Vegeterians without soy?

Question

I'm curious if anyone eats a meatless diet that does *not* use soy products (at least often). What other options are there besides soy?

Answer 1

Go through a store at the veggie aisle and see how many things there are there.  Any veggie, as well as fruits and nuts have no soy but are still within the veggie diet.  Also if you add the legumes, you have all that for your protein which is much better than any dead animal type of protein.  Even better yet, grow all kinds of veggies and you can go out to your garden and have your meal there as it should be.  Just don't use any pesticides on your food and you will be fine. I used to do it all the time and had very few problems with any bugs.  If you do your garden organically, you don't have to worry about it as there will be no poisons on your food.  Some will have to be rinsed off like carrots, radishes, turnips and such but you can eat a meal right there in the garden and no soy products at all.  If you eat much soy things, it can be just as bad as meat products, almost.  You can get too much protein and that is not good for you either.  Eat all the veggies, fresh as you can get them, fruits the same way and then some nuts and maybe some legumes and you have a good balanced meal plan.  Just like in the garden of Eden and after till the flood and God introduced the meat into the diet so man would not live near as long from that day forward.  No meat before that and people were very healthy and lived hundreds of years but after the meat the longevity was drastically reduced and that with just the clean meats.  No, it is not a Jewish thing as Noah was not Jewish and he knew all about the clean and unclean meats.  Everybody did then as only the clean animals could be used in the sacrificial system.  Going on the ark there was the clean by sevens and the unclean was two by two.  Check it out for yourself and you will see.  Gen. 7.  Another thing you may want to try is gluten.  It is made from plain flour and processed to make what looks and tastes like meat but isn't.  May want to get a vegetarian cookbook to see how to do that or someone that knows how already to show you.  I may do the soy once in a couple of months or more but do it very seldom.  Too expensive anyway and I can grow things that cost nothing but some good exercise and a bit of water.

Answer 2

That would be really easy to do... you could really make anything that would be a common soy product from scratch, for example;

Soymilk...almond milk

Tofu...white bean patties

soynutbutter...almond butter

soybean oil...olive oil

soycheese...almond cheese

But, I must ask, please, why are you avoiding soy?  *Whole* soy products are really full of phytonutrients like isoflavones and genistein which protect cells against cancer.  Soy is also certainly very *alkalizing*, meaning it regulates the pH of the body.

Answer 3

I know this isn't necessarily healthy, but I eat a normal diet, with a lot of cheese and skim milk.

  If you mean vegan, there are many plant alternatives, like fungi fillets (way better than they sound), flax seed whisked with water for egg substitutes, nuts, beans, seeds and such.

  If you merely cook new food, rather than trying to replicate the old food with less palatable substitutes, the switch would be much easier, I can guarantee.  Many vegetarians/vegans are allergic to soy.  Step into a health food store and ask, and you will be flooded with possibilities.

Salsa, guac, chili, curries, hummus, baba ganoush, quinoa, rice and beans, and rice cakes are monstrously helpful at keeping me healthy and feeling undeprived.

Take multivitamins with all of the b vitamins (B6, B12, Folic acid, niacin, thiamin, riboflavin, biotin, pantothenic acid, and vitamin c) and calcium in them you need for the day.

It's not going to be cheap.

Good luck!!

Answer 4

I *mostly* steer clear of soy. My intake's restricted to occasional splashes of soy sauce and as an additive in processed snack food. I don't eat tofu, or soy "meats" or drink soy "milk". I'm ovo-lacto-vegetarian so I don't need to worry so much about protein, especially when also eating lots of cereals, lentils + beans!