I am quick to run my mouth off and if I don't like something, I will be direct, state my case and explain that X bothers me. This directness does not always go down well. It frequently dissolves into an argument. Even though I don't employ the passive aggressive tactic, I can totally see why some people do.

Is that the same as Seventh Day Adventists? I know they dig their vegan vittles too. :)

#itsnotaboutdenial :)

Ahaha you found one. I meant in the shopping list. I've eaten daal of course too ;)

Thank you! I am sick of the contention that veganism is for the privileged few of us in the 1st world - not so when half the planet eats vegan food every day without even thinking about it!! I am lucky to live in a country with many different ethnicities represented and so there is a veritable smorgasbord of delicious…

I use Cheezly for a grilled cheese sandwich or pizza but not often cus it's pretty pricey. I use the soy-based one and I find it pretty melty. It's not exactly the same, but it will definitely do for me. :)

A couple months ago Domnino's fucked up our order and put cheese on. We were in a hurry and knew they would just throw it away so we ate it. I thought I would relish this opportunity to get to eat cheese after all these years, but you know what? Cheese? Ain't all that. You just gets over it and it's never as "yummy"…

Whilst tofu will never be steak, I can make pretty convincing macaroni "cheese", spaghetti bolognese, and "lamb" curry and plenty of the things I liked before, and my non-vegan friends can enjoy them as well. I think that's a real selling point actually. The trick is to know what can be replaced and what can not, and…

Neither, and I don't speak from experience as it's not something I've tried. I don't think protein would be the problem per se, but many of the dairy free alternatives to things like ice cream and cheese are soy based. But you could drink almond milk and there is a potato based fake cheese. So what I'm saying is I…

I have been to Whole Foods one time when I was in the States. I spent like $11 on bulk curry. It was towards the end of my trip and I was running out of money. It was a very bad financial decision. Trader Joe's FTW.

Not that I'm suggesting you do it, but there are a lot of vegan health nuts who have jumped on the "soy is evil" train so many people do it without soy. I don't know HOW, but apparently they do.

It's funny, I've never thought of it in terms of self denial. Which is weird because I've never been on a diet of any kind and restricted myself that way because I hate that feeling so much! It seems like if it's "for the animals" it doesn't feel like self denial, but if it's just for me to fit into a smaller pair of…

Omnivores are the only ones that make it hard. It's easy at home, it's easy when I go to restaurants if I can choose the place. It's only difficult in social situations where it has to be a "thing". Otherwise, as they say in my part of the world, it's a piece of piss.

YUM. I go to a chinese restaurant that serves it up cold with green onions and something else wonderfully flavourful (probably similar to what you described). It is the bomb on a hot summer night!!

This was the example Peter Singer gave in Animal Liberation. It was like "Know how to make a peanut butter sandwich? Congratulations, you've already made a vegan meal!"

Yeah that's what I was going to say - depending on where you lived in the states you could be strictly vegan and have take-out every night. I live in New Zealand which prides itself on being a farming nation, so here it would be VERY hard to be vegan if you insisted on living on Goji berries and amaranth.

Haha yeah I do eat other things! But I was pretty much just describing my dinner from last night because it's the first thing I thought of. Thai red curry if you are interested. :)

Vegan for about 7 years. Never eaten any of the foods mentioned in this article. I wish people would realise it doesn't need to be a complicated diet full of "hip" foods. Try rice. Potatoes. Tofu. (Is tofu mainstream nowdays?)

True that.