Which food surprised you being vegan?

Question

For me it was Sainsbury's own brand plain white bread! I thought they would have put milk or eggs in it!!

That should read "Which food surprised you BY being vegan?"

Really, I thought they would have milk in candy like that!

Yes, some tofu is just vegetarian !

Answer 1

Oh! What a fun question!!

Friend Scoc, I bought my own soy milk maker because I hate all the sugar in store bought soy milk.

What's funny is, like friend Lillyan, I have a HUGE sweet tooth.

I can't think of a store bought item that I love that I later found to be vegan.

BUT...

"Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World" is the best book I ever bought.

I would have to say the ease of making and cleaning up after making - vegan cupcakes was a HUGE surprise to me. Why all the fuss and bother of a "traditional" cake loaded in stuff that's bad for you. When these healthier items (that is if you buy whole wheat flour rather than refined white and natural sugar rather than refined white) are so easy to make????

Answer 2

Donuts

I have a *bit* of a sweet tooth... always have. And I went many years without a donut. Then when I found Internet vegan stores, I found they had vegan donuts. It was a happy day. I Think I had a dozen delivered to my house. :)

Recently, on the accidentally vegan list, I found Little Debbie cake donuts... but I never found them in a store. Then I found Bon Apetit donuts. I couldn't eat them because of mono and diglycerides. I called/emailed them for fun, and they said that all their ingredients were vegetable based. Now, if I ever get the urge, I can walk into a gas station like a normal person and get some donuts and a cup of coffee.

Answer 3

Bacos, they're made of soy.

Another treat is Famous Amos sandwich cookies. I loooove the chocolate ones, they taste just like Oreos, and they're vegan *and* a lot cheaper. Woohoo!! In fact, I bought them before becoming vegan because of the price. Oreos are at least $1.50 more, and Famous Amos tastes just like them.

Chocolate cookies, it doesn't get much better than that, lol!

Answer 4

My first surprise was to find out that chocolate
itself is vegan as long you don't add dairy
or refined sugar. My second surprise was
bean only burritoes from taco bell.
Bacos shocked me when I found out
they were made of soy.

Answer 5

[oh, the *food* being vegan, not me, I see. Ha ha, well, I'll keep this here anyway just for people to read]

Vegetables. I hardly ate vegetables growing up, but when I did, they were not very tasty at all. My parents have a British background, and those Brits basically cook the crap out of everything, so I had very overcooked vegetables growing up; overcooked canned peas and carrots were the norm. Boiled for at least 15 minutes then all that flavour drained off down the sink. Needless to say, I thought they were gross and gagged on them (and other stuff they made too).

When I became vegan, I started cooking for myself, and to my surprise, the better I became at cooking, the better the food tasted, but things still didn't taste very flavourful, but I knew that I had to cleanse my pallete and just keep at it and not give in; gradually my tastebuds adjusted. Before, I was eating very strong foods. Never did I have a meal without flavour such as sauces, pepper, salt, butter, sugar, etc. and all very highly processed and cooked foods. I gave up all those pre-made foods and unhealthy sauces, salt, etc. It took about a year until I could actually TASTE something when chomping on a raw vegetable. I was amazed that the same vegetable one year ago was nearly flavourless but was now bursting with subtle flavours. Herbal tea no longer tasted like water, even plain oatmeal had flavour that I could appreciate where before I had to dump sugar on it just to enable me to eat it. All those foods I used to eat, were now just overpowering and I couldn't believe I could stomach them before. Even things like instant noodles which are vegan, the flavour packets now tasted revolting to me; spagetti sauce, I could now taste all that salt and corn syrup etc. they put in there. I was starting to taste things for what they really were it seemed.

So, I was surprised that things such as vegetables could taste really great, especially straight from your own garden; which I also started. Even regular things like beets, potatotes, tomatoes... eveything just bursts with flavour from one's garden. Even recently, 17 years later, I'm still discovering; we bought some organic potatoes and they tasted okay as usual, but we stuck some from the bag into our gareden. When they were ready to pull out of the dirt to eat, WOW, they were really bursting with flavour. I never imagined that a plain potato with nothing added could taste so good. Fresh really makes a huge difference, even to organic foods which people already say tastes ten times better than non-organic.

PS, I think others must be having this problem too when changing their diet for the better: vegetables are flavourless, plain soy milk tastes gross, everything needs salt, cannot stop craving sugar, etc. But stick to it and avoid these things and you'll get over it and plain soy milk will actually taste great. Really!

Answer 6

Air heads.

Answer 7

i feel very stupid saying this, but i thought pumpkin butter had butter in it ( i had never had it, i just assumed this.) but i was really excited to find that it is all vegan.

Answer 8

tescos own bourbon biscuits yum yum yum

Answer 9

tofu..