particularly difficult.

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Ouch, I forgot cheese.

i barely eat cheese so that easy for me to not eat

now beef on the other hand is tough for me to quit. i eat it like nearly every day tbh idk how im supposed to survive without that stuff

easy as vegan cake.

I'm pretty close to it, but I eat milk chocolate and occasionally cheese/egg

I am a vegan. That's why I ordered my pizza half vegan, half meat and cheese.

I tried going vegan for a week. After that week, I had a big-ass burger with bacon. Damn near had an orgasm taking the first bite.

Co-worker was a strict vegetarian, but not 100% strict vegan.

Eggs, Milk, Cheese were sometimes not easy for him to avoid. Especially if it was about desserts.

He was able to stay fully vegan if he was at home, cooking and baking himself, but as soon he was eating out, vegan dessert options get quite limited.

So instead of forcing himself to stay a 100% vegan 24/7, he just went with 95% and enjoyed the remaining 5% once a week with a cheesecake or something like that.

I have no problem with Vegetarian ,but I will never be Veganism as long as I live.

If need be, I could go vegetarian. Vegan? Hell no.

today i ate chicken

pedro45 posted...

If you can talk about it all day and to everyone, then you can be vegan. The hard part is making sure everyone knows.

You joke but meat eaters bring up eating chicken or pizza.or whatever in general conversation all the time. Sure I just mean food is a massive fucking deal. everyone eats. It's a universal experience. and it sucks vegans aren't allowed to take about it without Meatheads complaining

I have a friend who is vegan. She also has a bunch of dietary issues where she can't eat nuts/seeds as well. It's incredibly limiting. She seems to live entirely on french fries and rice.

I was vegan fir about a month. Too many restrictions. Went back to vegetarian.

TheHoldSteady posted...

You joke but meat eaters bring up eating chicken or pizza.or whatever in general conversation all the time. Sure I just mean food is a massive fucking deal. everyone eats. It's a universal experience. and it sucks vegans aren't allowed to take about it without Meatheads complaining

They simply talk about their diet way more than others. Usually it's a couple conversations into food when people bring up allergies, dietary restrictions, foods they dislike, etc., but rarely do you need to ask a vegan cause they'll tell you all that right away.

I was a vegetarian briefly back in my 20s but I would never go vegan.

I tried briefly. I feel like it's pretty morally just, but I don't want to.

I once shot a cow I personally butchered.

KiwiTerraRizing posted...

I once shot a cow I personally butchered.

Why shoot the cow after you butchered it?

008Zulu posted...

Why shoot the cow after you butchered it?

Same reason you shoot someone before pushing them out of a plane.

I was vegetarian but still ate eggs and dairy for a while, I think two years. that was pretty annoying, so I coincidentally stopped being vegetarian as soon as I broke up with my gf at the time.

it's really easy for me. currently regular vegetarian but ive done stints as vegan here and there

TheHoldSteady posted...

You joke but meat eaters bring up eating chicken or pizza.or whatever in general conversation all the time.

This thing youre describing isnt a thing that exists.

Dark_Arbron posted...

This thing youre describing isnt a thing that exists.

Do you really mean to say that people who eat animals don't talk about it on a regular basis?

Dark_Arbron posted...

This thing youre describing isnt a thing that exists.

You should probably reread this entire topic