vegan food questions?

[lulabye]

im a vegetarian and im trying to go vegan. if i go to the store what kind of foods can i buy. i mean like ik soy yogurt and ice cream but.... isk what els ik fruit and veggies obviously. ik a lot of cereals arent vegan so do they have that? sorry i probably sound really stupid but i live with 3 meat eaters and the only vegan thing i have in my house id almond milke and non dairy butter... arent vegans suppose to eat organic stuff?? cause i have like bananas and pears and stuff but non organic.. somone tutor me on this and my parent are probably gonna hate me going vegan why is it a bad thing to them.

[Neyamul]

Cereal
Oat meal
Soft drinks
Hot chocolate
Candy
Cookies
Crackers
Condiments
Salad dressing
Gravy
Sauce
Ketchup
Barbecue Sauce
Breads
Pie
Bagles
Fries
Cake, pancake, waffle mix
Frosting
Pudding
Margarine

[Mine<3]

Its probably a "bad thing" to them because its expensive or else I doubt they'd care since its healthy and good for you..I think Peta has a list of vegan items,seeing as though they promote veganism over vegetarianism

[teeny-tinyKiller921]

Eating organic food is not included in the definition of veganism. By all means, go organic if you want to, but it's not a "requirement."

Plenty of cereals are vegan. Check the ingredients lists. Some include Raisin Bran, Cheerios, Total, and Life. Fortified cereals are preferable.

The vast majority of your diet should come from whole, unprocessed foods: beans, nuts, seeds, lentils, produce, oatmeal, brown rice, wild rice, and quinoa are good places to start. Most dried, boxed pastas are vegan. Check the ingredients lists. Stick to whole grain pasta.

Do a twitter hashtag search for #whatveganseat. Check out the pictures, descriptions, and recipes that people post, and the blogs to which they often link. This will give you a lot of ideas and you will find some recipe blogs you'll love checking regularly for inspiration.

An idiot-proof vegan dinner: whole grain pasta, cannellini beans, vegetables, toasted walnuts, olive oil, and spices all tossed together. It has something from every vegan food group.

Another idiot-proof dinner: burrito with rice, black beans, vegetables, salsa, guacamole.

Take B12, Omega-3 DHA, and Vitamin D supplements. Eat fortified foods, but also eat foods naturally rich in them. Buy nutritional yeast and sprinkle it on your pasta. You can also make salad dressings and sauces with it. Buy ground flaxseed and put in your oatmeal, your smoothies, and on your toast. Eat walnuts and cook with olive oil. Eat mushrooms. Get sunshine.

Check some vegan cookbooks out of the library.

Read a book on plant-based nutrition, written by a registered dietitian.

[Akash]

How to eat healthy, being vegan?
You need to make sure you eat pulses at least three times a week and fruits and vegetables everyday.
Have a fruit for breakfast(apart from something else of course) and a vegetable/pulses for lunch and dinner.
Make sure you include all vegetables,pulses,lentils and beans(kidney beans,chickpeas,black eyed peas,green peas and many more)

Don't eat mock meat and soybean as mock meat contains sodium and soybean is bad for health( http://rheumatic.org/soy.htm ).
Mock meat is also soy based so too much soy can be bad for health.
Actually even a little soy is bad for health.
What's wrong with soy?
Soy beans are naturally toxic to humans, but they're harmless when they go through a fermentation process, which is how we get tofu.
But soy is being used in more and more things these days.
Just look through your cabinet. You'll be surprised.
Anyway, most companies aren't putting their soy beans through this process because it takes too much time, and time = money.
Instead, they put it through a chemical process, but this rarely gets rid of the soy's toxicity completely.
Symptoms of a high soy diet are thyroid problems, breast cancer, and other complications.
People get these symptoms because the soy they eat isn't fermented.

Mock meat can never be part of a staple diet(food what you eat everyday).
You CAN have it ONCE IN A WAY.
Its a luxury and not a need.
You need to consume naturally occurring FRUITS,VEGETABLES(cauliflower,carrot, potato, beetroot, okra, eggplant, radish, turnip, cabbage, bitter gourd, spinach,capsicum(aka bell peppers)),PULSES(chickpeas,kidney beans,black eyed peas,green gram,black gram,lentils,lablab bean,moth bean,horse gram,cow pea),NUTS(cashew nuts,peanuts,walnuts,pistachios,raisins) and GRAINS.
Make something like rice and bread your staple diet.
You can have rice with vegetables for lunch and bread(I have Indian bread usually) with pulses for dinner(or you can do it whichever way you like though that's the way I do it).
You can have fruits for breakfast besides something else. You will get all vitamins and minerals from fruits,vegetables,pulses and nuts.
Also,don't fall for the myth that says vegans/vegetarians need to take multivitamin supplements.
Vegans/vegetarians don't need to take supplements as they get all their nutrients from fruits,vegetables and pulses.
Supplements are supposed to be taken by people with deficiencies so do not take them unless they have been prescribed to you by a doctor.
Here are some recipes:
http://www.vegiehead.com/index.html
http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/category/...egetables/
http://www.indianfoodforever.com/indian-breakfast/
http://www.easy-indian-food.com/indian-b...cipes.html
http://www.indianfoodrecipes.net/vegetar...index.html
http://www.manjulaskitchen.com/category/snacks/
http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes_menus/...an_recipes