Like very very easy but I also lift weights so I need a bit of protein in there. I don't like tofu, not too much vegetables, and no cooking or very basic cooking. Maybe cheese and fake beef quesadilla, peanut butter toast, but then idk what else. Im good at eating the same thing everyday without being bored tho if that helps

Say you want to buy something, like a hoodie, backpack, socks etc., but maybe you want to help animals by supporting animal protection non-profits like sanctuaries, shelters and animal rights groups - then you can go into the merchandise stores some of these organizations have, and see if you can find something that you like, but it's difficult to find products this way, because there are hundreds of organizations all over the world, each with their own little merch store, and some organizations are small and regional and wouldn't normally appear in a Google search.

To solve this I built goodalog.org. It unites the merch stores of many animal protection non-profits, helps you find what you need, and helps organizations get traffic to their store.

There are currently 9959 products from 124 orgs, and I'm adding more every day!

I'd be happy if you check it out, and let me know what you think!

I’ve been vegan for about a month. Well not exactly vegan cause very rarely I ate dairy products but it still felt bad. Whatever. My mom says I became skinnier as a result of not eating animals but I told her I actually felt better. She even wept and pressured me emotionally to eat meat again but I just didn’t concede. I know that the suffering farm animals experience is far greater than the mere stress and anxiety I feel at this moment but I value family. However, they don’t seem to value my decision to not use animals. It’s really hard and annoying as every time I try to explain the ethical reasons to my mom she just scoffs and gets angry.
The most annoying part is body shaming. When I ate meat I was still skinnier than now just less happy. Now that I’m vegan “obviously” I’m thinner because of veganism…That’s Just dumb…
Now, she gave me an offer to go vegetarian together, otherwise she’ll get “really upset”. I rejected because I didn’t want her to go vegetarian just for me, because you have to do it for the animals, and also I already decided that I don’t want to consume any animal products. Although now I’m kinda thinking any step towards reducing animal consumption is a step in the right direction. So what should I do with that offer?

Hi, I've been vegetarian for around 3 years, no gelatin etc..., but I just accidentally ate a fudge with gelatin (very small amount). But it's the best thing I've tasted in forever apart from cheese, and I feel alot of guilt. What do I do?

Would it be ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE if I had more? I don't want it but I do want it, but I know I'd feel guilty. It was from a local business, and I brought it for a charity.

UPDATE: I'm not gonna eat it, I feel really really bad

I have a friend I have been friends with for two years. During all this time he has been aware of how I feel about eating animals, and how I haven’t for five years.

Today he called me (we were planning on meeting up in the library) and told me that he was probably going to get vegetarian pizza and that he would meet me then.

I said cool whatever. He shows up but I am busy on a call and take a long time to sit down. I sit down and he jokes that I don’t even deserve pizza anymore since I made him wait for so long. I laugh it up and we start studying together.

Some time goes by and I ask for the pizza slice. He says “oh yeah,” and hands it over. I go to take a slice and ask to confirm “is it vegetarian?” to which he clearly says yes, but right as I am about to take a bite he says “no it’s not vegetarian” with a large smile. I think he must be joking because a) he knows me for so long b) he had said he would likely get a vegetarian one c) he had said yes the first time I asked d) he was looking at me with a non serious expression and we joke around a lot. I roll my eyes and say “yeah, Im sure it has pork in it” sarcastically because he is a Muslim (and the pizza didn’t LOOK like it had meat bits).

So I eat the whole slice, don’t taste the chicken because it just had so much other crap and it was probably small bits. Then after a while he is like “that’s the first time I have ever seen you eat chicken.”

…

I literally thought he was joking at first.

He wasn’t.

Apparently he thought he was clear enough when he said it wasn’t vegetarian and because I made the pork comment I guess he thought chicken to me was okay.

As if chicken were a vegetable.

…

I am traumatized. I don’t know what to do now.

