Vegan help?!
Vegan help?
okay im trying to be a vegetarian but eat fruit and dairy so yeah i am a teenager but i was wondering can i eat bread and what awesome easy lunch recipes and dinner recipes as well.
Additional Details1 month ago
Sorry i meant to say lacto-ovo
Answers:
1 month ago
Sorry i meant to say lacto-ovo
here are links to veggie loaf recipes..
Veggie Loafs
http://www.ellenskitchen.com/recipebox/m... (neatloaf)
http://www.fatfreevegan.com/holiday/holi... (holiday lentil loaf)
http://www.boutell.com/vegetarian/nut-ro... (holiday cashew loaf with gravy)
http://www.johnrussell.name/recipes/than... (holiday lentil loaf with parsley gravy)
http://vegbox-recipes.co.uk/recipes/nut-... (classic nut loaf)
http://www.fatfreevegan.com/beans2/1254.... (adobo bean loaf)
http://www.fatfreevegan.com/meat_subs/le... (lentil rice loaf)
http://www.vegan-food.net/category/nut/... (several nutloaf recipes)
http://www.boutell.com/vegetarian/gravy.... (vegan gravy)
http://www.boutell.com/vegetarian/stock.... (vegan soup stock for vegan gravy)
http://www.vegparadise.com/news18.html... (northern bean and veggie loaf)
http://www.angelfire.com/oh4/ysearc/lent... (lentil tomato loaf )
http://www.veganrepresent.com/forums/arc... (thread about above lentil tomato loaf)
Fyi, dairy is vegetarian but not vegan, and fruit is both vegan and vegetarian. You don't have to eat *just* vegetables, hehe, nuts and grains and such are fine, too. Bread should be fine, but whether you would eat bread or not depends on three things:
One, whether you are okay with consuming eggs or not. Two, whether the bread has egg or egg whites as an ingredient. Many store brand breads are egg-free, I've found out. And third, how detailed you are in looking through ingredients.
Some vegetarians try to figure out where the sodium stearoyl lactate, mono and diglycerides, "natural flavors" or other random chemicals are coming from (as the above usually comes from plants, but could come from animal sources), and some just take it in good faith that if the rest of the food is from vegetable matter, the chemicals and flavors probably are too. If that's too much for you to handle, don't stress it...better to make accidental slip-ups than frustrate yourself and give up vegetarianism altogether. Good luck!
granted i'm not a vegan any more, but i spent years as one. if you're looking to be simply vegetarian, then almost all of it is common sense, with a few exceptions (things like gelatin). if you're looking to be a vegan, then, like the person above said, it comes down to reading labels. there are a few things that can be quite misleading about food processing. for example, many "soy" cheeses have casein or sodium caseinate in them, a milk derivative. or sodium stereol lactylate. or whey. i actually had a very hard time finding truly vegan bread at a normal grocery store.
however, you can always go to any co-op or collectively run local market, or a natural food store, as those places usually have the best selection of specially made vegan food. and some larger grocery stores now have sections devoted to organic and vegan food.
and while i'm not fond of them for anything else (or since i went back to eating meat, even for this), PETA does have an abundance of resources on exactly what is and isn't vegan, as well as wealth of recipes.
Vegan is define " A person who uses no animal product in there diet" be it meat, eggs, milk, or any other thing that has come from or has been made from an animal.
Vegetarian in its boardest sense is having a diet that does not have any meat or fish in it, but you can eat milk, eggs cheese, anything that does not involve directly killing the animal to make or process it.