/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Okay, I'll take the bait

People around the world exist on a mostly vegetarian/vegan diet due to the cost of animal products. There are a bevy of grains (i.e. couscous, quinoa, farro, freekeh) and not to mention spices to compliment them. These along with vegetables I'm sure you probably sprint past in your haste to pick up the box of Velveeta mummy let you get for not shitting your pants on the ride over. There are tons of foods of recipes online as well that'll give you an idea of what typical vegan meals look like. Vegans are pretty incessant so you won't have a hard time finding some dickweeds vegan blog.

Also, since the bulk of grocery costs come from things like meat and dairy you'll be able to buy far more groceries than you normally would giving you plenty of room to experiment.

Source: common sense

>>14008286
are you vegan? what are some of your staple meals? do you suffer any ill health from the diet?

No suffering here. I ate more vegetables to begin with and started to develop an aversion to most kinds of meat so it was relatively easy to go cold turkey, and then a shit ton of substitutes for foods I missed after ditching animal products started appearing in stores (ice cream, mostly).
No matter what you’ll likely need to supplement vitamin B12, and probably D if you don’t spend much time outside.
Since you don’t eat much vegetables it’s probably best you gradually start adding more fruits, vegetables and legumes to your diet. Going from no veg to all veg would probably be terrible. Try some new recipes and stick to the ones you like at first, especially recipes that center around legumes since those are usually the main source of protein in a plant based diet.

>>14008259
>I want to go vegan for ethical reasons
Confirmed gay

>>14008259

Why not go vegetarian and get your dairy products from ethical sources if you want to be all ethical and shit but are used to eating a lot of dairy and eggs.

>>14008320
>dairy products from ethical sources

lol

>>14008301
I was for 8 years. 2 years ago I came to the conclusion that I'm not ethically opposed to killing animals so I saw no reason to continue. Seitan is an incredibly versatile food I'd recommend learning to use. I never felt any different while vegan, my skin actually got worse in terms of acne. When I began eating meat again there were a few periods where my stomach was upset but that was most likely due to high fat content of the foods I was eating.

>>14008320
ethically dairy is arguably worse to obtain than meat since it requires inseminating a cow repeatedly, separating and killing the offspring, and generally violating the animal until it has served its utility and dies. This is just a circumstance of dairy and the only way around this would be to own a cow and go through this process on a micro level.

>>14008259
>for ethical reasons
then drop the vegan act and just consume ethically. Learn to read labels and google some facts about the store or brand you're getting food from.

>>14008327
why is this lie still up

>>14008331
>just fall for marketing tricks like "pasture raised" and "free-range" bro

>>14008334
How is it false? Even Fairlife, a supposedly "ethical" dairy company had footage surface of the mistreatment of animals on their farms.

>>14008259
If you don't live in an apartment or some shit, get chickens for eggs. Considering you're trying to go vegan for ethical reasons, it can be safely assumed you won't cause them much suffering.

I went vegan at the start of this year, here's literally everything I've been eating

Actual food:
>red lentil stew with rice
>bean tortillas
>rice and beans
>pea soup
>tofu scramble
>TVP tacos

Breakfast food:
>soy yogurt with strawberries
>overnight oats with chia seeds and soy milk, topped with either applesauce or peanut butter
>bread topped with tofu scramble, or just margarine and pickles

Junk food:
>vegan subs
>falafel with hummus and fries
>frozen vegan pizzas
>vegan dark chocolate
>gelatin-free candy

Hope this helps

>>14008348
>pickles for breakfast
I'm sickened yet curious

>>14008348
Oh, almost forgot dairy free ice cream. It basically tastes like ordinary ice cream to me, but I'm not very picky about my food.

>>14008353
Pleb

>>14008286
>>14008322
A based non-bait response.
The world needs more people like you, sir.

>>14008259
You will have to support the totally ethical morally upstanding and environmentally friendly industry of pharmaceuticals and buy some supplements.

>>14008449
>implying he’s not already doing that indirectly

>>14008456
This is why I raise my own animals

>>14008468
And why other people opt to eat beans instead, you fat cat

>>14008478
Don't forget your multivitamin tiddlywinks

>Rice
A boring food; legumes and beans are outright better. More filling, higher nutritional content, and can be a centre piece for a dish

>>14008500
I won’t.

>>14008259
why not eat lower quality protein like insects if you want to go full soygoy?

Its not like farming doesn't kill animals. if you're okay with that as an ethical thing you could even go out hunting for pest animals that eat up gardens and things. rabbits, bears, boars, deer, freeze them up. These kinds of animals get killed anyway for invading and munching on human property, so there doesn't seem to be a moral arguement on the basis that a plant eater cant eat them.

Consider jews and their african slaves. the most money made off of them is not cotton but in fact sugar, which has a narrow harvesting region and made plenty of africans die. the campaign by other jews to end slavery and net their own low paid labor force for factories had an unbeatable campaign meme where they equated how much human flesh you where effectively consuming per ammount of sugar, which caused the value and demand to just drop like a stone.

If the moral behind that scathing criticism of the sugar industry appeals to you, you have to admit that any ammount of animal flesh harmed in the production of vegetables would have to be justified somehow.

>>14008531
THIS
True veganism lies upon the backbone of sustainability, anything else is false morality

>>14008531
That’s gross and pointless.

EAT THE FUCKING BUGS

>>14009177
you really don't need that much protien to not die from vitamin deficiencies as a vegan, so its not pointless. It's very much not a healthy lifestyle in 90% of cases, since most of the supplimentation is poison for you. But if you select your fats carefully you can live relatively well off a 95% plant based diet

>>14009215
>you really don't need that much protien to not die from vitamin deficiencies
I’ll do myself a favor and stop reading right there.

>>14008531
I don't eat mammals, fish, or chicken because that's unethical. I don't eat insects or molluscs because they're gross.

>ethical reasons

No such thing

>>14008327
>it requires inseminating a cow repeatedly separating and killing the offspring
No it doesn't, you only need to have it give birth once and then continue milking it as it won't stop if the body thinks it's still feeding a calf.

>>14009443
you arent like the batapeshit crazy typical vegan then

>>14008259
Vegetarian here: Why are you making this post on a board full of fat retards who only eat at McDonald's?

>>14008510
You can mix all those things together you know.

>>14011666
how about you have sex, sexy vegan?
https://youtu.be/eWSrfXIQhoM

>>14008259
>I want to go vegan for ethical reasons

>>14008259
If you see vegetables as categorically shitty, you're not going to thrive on any diet

>>14008348
Bean chili is definitely a staple for me. Works as-is or wrap it in a tortilla with guacamole, enjoy with red wine

>>14008259
>I want to go vegan for ethical reasons
why are you geh?

>>14011822
DUBS GBTFO

>>14011802
skimos and masai surely thrived

>>14011860
>life expectancy in the 50s even after thousands of years to adapt to their specific diet
They exist but they don't thrive by any means.

>>14011906
>risks such as large predators, bad climate, diseases/hygiene, and stuff like falling canoe and having like 50% of surviving (as a skimo, non natives is like 100% death assured) should be blamed on diet

>>14012130
What's the idea of them thriving based on then?

>>14011056
Even if you keep milking the cow milk production decreases to a fraction of the initial yield eventually unless you do what anon said.