Vegan Food

[lizzie_and_ari]

When we went away on holiday to Australia and New Zealand, we stayed with my family. Grandma felt sorry for us for living in a place where ethical meat is so expensive, so she fed us lots of beef. Every day, meat. Meat with gravy, meat in pies, meat in sandwiches. Over the course of a week she fed us more meat than we eat in a year, and no fewer

Comments

[call_waiting]

Fantastic stuff!

I hear you on the tea dilemma: I bounced through many different milks before settling: various soy milks, rice milk, oat milk... I realised that there was a lot of variation in the flavour of different kinds of soy milk, and that Alpro's unsweetened soy milk just tasted 'right' in tea. Not exactly the same as dairy milk, but the closest that I've found.

Soya in coffee is a lot more hit-and-miss: some places do them well, some places badly. I'm just a teensy bit ashamed to admit that Starbucks do *amazing* soy lattes.

[red_phil]

A lot of the failings is in 'alternative' foods.
I mean trying to fake something you no longer want to consume. (or are alergic to)
Fake milks, flour, cheese etc often compare poorly to the real thing.
However just departing completely and working with what you can have gives often great results with nothing to compare badly to.

I guess the problem with that is that you need to learn to cook again either from new recipies or by experimentation.

Also :
"how few calories we're incidentally eating"
doesn't really tie in well with:
"orange, or a banana",
"with crunchy peanut butter",
"and olive-oily",
"and avocado"
"good fresh bread"

Those items are healthier than ready made foods, but some of them are very calorie dense. Also yummy. don;t forget the yummy.

[henriksdal]

excellent stuff, I suspect it's easier to go veggie/vegan if you don't make a big deal out of it. If you do find anything that's as nice in tea as cows milk, I'd be very interested. Since I started properly cooking I've almost stopped eating meat regularly. (I avoid eating fish, but that's a whole other kettle.. of fish) Although I haven't really noticed any benefit, other than being a bit more proud of myself.