Hi everyone!
Posted by bitsandblossoms on Sep 13, 2009 · Member since Sep 2009 · 5 posts
Hi everyone,
Just thought I would pop in and introduce myself. I've been vegetarian 8 years and I'm just turning vegan now. My fiance has been vegetarian all his life and vegan for the last 2 years and because of that I'd already stopped drinking milk, using butter etc in cooking but hadn't been able to give up cheese. :P Now I'm ready to give it up all together and join him in happy vegan land! ;D
Looking forward to meeting and chatting to you all here and sharing food ideas. ;)b
- Bella
Way to go Bella, cheese was hard for me at first too, but after a fewmonths cold turkey I stopped missing it. Avocado in sandwhiches has a buttery taste kinda like cheese, so you could try that....I wouldn't try too many fake cheeses though, I have yet to find one I like, and they are expensive! I make lots of cashew /nut cheeses and nutritional yeast cheese sauces, but the nut. yeast ones are probably more of an 'acquired' taste.
Hi babysgotsauce!
Thanks for the reply! Nut cheeses sound very interesting - do you have any recipes to try?
Welcome to VegWeb....I hope you find this site helpful. Nice to meet you.
Welcome!!!
I thought cheese was going to be part of my diet forever, and then I became friends with nutritional yeast, and decided to go hardcore cheese free for 30 days, and after a month, i found that while real cheese still tasted "okay" There was something "off" about it, and it didn't taste like i remembered. It just seemed not worth all the fuss anymore. I was like... "I used to spend at least $4 for this?!?!? that could buy me some rice cream!...or 2 bags of rice and 2 bags of beans!!!" Ain't had no cheddah since =-p lol been....going on 3 months now.
It's nice to hear other had cheese addictions and managed to kick them! ;)b
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=26344.0 << I'm very keen to try this one - I will give it a go this weekend.
Thanks for the warm welcome everyone! :)>>>
Cashew cheeses are my favorite! I have that vegetarian times mag with some good ones in it. Also, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ivc57B7cuA, on Everyday dish has a yummy artichoke dip using cashews!!! its super good!
its frickin good!!!