how to switch to veganism

Common Effects

One common effect is that you will have cold like symptoms as your body adjusts to its new diet. This period may last a couple of weeks.

If you break your diet and consume milk based foods like cheese or milkshakes for one meal, take time to "check yourself" and see if you notice any different reactions to them you might not have noticed before.

Most sushi restaurants offer cucumber, carrot, avocado, daikon, spinach and vegetarian futomaki along with brown rice. Wasabi helps clear the sinuses.

Indian restaurants often offer smorgasbord plates with between 6 to 10 different small portions of different foods. Most are quite spicy and will also clear out the sinuses. An almost psychedelic effect can be felt after the meal for those who are not used to the spiciness.

Switching via Key Convenience Foods

Soy Milk

One key food to switching to veganism is to switch cow's milk for soy milk. Non-vegetarians find themselves eating dairy based foods without even noticing they are present.

Raw Spinach

Raw loose leaf spinach is extremely convenient for making fast salads and provides calcium, Vitamin K and Beta Carotene. The containers also make convenient storage units for vegetables after use.

Soy Cheese Slices with Grain Bread

The right brand of soy cheese slice made as a cheese sandwich can make a very satisfying and quick breakfast. The richness of the grain bread will make up for any meat-eaters biases against soy cheese.

Pickled Veggies

Including olives, capers, beet slices and pickled ginger can add some punch to salads if one is trying to avoid mayonnaise based salad dressings.

Caveats

Most instant miso packs have an ingredient called bonito in them, which is made from shrimp. People allergic to seafood in particular should avoid them.

Some Omega-3 fortified fruit juices obtain their content from fish.

Many crackers use whey as an ingredient.

Nuts contain large amounts of rare earth metals. A few brazil nuts have 100% the RDA of selenium. Peanuts in particular are crop rotated with cotton and are exposed to leftover pesticides.

This article is based on a GNU FDL Vegan Wikia article: Switching_to_Veganism

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