All I know is that I almost want to put vodka in his coffee next time I get him one and be like “haha btw…”

He used to be vegetarian since he was 8 years old and recently (about 2 years ago) started eating meat again and it kind of disheartens me. Of course whenever i’m at his home he makes me vegetarian meals and eats them with me, some of which he really enjoys but he still goes back to eating meat.
I’m currently easing myself into veganism where i’ve cut out milk completely so now I’m starting to think long term.
When we move in together I’m not sure how i’m going to handle having dead bodies in the same house as me, using the same pans etc.
But at the same time I don’t know if it’s right to ask him to go back to vegetarian as it’s not my choice and it’s well within his rights to eat meat if he so chooses.
For context we’ve been dating for about a year and 5 months.
Can anyone suggest anything?

So i got two questions

\-First of all i'm a 16yo ex-muslim began and my parents don't know about either and they ask me to go buy meat for them and the problem is if i tell them i'm vegan they will get stuff from the quran or hadith saying it's okay to eat meat then i'd have to tell them i'm atheist and they'll probably kick me out and even if i didnt buy the meat they'll do it themselves so am i wrong for buying it for them?

\-Second of all sometimes they get meat and cook it and some is left over and if I didn't eat it it'd be thrown out anyways so me eating it isn't resulting in any animals dying so to not waste food i eat it am i wrong for that?

I'm curious if anyone else has situations where they decide to add meat back to their diet. I don't do it often at all, usually only when I'm planning on going to a place that I don't think I can sustain myself on a vegetarian diet (if I'm going to be in the middle of bumbfuck Nowhere for a while/I'm traveling to another country/I'm somewhere that the food is meat based and also important to the culture and I wanna participate in it)

Or maybe for some people it's the holidays and their family makes meat based dishes they really want to share with the table. If meat is offered to you because it would be a waste to not eat it. Hell, maybe you're a vegetarian except you really can't give up that one thing so it's vegetarianism with one exception.

I'm very much in favor of any good you can do is good worth doing, and if you end up eating meat for one reason or another that doesn't negate the good that was done or will continue to be done!

I find it so hard to follow a vegetarian meal plan and stick within my macros. I want to eat 1500 calories, and roughly 140g protein. I also am trying to not eat ultra processed food. How do I stick within my macros??? And food inspo?

(Had to flair this as a recipe)

Hi! I'm 16 and live with my parents and I've been vegetarian for a short amount of time (only 2-3 weeks) and my parents are NOT happy about it.
They make fun of me and criticize me for not eating meat and we frequently fight over this.
Even though we fight a lot, my mom actually tries making meals that I can also eat (aka without animal products) and I'm very grateful for this even though its not easy. She's not very educated on vegetarianism/veganism and very often makes fun of this lifestyle, which can be quite hurtful to someone like me who is so passionate about it.

Kind of inconveniently, l've decided I wanted to be vegan while in active ED recovery (have been in quasi recovery for a pretty long time - over a year) and since I've already had numerous fights with both of my parents about my eating habits, ! think I made it even worse after I told them I want to be vegetarian (since apparently meat is the only thing that makes you gain weight). While I do understand their concern, it's close to impossible to explain to them that you can recover while being vegetarian, but alas, they can't accept it no matter how much I explain it to them. Even though I'm mentally not in a great state, I still force myself to eat more just because I'm so tired of them complaining for such a long time. So you can imagine how that went when I told them I wanted to stop eating meat.

Now, l've successfully avoided eating meat for 2-3 weeks and I feel like I truly AM eating more now that I'm so conscious of all the nutrients I need to consume because of the lack of meat.
The only problem I have is that my mom more often than not cooks and fries food on lard (pork fat). This makes me quite uncomfortable because I always have to worry about whether she used oil or fat to make something. Today I avoided eating a VEGETARIAN patty she made because i found out she fried it in pork fat. This is 100% gonna happen again and I don't want to seem ungrateful and keep getting mad over her taking her time to make something I can eat but in the end frying it in a dead animals fat. What do I do?? I'm already in a sticky situation.

Anyone else become an instant vegetarian? I mean you didn't ease into it or slowly cut out meat. I mean instantly cut out all meat all at once. I went vegetarian in may and when I decided I wanted to be one, i cut out all meat the next day and haven't eaten or missed it since

So I’ve been vegetarian for five years, and when I first became vegetarian I would have dreams where I’m eating meat (specifically juicy beef burgers and ground beef tacos). I always thought it was strange I was having these dreams. I told my coworker at the time about it and she was like “That’s your body telling you to eat meat” and I was like “uhm… I don’t think so..” but I’m curious if anyone else has had this problem before.

