Is anyone on these boards a vegan?

[JudgeDredd]

Vegetarian - is Am. Indian word for "Bad Hunter"

The name for gluten and sugar free is compost.

If God wanted us to be Vegetarian He would have made broccoli fun to shoot.

Have you shot broccoli? Seeing it's little green florets fly all over the place with a well placed 5.56 is pretty cool.

[Daroc]

Actually shooting things and watching them fly into lil bits is it's own fun.

[Sir Slash]

If cows were made of Broccoli, there would be no hamburgers.

[Boggit]

Yes, JD I eat fruit also but love a late night snack while laughing at Grog-Humor and a cold glass of milk. Thus, Sugar-less snacks.

I'm diabetic too. Check out ALDI who do a good range of sugar free sweets, including sherbets. They are some of the best sugar free sweets I have tasted and are at around 2-12 calories each depending on what you choose. That all said, I also keep a bag of ordinary sweets in the car to make sure my blood sugar isn't low when I drive!

[Boggit]

Well done JD. I like my veg, but I also like all the other things that would get in the way of me being vegetarian, and more so vegan.

I really respect what you're doing, and am very impressed at your self control. With my love of a bacon, or sausage sarnie, I don't think I'd have your self discipline.

Good luck with it. O0

[JudgeDredd]

So I've been a vegan now for 10 weeks or so and...

Well first off I can probably say this with a degree of certainty - I doubt very much I'd be vegan if my wife wasn't looking after me from a food perspective. I'd probably be vegetarian but probably not vegan.

My meals in general are fine. I'm finding vegan things for lunch and if I find myself in a pinch, there's always soup. Breakfast is normally beans on toast - but that's not much of a change from when I wasn't a vegan...that was pretty much my breakfast. The difference obviously is not using alot of butter (I used to have ALOT of butter on my toast (well - everything))

I fell very, very healthy. I feel very fit and my cycling has improved considerably...I'm doing alot more riding than I have done in previous years.

I've never eaten so much fruit and veg and to top all that off, I'm 15lbs lighter  O0

So far - all good and I see no reason for me to abandon what I'm doing.  O0

[Gusington]

How's the fartin'?

[JudgeDredd]

How's the fartin'?

Calmed down - thank god.

[Gusington]

Success!

[JudgeDredd]

The first question lots of people ask is "So, what do you eat?" - I should mention I would also ask that question.

Well consider it answered...

Beetroot, radish, orange pepper, spinach, tomato and Piri Piri Houmous. It was delicious. Very fresh and full of taste.  O0

[Staggerwing]

Looks good.

You should get some tempeh and let it marinade overnight in something used for meat or chicken, then fry/grill/bake it up and use it in place of meat on your sandwich.

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/articles/575-what-is-tempeh

[Hofstadter]

I'd love to use tempeh but it's so expensive. Woolies has it, 300 grams from 7 bucks. Get bent

[Staggerwing]

Yeah, it is a little pricey but you wouldn't have it every day, just occasionally. Here in my supermarket it runs about $3-4 per 8 oz packet.

[JudgeDredd]

I haven't heard of Tempeh. I'm not too keen on the texture of Tofu so stay away from it really.

[mirth]

What have you tried for fake meat products? There are some good ones available.