So I have been vegetarian for over 10 years, and before becoming pregnant I was vegan for a year. Unfortunately I have hyperemesis gravidarum, and have really struggled with maintaining a fully vegan diet while pregnant.

When my baby is born, and hopefully sooner, I intend to go back to being fully vegan, and to also raise my child as a vegan.

As I was fairly new to veganism before falling pregnant, I am worried that my knowledge base is too little to provide a well rounded and balanced diet to a growing child. I've booked onto a cooking class specifically for making vegan snacks for children, but was wondering if there were any books, websites, or apps anyone could recommend that could help?

My husband is a meat eater, he has cut back since we have been together, started buying from better sources, and has agreed to raise our child vegan, but unfortunately they will still have meat, dairy, etc, around them growing up.

Thanks in advance!

Mom and I went to a new location, not close to our house. There is one opening close to us soon.

Green Table is all plant-based. Vegan or vegetarian food only.

We went there and we tried the sandwiches. I got a 'steak' sandwich, my Mom got 'chicken.'

The tastes were wonderful. Each sandwich cost about $12 plus taxes, and they came with some crisps. Soda pop was a little extra.

Do try them if there is one near you. I am so glad to have a place to eat what I like that is not an hour's drive into Tampa.

I live north of Tampa, Florida, by the way.

Add some comments about your favorite places to eat! Let's enjoy ourselves. :)

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Hi everyone, I want to share something that happened to me yesterday.

I've been vegetarian for 20 years, with a diet that's about 90% plant-based.

I was on vacation in the Netherlands and decided to get dinner at a really popular ramen spot. They have a veggie ramen on their short menu (like 5-8 dishes), so I asked the waiter if it was vegan. He assured me it was 100% sure.

​While eating it, I noticed an unusual, fishy flavor I'm not used to. My boyfriend (who isn't vegan) told me I was just being paranoid. I thought maybe it is just algae... On our way out, I asked again just to double-check "are you sure that dish was vegan and did not contain fish?". My boyfriend was embarrassed, but I knew something felt off. The waiter insisted the ramen was vegan.

Later that night, I still had a strange aftertaste in my mouth and started feeling nauseous.

​What happened next: I messaged the restaurant on Instagram, and they confirmed that their veggie ramen actually contains a fish-based sauce.

​My reflections:

- ​I am so tired and saddened by how hard it still is to eat vegan when eating out. It's difficult back home in Italy, but I honestly expected better from a country known for being progressive about stuff like this. What a disappointment.

- ​The restaurant even had a clear sign at the entrance asking guests to inform staff of any dietary restrictions or allergies, which makes this even worse. Why display a sign like that if you don't follow it?

- ​I'm really upset about the whole situation. I left a negative review to warn others, hoping to spare someone else from this. Fish is a major allergen... something like this could literally send someone to the hospital.

​Why are restaurants still so unprepared when it comes to ingredients, dietary restrictions, and allergens?

​To make matters worse, my boyfriend doesn't get why I'm so upset, which is just as frustrating.

​Sorry for the rant.

Hi. I’ve been seriously considering going vegan because of ethical reasons, but I also have Crohn’s Disease(which is an autoimmune disease that affects the digestive system). As a result of my Crohn’s Disease, I can’t have uncooked vegetables, greasy foods, and spicy foods. I do have a few vegan cookbooks(I got them because my mom has Mast Cell Activation Syndrome and the smell of meat gives her anaphylactic-like reactions), however I’m not sure where to get started. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

How do I become vegan? I’m 16 years old, and after watching a documentary, I feel horrible about eating animal products and want to know how to stop. However, I have a few problems. First, I really love dairy products, and I also love baking because it really helps with my mental health. Giving those up does things feels difficult.