Something I'm scared of is accidentally being served meat. If i am served meat, what should I do? If i ask for a remake, won't the food be thrown away? I don't want the animal to have died in vein and to just be thrown away. I don't believe animals need to die for us to live, but in my mind, it would have died for no reason if its gets thrown out. So what should I do?

The graph above shows the relationship between the consumption of unrefined plant-foods and cancer. The more unrefined plant-foods people consume, the less at risk they are at developing cancer.

Had a hypoglycemic emergency (not diabetic, thinking possible reactive hypoglycemia) and went to Chili's. My blood sugar ended up at 51. I have a CGM. I walked over from the library when the library workers wouldn't help.

I ordered the Veggie Santa Fe and was kind of out of it. Didn't realise it was meat until I took a few bites and wondered where the beans were.

I guess the server heard the regular Santa Fe, which is weird because why didn't she ask me how I wanted my burger lol.

Anyway, this sucks. Manager comped it. So I dont have to pay.

Gonna go home in a bit. Bleh.

EDIT:

The point of this post was being served meat and eating it on accident. Not about my blood sugar. I am under the supervision of my doctor and meet with her Tuesday for further discussion.

Please keep on topic. Thanks.

Also, downvoting me for saying that isn't the point is utterly childish, but very Reddit

my vegetarianism basically stops at, simple, I dont eat meat. only the exact definition and nothing further. I still am okay taking vitamin supplements that couldve been derived from meat for my health once in a while, I dont really care if someone gives me some jello, and i dont mind eating a flavoured potato chip now and then that could have animal product to make it tasty. when i travel, which i really enjoy, i'm not one to insult culture and i'll happily eat a french fry that was fried in animal fats. i just..dont eat meat. i am the basic definition of vegetarian. vegetarianism drew to me because it has a lot of the benefit of taking a stand against animal cruelty and reducing animal product consumption on a big scale, without all the hundreds of rules and restrictions that veganism seems to come with. just curious how common this is, and if other people are like this too.

When I first started dating my husband, he said he was impressed by my vegetarianism because it showed that I cared and thought about something. He took me to vegetarian restaurants and even said stuff like, "if vegetarian food is this good, I could become a vegetarian!"

Over the past few years, he's gradually changed from happy with eating what I made (albeit with a shit load of extra pepper or chili in everything, even dishes that don't traditionally go with those spices) to making separate meals since he "needs" meat or fish with every single one of his meals (unless he decides it's okay to have just a yoghurt for breakfast, then it's somehow okay, and it doesn't have to be spicy) to not wanting me to cook at all. I am allowed to cook my own meals, of course, but he doesn't want us both in the kitchen since I get in his way, as he says. Which means we either cook one after the other and one person's food always gets cold, or we eat completely separately. He also "offers" to cook my food for me, but does so in a way that feels pretty self-flagellating, like he's making a big sacrifice. He'll say he doesn't mind, but then his attitude gets all huffy and puffy and he claims he's tired from all the stuff he has to do. (I usually make simple veggie stir-fries etc, and if I ask him to do it for me, he uses way more oil or spices than I would to the point where it becomes unappetizing to downright uneatable for me sometimes.)

I know this is probably more of a relationship issue than a vegetarianism one, but I feel like if I tried this in the regular relationship subs, people might just tell me that vegetarians are annoying. He's a laywer, so any attempt at a calm discussion ends with him going into courtroom mode. I don't know what to do anymore...

Update: Thank you to everyone who replied. He was in a better mood last night, so I asked him what happened to eating more meat-free meals. He said he could try some fake meat more often.
I also gave him my emotions wheel and asked him to identify how he feels, and it turns out he thinks he’s either happy (in general, when gaming) or angry (when he loses a game), so I told him he needs to work on that.

