Only veggies for me from now on.

[bornagainst]

I've been a veggie for half of my adult life, and never found it particularly difficult, and it made me think far more about what food I was eating, where it came from and what it might be doing to me.

It's not a big thing in my life, but I do think it really helped when I came to cycling and losing weight.

I can also choose to support companies who understand vegetarianism / veganism - E.G. The Liverpool Organic Brewery produce a range of vegan beers... and Shimano do 100% synthetic cycling shoes etc.

Good luck with it and have fun.

 

[ArDee]

Finally decided to give vegetarianism a go. Let's keep piggies happy.

Wouldn't do for everybody to become vegetarian; millions of animals would be destroyed and billions more would never be born. Complete species would be wiped off the face of the earth, as their only use and hence, the only reason for breeding them and keeping them alive is for food.

 

[ianrauk]

I so want a bacon sarnie with brown sauce right now.

 

[ArDee]

I so want a bacon sarnie with brown sauce right now.

As Russell Howard says "What can be wrong with 2 pieces of bread giving a pig a hug?"

 

[MarkF]

I walked into an abbatoir, 1985, to do an electrical job, I walked out 3 or 4 hours later and have not eaten meat since, nor have I wanted to.

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Best wishes and welcome to a new mine field, if you though being a cyclist was difficult....
Take it easy and don't beat yourself up about mistakes on the road... It can be amazingly difficult to avoid some of the huge pitfalls at the best of times. I have been vegetarian for more than 29 years (so nearly 75% of my life!) and have been vegan + eggs for around 5 years after developing a life threatening allergy to all dairy products. Eating out as a veggie is much easier than it ever was. vegan is still a challenge but it is possible, the life threatening allergy helps considerably (staff are always very willing/helpful to check once I mention it and the chef usually comes out to talk with me to confirm)... there are certain restaurants I know I can easily eat at and other's I just avoid like the plague. Even cooked in-house bread has to be checked in supermarkets when it comes to avoiding dairy .

Drinks are an interesting subject... http://www.vegansociety.com/lifestyle/food/drinks/
Obviously you need to 'filter' for me watching vegan verses veggie but as an idea....

Non-alcoholic drinks known to be unsuitable for vegans
Coca-Cola state that their drinks are all free from animal ingredients apart from: Lilt, Lilt Zero, Kia-Ora Orange Squash, Kia-Ora Orange Squash No Added Sugar and Schweppes Orange Squash.
Ocean Spray‘s Cranberry & Pomegranate Juice drink and Grower’s Reserve Cranberry & Pomegranate Juice drink are not currently suitable for vegans as the pomegranate concentrate may have been filtered with gelatine. All other drinks are suitable for vegans (confirmed Feb 11).
Britvic: Robinsons High Juice Blood Orange is not suitable for vegans.

Alcoholic drinks can be checked here http://www.barnivore.com/ - but I am now off to sulk because one of my favourites which was OK is now back on the red list... and I have several bottles of it after raiding a certain supermarket in Perth last weekend!

 

[PaulB]

It was the pig that drove me to vegetarianism. I was a serious vegetarian for 14 years from 1985 and a strict vegan for about 8 of those years. I always got bad stomach ache and aching teeth after any encounter with the bacon so it's never been a hardship for me to not eat pork; even the smell faintly repulses me. I do eat chicken and fish now though. And broccoli.

 

[Herr-B]

I have ethical, environmental and economical reasons, local and global. Meat consumption simply isn't sustainable.

Are you my wife?

She went mostly veggie for those reasons about 18 months ago, now she has also gone dairy-free. She misses cheese the most, the vegan replacements aren't anywhere near - according to her. I thought she'd miss bacon the most. She is actually a dairy-free pescetarian so we can still share some lovely seafood dishes.

 

[Lee_M]

I have been vegetarian for more than 29 years (so nearly 75% of my life!) and have been vegan + eggs for around 5 years after developing a life threatening allergy to all dairy products.

I hope you arent 29

 

[vernon]

The only things with legs that I don't eat are tables and chairs.

 

[Speicher]

The only things with legs that I don't eat are tables and chairs.

People?
ants?
cockroaches?

 

[SatNavSaysStraightOn]

Are you my wife?

She went mostly veggie for those reasons about 18 months ago, now she has also gone dairy-free. She misses cheese the most, the vegan replacements aren't anywhere near - according to her. I thought she'd miss bacon the most. She is actually a dairy-free pescetarian so we can still share some lovely seafood dishes.

We have recently found some (raw) cashew-nut cheese (http://thesunnyrawkitchen.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/not-cheeze-pleaze.html) which is very much like a herb roule cheese. (I also made a cumin/coriander/garlic version covered with paprika - made with water not rejuvelac) The downside is you have to make it yourself but it is an excellent substitute for sandwiches & soups that want a herb roule and the likes. My B-I-L is a raw foodie due to diabetes - it helps him control his diabetes without the need for anywhere near as much insulin.

The homemade brazil nut milk I made was also much nicer than the shop bought stuff, lovely and creamy.

 

[vernon]

People?
ants?
cockroaches?

I've eaten two out of the three....

 

[vernon]

What was wrong with the ants? I gather they taste like lemon......

The formic acid has a certain piquancy that isn't at all like lemon, sadly.

 

[Ghost Donkey]

The homemade brazil nut milk I made was also much nicer than the shop bought stuff, lovely and creamy.

We're experimenting with making our own rice milk at the mo. I wouldn't recommend it for diabetes though due the carb count. Probably better than the stuff on the supermarket shelves. I'm not vegiterean or vegan, just do things like that sometimes .