- Joined
- May 7, 2017
- Reaction score
- 1
- Age
- 20
- Lifestyle
- Vegetarian
so I'm a young vegetarian, and recently with my discovery of PETA and the fact my friend is a few month old vegan, I'm looking into it. I've recently realized egg chickens are treated no less but equally as bad as meat chickens. As well as the whole babies taken from mother cow situation.
I'm fairly smart and I get enraged thinking about animal cruelty, so I thought, " I'll go vegan" which I new would be no easier, probably even harder, than going vegetarian the previous year.
I'd assumed I'd get support like I did going vegetarian from my parents. I was wrong.
They think;
A) I'll get ill or get malnutrition because it's happened to people we know.
B) vegan cooking is impossible and that they won't feed me vegan meals.
C) I don't eat great anyway. ( which is untrue. I eat healthy and whole meals in my lunches and eat healthy meals they cooked for dinner)
Despite having to cook my own meals I still came up with a plan.
Meal planning.
On Sundays I'd bus over to whole foods ( the main vegan grocery supplier here ) with my debit card ( containing my weekly grocery allowance) and buy stuff for my meals.
I'd make dinner for the week until next Sunday, and that would be that. Lunch and breakfast would be easy. ( toast , cereal, sandwiches, hummus, etc..)
They still are extremely worried about my health. So I made myself a vegan book. It's a notebook that I filled with vegan iron sources, protein sources, egg substitutes, required supplements and lastly: recipes.
That's going well but I still don't know what to do.
They seem to be warming to the idea but, any tips?
Also sorry, I just wrote a whole essay.. :/
I'm fairly smart and I get enraged thinking about animal cruelty, so I thought, " I'll go vegan" which I new would be no easier, probably even harder, than going vegetarian the previous year.
I'd assumed I'd get support like I did going vegetarian from my parents. I was wrong.
They think;
A) I'll get ill or get malnutrition because it's happened to people we know.
B) vegan cooking is impossible and that they won't feed me vegan meals.
C) I don't eat great anyway. ( which is untrue. I eat healthy and whole meals in my lunches and eat healthy meals they cooked for dinner)
Despite having to cook my own meals I still came up with a plan.
Meal planning.
On Sundays I'd bus over to whole foods ( the main vegan grocery supplier here ) with my debit card ( containing my weekly grocery allowance) and buy stuff for my meals.
I'd make dinner for the week until next Sunday, and that would be that. Lunch and breakfast would be easy. ( toast , cereal, sandwiches, hummus, etc..)
They still are extremely worried about my health. So I made myself a vegan book. It's a notebook that I filled with vegan iron sources, protein sources, egg substitutes, required supplements and lastly: recipes.
That's going well but I still don't know what to do.
They seem to be warming to the idea but, any tips?
Also sorry, I just wrote a whole essay.. :/