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Plant Muncher
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I started eating a plant-based diet beginning 2017 and I have to say that there have been some challenges but for the most part I am loving the entire change. My wife has been a vegetarian for most of our 37 years together but I have always loved both vegetarian food and animal food products and I do the cooking in the house. My wife's friends told her that they are jealous that she is married to a vegan cook. I didn't see that coming.
I have trouble calling myself a vegan, although it is an accurate description, I like the description plant-based diet better because it ends all question from anyone that asks me about my food intake. It is just much more simple to say that if it comes from an animal, I don't eat it, and if it comes from a plant, I eat as much of it as I want to.
I am not a purist in that if I order black beans in a Mexican restaurant and forget to say no cheese or even if I say no cheese and the beans come sprinkled with cheese anyway, I simply scrape off the cheese best I can. I used to be a huge milk drinker. Like a gallon in 2-3 days wasn't uncommon. I don't miss milk, I don't miss meat, I don't miss eggs, I don't miss fish or sea food. I MISS CHEESE.
I have tried plenty of dairy-free cheeses but they really don't melt well, taste all that good, or are very satisfying on pizzas and other foods and certainly not on crackers. I can do without cakes and cookies and bacon and butter but I wish that I could find a tasty cheese alternative. I tried Sizzle Pie in Eugene Oregon and they seem to have a reasonable substitute for cheese. I highly suggest eating there if you are in town. They have like 12 varieties of vegan pizza slices on any given day.
Has anyone found a genuinely good substitute for dairy-based cheese? You would be my personal hero.
On the positive side, I have already lost about 35 lbs. as my body finds it's natural size. I am never hungry or starving and even the clothes I bought after I started losing weight are getting too big for me. Weight loss wasn't my reason for changing to a plant-based diet but it is a nice bonus.
Thanks for listening to my confessions. I feel better now.
I have trouble calling myself a vegan, although it is an accurate description, I like the description plant-based diet better because it ends all question from anyone that asks me about my food intake. It is just much more simple to say that if it comes from an animal, I don't eat it, and if it comes from a plant, I eat as much of it as I want to.
I am not a purist in that if I order black beans in a Mexican restaurant and forget to say no cheese or even if I say no cheese and the beans come sprinkled with cheese anyway, I simply scrape off the cheese best I can. I used to be a huge milk drinker. Like a gallon in 2-3 days wasn't uncommon. I don't miss milk, I don't miss meat, I don't miss eggs, I don't miss fish or sea food. I MISS CHEESE.
I have tried plenty of dairy-free cheeses but they really don't melt well, taste all that good, or are very satisfying on pizzas and other foods and certainly not on crackers. I can do without cakes and cookies and bacon and butter but I wish that I could find a tasty cheese alternative. I tried Sizzle Pie in Eugene Oregon and they seem to have a reasonable substitute for cheese. I highly suggest eating there if you are in town. They have like 12 varieties of vegan pizza slices on any given day.
Has anyone found a genuinely good substitute for dairy-based cheese? You would be my personal hero.
On the positive side, I have already lost about 35 lbs. as my body finds it's natural size. I am never hungry or starving and even the clothes I bought after I started losing weight are getting too big for me. Weight loss wasn't my reason for changing to a plant-based diet but it is a nice bonus.
Thanks for listening to my confessions. I feel better now.