for vegans??

Question

I am starving. My mom does not support my turning vegan and will not buy anything specially vegan for me, so my choices are quite limited. I found these ritz bits and they have no milk or anything in them but it says, for allergy info: manufactured on equipment that processes milk. :[ on one hand...it doesnt ACTUALLY have any milk in it, and I just want to eat them, but on the other hand I dont want to be a part of animal cruelty just because I want to stuff some food in my face :[ what do you guys think?

Im 16. I had a job at Bread CO. but I quit because I was making sandwiches filled with meat and it made me sick...I couldnt do it any more. :[ Im looking for a new job and so soon I will be able to buy my own food. :]

silly people ... I didnt mean Im ACTUALLY starving. I meant I'm really hungry, because I haven't eaten today. I guess you've never used a saying before?

Answer 1

If something's made on materials that PRODUCE milk, or eggs, or something like that ... DON'T SWEAT IT!!

As vegans, we can't go boycotting everything that has slight traces of milk and egg on it, because then we'd boycot, they'd stop making efforts to produce vegan food, then NOBODY would be producing vegan food and we'd have nothing to eat!

It's impossible to be 100% cruelty-free, so sometimes we have to settle for 99%. Factories who produce vegan food on non-vegan machinery are doing the best they can and we need to support them and show them we appreciate their efforts so they'll KEEP making the vegan food.

Happy vegan eating, and good luck with your mom!

Answer 2

I bet if you look there is plenty of FOOD in your house. You seem to be looking for a snack item.
Eat a piece of fruit 100% Vegan.
On the Ritz Nips & exposure to milk product but doesn't have milk in it, that subjective. Your decision to make, these are your choices, your rules be realisitc when there are few choices. Also don't make such big waves & your mother will take you more seriously. Get some real good info on being Vegan..eat a balanced diet of real food.

Answer 3

Personally, I wouldn't eat it. But, honey, you cant starve yourself!!!!!!!!
if you have any fruit juices--- those are aaammaazzzingly filling. If you have a you have a juicer--- even better. Juice apples and carrots: mmmm my favorite!

cold cereals like rasin bran dont have any milk in them-- but you cant eat it with milk, i understand. If you dont have any soy milk (vannilla in cereal : very good) then dry is your only option.

If you take a look around your house, you'd be suprised at HOW MUCH stuff really isnt made with milk!!!!

Oh: and if you do get a chance to go to the store: try some jasmine rice with a little bit of cinnamon-- cook it in water with parsley and snow peas!!!!! it is so deliiccciiouuss!

Answer 4

You are not starving, you said you just turned vegan. It does sound so melodramatic to say it though, and get everybody on your side and agree with you that your mom is horrible.
My kids had the other problem with mom going vegan and they had to eat what I cooked. Now, I did not all of a sudden spring this on them. We first started out not eating red meat, and then no chicken and no pork, so technically we were now vegetarian. We were vegetarian for two years and we all stayed really healthy. My daughter and myself decided to try vegan for a year, and the whole family was then involved. It was hard to give up cheese, but eggs was easy. We have been vegan for two years now. And my son is playing around with raw foods, and I am already grumbling about having to buy a dehydrator and missing warm foods during winter (so we decided to try it this summer - I could live on gazpacho and corn chips during the hot summer days!).
My point is that you might have to gradually become vegan if your mom is the food provider in the house. Ask her to get you some special vegan things like soy milk (to eat with cereal that is usually vegan anyways) and maybe white basmati rice (that you can eat whenever for dinner). Maybe ask your mom to put the meat on the side of meals (I did this for my husband since he was very uncooperative at times with the whole vegetarian thing, but gave in when I cooked yummy dinners). You don't have to get all vegan speciality foods, becauce you can still have pasta with tomato sauce, stirfrys, and vegetables. Bread is still available to you, maybe ask her to get some vegan soyproducts to make a sandwich (or peanut butter, or almond butter, or even cashew butter, with jelly). You will have to get involved and not dump it all her shoulders to make you a vegan meal.
One of my pet peeves is vegan teenagers that don't eat healthy and give us vegans a bad image of sickly thin vegans. So be smart and educate yourself about what you can do to eat healthy and be respectful of your mom. Patience may be in order in the long run.

Answer 5

How old are you? Perhaps you can offer to help at your local grocery store in exchange for vegetables. They throw them out or donate to a local shelter. If you were my child, I would feed you vegetables, but I feel there is something going on between you and your mom that does not "MEAT" the eye. Get a job and buy your own food. Babysit or whatever. Get in touch with a vegan group in your area.

Answer 6

when they say the food is manufactured on equipment that processes milk is just a way companies get out of being liable for lawsuits. for the most part, it just means somewhere in the factory milk is used, and with all their employees, its possible (doesnt mean it happens often) that milk traces may happen.

im becomming a vegan as well, good luck

Answer 7

by eating it your not supporting the product that does use the milk,you are supporting the alternative to the product that uses milk.If I was really hungry,I would eat it,but I wouldn't buy it at the store.Nutter butters and Oreos and wheat thins are vegan friendly if you have any of those.or sunchips and plain lay's.

Answer 8

Ritz actually do contain dairy. they put butter on the top. my mom is highly allergic to any dairy, and she has an allergic reaction to them. have you tried maybe a baked potato or some rice with margerine or even bbq sauce?

Answer 9

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Answer 10

Stop complaining and stick up for yourself she will never take you seriously if you just let her do that. I may be a meat eater but i have had problems similar to that.