Those of you who regularly read my blog will know that my hubby, Mr Vox, has taken the November Vegan Month Challenge to try being fully vegan for one month. He is just over half way through his challenge and has written a guest post for us today to let you know how he is getting on! Over to Mr Vox...
VVx
My Vegan
Challenge - Halfway Through
When November
came I was already 80% vegan as my wife (Vegan Vox) is vegan and most of the food
I ate was already vegan. This happened when I went vegetarian, I was only eating
meat when I went out to eat and ate veggie when at home and the same has
happened from vegetarian to vegan.
Over the past
11 months, since my wife went vegan, I have tried a lot of different vegan foods, mainly trying
substitutes, I haven't really liked many of them so far, I can tolerate it if
it's there but not necessarily choose to have it, so I haven't been eating much
'cheese' if any and I'm still toying with milk and what kind works where.
So lets move
onto milk. I have found two chocolate milks I really like, coconut and almond.
I am struggling with milk for cereal, for me plain soy, even the sweetened one,
isn't cutting it. For my tea and coffee the soy milk is okay, but I think I
need something a bit tastier and I've heard that almond milk is great for tea and coffee.
Cheese,
cheese, cheese! It's all about finding great cheese, this is what I have
struggled with the most. Mainly I've tried Vegusto cheeses and some are okay and
some not, the Piquant is my favourite as that is the one I can
tolerate as a cheese to put in a sandwich etc. I sort of like the 'Melty Moo'
that they do but it's not very melty, it seems to have a kind of skin when it's
heated but it is soft inside so spreading might help. The Tofutti
herb cream cheese is very nice to spread on crackers etc. I have missed
my pizzas and toasted sandwiches/paninis a lot since the start of the Vegan
Challenge, I know there is a pizza cheese around and I think we tried it once
but it didn't work so I am not sure if we were doing anything wrong!
Toiletries... I
have been more aware of now as a lot are not suitable for vegans and contain
milk, honey etc, so checking ingredients on toiletries as well as food is more
important to me as a vegan as many items are vegan but don't state that they
are.
I feel I am
more open to trying new ingredients and foods as I was still quite afraid of
trying new types of food even as a vegetarian as it was easy to just have
things without meat, so I stuck to cheese and tomato pizzas, veggie burgers
that are made with cheese and quick food like cheese on toast were always go to
foods for a quick fix.
I have enjoyed trying new foods so far this month during the challenge and I am excited about trying more alternatives out over the rest of the month. Please let me know in the comments below your suggestions for good milk and cheese alternatives. I will be trying Vegg out in the next two weeks too. If you are on the challenge too, please let me know how you are finding it in the comments also. I will be back at the end of the month and let you know how the challenge has progressed.
Here are some of the foods I have eaten this month so far...
Big Vegan Love,
Mr Vox
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