Today I'd like to share an article on dairy. Throughout all this thought and planning to convert my diet to veganism, I've always balked at the dairy. Not milk, I'm not a fan of milk. Not even ice cream. I could live without ice cream. But cheese! And greek yogurt! Mmmmm....good stuff.
Right? Well, right. It does taste good. Then I read this article:
http://www.drmcdougall.com/misc/2007nl/mar/dairy.htm
The only reason dairy tastes good is because of additives? Like sugar and salt? Well....I guess that makes sense, actaully. Cheese without salt is disgusting. And ice cream without sugar would be just a blob of frozen milk, and we know all know how disgusting it is when the milk freezes. So when I enjoy that cheese, what I'm actually enjoying is the salt. And along with that salt comes a whole host of health problems my body doesn't appreciate, such as cholesterol, animal proteins and chemicals.
So where does that leave me? Honestly, I don't know. I'm struggling this week, my first week of eating 100% vegan. I don't know what to put in my coffee, because I've always liked just a splash of cream and nothing else seems to do the trick. I ate a lot of salads but quite often caved and allowed myself a little feta cheese sprinkled on top. I purchased a vegan cookbook (Everything Vegan by Vegetarian Times Magazine, highlighted in last week's post) which gives instructions for vegan cheese substitutes. And honestly? They look pretty good. I mean, if all I'm enjoying in the cheese is salt, perhaps I wouldn't mind if the salt was carried along with a nut spread rather than dairy. This week I'm going to make one. I'll let you know how it works out.
So all in all, the veganism hasn't been going perfect. I don't miss meat. But the dairy I'm going to have to work on. The attached article will give me something to think about this week. I wonder if I can find a convincing article about eggs?
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