Starving!

[Sam172]

It's UK Vegan Week from the 1st november to the 7th (woop, my birthday :D). So to join in the fun i've been vegan since Sunday. What a lot of trouble it has been so far....

Since i've never been one before, and I had no real plans for what I was going to eat....it's resulted in me adapting a bit...and producing so far 2 rather unpleasant meals. Todays soy mince, with carrots, onion and red pepper chopped up in it was quite unpleasant....due to everything tasting of really sweet carrots.
I also realised at lunchtime today at school, that there was only one thing in the hot trolley (we have like a mini portable canteen come to our meeting room in the 6th form :D) I could eat.....and that was a bag of really fatty chips. So I ate a bag of those....and then went a bit hungry until I came home....where I looked around and could find nothing quick to eat apart from fruit. So I muched away.

Now i'm hungry again and i've just attacked a banana.....and am starting to eye up those yofu things...and that bag of nuts.


I think i'll loose a bit of weight by the end of this week due to my lack of planning...

At least I have my green tea and a bottle of rum to keep me happy in those loooong cold nights

[SheepDog]

You can just as easily gain wait from the lack of planning. Strictly speaking, a lot of JUNK food is vegan.

I've noticed that going from ovo-lacto vegetarian to vegan is actually harder than going from omnivore to ovo-lacto vegetarian. The strictness of being vegan rules out so much of the healthy prepared food that you pretty much have to eat junk or prepare all your meals yourself.

Are you going straight from obnivore to vegan? if so, that's quite a switch.

My wife and I are ovo-lacto vegetarian as a rule, but we're 90% vegan in practice. What that means is that we can eat things with a trace of dairy or eggs, but we don't really buy dairy or eggs by themselves. I'm not so hung up on the distinction, and I think it's better all around for us than being all-or-nothing.

If you're into bread, some whole grain bread might suit you this week. It is filling, tends to keep well, and if done right, can be very tasty. Then the fruits and veggies won't have to carry the entire caloric needs.

Beware of the effect of all the extra fiber...

[Groty]

Work on fiber... glues your innards together! Peanut Butter too!

Remember, you have all of that red meat hanging around in your colon too. So, you may still be digesting that, sorta. Does that mean you're really being vegan?

Ugghhh...

Nevermind, pointless post.

[Sam172]

Are you going straight from obnivore to vegan? if so, that's quite a switch.


Nope, going from ovo-lacto vegetarian to vegan for the week.


I had forgotten about peanut butter actually :o. I have a friend who almost lives off the stuff ¬_¬. I love whole grain breads, they are my true friends when toasting white bread fails me.

[SheepDog]

Gotcha. If you have access, soy nut better is a bit healthier (lower fat). That has me craving a soy nut butter and banana sandwich on whole wheat toast...

[Claverhouse]

Being vegan is extremely difficult, unless you're a good cook ( or have access to someone who is one ) I eat very badly...

Still, there's no problem that can't be solved by throwing wads of cash at it.
:D
On the other hand, most omnivore food is pretty trashy as well, unless you can afford organic and superior quality all the time. So who cares ?

My birthday is the 14th; but I'm roughly 100 times as old as Sam [ strokes Muginn's feathers thoughtfully ].


Claverhouse :ph34r:

[Sam172]

On the other hand, most omnivore food is pretty trashy as well, unless you can afford organic and superior quality all the time. So who cares ?

My birthday is the 14th; but I'm roughly 100 times as old as Sam [ strokes Muginn's feathers thoughtfully ].


Lol, that's true. I'm still probably eating more healthily than the friend who lives off peanut butter, bread, value sausage rolls and cheesy dippers (yes, that is all he eats....day in and day out)

Yeah, you old man ;P

[Claverhouse]

Being a Scorpio is great, isn't it ? Especially if you don't believe in that stuff at all...


:rofl:



Claverhouse :ph34r:

[songbird36]

There is one vegan woman in the office where I work a couple of days a week.

She has a nice figure but a VERY bad complexion. Wonder if it's all the carrots?

[hemanthraz]

rice and wheat are the way to go i think.In india that is the staple food for all.
The problem is the lack of protein so some beans and stuff might help.
But you can move your diet around a little and eat something different now and then[i know, i know , the menu choices are limited].

[EternalCynic]

:o I should email my half sister for you, she was vegan for years and has some really awesome recipes (even her wedding, everything was vegan including the cake.. it was wild [for me anyway]).

[songbird36]

Which half of her did you relate to?

The alfalfa loving, clean loving, holistic world view embracing vision of feminine accomplishment,

or the evil twin who would have her eating corpses, listening to ZZ Top and voting for GB Jnr...

[Sam172]

:o I should email my half sister for you, she was vegan for years and has some really awesome recipes (even her wedding, everything was vegan including the cake.. it was wild [for me anyway]).

wow :D. If only the supermarket and shops in town catered more around here. Nowhere does vegan cheese......I mean nowhere. Basically I have to get stuff from the mini Holland & Barrat .... or the supermarket section for lactose intolerant people here :angry:

[jimkopelli]

ok, the week is over... are you switching back and recovering, or what?

[Sam172]

I switched back ^_^