[evergreenleaves]

How many of you guys are Vegan or Vegetarian, and for how long?
How many of you think you'll maintain this lifestyle for good? What are some of your favorite foods?

I've been vegan for a little under a year, but have been vegetarian for 5 years. I'm more than sure I'll never eat meat (intentionally) again in this lifetime. I also love cooking and veganizing all the stuff I loved eating before I gave up meat. Recently I made Chikun Pot Pie (no pun intended) and it was awesome! Tasty and cruelty free.

Has anyone concocted a tasty MMJ edible that vegans can eat (no dairy, no eggs, no honey)?

Also, to the non-vegetarians... be nice! I know you guys love your steaks...:001_tt1:

-D

[lloydloves]

I have been Vegan for almost two years now and prior to my veganism I was vegetarian for three years. I love to cook vegan edibles and I do know a couple of delicious recipes. I had a Raspberry French Chocolate Cake for my birthday this year that was medicated and it was delicious! It had a raspberry spread across the top and it was so rich and good with a glass of soy milk to wash it down. I know tons of other recipes and my girlfriend can veganize anything.

[evergreenleaves]

Originally Posted by lloydloves

I have been Vegan for almost two years now and prior to my veganism I was vegetarian for three years. I love to cook vegan edibles and I do know a couple of delicious recipes. I had a Raspberry French Chocolate Cake for my birthday this year that was medicated and it was delicious! It had a raspberry spread across the top and it was so rich and good with a glass of soy milk to wash it down. I know tons of other recipes and my girlfriend can veganize anything.

Love it!! That sounds so decadent and amazing. What element of the cake was medicated? Did you use canna-oil or margarine. I bet Earth Balance would make a fine canna-butter. But I suppose an oil would be much more stable. I would love to make a medicated cake. Last year I took a cake decorating course, so it would be nice to practice some fancy cake making.

-D

[Badmf]

Hey glad to see some "Thinking" folks here!! Vegetarian for 34 years was vegan for 8. I enoy Heartline from Lumens foods great products.

[CJK]

My GF turned Vegan about two years ago. Since then, as it turns out, she has an incredible talent for Vegan baking! Lucky break for me as I have great munchies every night!! Apparently, she is such a talented baker, that tons of investors have been seeking her out to start her own bakery!! It's insane! Unfortunately, she likes doing it as a hobby, and not as a career... So my dreams of being a kept man are put off for a little longer...

We have started to experiment baking many Vegan edibles. So far, not one complaint yet! Not even from non vegans (like myself)! Hopefully soon, we will start bringing some Vegan edibles to the collectives for patients!

[lloydloves]

The oil in the cake was the medicated element. A club in the Long Beach area, H.A.C., after speaking with me about veganism was kind enough to begin stocking Olive Oil that had already been prepared. That's what I made the cake out of. Last week though I prepared my own Olive Oil with about 7 or 8 grams of schwag. The key with the oil is to slow cook it.

[lloydloves]

I will be vegan for the rest of my life. Some of my favorite foods are eggplant and potato pizza, potato leek soup, soyrizo and eggs, sopita, basically I enjoy every single food I eat. I don't think I have ever eaten a food I didn't enjoy.

[evergreenleaves]

Originally Posted by lloydloves

I will be vegan for the rest of my life. Some of my favorite foods are eggplant and potato pizza, potato leek soup, soyrizo and eggs, sopita, basically I enjoy every single food I eat. I don't think I have ever eaten a food I didn't enjoy.

Right?! I am very sure I will maintain a mostly vegan lifestyle for the rest of my days. I have slipped now and then, where I will eat something that has honey. But eggs and dairy are a definite no-no.

Cheese is something I miss on occasion, but I've come across a really bitchin' substitute: Daiya cheese. It's gooey and melty like cheese. I can't get over it. It needs to take over the world.

Soyrizo is awesome! I prefer it over regular chorizo any day.

-D

[evergreenleaves]

Originally Posted by CJK

My GF turned Vegan about two years ago. Since then, as it turns out, she has an incredible talent for Vegan baking! Lucky break for me as I have great munchies every night!! Apparently, she is such a talented baker, that tons of investors have been seeking her out to start her own bakery!! It's insane! Unfortunately, she likes doing it as a hobby, and not as a career... So my dreams of being a kept man are put off for a little longer...

We have started to experiment baking many Vegan edibles. So far, not one complaint yet! Not even from non vegans (like myself)! Hopefully soon, we will start bringing some Vegan edibles to the collectives for patients!

Wow. That's great. I love that there are more and more vegan options for us in the edible dept. and I get excited when I see people getting their businesses started. I wish you two luck!

-D

[evergreenleaves]

Originally Posted by Badmf

Hey glad to see some "Thinking" folks here!! Vegetarian for 34 years was vegan for 8. I enoy Heartline from Lumens foods great products.

Yeah!! I'm all about being progressive!

Don't think I've tried any Heartline products. I have tried Stonewall Jerquee, which I think is a Lumens Food product. Nice and chewy, those things.