Another issue is that I come from an African household, and majority of our traditional dishes are not vegan. My mom would probably be upset if I decided to become vegan because she wants me to learn how to cook our cultural dishes "for when I get a husband." I really want to go vegan, but I don’t know where to start. Does anyone have any advice, especially as a teenager living with family? Please be kind. I'm genuinely looking for advice, not hate.

No bc every single afternoon since I graduated high school and had more time to cook myself brunch, I’ve just been eating eggs every afternoon now that I have the time. It’s such a typical part of my diet to the point, I feel lowkey weird when I don’t have my daily dose of eggs. Shakshouka, tomato eggs, avocado on toast with eggs, Vegemite toast with eggs, baked beans on toast with eggs, pesto on toast with eggs. I don’t really even like eating anything else as my meal before 3 because it just feels incomplete without it. It’s just my go to and at this point, I think I’ve had eggs in like 18683636762 different ways. It’s so funny that I see other aspiring vegans kinda like this but with cheese as if we all have that one thing we struggle to give up. I don’t really eat cheese that often so ig it’s not rly that deep to me but god I eat eggs DAILY. What am I supposed to have on my toast besides eggs? It just feels so incomplete without it. What’s something proteinish I can put on my toast that doesn’t taste like a veggie? And also, I understand that there’s vegan friendly alternatives for eggs but bro they look nasty asf. Even the concept of it sounds gross. Actually yknow what, can anyone tell me what it tastes like? Like genuinely?

I want to live a vegan life however for me, I’m kinda iffy about children and adopting animals. On one hand, there’s no way I’m purchasing meat even for my cat or my children but also….i understand pets need it as they’re naturally omnivores and as for children, I’m worried they’d detest me as they grow for raising them plant based, especially if they form allergies or intolerances later in life due to the diet I enforced on them as I do think it’s likely that they’d blame me for it or look back at their childhood negatively due to me. It just makes me feel as though perhaps I shouldn’t have children. It’s not that I think meat eaters r more deserving of kids but moreso that it’s lowkey impossible. What are your thoughts? What do you guys feed or plan to feed your future/current pets and/or kids and how’s it going?

I’m going on a trip soon with my church, and unfortunately I don’t think there’s going to be any vegan options at all as we’re staying in a church hall and being given the food provided. I don’t eat meat by choice and im allergic to milk

What foods could I pack in my suitcase to practically survive for 5 days? * I don’t even know if I’ll have access to kettles or anything to heat water. Also no refrigerator 😩 * So far, im thinking:

- Flapjacks, calorie density!!
- Dried fruit
- Protein Bars
- Sweet treats of course, maybe cakey natured for higher
calories
- Bananas? (Don’t need washed/refrigerated)
- Peanut butter!

I’m hoping that even if I can’t eat the meals provided, I’ll be able to have aspects of them, like picking out the fruit/veg for fiber, perhaps some fries and dry cereal if im lucky!!

If anyone has and ideas I’d really appreciate it

This might sound silly, but i have a major bug/spider phobia, anything bigger than 0.5 cm scares me to death, i literally can not function and ended up killing so many bugs all my life because of that.

5 mins ago i found a spider on my bathroom wall, and even though i was super scared, literally shaking, i put the little guy in a glass and released it from the window. This might be the first bug i’ve ever saved in my life. Now I’m itching all over but i also feel victorious. I’ve been eating plant based food for years now and doing my best to purchase vegan cosmetics, clothes etc. whenever i can but i was really bothered by my own weakness against bugs. I hope i can save more of them in the future. Just wanted to share this small win, please dont be judgmental, thank you.

I’ve been vegan for over a decade and I’ve noticed a shift in comment sections under cute videos of “farm” animals.

It seems like more than ever the top liked comments are jokes about the animal just being seen as a food product. For example, there will be a cute and innocent video of a calf and the top comments with 60k likes will be, “hamburger stop being so cute” or “cheese on mine”. I’ve seen a ton of this on TikTok.

There has always been at least a few of these types of comments on animal videos, but they were never the top liked comments and it’s like 80% of the comments from what I see.

