Everyone should try going vegan. You don’t have to stay a vegan forever. You don’t have to preach to others. You don’t have to do it for animal welfare or the environment or anything other than you.
I have tried and vegan its tough. Vegetarian was easier, pescitarian I liked better. Ultimately I can’t give up meat because it makes it so much cheaper and easier to meal prep higher protein meals. My job is labor intensive and I work 9 hours a day as a minimum! But all the power to those that can do it! One thing however that has changed my life for the better is adding more vegetables to my diet!! I don’t care what diet your on you probably don’t have enough vegetables in it veggies are the shit weather you want meat with them or not!
there is a fad of supplements. Supplements are important for certain conditions and life styles(?) for sure. But they’ve been over sold I think as a dietary supplement to be normalized. I grew up with the education thinking they are the necessity. Like part of nutrition and regular diet.
It is not a necessity with the right food tho.
I had found Supplements became unnecessary when I implemented food balance in meals (always more veggies, fruit and beans) and looked up how much exactly is in different types of food and measure it. Logging is pretty important to train the habit though. Used to have no idea if I had been doing the right levels. Just took multivitamins and thought I was good. Now I just keep a bottle of calcium and vitamin d around if after I checked my levels and found I didn’t get enough during the day. Most stuff is already supplemented via the diet. Like all the a b c k vitamins and several minerals. If im doing beans, fruit and veggies every day these shouldn’t be necessary to take in pill form.
(But also alcohol can starve the brain of vit b and cause a brain condition) so I’m scarce on that stuff.
Having said that I still found if doing a whole bunch of overtime and not eating healthy or regularly, or have had oral surgery or oral injury: supplements/adding to blended smoothies are probably necessary for those times.
Going vegan is tough, because you have to relearn everything you know about food. A “normal” meal has a (high-carb/low-protein)+(low-carb+high-protein) pattern, let’s say meat and potatoes. With that template, you absolutely can not just swap out meat and replace it with something vegetarian. No vegetable- or fungus-based food, no matter how processed, comes close in terms of protein content to meat.
You essentially need to change the entire template. That means you’re also replacing your high-carb/low-protein foods with more “medium” foods like lentils.
That’s the best advice I can give, and you absolutely do not have to go all in. Replace a small portion of your rice with some green lentils. Replace a small portion of your meat with kidney beans. Goes a long way.
Bro lentils and rice is some gas, and whenever I have white rice I make it with quinoa as well (just cook them together) to add something more substantial. I suppose ultimately I just like a lot of meat too, id eat more fish than other meats if it was cheaper. But preference is the main reason I’m not vegan. I do occasionally have vegan meals, one of my best buds is vegan so when I host or were gonna chef up dinner in the trail I’ll pack vegan stuff! Eating more veg past few years and sleeping more regularly has made me feel much more energetic. Gotta give ur body the right fuel!
Yeah due to my parents i used to eat meat daily, and not little! And the meat they buy that was cheapest of the cheap!
I am mostly vegetarian, eating meat only once a week and not much but then also the good one!
We are made to mostly eat vegtables, nuts and fruits!
Plus its lots cheaper
Edit: Only reason why once a week meat is for my bf who wants it and because i really need more low effort seasonal vegie recepies
Everyone should try going vegan. You don’t have to stay a vegan forever. You don’t have to preach to others. You don’t have to do it for animal welfare or the environment or anything other than you.
But you should try it. For you.
Yeah, i see how it forces you to really learn to cook well.
I have tried and vegan its tough. Vegetarian was easier, pescitarian I liked better. Ultimately I can’t give up meat because it makes it so much cheaper and easier to meal prep higher protein meals. My job is labor intensive and I work 9 hours a day as a minimum! But all the power to those that can do it! One thing however that has changed my life for the better is adding more vegetables to my diet!! I don’t care what diet your on you probably don’t have enough vegetables in it veggies are the shit weather you want meat with them or not!
Isn’t that the truth.
there is a fad of supplements. Supplements are important for certain conditions and life styles(?) for sure. But they’ve been over sold I think as a dietary supplement to be normalized. I grew up with the education thinking they are the necessity. Like part of nutrition and regular diet.
It is not a necessity with the right food tho.
I had found Supplements became unnecessary when I implemented food balance in meals (always more veggies, fruit and beans) and looked up how much exactly is in different types of food and measure it. Logging is pretty important to train the habit though. Used to have no idea if I had been doing the right levels. Just took multivitamins and thought I was good. Now I just keep a bottle of calcium and vitamin d around if after I checked my levels and found I didn’t get enough during the day. Most stuff is already supplemented via the diet. Like all the a b c k vitamins and several minerals. If im doing beans, fruit and veggies every day these shouldn’t be necessary to take in pill form.
(But also alcohol can starve the brain of vit b and cause a brain condition) so I’m scarce on that stuff.
Having said that I still found if doing a whole bunch of overtime and not eating healthy or regularly, or have had oral surgery or oral injury: supplements/adding to blended smoothies are probably necessary for those times.
Going vegan is tough, because you have to relearn everything you know about food. A “normal” meal has a (high-carb/low-protein)+(low-carb+high-protein) pattern, let’s say meat and potatoes. With that template, you absolutely can not just swap out meat and replace it with something vegetarian. No vegetable- or fungus-based food, no matter how processed, comes close in terms of protein content to meat.
You essentially need to change the entire template. That means you’re also replacing your high-carb/low-protein foods with more “medium” foods like lentils.
That’s the best advice I can give, and you absolutely do not have to go all in. Replace a small portion of your rice with some green lentils. Replace a small portion of your meat with kidney beans. Goes a long way.
Bro lentils and rice is some gas, and whenever I have white rice I make it with quinoa as well (just cook them together) to add something more substantial. I suppose ultimately I just like a lot of meat too, id eat more fish than other meats if it was cheaper. But preference is the main reason I’m not vegan. I do occasionally have vegan meals, one of my best buds is vegan so when I host or were gonna chef up dinner in the trail I’ll pack vegan stuff! Eating more veg past few years and sleeping more regularly has made me feel much more energetic. Gotta give ur body the right fuel!
I replaced meats with soy proteins and beans. It was fairly 1:1. Not a vegan diet but pretty easy depending on what’s available in your area.
I should learn how to make that cashew cheese…
Yeah due to my parents i used to eat meat daily, and not little! And the meat they buy that was cheapest of the cheap!
I am mostly vegetarian, eating meat only once a week and not much but then also the good one! We are made to mostly eat vegtables, nuts and fruits! Plus its lots cheaper
Edit: Only reason why once a week meat is for my bf who wants it and because i really need more low effort seasonal vegie recepies