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(Please note, this isn't meant to be a debate about vegan/vegetariansim
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I have been vegetarian for almost seven years and the 'worst' I have lapsed is to eat pepperoni pizza after I took the pepperoni off once and Jello when I had the flu... so I am pretty good at that.
I am considering being vegan, although I'm not sure I could do it for life (I do plan on being vegetarian forever, meat does not even remotely appeal to me). Currently I do not drink milk or eat eggs, though I will use either as an ingredient. The biggest change would be cheese
I also don't think I could do the living vegan thing, as I'm on medicine that was tested on animals... anyway.
I guess what I'm aiming at is more of an unofficial vegan-type diet. Do people do that, like can you not eat eggs/milk/cheese except occasionally as an ingredient in, say, bread or something?
Do people have problems with this? I know vegetarians don't have much concern with diet (by which I mean, no more or less likely to have a vitamin deficiency or malnourishment or whatever than anyone else) but vegans can have these problems, what do you do to counteract that, specifically B vitamins, I think I am very susceptible to these and do the Emergen-C thing already.
Any suggestions? I am lucky enough to have a Sunflower Market closer than a normal grocery, so many things that are hard to find in some areas aren't so difficult here.
Oh, and I don't know if I could live without my Morningstar Farms... are they vegan?
I have been vegetarian for almost seven years and the 'worst' I have lapsed is to eat pepperoni pizza after I took the pepperoni off once and Jello when I had the flu... so I am pretty good at that.
I am considering being vegan, although I'm not sure I could do it for life (I do plan on being vegetarian forever, meat does not even remotely appeal to me). Currently I do not drink milk or eat eggs, though I will use either as an ingredient. The biggest change would be cheese
I guess what I'm aiming at is more of an unofficial vegan-type diet. Do people do that, like can you not eat eggs/milk/cheese except occasionally as an ingredient in, say, bread or something?
Do people have problems with this? I know vegetarians don't have much concern with diet (by which I mean, no more or less likely to have a vitamin deficiency or malnourishment or whatever than anyone else) but vegans can have these problems, what do you do to counteract that, specifically B vitamins, I think I am very susceptible to these and do the Emergen-C thing already.
Any suggestions? I am lucky enough to have a Sunflower Market closer than a normal grocery, so many things that are hard to find in some areas aren't so difficult here.
Oh, and I don't know if I could live without my Morningstar Farms... are they vegan?