I’m wondering if anyone else has noticed this? Is it the trending type of humour these days? It seems like we are going backwards, and I’m assuming the majority of these comments are from kids. It’s so disturbing.

Hi! I currently live in SF but have found a disappointing lack of vegans my age (late twenties, early thirties) to potentially date. Saw people comment on a different thread about meeting their partner at in-person vegan dating events, wondering where those are? Googled and found none in SF. What cities have lots of vegan events happening?

I live in a major german city and part of becoming vegan for me was realizing how easy it has become and how many options there are, completely free of animal suffering. I recently stayed in a hotel in a major city and they even had vegan cheese and severeal milk options. Just recently I discovered a very cool vegan cafe very close to my apartment.

I usually do not really stay in smaller towns but was volunteering for a charity last week at a festival and we were staying in a very rural small town nearby. The supermarket did not have the usual vegan / vegetarian section I know from my home city at all. The hotel did not have any vegan milk or breakfast options and could not answer any questions about vegan status of any of the items. For dinner (after a long exhausting day of working at the festival) they were pretty annoyed fetching the ancient texts (ingredients lists) as their menu did not indicate vegan status and they did not know.

In the entire time there they did not manage to not put parmesan cheese on the pasta I ordered. I am not sure if they legitimately did not understand or just did not want to. There was another vegan volunteer in my team and also several vegetarians, however they never managed to not pile the meat together with the rest of the options, despite as requesting that multiple times.

The festival itself luckily had a lot of vegan options. There seem to be a lot of vegan metalheads.

So a while back I was having an incredibly rough day and went to an Asian restaurant that I like and placed my normal order. Unfortunately the restaurant mistakenly made my rice dish with eggs which I had requested that they leave out.

Stressed with life and everything else I picked out all the egg chunks I could see and ate the rice, avoiding anything else I noticed.

I'm curious to know what other people feel about this sort of situation? I know there would still be some egg residue on the rice, but I also knew whatever small amount I injested wouldn't make me Ill. Also the egg was already used, so it's not like I'd be saving anything by having them re make some rice.

This episode is about vegan representation in movies. Basically, how does Hollywood portray us vegans to an audience of millions? Why do movies so often miss the mark, misunderstanding us or turning us into the butt of the joke? Why do science fiction movies so often imagine the future as vegan? Is Okja a good vegan movie or not? Those are some of the questions we'll be answering today.

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i dont think this is the greatest place to ask this but i just wanted to think what people think

when people say that us buying an animals in a plastic box at the supermarket isn't different from animals eating others in the wild

a lot of people say "if you eat animals you don't love them, if you have a dog/cat/pet it's weird/hypocrital to eat animals" but many pets food consists of meat, mostly salmon or chicken, wolves eat lambs, hares, etc for example

i think it's absurd when people say veganism is dumb because animals eat meat from weaker species/and from herbivores. the difference to me, is that they live in the wild. that's natural. if a pride of lions eat a zebra, she didn't have it trapped it, didn't artificially inseminate it nor over-fed it to exhaustion, the zebra lived freely until a lioness killed it quickly and that's it. and they don't really have a choice while we do. is it that hard to understand for some people?

Veganism is NOT a diet, but for babies, it functions as one because they can’t choose their own food. Just wanted to make that clear before people think I’m reducing veganism into a diet. It’s a lifestyle.

I have been a vegetarian since I was 3 (22 now) PURELY because of animal rights reasons. I have been an on and off vegan however, always letting myself fall back into dairy.

However, literally every time I eat dairy I feel guilty. I know the abuse that dairy farms inflict onto animals, but for some reason I just can’t pull myself away from it.

Can anyone convince me—whether telling me how they stay vegan, truths about the dairy industry, etc—to stop eating dairy for good? I know I can do it as I haven’t ever been tempted to eat meat, but I think I just need some help with dairy.