-D

[cam420]

Im not vegan because i love my honey but I eat primarily raw fruits and have a salad sometimes. My diet right now is based on the book 80/10/10, i really recommend it if your into sports and nutrition. I have never felt better or had more energy in my life and i live on the most tasty food on the earth (sweet fruits :P )

[Moonchild93]

Originally Posted by cam420

Im not vegan because i love my honey but I eat primarily raw fruits and have a salad sometimes. My diet right now is based on the book 80/10/10, i really recommend it if your into sports and nutrition. I have never felt better or had more energy in my life and i live on the most tasty food on the earth (sweet fruits :P )

I've been trying to incorporate more raw foods into my diet as well. It becomes very easy once you know your boundaries and options. I too looooove honey, but I feel pretty bad about the bees. Really no different than stealing milk from a calf. Fortunately agave makes a fine sweetener with a very low glycemic index!

There's so much amazing flavor inside of fruits and veggies. And they are beautiful too! Mother Nature did a great job on making them so appealing... it's like they are singing a siren song "Eat me! I'm pretty and good for you!"

-D

[cam420]

Originally Posted by Moonchild93

I too looooove honey, but I feel pretty bad about the bees. Really no different than stealing milk from a calf. Fortunately agave makes a fine sweetener with a very low glycemic index!



-D

If you get honey that is truly raw it is a lot better for you then agave(healthwise). Also most Raw agave sold in health stores is pretty much the equivalent of high fructose corn syrup. Bees actually make an excess of honey and if the beekeeper does it right there is no "stealing" involved.

[ironchefblue]

Originally Posted by Moonchild93

I too looooove honey, but I feel pretty bad about the bees. Really no different than stealing milk from a calf.

You do realize that without commercial honeybees at least 3/4 of the food items vegans/vegetarians eat wouldn't exist, right? Natural polinators can in no remote fashion keep all of our produce happy on a scale that feeds a country. These are the same bees producing massive surpluses of honey for their colony that would quite literally go to waste, due to the high productivity of placing kept bees on farms.

Don't take it personally but vegans calling honey cruel is one of the most ridiculous things I've heard.

Vegans - we only kill and eat living things that don't have a face.

[Badmf]

Originally Posted by evergreenleaves

Yeah!! I'm all about being progressive!

Don't think I've tried any Heartline products. I have tried Stonewall Jerquee, which I think is a Lumens Food product. Nice and chewy, those things.

-D

Check it out!! www.soybean.com They have a sampler pack too and trimmings for less, they can be used in making spaghetti, burritos, etc. The Stonewall too, They were having "free shipping!" I advise anyone to try some you'll thank me! PS; I didn't really care for the teriyaki flavor. You can eat it straight outta the package or "hydrate" for 30 seconds in a microwave then add to your dish and voila, bon appetite!

[cam420]

A little tip for you guys cus it seems like alot of you eat tons of soy, Eat soy in moderation!!!

90% of soy is from gmo crops and soy is loaded with phytoestrogens. The phytoestrogen turns women into mega pms bitches and men into metrosexuals, the reason we have so many gay people/metro sexuals now a days is mainly due to soy

[Miss M]

I've been a vegetarian since I was about 6 or 7 years old (I'm 22 now)
I have no idea what made me stop eating meat because I don't remember.
All I know is that now meat is kinda on the same level with dirt and sticks, cause I just don't see it as food and it doesn't cross my mind to even eat it and I'm not grossed out by it.
That's really the best way I can describe it.
Anyways, I hate people that eat meat and try to shove it in my face like "OHHHHHMIGAWD dis is the most delicious hamburger EVVVVVVVVER MMMMM BLOODY MEAT AND DEAD ANIMALS MMmmmmmmmmmmmmmm."
It doesn't make me go into a SAVE THE ANIMALS/MEAT IS MURDER rage, it just annoys me cause I wish they'd stop acting like a little kid and eat their damn hamburger, I don't care about what anyone else is having for lunch!

On a side note...
lol does anyone know why there's so many cow smilies?

[hempzelnut]

I consider myself a "flexaterian" I made that word up, It means that I mainly adhere to an organic diet for my temple,80% of my diet is non meat, I love some raw foods(vegan)10%, and 10% has to be junk. Cooking is not the best for me, blending works better. I developed 24 different organic chocolates using a hemp paste I developed, now through the use of super critical co2 fluid extraction I will be researching the dosage for those chocolates. Imagine medicating and health at the same time.

[lloydloves]

When I said soyrizo and eggs I meant soyrizo and the silken tofu with a little tumeric to make it look yellow. I try to speak in a "vegan" context so that I don't go missing old foods I usedd to love. So when I said eggs it meant completely vegetarian tofu ;) vegan power!

[HHCFairfax]

Originally Posted by Badmf

Hey glad to see some "Thinking" folks here!! Vegetarian for 34 years was vegan for 8. I enoy Heartline from Lumens foods great products.

Heartline is delicious!!

[tooweirdtolivetooraretodie]

Originally Posted by cam420

A little tip for you guys cus it seems like alot of you eat tons of soy, Eat soy in moderation!!!

90% of soy is from gmo crops and soy is loaded with phytoestrogens. The phytoestrogen turns women into mega pms bitches and men into metrosexuals, the reason we have so many gay people/metro sexuals now a days is mainly due to soy

Way to hide what might have made for a good tip into something helplessly ignorant and bound to be simply ignored by people who might need to look further into how this might affect them. Affects on PMS and lifestyle choices completely aside, there's a good chance that soy in significant quantity (it's in more things than it's not these days it would seem) could lead to or at least increase the risk of cancers in the reproductive system of both men and women.