Poll of the Day > I haven't consumed any animal products in a week

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That's neat.

I might actually go make some bacon.
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Ogurisama posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

what cut and doneness and what did you have with it

NY striplion, medrare
Potato, some kind of leafy green stuff (not sure what it was)

Nice not bad

HellHole_ posted...

I have pork chops in a crock pot rn

What's the seasoning? I don't think crock pots are great for chops unless it's like shoulder or sirloin chops.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

Indian food is easy to adapt to be vegetarian or vegan thankfully

Well, many Indians are vegetarian.
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killkount posted...

That's neat.

I might actually go make some bacon.

I just prepped bacon for the kitchen. I ate a slice.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

Indian food is easy to adapt to be vegetarian or vegan thankfully

Well, many Indians are vegetarian.

No kidding

Zangulus posted...

Tonight is black bean and pork chili. Smells sooo good.

Nice I really liked the last chili I made
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Wowow that curry is great. I put some on brown rice. Couldn't find red curry paste without fish sauce so I used yellow. Used a little more curry paste than suggested to taste.
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Sad that the last of my Thai curry will be gone soon. More Indian food to be cooked tomorrow.

Not quite 2 weeks yet and it's still going well. Digestion has been top notch since the change.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

No food or other products.

Still lots of tasty things to eat. :3

Please confirm if you;re actually vegan so I can block you.
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Syntheticon posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

No food or other products.

Still lots of tasty things to eat. :3

Please confirm if you;re actually vegan so I can block you.

Imagine being someone that blocks people on a message board for not eating things that you do lol
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Zangulus posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

Syntheticon posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

No food or other products.

Still lots of tasty things to eat. :3

Please confirm if you;re actually vegan so I can block you.

Imagine being someone that blocks people on a message board for not eating things that you do lol

He's probably also one of those types that complains about how Vegans have to tell everyone and plays Spot The Vegan.

Then he requests you to identify as a Vegan.

Well, I'd say no great loss to you in this one.

"vegans are so in your face and intolerant of meat eaters"

*makes topic about trying a diet without animal products*

*enter dozens of posts about the meat people are going to eat*

"confirm if you're a vegan so I can block you"

Can't say that I'm surprised, but yeah, it's the vegans that are bad...
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I usually have at least one meal a day that doesn't have meat. Sometimes two.

And my red meat intake is really low but that's still meat so that doesn't matter much.

My problem with not eating animal products at all is that I live for cheese so I have no desire to give that up. :o even if I had a digestive disease that made it painful to eat I think I still would >_>
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Jen0125 posted...

I usually have at least one meal a day that doesn't have meat. Sometimes two.

And my red meat intake is really low but that's still meat so that doesn't matter much.

My problem with not eating animal products at all is that I live for cheese so I have no desire to give that up. :o even if I had a digestive disease that made it painful to eat I think I still would >_>

I used to be fine having no meat with most meals. The shift to no meat at all has helped me find ways to focus on different foods at the centerpiece, rather than meat. And I don't like cheese that much so not a huge loss for me--though it would be nice to have pizza or something. There are some decent vegan cheeses. Nothing I would call good on its own. But they can be fine melted on things. I had some really good vegan pizza in Portland that was still pretty melty and nice.

Don't get me wrong, meat can be delicious, I just feel that my personal enjoyment doesn't justify participating in something that harms my health and supports industries that I am morally against.
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You do you man. No one is affected by your diet but you lol
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Syntheticon posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

No food or other products.

Still lots of tasty things to eat. :3

Please confirm if you;re actually vegan so I can block you.

Hey I'm not vegan (yet) but please block me
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Jen0125 posted...

You do you man. No one is affected by your diet but you lol

except apparently some people?

but yes I will do me

Zangulus posted...

Occasionally I'll have a meat free day. Not buy design, but if my wife points it out I'll eat a fucking hot pocket to spite her.

but why though that seems so silly
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Zangulus posted...

Just cuz... I'm a dick like that. I don't even like hot pockets.

Lawls.

then why do you even have hot pockets in your house to eat?!

madness, man! pure madness!
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Doctor Foxx posted...

except apparently some people?

but yes I will do me

some people just can't stand when people do something differently than they do
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Zangulus posted...

She likes them.

I mean, she married me. She has no taste.

I will grant you that. Hot Pockets, heck no. :p

Picked up some Yves veggie burgers in a few varieties. They're not bad, just a bit pricy. As long as you don't think they're meat they hold up on their own as tasty food.

One nice thing about the alternatives: no gristle or random bone shards. I greatly dislike encountering either. Going to need to learn to make my own meat alternatives. The store bought kinds are expensive (but so is meat).

It's also pretty easy so far to cook balanced meals with no meat alternative in it. Good to have the option and variety.
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Now past 2 weeks. I've tried some meat replacers (meh) and think I'll just stick with tofu for the most part. Until I can find good tempeh or seitan somewhere. This is not a great place for eating without meat.

Tonight will be the real test to see how that weird soy chicken reheats in stirfry.
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I would only eat meat once or twice a month for almost a year, but gave that up in April, so I only eat meat once or twice a week when I eat out.

GreenTreeClub posted...

I would only eat meat once or twice a month for almost a year, but gave that up in April, so I only eat meat once or twice a week when I eat out.

