being vegetarian/vegan is more expensive when it comes to eating out in my experience, but homecooking you save so much food and prep time its so worth it monetarily

Glad to see this has taken off. Keep posting, I'm off for 3 weeks in the middle of nowhere! A bit of that time will be spent on a cattle station (not my choice), but I expect it'll be another learning curve. Will update the OP upon return. Lots of love

The only motivation you should need to stop eating Chicken is the fact those Chickens do not want to die tbh
Before I became a vegan the only vegetable I would touch was Peas. To ease myself in to eating them I would buy baby vegetables and coat them in gravy and/or mint sauce.
You can have lots of cruelty free meals - curries, vegan bolegnese, a roast dinner etc

Great thread!! Ive been vegetarian since 2013, became a vegan a few months ago But havent craved any dairy really, and i've managed to avoid cheese which is impressive considering I live in France

I seriously consider becoming vegetarian starting wih 2016. This thread is great, it should be bigger!

Question: Is soy milk bad for you or nah? I tried almond milk and it's pretty okay but more pricey than the soy milk.

I really like the idea of being vegetarian/ vegan but growing up with meat/ fish/ dairy products most of my craving/ favourite foods are thise things.

But, over Christmas I want to try vegetarian/ vegan food options more and I hope by this time next year I am vegetarian.

I tried going vegan and my stomach hated me for it

I'm a vegetarian, not sure if i could ever ditch dairy products (especially cheese ) and eggs. I might try at some point though.

Being a vegetarian is generally cheaper for me, when I got out to eat the vegetarian dishes are usually cheaper or they try to give you something extra to make up for the price difference (for example a lot of Mexican food places give me free guacamole if I order vegetarian dishes)

At home I am sure it is cheaper because I am Indian so I eat a lot of beans lentils, rice and roti (flat bread). So a lot of the rice, beans and flour we buy come in 10lb bags for $6-12 depending what we are buying and that can make a lot of food

I do want to try being vegan for a bit in the future though

My friend wants to become a raw vegan. It looks really insane. Should I try to stop him?

no, he'll be fine.

@ the first page

But interesting thread.

I wanted to know if you guys still used products and medicine tested on animals, or if you really went full vegan.

I've never been a major fan of vegetables either and I'm vegetarian too. Of course I get the "so what DO you eat?!" question off people a lot but really there are so many more foods. Pasta, chickpeas, couscous, tofu, quorn, rice, lentils for example. The only meat I really ate was turkey/chicken anyway when I wasn't a vegetarian so it didn't effect me at all and I've never missed meat once, I think it's disgusting. If you wanna try and eat vegetables, just try to include them in a dish; like vegetable lasagna/wellington/curry or whatever and you will barely even taste them.

Really? From my experience vegetarian food is much cheaper, anything including meat is always more expensive by a few pounds or so.