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Last night I made us big green salads with tahini-miso dressing and air-fried tofu. My husband loved it and told me we could eat that way any time I wanted. I asked him, "So, does this mean if I just quietly go vegan and keep feeding you this way, you won't notice?" His response was "Yes." It's a thought. 🤔 I do most of the cooking and nearly all the grocery shopping, so he mostly eats what I fix for him, so I might be able to pull it off 😂
Been trying to ease dairy out of my life. Back to making soymilk yogurt. Not the same experience as dairy, but I'm getting used to it. Made the mistake of buying cottage cheese on impulse, so I'll knock that out after I'm off the antibiotics and don't have to focus so much on getting probiotics in me. Honestly, I feel better without dairy. I don't think I have any kind of intolerance, and I don't think a little of it would hurt me, but I'd rather work it out of my life. Cheese is a tough one to give up, though, and vegan cheeses tend to have all the nutritional downsides of the real stuff without the benefits. We shall see.
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If that is what you want you can get there! Does your husband snack? Some days I feel like mine gets all his food from the snack drawer. LOL
27 fev 24 por membro: liv001
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Snack? OMG, he runs through peanuts and cashews like water 😂 He doesn't eat sweets, and we don't keep chips and the like in the house. Honestly, we don't have much in the way of sweets, either. We really don't buy the processed, pre-packaged stuff most people think of as snack food. I have to pretty much stick real meals in front of him, but he pretty much eats whatever I feed him. He's in his mid-60s, skinny as a rail, fit, with ridiculously low cholesterol, so I I don't want to interfere too much. Feel blessed he's not a meat and potatoes kind of guy
27 fev 24 por membro: writingwyo
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Getting there is SO much easier with a cooperative spouse!
27 fev 24 por membro: writingwyo
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Yeah I am sure that is true. Mine is very tolerant but not exactly willing to eat my kind of healthy. I am working to be tolerant to his choices. ;)
27 fev 24 por membro: liv001
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The cheese thing is a tough one for sure. I haven’t ever tried vegan cheese but did try nutritional yeast a few years ago. Basically just sprinkled it on stuff. You are fortunate to have a husband who is so accommodating about food sources. I am working more tofu into meals now that I figured out how to prepare it. Shooting for one meal a week right now.
27 fev 24 por membro: honeebuns
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liv -- I doubt he'd ever give up the dairy, and I'm not going to demand he does. My only limit is that if he wants meat, he's going to have to handle it, just because I'm grossed out by it. I can deal with canned fish, but that's about it. He's grossed out by handling it, too, so I don't think he'll want me to get it for him
27 fev 24 por membro: writingwyo
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honeebuns -- I have some recipes for vegan cheeses that I like and are pretty healthy, so I make those. I have one based on cannelini beans and jarred, roasted red peppers that's reminiscent of cheese whiz and goes great on macaroni when I'm craving mac and cheese. The hard cheese substitutes, though, rely on palm and coconut oils and are devoid of the protein you find in real cheese. I've eaten them, and they're not bad, but since I try to avoid saturated fat, I limit consumption
27 fev 24 por membro: writingwyo
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WE use nutritional yeast but really don't cull any kind of foods.
27 fev 24 por membro: -MorticiaAddams
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I used to be that way, Morticia. I was the person who'd have a block of tofu next to a package of steak in the grocery cart. Just in the last couple of years, more and more, I've wanted to get away from animal products.
27 fev 24 por membro: writingwyo
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I definitely eat meat but I'm with you on the dairy. It just messes with my stomach too much. I can tolerate small ants of parm and feta and Greek yogurt once in awhile but that's it.
I too feel much better if I stay away
27 fev 24 por membro: Diana 1234
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Your husband reminds me of mine, who eats my meatless dinners with curiosity. Today’s dinner: bulgur and mung bean salad with garlicky pan-fried tofu on the side. He liked it. Feeling blessed with this acceptance of my WOE but I don’t want to push my luck too far. The family is on board for two vegetarian dinners per week, plus a fish dinner plus a soup dinner (with some stock or broth so not entirely vegetarian), so that leaves 3 out of 7 dinners with actual servings of meat. Pushing to make those dinners to be mostly poultry, with only one, if any, being red meat (per week). It’s not always as precise as this plan, but it looks doable, so far, with no sign of active rebellion yet! 😀
27 fev 24 por membro: Agnes Z
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Love it. I am happy almost no rice and pasta while eating less meat. I still eat some meat, jsut not as much as in the past. It is mostly a cost thing for me. Good luck!
27 fev 24 por membro: unity1234
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When I was married, we had the same side dishes, but he had an additional animal protein, if he was motivated enough to cook it. Mostly we ate out at nice restaurants for dinner, leaving the cooking to the experts. I've eaten separate meals for so long (since age 16) that it feels weird for me to eat the same thing as someone else.
27 fev 24 por membro: JustBananas
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Diana -- I've never had stomach upset with dairy, but I just overall feel better when I minimize it
27 fev 24 por membro: writingwyo
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Agnes -- it sounds like you're doing a great job of working with everyone so that you all eat healthier. Kudos! 😃
27 fev 24 por membro: writingwyo
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Unity -- my husband first went vegetarian in his 20s for financial reasons. I lived mostly on rice and lentils in college for the same reason. I do love my rice and pasta. If I don't get some carbs, I feel like I haven't eaten 😂
27 fev 24 por membro: writingwyo
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JB -- when I was still eating meat, I was always the one to deal with it because he was grossed out by handling it. So even though he's more than welcome to fix himself some, I doubt he'll do it.
27 fev 24 por membro: writingwyo
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