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Quoting Mr. Diabolos:" What about fish? Eggs? Look into things within the Mediterranean diet. Hummus is awesome. Greek yogurt is high in protein."

i love hummus! i forgot about that !

but i cant eat yogurt, even though i love it, and ill never try anything that was in water, and eggs remind me of a uterus.   i have issues my friend, issues. lol

This is the diet I follow. It's a little more strict than veganism.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/493826-a-strict-jain-diet/

Quoting khigh:" This is the diet I follow. It's a little more strict than veganism. http://www.livestrong.com/article/493826-a-strict-jain-diet/"

Do you follow all of it? that is very interesting..

Quoting Mary.:" Do you follow all of it? that is very interesting.. "

Yep. No root vegetables, no eating at night, no alcohol, I fast on Fridays. I do drink goat milk because it is my goat at my grandparent's place and I know how they are treated.

Quoting khigh:" Yep. No root vegetables, no eating at night, no alcohol, I fast on Fridays. I do drink goat milk because it is my goat at my grandpayrent's place and I know how they are treated. "

so you are telling me that while pregnant you do not have to cook!?


maybe i was a Jain in a past life cause i never wear shoes and cooking makes me happy.

Quoting Mary.:" so you are telling me that while pregnant you do not have to cook!? maybe i was a Jain in a past life cause i never wear shoes and cooking makes me happy. "

I wasn't as orthodox when I was pregnant, but I don't cook during my period and Jain women don't cook during pregnancy (I'm orthodox Hindu, but follow a Jain diet because it causes harm to none). I also don't store food over night and if we are having yogurt that day, I make it that morning. I make all of the bread we are going to eat that day in the morning (mainly naan).

Quoting khigh:" I wasn't as orthodox when I was pregnant, but I don't cook during my period and Jain women don't cook ... [snip!] ... yogurt that day, I make it that morning. I make all of the bread we are going to eat that day in the morning (mainly naan). "

wow thats really neat!

Id love to get to the point where i make all our own breads.. what time do you have to wake up to do that all?

Quoting Mary.:" wow thats really neat! Id love to get to the point where i make all our own breads.. what time do you have to wake up to do that all?"

I wake up at 5AM to make some food, take a bath, and do puja at sunrise (puja is ritualistic prayer). Then, I get DD up and off to school and then cook when I get home from dropping her off.

Quoting khigh:" I wake up at 5AM to make some food, take a bath, and do puja at sunrise (puja is ritualistic prayer). Then, I get DD up and off to school and then cook when I get home from dropping her off."

If you have any easy bread recipes, naan, if its easy cause i do buy that for my hummus id appreciate it.

My goal to become a habit this year is to wake up at 530 am, and cook breakfast, and thats the stove top so id like to make bread then too.  

My fave vegan food recipe blogs are little house of veggies, the veggie full kitchen, and vegan pandamonium, and the picky eater

I don't know anything about vegan food but I myself don't like a lot of beans but have been trying to put more vegetables into my diet. I have been mixing helpings of different vegetables in with rice

Quoting Mary.:" This is going to be so very very hard for me. Im not sure if i can even do it Im so picky with my food ... [snip!] ... of some animal derived item... The list of food i will not try and hate is to infinity and beyond. is this possible for me?"

Look for Almond cheese or Cashew chese. Almond seems a little more rubbery, but I have found some decent cashew cheeses around town. I do use soy sour cream (tofutti or something like that) but I will warn you it tastes NASTY unless you mix it with other spices or foods. I like to make a black bean dip with the sour cream and some salsa. Doesn't taste too terrible. :-)


I like almond products WAY more than soy products.

Also, I've become addicted to humus since going vegan.

I had to switch to non-dairy a few months ago, it hasn't been so bad but it took some research to actually find foods that don't suck. Good luck. If it's any consolation, I lost almost all of my baby weight after switching to non-dairy.

<blockquote><b>Quoting ♥ darah ♥:</b>" Look for Almond cheese or Cashew chese. Almond seems a little more rubbery, but I have found some ... [snip!] ... foods that don't suck. Good luck. If it's any consolation, I lost almost all of my baby weight after switching to non-dairy."</blockquote>




I've had carrots and a few pretzels today, and in starving... but I have gone shopping for vegan foods so I'm hoping I'll be good. Lots of salad and fruit and hummus in my future.

I decided about 10 yrs ago that I wanted to be vegan.. it lasted about 2 days and I figured out almost everything has eggs, milk, cheese

and that I loved cheese and couldn't do without

so I went vegetarian instead and have been since

maybe post on petas FB page and ask for recipes or tips I'm sure they'll help!

oh and morningstar and boca makes some vegan foods