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It has 15 different types of beans in it and it can be bought pre packaged. 15 different beans!

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[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 6 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

The first week of vegan is brutal. But it gets better.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 11 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

I've been like this for months. I'm miserable. I'm a vegetarian because I hate animals. I have high blood pressure so I cut out animal fat and booze.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Interesting. I'm vegetarian because I love animals

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 17 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I’m a vegetarian because I hate animals

If you hate animals, I don't think you're doing this right.

[–] MisterNeon@lemmy.world 11 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Nope I know what I'm doing. Animals are made of blood and guts which I find gross. They're also annoying. I don't want them to be a part of me.

[–] robocall@lemmy.world 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Animals are made of blood and guts which I find gross. They're also annoying.

Wait until you hear about the most annoying animal of all, humans!! Nobody's supposed to eat those!

[–] clif@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Don't let the establishment tell you what to not eat. Follow your wanderlust.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 4 points 11 hours ago

Cook mushrooms in rice or beans. Add wallnuts. Supposedly walnut and no other but has shown to help lower blood pressure.

[–] gilokee@lemmy.world 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

not really. Especially if you have access to vegan chick'n nuggies and corn dogs and junk.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 11 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

The moment you stop eating meat you'll notice just how hard society wants you to chew on dead animals. Your friends, your family, the TV commercials, the radio. They never talk about a juicy mushroom taco. It just Burger this and pork that everywhere you go. That's what I mean by brutal. And its always an inconvenience for the cook to not add dead animal or smear your food with animal milk products.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

I was on a work crew once when I was vegan. We cut trees and all rode to the locations in the same work van. One day we stopped for Ice Cream at a really popular place before calling it the day. Yay on the clock shenanigans, boo, it's ice cream. They asked if I was cool with it, and of course I said I didnt mind, and just waited in the van.

I almost cried when my supervisor brought me out a slushy. I didn't know they had them. It was very kind of my supervisor. No one ever made fun of me, but it was definitely obvious to everyone in day to day talk/life I had the dietary restriction.

It was also very surprising to me, how many chips use milk powder. I had a few kettle cooked salt and vinegar chips before reading the bag, and was shocked ... Why? The pain.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Milk was the hardest to give up but also the cruelest of products because to get milk you have to starve baby calfs. But oat milk and soy milk seem great. Soy if you want big boobs. Costco has several brands of both.

[–] Plum@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

No, plants do not like to be irrigated with any kind of milk. Plus I wouldn't suggest to eat plants if I was a plant.... I know, its what a vegan plant would say if asked if it was a vegan plant...

[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Smear? What milk products are you thinking of? What came to my mind was cheese (which you could call metan tofu, I suppose...), but I would usually expect cheese to be sprinkled, not smeared.

[–] bigfondue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] elephantium@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Oh, yeah, that does make sense. I'm not sure why my brain went up the garden path on that one.

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Even when I'm not a practicing vegan, I dislike cream cheese and sour cream. I cant order many things just because if you ask them to leave it off, you might not only get a look for it, but they may just put it on there anyway.

I threw a crunch wrap (black bean with cheese and jalapeno) out the window about ten years ago. Not my finest moment, but fuck sour cream, I was starving and it just ruined everything. Aye.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 1 points 1 hour ago

LOL, practicing. My boss calls me vegan flex because I'll eat stuff without looking at the contents.

But you know, veganism is just a self control thing. Like capital punishment. We don't allow it but every now and then someone in Texas just has to go do their thing on the electric seating arrangement. There's little we can do sometimes. Veganism is a self control decision not to eat products or allow the torture and murdering of animals. So I can stop tomorrow if I decided to do that. It's not a better than thou thing. Its not a religion or a club. We don't high five each other. Its just an understanding that if you eat that burger, a happy cow with life a dreams will be murdered to replace it....and the burger contains the dismembered parts of a cow after it was murdered and tortured. So its a decision.

[–] gilokee@lemmy.world 6 points 12 hours ago

I was a vegan in the US and now I'm a vegetarian in Japan. Trust me, I know lol.

[–] dickalan@lemmy.world 4 points 13 hours ago

I love mushroom derived flavors, but eating actual mushrooms, it’s always about texture never the taste