One way to get started with a vegan diet is to turn your favorite non-vegan foods into vegan ones by making simple substitutions. This isn’t necessarily the healthiest way to go vegan, but it’s a convenient way to get the animal ingredients out of your diet. Once you’ve been eating vegan for a while, you can make further improvements from there.
Finding Vegan Replacements – If you’re very new to eating vegan, you could start by learning about the vegan replacements for your favorite foods. Just search on “vegan ___” where ___ is the name of a food you’re used to eating. This will help you discover vegan versions of those foods and/or what vegans eat instead of those foods. So you’d learn to eat a veggie burger instead of a cow burger. Ice …show more content…
Today there are many recipe apps too. I don’t think these are necessary though, unless you’re into gourmet cooking or need lots of reference material. There are so many free vegan recipes to be found online with simple searching. I have many old vegan cookbooks, but I rarely use them. Using Google is faster and more flexible. Let the Internet be your cookbook. I like to use an iPad for searching and referencing recipes whenever I need to look something up, like a vegan omelette recipe or zucchini …show more content…
When I first began eating vegan in the 1990s, I found the vegan cheeses to be terrible all around; the texture was awful, and the taste was worse. Today’s situation is totally different — there are now some excellent vegan cheeses. My favorite vegan cheese is Daiya, which comes in a variety of flavors (cheddar, mozzarella, pepper jack), melts well, and is getting easier and easier to find. It’s also gluten-free. Whole Foods can even make you a take-out pizza with Daiya cheese (just ask for vegan cheese on the pizza), and they sell Daiya-based vegan pizza slices at their pizza counter too. Vegan cheese can still be pretty high in fat, but if you like the taste and texture of cheese, vegan cheese is an easy substitute, especially if you like
Finding Vegan Replacements – If you’re very new to eating vegan, you could start by learning about the vegan replacements for your favorite foods. Just search on “vegan ___” where ___ is the name of a food you’re used to eating. This will help you discover vegan versions of those foods and/or what vegans eat instead of those foods. So you’d learn to eat a veggie burger instead of a cow burger. Ice …show more content…
Today there are many recipe apps too. I don’t think these are necessary though, unless you’re into gourmet cooking or need lots of reference material. There are so many free vegan recipes to be found online with simple searching. I have many old vegan cookbooks, but I rarely use them. Using Google is faster and more flexible. Let the Internet be your cookbook. I like to use an iPad for searching and referencing recipes whenever I need to look something up, like a vegan omelette recipe or zucchini …show more content…
When I first began eating vegan in the 1990s, I found the vegan cheeses to be terrible all around; the texture was awful, and the taste was worse. Today’s situation is totally different — there are now some excellent vegan cheeses. My favorite vegan cheese is Daiya, which comes in a variety of flavors (cheddar, mozzarella, pepper jack), melts well, and is getting easier and easier to find. It’s also gluten-free. Whole Foods can even make you a take-out pizza with Daiya cheese (just ask for vegan cheese on the pizza), and they sell Daiya-based vegan pizza slices at their pizza counter too. Vegan cheese can still be pretty high in fat, but if you like the taste and texture of cheese, vegan cheese is an easy substitute, especially if you like