What do you eat when your vegan, vegetarian????

Question

i have been a vegetarian for only a couple of weeks and have still been drinking milk, eating cheese & fish. i have been reading up on it and have decided to cut out cheese and fish and milk also. i was wondering what other vegans, vegetarians eat in replace of that and anything else i should consider taking out or putting into my diet?

Answer 1

well eat nice and yummy carrots and well try eating soup and fruits they make your tummy nice and smooth!!!!  

Answer 2

Heres a website where you can get everything you need and find all the food. http://michaelbluejay.com/veg/eat.html

Answer 3

To replace milk and cheese I have soy milk and soy cheese.  I never ate a lot of fish, but I'd imagine you'd just have mock meat or something to replace it.  You can always learn some new vegan recipes using tofu as well.

Answer 4

fruits, vegetables, tofu, soy products just to name a few.

Answer 5

Things like legumes, spinach, tofu and nuts are high in iron so try to eat some of those.

The main thing is to get a varied, colourful diet.

Do you eat eggs? you could consider taking them out too if you want. If you want to know more type in battery hens into google, and watch this video. (It's one of the saddest things I've ever seen)

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=PaT7Um1GDz...

Answer 6

Eat a varied diet and try to include fresh fruit, green vegetables, peas and beans and wholemeal produce - all good sources of vitamins and minerals (as well as fibre!)



Vitamins are easily destroyed by cooking so whenever you can, eat raw foods. Use as little water as possible when boiling vegetables (to avoid losing water soluble vitamins B and C). Cook vegetables for as short a time as possible. Steam or stir fry vegetables if you can instead of boiling them - this helps to preserve water soluble vitamins. Prepare food quickly and try not to keep it hot or reheat it - this can destroy vitamins. Keep milk covered because sunlight destroys some B vitamins.



Vitamins are often stored just underneath the skin in fruit and vegetables so eat them in their skins: don't peel them!



Eat plenty of nuts and seeds - these contain a variety of vitamins and minerals and make good nutritious snacks.



Throw out aluminium saucepans (aluminium is a potential poison which can cause brain damage) and use iron ones which can add useful quantities of iron to cooked food.



Dairy produce is a good source of some vitamins and minerals but skimmed or semi-skimmed milk and low fat cheeses contain as much calcium and vitamin B as full cream milk and cheese (though they contain less vitamin A and vitamin D because these vitamins are fat soluble).



You can get supplies of iron by eating dark green, leafy vegetables, nuts, pulses, sunflower and pumpkin seeds, dried fruits, pulses, sunflower seeds, almonds (and other nuts).



Vitamin B12 is available in foods of animal origin or in fortified soya milk, breakfast cereak and yeast extract.



Zinc is available in seeds, almonds, pulses and dark green vegetables.

Answer 7

Look at the food pyramid: meat and dairy are only two cubes on it.

Here's some suggestions:

Breakfast: cereal with soymilk (or rice milk), oatmeal, vegan waffles, pancakes, fruit, bagels, bread

Snacks: fruits and vegetables are best, crackers, popcorn, chips, soy ice cream, soy yogurt, soy cheese

Lunch: sandwiches, wraps (w/ veggies and vegan bread or tortilla)

lunch and/or dinner:

Some that I like: lentil soup, vegetable soup, Veggie burger with fries or vegetables, pasta and pasta sauce, macaroni, cheese(less) pizza, tofu with vegetables, rice dishes, rice pilaf, baked potato, baked sweet potato, salad, rice and beans, refried beans with nachos, burrito or taco with beans and vegetables, meat analogues (fake chicken, fake sausages and schnitzels), chili non carne (mix w/ soy protein), any type of vegetables, sweet and sour tofu, noodles, split pea soup, corn on the cob, etc.

You can try some vegetarian asian and indian dishes when you want to get adventurous with it, oh yeah and I really like falafels w/ hummus and falafel wraps- those are good, just if you get it somewhere get it without the mayo sauce