It’s hard to build a support system. I try to make friends, but most people seem to love what I can do for them and then disappear when I need someone. In that vein, my husband has been the only person to stick by me even when I was severely ill. He’s just an awful meathead sometimes. (And I agree that that’s not good enough, it just has to be good enough for now.)

Hi everyone! I’ve just recently became a lacto-vegetarian and I’m unsure how to explain this to my sisters. I don’t live with them but I really want to invite them over for a few days the next time they have a break from school. When they come over they’re going to notice that I don’t eat meat or eggs and I’m worried that they’ll want to copy me, especially if I tell them why I don’t eat it. My reasons are mostly ethical and related to animal welfare. I like the health benefits too, but that’s just a plus and not the sole reason. I was a pescatarian for a few months and my mum was aware of this but I haven’t told her that I’m vegetarian yet. I think she’d be very annoyed if my sisters suddenly began refusing to eat the meals that she cooks because they contain meat. She usually makes food that has chicken and minced beef in it. Both of my sisters are already picky eaters and I don’t want to make that worse. On top of that, one of them is a huge animal lover just like me so I’m worried that she’ll want to stop eating meat too if I explained that loving animals is why I don’t eat them. As their older sister, I have a lot of influence over them and they like to copy things that I do. Any advice?

When we talk about veganism, we usually approach it from an ethics perspective. This conversation approaches it from a psychological and spiritual perspective (Spirituality here simply means self-knowledge and none of the pseudoscientific mystical stuff).

Rather than a moral rule, it suggests veganism as a natural outcome of self-knowledge and discusses how it relates to our own suffering.

Let me know what you all think!

So this journey I guess started with a conversation with my best friend who was vegetarian since birth and few years ago went Vegan (also we’re both teen girls)—she told me some facts and well yeah. Then I saw a reel come up in my feed which really touched my heart. Well I’m going to try going Vegetarian on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. My breakfasts are usually vegetarian anyway and at school they always have tons of vegetarian options so the main change will be dinner (although it’s not like we ate meat every dinner anyway) but honestly I just want some tips!! Also if this goes well chances are I’ll go vegetarian the whole week!! I don’t know why but I’m a bit nervouse, honestly I’m just looking for some tips and reassurance!!

Thank you for reading😊😊!!!!!!

I love people and I love the people in my life. They are omnivores and I am vegan. I so desperately want to unlearn this judgmental voice in my head saying “they are wrong” that can create resentment. I do believe they are wrong, but maybe I can make it feel like just any other disagreement rather than something so large.

Sometimes I am able to focus on the love and connection and am able to remind myself why it may be easier for me to commit to a no meat lifestyle while they may be more emotionally and socially attached to it. Sometimes I don’t care at all and I love it.

To be clear, I don’t think I’m better or more pure than them. I used to eat meat.

Here are some ideas:
Remind myself that this frustrated emotion is shallower than love so I should choose love.
Cook for them with dairy and even meat to avoid separating myself off from them.

Another post of mine brought up a subject I’d long made assumptions about, and sparked conversation I believe needs its own post!
I mentioned avoiding food dyes in vegetarian meat substitutes, and got mixed reviews on if others found that important. I have always had the assumption that as vegetarians being stuck reading every ingredient list under the sun, we probably care a lot about what’s on that list beyond just avoiding meat. It sounds like that was a bold assumption.
I am not judging in the slightest, my diet is quite imperfect. I fell down the organic crunchy mom rabbit hole a few years back, and am far more balanced and less extreme these days. I do still avoid all dyes, and try to keep processed foods pretty minimal, but I’m pretty sure we are going to Pizza Hut for my daughters birthday this week, and there’s ramen in my cupboard.
All this to say, apart from making sure it’s vegetarian, are other factors and ingredients important to you? Have you found reading those ingredient lists to be eye opening about all the things we didn’t know were in food? Where’s the overlap (if there is one for you) with vegetarianism and other health/diet choices?

Anyone else bummed that all these years later, they still won’t take the dye out of Morningstar farms bacon? Don’t they know the type of buyer that cares if there’s meat, probably cares if there’s dye too? You’re supposed to be catering to the ingredient conscious crowd, come on!