Going from Vegetarian to Vegan
If you’re vegetarian you are just a step away to become vegan. You can start cutting out the dairy and animal by-products. You can try with one at a time so it won’t be so overwhelming. Examples of animal by-products are gelatin, glycerin (unless specified that it’s from plant sources), cochineal, casein, whey, etc.
Try to make your meals at home. You can make cooking fun by inviting some friends over and doing it together. Search for your favorite recipes, there are tons of blogs of vegan food that you can check. I recommend you Healthy Vegan Cooking and one of my favorites is Vegan Yums.
It’s often easy to “veganize” your favorite recipe with substitutes. If a baked goods recipe calls for an egg, you can use half a mashed banana, a bit of applesauce, tofu, Ener-G brand egg replacement, or blend some flax seeds with a bit of water in a blender until they are the consistency of raw egg. For milk, you can use soy milk, rice milk, almond milk, oat milk, or hemp milk. Soy milk tends to be the most commonly used replacement, and if you don’t mind a little fat, Very Vanilla Silk Soymilk brand “for kids” (who says adults can’t enjoy it, too?“) tastes just like melted ice cream. Non-fat soymilk, such as West Soy brand non-fat, comes in vanilla or plain. You will be able to find different flavors of soymilk such as chocolate, chai, and coffee, at most major health food stores. Around the holidays, Silk brand offers a soy nog that tastes very much like eggnog.
For butter, you can use vegetable margarine or oils; I find that dishes taste the same without that added butterfat. Cheesecake? No problem. Tofutti brand makes a vegan-style cream “cheese” that produces cheesecakes that taste just like the dairy version.
And, yes, there are also vegan versions of cheese, whipped cream, frosting, gravy…you name it. Try chocolate without the milk added in chocolate bars, baking chocolate chips, and hot cocoa. Even vegan ice cream comes in several brands and an assortment of flavors. Try the Tofutti Cutie brand of ice cream sandwich!
As I always say, do the transition if you really feel you want to, have the right reasons to do it otherwise it will be harder and that’s why people end up giving up. Be patient, remember is a process, changes are always difficult, mostly those who involve your lifestyle.
If you doubt about something don’t hesitate to ask, there is always the anonymous option, there are not such thing as a stupid question.
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