I want to be vegan but there`s so many foods I`ll miss. What do I do?

Question

I want to be vegan and my friends are trying to get me to be one. I want to be one but there are so many foods and meats I will really miss.My family all eat meat and mom always buys meat. Do you have any advice I can work with?

Answer 1

Before you decide to become Vegan, I would suggest you go vegetarian. Cut out all meat, but keep in the dairy and eggs. If you can sustain that and be happy and satisfied then you could think about going all the way. If you are going to be vegan, you are going to have to eat a lot of foods you might not ordinarily eat. This can be really fun, though, and you can discover all sorts of new and delicious foods. I also suggest that you get a vegan cookbook and learn to cook some fun recipes...

Answer 2

This isn't a question that a person who REALLY wanted to be a vegan would ask. Is the suffering of an animal worth the momentary pleasure you get from eating meat/cheese, etc? I don't think so .. that's why I'm going vegan. I don't want to discourage you or anything, but if I were you I'd take a look at my motives before I did anything...

That being said, you could start out small by going veggie. I'm vegetarian in the process of going vegan and I've set up certain 'vegan' days in which I only eat vegan food. Slowly I'll add more and more vegan days until I'm totally vegan. I suppose you could do the same with becoming vegetarian and then vegan.

Answer 3

Make sure that when the decision is made, it is your decision. Going straight from omnivore to vegan is a huge step. If you are really serious about changing your eating habits for the good of the world, become vegetarian. You'll be surprised at how many more food options will come to light when you begin looking for alternatives to meat. If you take to being a vegetarian, then make the move to veganism. If you make the jump all at once, you may lose determination.

Remember, this is your decision. Make it for yourself, not for your friends.

Answer 4

I have been vegan for three years now and do not miss dairy or egg products at all. Seriously. You can make most things without dairy or eggs--cakes, cookies, candy, creamy dressings, marshmallows, etc--and they taste just as good as the standard recipe. (I recently saw a vegan recipe for Cadbury creme eggs--no kidding. And have you heard of the majorly popular cookbook Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World?) Sure, it's a little irritating when you're at a party and the only cake available is made with eggs, but it's not like you have to go without cake entirely. Cheese is a different story. Some vegans are unsatisfied with the dairy-free stuff available. In my opinion, it's worth giving up cheese, but you might think differently. If that's the case, just give up everything else. Every little change you make in your diet does count.

If you find that it's too hard to go without both eggs and dairy, I'd suggest getting rid of eggs. They are, pound for pound, far crueler than dairy and even beef. Check out some of my sources for info and pictures, and then ask yourself if you really want to support that kind of industry.

Answer 5

What will you miss?

Check out Whole Foods or another grocery store's vegetarian frozen and refrigerator sections. You just have to try different things and see what you like. There're fake deli slices (Tofurky brand and Lite Life are great), soy cheeses (try Follow Your Heart brand), Tofutti better than cream cheese, veggie meat balls, veggie chicken, veggie burgers, veggie everything. Be adventurous. Also, eat beans and rice. Cheap, easy and yummy. Flavor with spices or garlic powder.

Is your momentary pleasure of a meal worth the lifetime of suffering and cruel death of the animal???? You should learn about the animal suffering of the industries and you will not need any more motivation than that!

Answer 6

There are vegan versions of almost everything. Some of them are so similar to the animal version that I get a little bit nauseated when I try them.

The only thing I have not seen is a vegan angel food cake. So if this is one of your favorite things, you'll have do do without.

Before my gf and I went vegan (we were both vegetarian and decided to become vegan together), she wanted one last of lots of different things, mint chocolate chip ice cream, cheesecake, and a couple of other things. Now I make an awesome vegan cheesecake, and Temptation makes a great version of mint chocolate chip soy ice cream.

Answer 7

You do not really want to be vegan. Why do you let your friends talk you into something you do not want. If you want to become vegetarian, try it for a while, being a true vegan involves much more than just not eating meat. Whoever came up with the silly idea that eating meat is somehow bad for people? They have been eating meat for 100,000 years.
And please don't feel sorry for the poor cows being killed for food, wild cattle has always been killed by carnivores, long before the first hunters came on the scene. It's just the way nature works.

Answer 8

it sounds like you just have to first become a vegetarian and see if you like it, and work your way up to be a vegan.

everyone always eat and buy meat, if you want to change then do it, but do it for yourself and do it for animals, but not your friends.

Answer 9

i started out vegetarian and my family is all carnivores. not one vvegetarian, well my aunt is sorta. anyways, if theres a whole food grocery store near where you live, it is amazing. vegan cheese, vegan taquitos (which are delicious), vegan pizza, everything your heart could desire. but watch our, its not all about milk and cheese. look up hidden animal ingrediants like caesin and glycerin which is made of animal bones and boiled skin. good luck.

Answer 10

I think the best thing to do would be to watch those horrible factory farm videos over and over and over if you really want to be a veggie. Those videos are awful and keep it fresh in your mind how the animals you have been eating were treated and tortured.