Veganism or nah?

Wow that's great - congrats me dear. I'll definitely think about. Personally do you think it's more expensive than a ''more' meaty diet?

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no! biggest misconception of the vegan and veggie diet is that it's expensive.

1) yes, it can look expensive to get the gourmet vegan ready meals, but in reality we barely ever eat that. to be honest, i only ever have meat substitutes when i'm feeling lazy or when i'm with meat eaters, and the meat substitutes themselves aren't actually that expensive.
2) you end up eating a lot of veg and carbs, both massively cheap.
3) vegan restaurants aren't as expensive or as bad as people say, in my area anyway. i live in a medium sized, not very vegan, town - and there's one vegan cafe and one vegan friendly restaurant and they're both nice and about the same price as most places

basically, if you live off vegan ready meals and have meat substitutes in every meal then yeah, the bill adds up. but i found it cheaper to eat veggie compared to meat, and i still have meat substitutes. the cost of carbs and veggies (bulk buy and freeze!!) is really low and can be just as tasty/filling

i'm starting to substitute in vegan stuff now and cut out dairy / egg and it's no bother at all

if you do decide to try veganism- don't go straight in with vegan mock foods, especially vegan cheese because it'll taste gross and it will make it all seem so much harder! most vegans I know say it's best to avoid fake cheeses for a few weeks so your tastebuds have time to adapt, and also be prepared for the fact that even the best vegan cheeses will probably never come close to normal cheese! Plus they can be pretty pricey.

but yeah it's perfectly doable. I know people go on about "it's so hard to get the right nutrients" and "you'll get sick" etc etc but no one seems to say that if you have a rubbish diet that includes meat lol.

I was vegetarian from the age of 10 til I was 16, then I'd go through sudden periods where I didn't eat meat.
I tried veganism last December, the meals were decent but it was expensive and my immune system got really weak and I got fat so I stopped, my gf was vegan but she has sickle cell anaemia and she forgets to take her iron so she stopped being vegan too for health reasons.

Reasons for being veggie/vegan was usually morals (I grew up working with horses and I saw some battery hen farms that put me off meat) and weight loss, I lost weight when I was veggie because the meals were bigger I think. It takes a lot of dedication to be vegan, I didn't like the culture associated with it either so I suppose that was a smaller additional factor for stopping.

I just eat local meat from farms that I know and trust, or from my mate who hunts pheasants for his family.

nah

Chicken Nuggets.

That is all that needs to be said.

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nah

How come?

Aww I'm sorry to hear your health declined.

For some reason I HATE how beef tastes and I love animals so I think that was one of my reasons too. I understand. I've watched a couple of vegan youtubers and the attitude generally towards non vegans isn't positive. But they don't rep the whole community and I'm sure there are some non who have negative views about vegans.

I was also thinking of that but I live in a big ass polluted city.

Thanks for your reply - I'll gift ya in Rep.

1) Because meat is tasty.
2) Because it highly limits the diversity and variety of quality restaurants available for you to choose from.
3) Animals taste quite nice.
4) If you were doing it because you were utterly horrified about animals suffering you wouldn't be asking whether or not you should be vegan.
5) I was a vegetarian once and it was difficult. Veganism would be...
6) Because meat is sweet.
7) Steak.
8) KFC.
9) Roast Chicken Dinner.
10) Why you gonna eat plastic, synthetic cardboard passed off as 'food' because you caaaare about aaaaanimals. Like dude.

Aw thanks dude, I just kept getting loads of colds and fevers but I'm fine now

Ah the librarian at my old highschool was like that but in regards to all meat, she hated the texture I think, never ate meat substitute food either.
Yes, that's so true, I was with the vegan/veg soc when I was still at uni and they were really chilled out apart from the odd member or two but that's to be expected to be honest. XD

I must say the best thing about being vegan was the snack food and the creative recipes, I once made vegan Baileys that holds the coffee flavour a bit more and is slightly more sweet and less thick, but was also so much healthier!

Ahhhh, I live in a big rural town so far play I bet good meat is expensive too in the city :/

Thanks and back atcha!

I can't lie KFC is bomb. Vegan food can be tasty - or so I hope. Well it can certainly look nice. Roast Tofu Dinner?

Have you ever tried a vegan cheesecake...? Don't.

Do you like Snickers, Ice Cream, Pizza, Chicken Tikka Masala, Actual Food, Nice Stuff, Taste, Flavour?

No problem hun! Glad to hear you're good now.

Vegan Bailey's - what an invention. Good meat is veryyy expensive unfortunately..

Good luck with everything!