Disappointment. <\/p>\n
I’ve only been Vegan a few months… and, overall, I feel like it’s going extremely well. I can tell a difference in my body, my mind, and my heart. My bloodwork (reference other posts here) has improved significantly. My blood PRESSURE has improved significantly. <\/p>\n
As I’ve said many times, I haven’t eaten cows or pigs since 1996, stopped fish and chicken in 2007… and went vegan diet in June of this year. <\/p>\n
The only real downside is that it can limit (read: does limit) your restaurant choices. While things ARE getting better all the time, I had a small setback today.<\/p>\n
There’s a Cuban restaurant that was a favorite when I ate fish and chicken. <\/p>\n
And when I went vegetarian, they had a great dish I still loved… made with a vegetarian meat, rice, and beans. When I decided to eat vegan, I did a lot of questioning. <\/p>\n
“Do you fry in butter?” I asked. “Do you use any milk or cheese or eggs?” I asked. No! The answers came back again and again. And I really don’t blame the restaurant or the servers, they were working with what they knew. <\/p>\n
Well, tonight I went back to the fave. And in a conversation, the very friendly and accommodating waiter offered to show me the package where the “meat” comes from. It is the Worthington vegetarian Meatless Turkey. So far, so good. But Worthington has vegetarian – and they have vegan. Checked out the ingredients – eggs and milk. <\/p>\n
So that’s gone. <\/p>\n
I suppose I can still get rice and beans there… I really like the place.<\/p>\n
But I feel kind of “guilty” having eaten there once every week or two for the past couple of months. <\/p>\n
I understand it’s a trace amount, and not even a main ingredient in the fake meat… so the simple answer is just stop eating it. Which I shall. <\/p>\n
It just kind of “bums me out” to use a colloquialism from my earlier days. <\/p>\n
In full light, I can do just fine on the beans and rice. <\/p>\n
But I wonder what else I’m getting by accident? I really struggle and take time to ask… to read… to investigate. I’ve made this decision, I intend to honor that decision. <\/p>\n
Has something like this ever happened to you? What did you do? <\/p>\n
I guess I’m going to seek out dishes with VEGAN spelled out clearly… and still hope they’re right. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
There’s a Cuban restaurant that was a favorite when I ate fish and chicken. <\/p>\n
And when I went vegetarian, they had a great dish I still loved… made with a vegetarian meat, rice, and beans. When I decided to eat vegan, I did a lot of questioning. <\/p>\n
“Do you fry in butter?” I asked. “Do you use any milk or cheese or eggs?” I asked. No! The answers came back again and again. And I really don’t blame the restaurant or the servers, they were working with what they knew. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35,1],"tags":[141,142,140,143,31],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-and-other-thoughts","category-uncategorized","tag-cuban","tag-not-vegan","tag-restaurant","tag-sigh","tag-vegan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":639,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/popvegonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}