Since I stopped eating fish (the last type of meat I would eat) I am trying very hard to eat vegan. I am not going to kid myself, I am not telling people I am vegan b/c I know I am going to slip up somewhere. Until I get more comfortable with the whole vegetarian thing I'm just trying my hardest to eat vegan. Yesterday I went out to a pizza place for lunch with my mom. I asked for half of the pizza to be made without cheese. Roasted veggie pizza and three mushroom pizza. It was pretty good, my mom of course thought it was weird that I asked for no cheese on my half and the waitress looked puzzled and asked "You don't like cheese?". Then for dinner I met some friends for burritos at this place called Neato Burrito. I used to work there and know that it is a very big thing for them to cook all their food in a certain way because they have a lot of vegetarians and vegans as customers. So when they asked if I wanted cheese or sour cream on my burrito I just said no. Simple as that. Anyone have any tips? I'm trying to read all ingredient lists, is there anything that might be hiding under a name I wouldn't recognize? I learned the other day about caesin (sp?) and know about rennet, but I am sure that there are more things that I don't know about.
Whey is another one. My mom once said to me that I'd eventually go back to eating normal. Well that was the summer of 1976. Still ain't happened.
lol "eating normal." as if corpses are a cracking idea. uhh.. things that cuagt me... oh, recently I donated a case of instant Thai soup because the big package I get from the same company is vegan, but the nukerowave ramen size had shrimp paste. Moral: read labels in store.
I did check them out, thanks. I will take a more in depth look at them to make sure I am still on the right track. I guess what I was really looking to find out is what foods-more what ingredients in foods that may be hiding- are not vegan or vegetarian friendly, like that caesin (sp?) which you told me about with the rice cheeses and obviously rennet which I just found out about a month or two ago. Things that you wouldn't really think about that are there in foods. And now I see whey is one of them too, although I figured because of curds and whey. I did find a list of common ones on a website somewhere, but I forget where I found that.
I have learned to make sure to do that, I've found some geletin in things I never thought it would be in!
http://www.cyberparent.com/eat/hiddenanimalsinfood.htm The above link is a huge list of most of the names to look out for if you're veggie or vegan. I've studied the whole thing! Hope it helps
