I want to become a vegetarian, but I love cheese. Are there any vegan altervatives to dairy?

Answer 1

There are plenty of vegan cheese products; although you're sacrificing meltiness (if that's a word) and flavor.
Vegetarians do eat cheese, vegans do not.
Try organic cheese, also look for rennet-free hormone-free cheeses.

Answer 2

There are a ton of dairy alternatives. Cheese is a toughy to replace though. I've been vegan for a while, and still am desperatly seeking a soy cheese that I like. You can use nutritional yeast in recipes for a cheesey taste though, and apparantly can make great cheese sauces from it. I still haven't gotten around to doing so, but look around on the net for recipes that call for nutritional yeast. Good luck!

Answer 3

The idea of being vegeterian is much more than the food alone.
Vegeterianism is being non voilent by our thoughts and actions.

Food is one part of it, our day to day actions is another.

We have no right to kill other animals for our culinary pleasures. Imagine when an animal is being killed, how it would feel, the fear, feeling of helplessness .. Now we go and buy the dead parts of this animal and put it in our fridges and eat them.

It is sometime ironic to see on the television that how people go all the way to save a dying whale which has been stranded on the seashores or a cat which has been stuck in the building to save the "suffering" of the poor creature and then switch off the TV and get their steak out from the fridge.... are they really concerned with the "suffering". RSPCA collects lots of donations to save the sufferings of the animals but no one talks about ending the sufferings of the animals who are born and destined to land on a dinner table from their birth.

The kids in the schools are taken to the animal farms where they can cuddle the chicks and on the way back have the chicken burgers on the nearest fast food shop..



In the modern world most of us will never see what really happens inside a butchery. we just see the small pieces of the meat in beautiful trays in the super market. so we become somewhat aloof and desensitised from the real thing..


Anyway coming to the question, I think if you decide not to have any dairy products, then Firm Tofu would be a choice inplace of the normal cheese.

Answer 4

Lots of soy cheeses out there, but most have casein in it which is a protein from dairy (it's used to make the fake cheese melt like the real thing). Some of the other fake cheeses rely on hydrogenated oil. Follow Your Heart brand has a good meltable vegan cheese but so far I have only seen it at Wholefoods. I hope there is a Wholefoods near you!

Answer 5

If you want to be a vegetarian, you can still eat dairy products. But, yes, they do sell vegan cheese. If they sell it around here, I'm sure they sell it everywhere else too (We're waaaaayyyy out in the country, and there are very few vegetarians out here.), so ask around at the grocery store. I've always seen it with the soy and/or veggies, but it might be somewhere else at your local supermarket.

Answer 6

A vegetarian can eat cheese, they eat eggs and dairy. A vegan will not eat any animal product.

Answer 7

I'm a vegetarian not a vegan and I drink organic milk, free range eggs and have not given up my cheeses.......I just don't eat anything with eyeballs.

Answer 8

Vegetarians & Vegans are not the same....
Vegetarians simple do not eat meat, but the ones I know DO eat eggs & cheese.

Answer 9

you can be a vegetarian and still eat cheese.. vegans dont eat and animal product, vegetarians dont eat any meat.

Answer 10

I substituted all my dairy with soy products. For example soy cheese, soy milk, etc.