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We must be honest, being vegan is not easy, and sometimes it looks as a perpetual quest.
We must be honest, being vegan is not easy, and sometimes it looks as a perpetual quest.


We can avoid meat, eggs, dairy products, and later, understand how [[sugar]] is produced, notice our favorite sweet thai basil pesto contains some eggs, or learn some E... food additiv is animal derived!
We can avoid meat, eggs, dairy products, even understand how [[sugar]] is produced, notice our favorite sweet thai basil pesto contains some [[egg]]s, or learn that some food additive (E number) is an animal-derived! But probably the most difficult part is the social pressure when our friends don't understand why we won't join them anymore to some restaurant, or our familly worrying about our [[nutritional deficiencies]], or our doctor explaining us that we need to eat meat because we've got the canine teeth.


The social pressure is important, our friends don't understand why we don't join them anymore to some restaurant, our familly is worrying about our [[nutritional deficiencies]], our doctor explains we NEED to eat meat because we got some canines.
There is even more to that. Sometimes we are just lazy and would just like to buy a frozen vegetarian [[pizza]] (with non-vegan cheese, because it is not easy to find one without a cheese or with a vegan one) and heat it in the microwave.


Sometimes we are lazy and would just like to buy a frozen [[pizza]] and heat it in the microwave.
But with time, we do get used to read food labels with a lot of attention, cook better than the the average professional cooks, create an educational dialog with our familly members on sugar or cholesterol related health issues, and, if we are courageous, show our doctor a picture of a lion - just to teach him how real canine teeth look like.


But with time, we'll get used to read food labels with a lot of attention, cook better than the chef of the restaurant, teach to our familly we don't have sugar or cholesterol problems, and, if we are courageous, show to our doctor a picture of a lion, to teach him what real canines are looking like.
And let's admit it, a microwave heaten pizza is really something disgusting.
 
And lets say it, a microwave heaten pizza is really something disgusting.


So how to stay vegan?
So how to stay vegan?


As for a lot of thing, the main path will be the pleasure!
Getting the pleasure out of being vegan in the easiest way possible might help vegans to stay on chosen path. Discovering each day new tastes - new vegetables and fruits, new recipes - can raise our vegan enthusiasm level to the unclimbable highs.
 
Discovering each day new taste, new vegetables, new fruits, with a bit experience, we'll even save time, cooking stuffed [[eggplants]] one day, and using the same filling in the following days for preparing another meal, discovering richess of cereals we'll even forget potatoes are existing!


With time we'll feel lighter, cleaner, better in our body, not smeared anymore, maybe lose weight, .
But the true strength lies in numbers. Meet other vegans, socialise with them via Facebook groups, etc. - once you know more of your kind, your self-confidence will become stronger. It takes lots of energy to protest against society traditions, but when there are many wariors, the protest becomes not a burden but fun.


And we wish that with this Vegan Wiki you will not feel alone anymore.
And we wish that with this Vegan Wiki you will not feel alone anymore.


Keep following your way!


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Revision as of 11:44, 15 March 2013

We must be honest, being vegan is not easy, and sometimes it looks as a perpetual quest.

We can avoid meat, eggs, dairy products, even understand how sugar is produced, notice our favorite sweet thai basil pesto contains some eggs, or learn that some food additive (E number) is an animal-derived! But probably the most difficult part is the social pressure when our friends don't understand why we won't join them anymore to some restaurant, or our familly worrying about our nutritional deficiencies, or our doctor explaining us that we need to eat meat because we've got the canine teeth.

There is even more to that. Sometimes we are just lazy and would just like to buy a frozen vegetarian pizza (with non-vegan cheese, because it is not easy to find one without a cheese or with a vegan one) and heat it in the microwave.

But with time, we do get used to read food labels with a lot of attention, cook better than the the average professional cooks, create an educational dialog with our familly members on sugar or cholesterol related health issues, and, if we are courageous, show our doctor a picture of a lion - just to teach him how real canine teeth look like.

And let's admit it, a microwave heaten pizza is really something disgusting.

So how to stay vegan?

Getting the pleasure out of being vegan in the easiest way possible might help vegans to stay on chosen path. Discovering each day new tastes - new vegetables and fruits, new recipes - can raise our vegan enthusiasm level to the unclimbable highs.

But the true strength lies in numbers. Meet other vegans, socialise with them via Facebook groups, etc. - once you know more of your kind, your self-confidence will become stronger. It takes lots of energy to protest against society traditions, but when there are many wariors, the protest becomes not a burden but fun.

And we wish that with this Vegan Wiki you will not feel alone anymore.