Comments on: 365 Days Of Vegan Eating

By: Lane

Lane — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:31:40 +0000

Autumn — Jane wanted me to mention that she notices when we eat a lot of pasta the scale creeps back up a bit.

By: Lane

Lane — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:31:02 +0000

Hi Autumn,
Wow, you’re the first person we’ve heard say that. Although I’m sure you’re not the only one. For us, our meals tend to be lower in fat and calories than they were before we went vegan. We attribute that to the weight loss.
Congrats on the weight loss.

By: Autumn

Autumn — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 04:22:13 +0000

I gained quite a bit of weight when I was a vegan for a couple of years. I ate very healthy too, no chips or sncaky things. I think it was all of those carbs. So back to vegatarianism for me. Eggs, yogurt and lowfat cheese are back for now. I have lost all of the weight except for 7 pounds.

By: We’re Vegans, Not Superheroes

We’re Vegans, Not Superheroes — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:51:56 +0000

[...] at Vegan Bits recently wrote about the vegan transformation that occurred within him and his partner, Jane: “When we decided we were going to eat vegan, [...]

By: Lane

Lane — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 04:57:54 +0000

Hi Sparrow,
Actually, yes, we do like the TVP, but the only time we’ve ever eaten it is smothered in tomato based sauces. I don’t know if you prepare them all the same way, but the kind we’ve bought you have to soak in boiling water for awhile, until it’s absorbed. Jane’s tried it plain and says you wouldn’t want to eat it like that.

By: Sparrow

Sparrow — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:48:49 +0000

Did you guys like the TVP? I’ve never liked it . . though I admit that the last time I cooked with TVP was back in the late 1980s and it may have changed a lot since then. I thought it tasted kind of like cat food (or at least what I remembered cat food tasting like from when I was a pre-schooler and tried eating it.)

By: Lane

Lane — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 04:59:12 +0000

Hi Sparrow,
The millet chili sounds interesting. Before we were vegan Jane used to make our chili with ground turkey. No one could ever tell. I think the spices make the meat indistinguishable.
We’ve used TVP since going vegan to give us the texture of meat, but haven’t tried it on omni’s to test their reaction. But mostly, Jane makes a multi-bean chili… and we love the way it tastes.

Hi Jennifer,
Thanks. Yes, it’s been a good year for us. We both feel like we accomplished something worthwhile. (Jane says hi too.)

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:33:14 +0000

Congratulations on what sounds like a great year! I enjoy your blog and seeing Jane in the DB forums. Thanks for posting!

By: Sparrow

Sparrow — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:11:25 +0000

re: analogs

I made some millet chili last night and almost laughed when I looked at the end product because it looked like a bunch of ground beef in my chili. It doesn’t taste like beef (it tastes *much* better, thankyouverymuch) and the nutrient profile is totally different (not sure how much protein is in millet without looking it up), but it was just amusing to see what it looked like. The millet took on the colors of the spices (mostly brown) and has that crumbly look like the very tiny crumbles of food-service beef.

I wonder if I put a bowl of this on the table in front of someone if they’d look at it and think it was beef chili.

re: shopping

I’m only shopping for two of us as well. It occurs to me that I don’t go weekly, though. More like monthly. So that probably explains the time thing. (I sometimes bicycle over for more produce but usually get it at the co-op and the farmer’s market between full grocery trips. It’s an eight-mile round trip so I usually only cycle over for produce when I can’t find anything good on my side of town.)

When I go to the grocery, I’m getting stuff out of pretty much every bulk bin – black eyed peas, chickpeas, millet, quinoa, black beans, pinto beans, etc. etc. etc. – and often pounds of each. The cart is really hard to push by the time I’m done. Just the weight of the cart is probably slowing me down. LOL

By: Lane

Lane — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:42:51 +0000

Hi Dot,
Happy Anniversary to you too (tomorrow). Earthlings probably cemented our conviction to remain vegan forever. And yes, the first few weeks/months everything seems deliberate. But in a very short time, being vegan becomes your natural m/o.

Hi Sparrow,
I’m not sure if it’s the grocery store, or our intolerance for shopping. Plus we’re only buying food for 2 and most of our weekly food comes from our farmers market anyway. So that certainly cuts down on the length of time we need to spend at the store.

Hi Tempyra,
Thanks. It’s been a relatively easy accomplishment.

Hi Kate,
Thanks. Ideally, others can learn from our experiences and know that it’s not such a struggle… and they, in turn, will try the vegan path for themselves.

Hi Gary,
You’re correct, it’s not about heroics. As far as we’re concerned it is the ethically correct answer. However, people have to get to that place on their own (we can encourage them, but if they don’t embrace it themselves…) What we hope to convey is that there may be a few hurdles, but it’s a relatively easy change to make.

Hi Natasha,
Thanks for stopping by. Re the analogs, we’ve been spending a lot of time with quinoa and chickpeas lately… and loving them.
Make sure to tweet about what you find at your feet. I’ve noticed that’s where they tend to keep the bags of dried beans for very little money!

Hi Kate,
Congratulations on your 3 months. I think the 3 month period was when we really started to get comfortable. There were still issues, but we had easy fall-backs, and had started to get comfortable in restaurants.

Hi Elaine,
Thank you.

Hi Alma & QuarryGirl,
Thank you very much for the kind words.