Going vegan......old style?!

Joyful25

Also baked OWIE's chocolate orange cake on Monday......it was good!!! Very good!!!

twinkle_star_2

Joyful - good luck with the garden. I'm hoping to get lots more done in ours this year but I shall have to be far more conscientious with my watering and slug-patrolling! Going to try and keep a proper garden record on the blog this year so am off to start uploading some pictures.

Thought this link http://www.veganlunchbox.com/loaf_studio.html might be useful and amusing for some people. The vegan lunch box site, blog and book are really nice but this magic loaf studio made me laugh!

Murrell

I love that magic loaf site, its great. Might come in handy for me as i'm running my cupboards down to move. I often visit the vegan lunch box, but hadn't seen this before. Thanks for posting it.

Sandra
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want2bmortgage3

Being vegetarian I thought I was being pretty cruelty free but now I realise that by supporting the dairy industry, I am partly responsible for the premature death of male chicks and calves, which have no commercial value, I am thinking again. I think finding this out is just as much of a shock as when I first realised where the meat I ate came from!

VeganClaire

That magic loaf site looks great love the idea of making up different combinations. Thanks

twinkle_star_2

want2bmortgage3 wrote: »

Being vegetarian I thought I was being pretty cruelty free but now I realise that by supporting the dairy industry, I am partly responsible for the premature death of male chicks and calves, which have no commercial value, I am thinking again. I think finding this out is just as much of a shock as when I first realised where the meat I ate came from!

I think that is probably what shocked me into going vegan. I honestly hadn't even thought about it before. You don't. Nobody ever mentions it. And them bam - total horror:mad:.

On a lighter note - I have seedlings. I feel all proud and motherly.:rotfl:

sparklewing

Hi everyone,

Can I join the new vegan gang? I've been a rubbish vegetarian for years (I don't eat any meat but have never bothered checking for gelatine etc in foods) but this thread has inspired me to go the whole hog and become a proper vegan. I've got a load of vegan unfriendly food in the house (yoghurts and suchlike) that I'm going to finish up so it's going to be a gradual cross over to veganism.

I don't eat eggs anyway and don't drink milk so for me it's just the yoghurts and the things with random dairy/meat derivitives added that I need to cut out. I reckon this will be a more successful weightloss programme than my many years attempting to follow Weightwatchers has been. No cake (well no shop bought cake anyway), no milk chocolate! no jelly sweeties, no cheese!

I already eat a lot of vegan meals (lentils and bean stews and currys are my favourites) and I probably keep the chickpea farmers of the world going. I'm lazy though and buy tins, must start buying the dried ones.

Mr S is a comitted carnivore he's the most fussy man on earth and lives on meat and not much else (he doesn't do fruit or veg or anything vaguely healthy) but he already cooks most of his own food so that'll be fine.

So a few quick questions:
I know quorn sausages are not vegan due to the egg white but are Linda McCartney ones? I checked the ingredients and couldn't see anything unvegan.

I've read some people avoid cane sugar. Is that normal cos that sounds like an utter nightmare.

Are alpro soya yoghurts tasty?

And are bourbourn biscuits really vegan (if so this'll be easy :rotfl:)

I can't get that animalfreeshopping site to work the registration page seems bust).

Thanks everyone and I'll apologise in advance as I'll probably have LOADS more questions as the weeks go by.

sparklewing

Oh and Soap & Glory toiletries? Please tell me they are vegan, I haven't a clue what I need to be looking for on the back but they aren't tested on animals. I love soap&glory. I'd actually find it harder to give them up than any food product.:o

Doom_and_Gloom

sparklewing - The box of Linda McCartney sausages in the freezer I have say vegan friendly on them. The following in the range are also vegan friendly; country pies, chilli non carne, sausage rolls, vegetarian mince and the spicy three bean bakes. The new packaging should say vegan friendly around the allergy advice part. LM products are usually rather expensive (although you can find them on offer sometimes) and not great every day as like many processed foods they are not very nutritionally sound.
Some sugars go through bone char as part of the process of making it. This is probably why you have heard of the sugar comment. Not sure of other reasons but there may be others also. I try and use sugar that says vegan on the pack and do avoid others to be honest.

I find alpro yogurts very tasty. They come in a variety of flavours but they can add up in cost. There is a way of making your own soya yogurt that I mentioned earlier in this thread on post 78. You can add fresh fruits to have different flavour yogurts instead if you like them more than plain.

A lot of bourbourn biscuits are vegan yes, however do check for whey, other dairy products as well other nasty things.

Over time you just like every other vegan will find out all of the junk we really can get our hands on :rotfl: . Dairy free ice-cream, vegan marshmellows, vegan white chocolate, dairy free fudge etc. it's endless it seems .

Questions are a good thing so feel free to ask. It may even help others!

sparklewing

Thanks Doom&Gloom .

The Linda McCartney sausages are the only processed food I eat so I'm not too worried about that, everything else is made from scratch, I use them in sausage & butterbean hotpots and things though so would miss them. Actually the Cauldron sausages are probably vegan too, I'll have to check.

Have finally managed to get animalfreeshopper to work for me and I've ordered a couple of going vegan books from play.com so hopefully that'll get me started. Been looking through some of the food in the cupboards and the majority of it looks to be alright for vegans which is good.

Need to try and learn which E numbers to avoid though, think that's going to be the hardest thing. And learning what to look for in toiletries etc.