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Yeah but people will continue to be misinformed about dietary protein, and think eating fruits and vegetables is for wusses.
My dad is old and fat and is out of breath when he gets into a car. He eats cheap sometimes spoiled meat 3 times a day, everything he cooks is somehow the greasiest food i have ever seen.
I have a BMI of 21. I do an average of 18000 steps a day and mountain bike on the weekend.
Somehow he's embarrassed about my vegan diet and gives me tips on how to eat right and tells me that i'm godda die soon for the past 5 years.
I have many friends like that. Bro, i need that protein. You are overweight and you don't do any sports at all.
I dunno, i find it very odd.
Do you have any recipes you can share? I'm vegan, but I think I'm not eating a balanced diet
Learn how to cook tofu.
Try pressing it before cooking.
Try freezing it before cooking.
Try extra firm
Try silken
Try frying,
Try baking,
Try grilling.
Not everyone likes it the same way. But the beauty of it is: there’s no “wrong way” to do it.
Personally, I press the excess water out, rip it into chunks, little olive oil, little corn starch, and air fry it for 15 mins. Drown it in Buffalo sauce, wrap it up in a tortilla with lettuce tomato and pickle… my god.
I like quorn a lot for everything that i used chicken for. There are different brands, it's just the one i like the most. Some of it is vegetarian, some vegan as far as i know, but i have never seen the vegeterian ones. Beyond burgers are pretty good, there are a lot of different brands now, they vary in taste a bit. I really like beans a lot, especially red beans, and i usually just mix them in, but there are some great recipes around them, for me it's more like a lazy meal and i like them enough.
Chickpea i just blend with salt and pretty much whatever i feel like and use it as a spread. My favourite is chickpea, parsley, garlic, salt and olive oil. I also mix in olives or curry depending on what i feel like.
I really like ratatouille, you can make an easy trowitallinapanandcook it version or the tedious more presentable one that is way worth making in my opinion.
I'm not the biggest fan of tofu, because i'm not a fan of the consistency, but i sometimes throw it in a salad after i cooked it with some ginger.
Fake chicken nuggets and fake fishsticks are really good, at least the one they sell over here, although, i don't actually know how healthy they are.
Pea soup is one of my favourite things and it's also probably the easiest. For a base it's just peas, shallots, garlic and broth. For some extra zing, i kick in a bunch of parsley olive oil and lemon juice.
maybe not the healthiest, but these are some of my favorites https://quex.cc/c/recipes
From what I've seen its often just genuine ignorance. Thinking plants are entirely carbs, needing protein for muscle so of course you only get protein from animal muscle, and that old myth of incomplete proteins. Ill be honest I had the same assumption that something like a potato is entirely carbs
Fruits and vegetables are (mostly) delicious.
So is a bacon cheeseburger.
People don't want to be vegan for a variety of issues.
My personal problem comes with things like not eating honey. Beekeepers keep bee populations healthy. Those bees pollinate the food vegans eat. But for some dumb ass reason vegans are against it.
I'm all for moving away from meat, but exclusion shouldn't be the focus. The majority of people will never convert to vegan diet, but we CAN get them to replace some of what they eat with vegetarian alternatives.
No one has told you to not eat honey
Telling people to go vegan generally includes not eating honey since it's an animal by-product, just like eggs, animal milk, or cheeses.
Now, if you want to tell them to eat a vegetarian diet, then yeah, honey, eggs, animal milk, cheese, etc, would all still be on the table.