VEGAN

Hi, hello. I'm vegan are you vegan or a vegetarian? If not, I still think yer awesome. What's your favorite food? Drink? Snack?

I'm not vegan anymore but I still like a nice salad from olive garden.

i like to eat vegan, i think my fave way to cook vegan is yo go indian so lentil curry (dahl) or a nice veg and chickpea curry with coconut milk, onion bahjis, vegetable pakora, vegetable samosas, tomato chutney, rice and or chappati...mmmm..indian is the easiest for me to do vegan with italian i tend to want to use cheese (lol)..roasted medoterranean veg is always good maybe with some crusty fresh bread or rice..carrot, sweet poato and coriander soup..in fact even a baked potato and baked beans will make me happy lol!

doh! i forgot houmous (maybe cause my homemade houmous is rarely as good as the one from the shop!) and baba ganoush which is roasted aubergine blended into a dip, delicious with crusty bread, i like to slice the aubergine(eggplant) and cover it in salt for an hour (this is said to remover bitterness, some say its not necessary with aubergines these days but i like to do it lol) then carve lines into it and cover it in olive oil and salt and bake it in the oven for about 30 minutes, then just blend it up, eat warm or cold, its something i often make in the evening then take to work for lunch, i stopped making it as a party dip because not many people know what it is or like the look of it hehe, seems to be something from turkey/morocco that didnt cross over to european cuture the way houmous did.

I like people... people taste good.

hehhe lol forlorn yes i see i did say i like to eat vegan lol..not actual vegans though i promise!

Id imagine vegans to be rather chewy... and a bit stringy :\

I have a lot of respect for anyone who can maintain a vegan diet. I've been vegetarian for goin on 4 years now. I spent about a month or so on the vegan diet, it is sooo strict. I would have just about had to quit eating any form of processed food because there is milk and egg in just about all of it. Plus I got tired of reading ingredient labels. Favorite veggies: peppers, celery, spinach, well all of them I guess. Fav. fruits: pinnaples, bananas...well all of them too lol. I like hommus and guacamole dips with whole grain crackers for snacks. I would have to say my favorite drinks are energy drinks even though I hear they are bad for me When it comes to juice I am addicted to pomegranate/blueberry juice.

yes when i have tried to eat exlusively vegan i have found it difficult, i think a lot of it depends on how much time you have, who youre cooking for, budget and lifestyle. i think we need to find a middle-way that suits our circumstances and if that means one vegetarian meal a week for meat-lovers or one vegan meal a week for vegetarians..one raw-food meal a week for vegans or one home-cooked meal a week for take-away addicts then that would still seem really progressive to me...if i could convince the people i live with to eat even one meat-free meal a week i would be happy but sadly they wont even TRY anything different, the few times i have made food they wont even try it, even though i am expected to eat their meat dishes every day after twenty years of vegetarian and vegan living!

I used to be a vegetarian. Now, I have cut way back on meats and upped my vegetable intake.

My favorite food in the world... Oh gosh, you know, I think I'd still say it's sushi. Close second is a good curry with Chinese eggplant. And I have two favorite sandwiches... A mediterranean-style grilled sandwich with feta cheese, and cream cheese + Mrs. Dash + tomato + spinach + whatever else you like (I like just a tiny bit of brown mustard...Perfect!)

Nowadays, there's not much you can't make with TVP... But the one reason I stay away from full-fledged vegetarianism is because I try not to eat processed things, including TVP/Chick'n/Veggie Dogs/Tu-no/tofurkey...

Sometimes I think about how animals must be killed and stuff...and it makes me want to be a vegan....

But then I watch a KFC commercial and change my mind =P.

Henry: The reason I don't is that so many of my favorite dishes are flavored with or contain meat... I can't make Chicken Paprikash without Chicken, or Turkey Soup without turkey, or Shepherd's Pie without ground beef, pork or chicken (no TVP!)... Even non-meat soup recipes most often call for chicken or beef broth and/or bullion.

Pizza and Brocolli .... and whole grain cereal

God is cool with animal slaughter. We shouldn't get too concerned about it. It should be done ethically though.

If the story of Cain and Abel is anything to go by, God would pass on the vegan food and eat at the steakhouse

While I don't agree with the above comment, I wouldn't go as far to say that God is against it.

While I am not vegan, I am mostly vegetarian. I love meat, but it grosses me out sometimes, especially in large amounts. Too much meat isn't needed or healthy anyway. One of my favorite dishes is lentils and whole grain rice cooked in seasoned water and onions. It's delicious and the lentils are a great substitute for meat. : ]

Kill an animal, kill a plant, eat them! Whats the difference? They both are living until we kill and eat them. They both do the body good, in moderation, and they were both given to us by God! I fully support and respect your choice of food, so please do the same for me. I like vegies and I like meat. Together they keep me going, physically anyway.

My favorite is Chicken fried steak, Mashed potatoes with cream gravy, green beans and or corn (fixed any way), and bread to clean my plate when I'm done

Everyone's got free will pal. No disrespect

Several of my family members are vegetarian.
I love my family hard core. Feeding them is one of my favorite ways of loving on them. I often host holiday meals, old fashioned Sunday dinners, barbecues and other family feeding frenzies. It is very important to me that my vegetarian family members feel fully included and have lots of choices at the table too. I never want them to feel left out. I always look for new vegetarian recipes.

I make a real mean veggie burger and a pretty good meatless chilli.

Just thought that I would add, you don't have to kill plants to eat them, most times they are still alive when you consume them. When you pick a fruit off of a tree it doesn't kill the tree, the tree just produces more fruit. Plants can survive for days once being up rooted or chopped from their source. Plants also don't contain blood.