TLDR: I am looking for more diverse non-meat options than your average restaurant or supermarket provides. Because they don’t quite work for me as well as I’d like.
I am not a picky eater, I enjoy vegan food and non-vegan food alike. I’ve noticed most “vegan” advertised products are just meat imitations that taste like seasoned cardboard.
Too darn often do I see cooks and stores trying to replace the visuals of meat, rather than finding something that tastes satisfying in it’s own way. I’d be eating more vegan food if the options available had a similar convenience and filled me up properly.
Which may sound stupid, but I’ve tried going vegan and I did not feel great. I guess beans and tofu are not for me. Now I realise I may sound like an uninformed dingus who doesn’t know how to find decent ingredients and recipes… That’s because I am.
But I would really like to find some options that work for me. And I’m fine with trying 20 things over the course of a month and deciding only a few work for me.
Does anyone here have any advice?
Nutrition and weight management go hand in hand. “Calories mean nothing unless you aren’t getting enough” is dangerous misinformation.
Eating nothing but vegetables means you are not getting enough calories and that requires you to add calories and other nutrition sources to your diet. Some people think being a ‘vegetarian’ or vegan is only about consuming vegetables. If you learn about proper Nutrition, you don’t need to count calories, they mean nothing. That’s my point. Weight loss is about Nutrition and Movement, you do not need to count calories if you learn about and do those two things regularly.