Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35324176-20190214233204/@comment-36996285-20190218181914

It's not actually that bad, it's actually pretty great, here are things you think you miss out on but don't actually:

-Baked goods; Milk is replaced with soy/almond milk, eggs can be replaced with applesauce/flax seed egg.

-Milk = soy/almond milk(almond milk is better for making smoothies, hot chocolate, etc. Soy milk has too much of an overpowering taste.)

-Ice Cream/Other Diary - Chocolate Ice Cream made with coconut milk = one of the best things I've ever tasted. They do make vegan cheese, and yogurt with coconut milk(also super good)

-Meat; Tempeh, tofu, tofurky(vegan sausage sold at my local grocery store), and other imitation meats.

I guess you'd miss out on eating things like fried egg, but it's honestly not too hard. I guess getting enough protein(which my mom yells at me about) is the hardest part, but tofu and veggies are pretty protein packed.

Good things about being vegan: The reason why I decided to go vegan is for ethical reasons; for example, I don't drink milk because they often treat cows unethically during the process of getting milk(you can read articles on PETA's website about that), and because the whole process of getting meat is also environmentally harmful. I've always been somewhat unerweight for my age too(that was before I went vegan by the way), but being vegan hasn't harmed my weight. You also still get amazing foods as a vegan, but the other hardish part is going to restaurants where occasionally you have to make exceptions because they'll have milk, yogurt, or something non-vegan in the food which you can't help.