Do vegetarians eat chips??

Question

do they ear like hot cheetos? or candy bars ??? like vegetarian and vegan are different i know but what foods do vegetarians eat?

i am a vegetarian but people tell me not to eat chips and basically junk foods because they are cooked in animal fats and what not, and i was wondering if this is true, i know the difference between a vegan and a vegetarian.

Answer 1

Vegetarians don't eat anything that came from meat. So jello (gelatin) is out. Vegans don't eat anything that has animal origins, period.

Answer 2

Yep. Sure can! You just can't eat meat or gelatin; some vegetarians stay away from rennet too, but I'm not sure if that's in those chips/snakes or not. However, even though I understand those cheap snakes are tasty, you might wanna try some pita chips/tortilla chips with guacamole, hummus, bean dip, or salsa. Much healthier and very tasty as well :D A great way to make your own chips is to spray a pan with the non stick spray, cut up a few corn tortillas into eighths, lay them on the pain, lightly respray with the nonstick spray, and then sprinkle with the salt. Cook on 400 degrees for about 10 minutes, then check every so often until they're crunchy!

Answer 3

The oddity of it all is back when I was a vegeterian I did eat chips - albeit as that rare snack. Now that I'm eating eggs and fish, I cut out all sugars, empty snacks and refined starches, no exceptions.

If you want to eat chips you can, but you really should look at the ingredients in the chips before you buy. Some chips do use lard or trans fats but there are other brands like Kettle Chips that use oils like canola or olive. If you do eat chips it might do you well to make a fresh tomatoe-bean dip. Like any well ballanced diet though, snack foods such as chips and candies should be eaten in moderation.

As for cheetos - I'm pretty sure there's milk in there, and candy bars also have milk - if the ingredients check out it would be acceptable in a vegeterian diet but I don't think it's necessarily a healthy addition. Dark bitter chocolate would be better instead of something like Snickers or Mars bars which are just empty calorie foods filled with sugar and unhealthy fats.

When I was a vegeterian I ate lots of grains, nuts, legumes, whole grain starches, fruits, vegetables (this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassicaceae veggie family in particular is my favorite), avocado, mushrooms, kelp, soy/tofu, seaweed, miso, spices, a veggie burger now and then, some other stuff I'm likely forgetting about, and a food supplement called Red Star Yeast.

Answer 4

If you are going to eat foods prepared by someone else (say a company) then you have to read labels. If it says anything else besides vegetable oil/ safflower oil/ canola oil/ sunflower oil/ palm oil, then I would not eat it since I am a vegan. As an organic vegan I wouldn't eat any root vegetable unless it was organic. This is because root vegetables tend to take in all the pesticides (which potatoes need alot of since the Colorado potato beetle is everywhere) from the soil.I would also look for NON Trans-Fat type of chip, in order to not take in that kind of oil (partially hydrogenated or even fully hydrogenated oil) as it is toxic to your digestive tract (can cause IBS).

Your friends maybe trying to keep you off of junkfood, and use your vegetarianism as a good excuse. As a vegan, I figure since I care so much about the suffering of animals, I might as well consider myself an animal and make sure I don't make my body suffer for my tastebuds also.

Answer 5

yeah, as long as the chips are fried in like vegetable oil. And i think they could eat chocolate. the only thing that a vegetarian would'nt eat is any thing that was killed, so it could be eaten. For example, a vegetarian could eat an egg, but not a chicken. And a vegetarian could drink milk, but couldnt eat a cow.
Hope I helped.

Answer 6

My boyfriend's sister is a vegaterian, and she eats chips like a mad woman. She doesn't, however, eat things made with animal grease like gravy and the like. I'm not really sure about the makings of chips, but she's a pretty intense vegetarian, and she loves chips.

Answer 7

I think lacto-ovo vegetarians would have no problem with either of those but I don't think a vegan would touch either because of cheese and possibly granulated sugar (the sugar can be processed with bone char which is not vegan).
I am sure vegans could make their own with appropriate ingredients, like soy cheese or vegan sugar.

Answer 8

Sure they do, they just eat vegetarian chips or chips that don't involve animals or animal biproducts. I am vegetarian and I eat chips, just not cheetos or lays or anything. All the chips I eat are organic and don't have dead animal in them. Like pita chips or organic pretzles :)

Answer 9

well lets face it its hard not to eat a little bit of chips and junk food
, well i do know that candy bars have rat hair in them, i am a vegetarian and i try not to but i do a little
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Answer 10

yes many vegetarians do eat those things, but some may not eat candy bars because they contain milk and/or animal products. depends on their personal diet.