Hello Everyone. My wife and I recently converted from heavy meat eaters to vegans. It took a matter of one week to make a full conversion. We are proud to say that we feel so much better now. I never knew how terrible animals were treated. I am ashamed that I am almost 27 and have contributed to evil for so long. I cry day after day after day at how horrible people can be. I wish I could do more. I love farm sanctuary, adopted a pig named Lil' Bud. I also read "Diet For A New America," by John Robbins and absolutely loved it. My brother and his wife have been vegans for a year now and just decided to slowly let us know how bad things really were and let us decide on our own what to do. Anyway, I just love having this board now to talk to people like me. Thank you.
My question deals with food. My wife and I are eating fairly well now. We have a lot of falafel, arabic salad, hummous, vegan stir fry, pasta (wheat mostly), etc. But, I live in a small college town and options are slim sometimes. One of the best ways for me to convert was by eating "fake meats." No one seams to talk about these much on here. I eat some BOCA vegan burgers, BOCA Vegan Chik'n Patties (wonderful, my favorite), and other products like that. The Vegan cheese substitute I found in really bad. I found a lot that I liked, but they all had caisen in them. Any suggestions would be great. We are slowly going to learn to cook more original things. We shop at natural food stores (thank the lord there is one 1 hour from us, we just bring the ice chest). We eat soy yogurt a lot (yeast is vegan, right?), soy dream and soy delicious ice cream, soy milk, etc. Any thoughts on this? One thing that is nice about the fake meats is that the people around me eat a lot of meat. If they have a substitute that is good, they may eat less meat and more of the substitute. Most people think vegans eat carrots and lettuce. I thought the same until a few months ago. I am also trying to sell my darn leather seat camry now. Drives me crazy that I was ever so inconsiderate and heartless....
Thanks again and I hope to spend a lot of time on here....
Lee
Bookmarks