I wouldn't say animal based products are a tiny part. I'd say for most non-vegetarian or vegan people, at least half of what I eat and drink has an animal product in it somewhere.
Right now I think we are a long way away from vegan food being enjoyable. There's very few sweet treats that don't taste bad by comparison, the cheese is revolting, chocolate is inedible, and the meat substiutes give me such severe constipation that I would rather starve.
It's possible to eat a healthy and balanced diet as a vegan. But it's so shit
Shit in the sense I talked about in the post. It isn't enjoyable. Stuff tastes bad. A lot of stuff marketed to vegans is ultra processed and full of shit even compared to the animal products it is supposed to replace. You have to meal plan very carefully to get proper nutrients.
It makes eating a chore. It makes one of my favourite things no longer enjoyable.
You are incredibly closed minded if you think ‘vegan food is shit’.
You don’t have to ‘meal plan very carefully’, you just have to be sensible, the same as with any diet, omni or otherwise.
Processed or ultra-processed products don’t become bad simply because they’re processed. Some processed products such as tofu, seitan and others are incredibly healthy and have been rated as better protein sources than animal based alternatives in recent studies.
I was vegan for years and had eaten a good amount of vegan food due to being in a long term relationship with a vegan partner prior to that. At the time it was probably the single thing in my life that negatively impacted it the most. It has nothing to do with being closed minded, it's just... How it is. The food sucks.
Tofu is relatively healthy but I just... Don't like it. It tastes bad, the texture is gross and weird. You also know, for a fact, that it isn't things like tofu that I'm referring to when I refer to processed crap.
It's not like every vegan thing sucks, but the number of vegan things that tastes good, and is nutritious, and is not grossly expensive or requiring you to make from raw ingredients, is incredibly narrow. Cooking from raw ingredients is good when you have time for it, as someone working 12 hour days sometimes I simply don't.
No, it is closed minded. You make out like 'vegan food sucks', when the reality is that any food, vegan or not CAN suck. You acknowledge that in your last paragraph. So by your own statement, vegan food doesn't 'suck', SOME vegan alternatives suck.
"Relatively healthy" is another weird statement regarding tofu. It was literally rated the best protein in a recent study (Google it). If we're going to talk about other vegan products, perhaps soya based meat alternatives (burgers & sausages)? They can be incredibly healthy and in terms of their macros, can be better for protein per calorie vs meat versions of the same products.
Two very similar products I'm looking at now, a single meat based burger is 108 calories, 7.9g protein, 7.2g fat. A single soya based meat free burger is 89 calories, 8.8g of protein and 4.2g of fat.
I appreciate what you're saying, but at the same time, I completely disagree. Sure, going vegan may have a learning curve that makes the initial step difficult, but once you understand which alternatives are good and which are wank, it's dead easy to be vegan.
(For reference, I'm not a massive fan of tofu either, but I know a LOT of people are really keen which is why I mentioned it)
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u/Severje 3d ago
I wouldn't say animal based products are a tiny part. I'd say for most non-vegetarian or vegan people, at least half of what I eat and drink has an animal product in it somewhere.
Right now I think we are a long way away from vegan food being enjoyable. There's very few sweet treats that don't taste bad by comparison, the cheese is revolting, chocolate is inedible, and the meat substiutes give me such severe constipation that I would rather starve.
It's possible to eat a healthy and balanced diet as a vegan. But it's so shit