A good way to be

OK... do I have some kind of veg burger and salad tonight? I think i might do that for easy meals
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You should try to add hemp seed to your diet.
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SunWuKung420 posted...

You should try to add hemp seed to your diet.

I have hemp hearts with some things but it's not the be-all end-all food AND it's ridiculously costly.
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Doctor Foxx posted...

SunWuKung420 posted...

You should try to add hemp seed to your diet.

I have hemp hearts with some things but it's not the be-all end-all food AND it's ridiculously costly.

It has all the amino acids the body needs. Great protein source.
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That's great but I'm not going to have it every day. way easy to overdo it on the fat with hemp hearts
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Last night I made dal tadka and brown rice and I am excited for those delicious leftovers. It wasn't quite the same without ghee but it's barely noticeable. Still excellent, delicious, and really healthy. :3

lentils are SO CHEAP to cook as a staple food people should do it more.
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I get meat withdrawal. Feel free to enjoy the double entendre.
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TheCyborgNinja posted...

I get meat withdrawal. Feel free to enjoy the double entendre.

i've got your meat withdrawal right here

hurr hurr
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Yesterday I was out walking around in the evening, pretty long after lunch. I kept smelling meat on grills. It made me extra hungry but also smelled really strong in a not quite good way. Ehhhh. Treated myself to a soy burger and it was not bad.

So far I've really liked stir fry type dishes, curries, sandwiches, and some salads. there are a lot of recipes I have pinned to try later. Having a good deal of success with Indian dishes/store items for vegan eats.

Still not really missing meat. Would like to be able to have yogurt, no vegan yogurt in sight in my town.
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Holy shit. This was literally made into a topic. Unreal, the level of delusion some people experience in life.
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It's surprising how many things have egg products in them. A childhood friend had a bad egg allergy and I can hardly imagine how difficult that is to navigate.
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Almost at 4 weeks now and I've dropped 4KG. I'd like to attribute that to healthy eating but I just haven't been eating all that much. Not eating animal products kind of limits the quick easy to access food.

Really need to figure out my own recipe for veg meatloaf or nonmeat patties.
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https://yupitsvegan.com/peanut-pineapple-potato-curry/

Made that again, so good <3

Too many soy burgers this week, needs more veg on veg action

My family said they'd cook vegan when i visited so that's really nice of them
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Kana posted...

Syntheticon posted...

Doctor Foxx posted...

No food or other products.

Still lots of tasty things to eat. :3

Please confirm if you;re actually vegan so I can block you.

Hey I'm not vegan (yet) but please block me

same.
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Yesterday I tried some vegan cheese and oh my god

The smell was not pleasant (although I find cheese smell to be nasty normally)

And it was so rubbery. I mean I think that shit will bounce

But I baked that stuff up on to a bad boy lil pizza and it melted up and tasted ok
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I want to make some delicious pasta and these recipes look good and simple. Second one is a little too simple, though easily modified

https://www.pressurecookrecipes.com/one-pot-pressure-cooker-penne-pasta/

http://myplantbasedfamily.com/2017/01/19/busy-night-pasta/
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I've done Veg Week in April for a few years. It was hard.
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fishy071 posted...

I've done Veg Week in April for a few years. It was hard.

Yeah it's certainly less convenient!

So I bought these vegan hot dogs to try. They're pretty spot on. They even have the gross hot dog smell in the package. Has to be the closest fake meat thing yet, it's so similar that it's kind of gross. Now I know
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I hope everything's going well ^.^;
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aside from meat I love cheese too much to give up animal products and artificial cheese just doesn't cut it. ran into this really gross artificial cheese that tasted like mildly cheese flavored plastic and it wouldn't melt in a oven at 400 degrees. nope.

I don't have a problem with vegans but I get tired of the health argument, have met plenty of people live to their 90s eating meat and I don't want to even live that long. hell had a grandmother that lived to like 96, meat eater, smoker and drinker. off topic it was funny though about a decade before she died doctor told her if she wanted to enjoy whats left of her life she needed to quit drinking and smoking and her reply was "doc i'm over 80 years old, whats left to enjoy?"
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cute_fan posted...

I hope everything's going well ^.^;

Yeah I've had a really good assortment of vegan food on my trip. Can actually find vegan restaurants. Stir fry, curried sandwiches, all the grilled vegetables, and even some great baked goods. Found soy curls and jackfruit at this hippie market and I'm excited to try them out when I get home!
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Here's a chicken chana wrap, was some kind of a mild yellow curry



Tonight I went out with the folks to a vegan restaurant. They've been one of my favorite places for many years and apparently voted one of the top 10 restaurants in Canada. We had chicken curry, spicy shrimp, and ginger beef. Not pictured are the bean curd drumsticks which were delicious.



The shrimp was so spot on in texture though a bit too doughy
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Got these soy curls I want to try out. Think I'll cook it up orange chicken style.

You really do have to read all the labels. Was having some salt and vinegar chips and saw it contained milk ingredients (lactose). That was a bit of a shocker. An effective reminder to check even the most innocuous things
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Did a dark soy sauce / ginger / garlic / vegetable stock soak with the soy curls then browned them up. It's really tasty. Glad I tried them out.
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http://thevword.net/2015/06/vegan-orange-soy-curl-chicken.html

OK Time to make this stuff!
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