Quote:
Originally Posted by Head Creep
I went through that before. My mom decided to go vegan, so I indirectly became mostly vegan. Stay away from soy milk... it's nothing more than poorly flavored water as far as I'm concerned. But the tofu cheese is acceptable, nothing spectacular but not bad. All the essentials are fine outside of milk. Just buy your own milk and you should survive.
|
I've been vegan for a while. I think the better brands (maybe you had a bad one?) of soy milk are better than dairy milk. I find most of the vegan cheese products to be nearly unpalatable. Funny how people can have wildly different tastes.
Most people don't think of this, but the three great cuisines (chinese, indian, italian [and by great I mean nearly all modern cuisine is derived from them, I'm not making judgements about how tasty they are]) use far less meat than we commonly do in America. There are chinese and japanese buddhist cuisines which are nearly entirely vegan, as well as being older and better developed than american cuisine. Most vegetarians haven't been so their entire life and no exactly what they are missing. Most don't care.
BTW, I've never even seen the Heinz Vegetarian beans, I buy all my canned beans at Whole Foods though because the gf is allergic to EDTA which seems to be in all the non organic brands.
BTW Todd, I'm glad your wife is benefitting from the positive health aspects of the vegetarian diet. If she is looking for any cookbooks I highly recommend
Bryanna Clark Grogan's. Bryanna has a really good palate so the recipes aren't underseasoned or kinda weird like they can get in some vegetarian cookbooks. All of her books are vegan, the two ethnic ones are my favorites, most of the rest focus on low fat, but they have some of the best low fat recipes (vegan or not) I have ever had.