Healthier Food but Higher Calories/Carbs

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  • Wtn_Gurl
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    So, today I went back to my regular normal food - Danon Fit and lite and it was so good, I feel like I was in a food jail eating all that food trying to force myself to like it. And some of that vegan food has worse calories and sugar in it. No thanks! I am onto a new month where I shall eat as I want and still lose weight. (I mean within my macros and calories.

    I do not believe that veganism is required for health or weight loss, but honestly there are tons of vegan options that have reasonable amounts of calories and/or sugar. Some of the easiest foods to fit into a calorie-deficit are vegan and they're consumed by non-vegans all the time.

    I believe I can do alright if I eat more fruit & veg etc, but not restrict myself to vegan. the little bit I really want is not that much. just Half and Half creamer, a little bit of meat, Greek yogurt, really. And no fake foods that try to imitate real food :) like vegan cheese or vegan yogurt. I know people say to force yourself to eat it and your tastes will change, but who wants to do that? not me.

    I did need help in sorting these things out, because I got into the vegan diet hole and needed help to get out.

    Vegan cheese is no less real than dairy cheese. It may not be to your taste, but that doesn't somehow make it fake. Is cheese from cow's milk "fake" if cheese was first made from goat's milk? Foods change over time, new foods are created. It's part of the nature of human creativity.

    Nobody should force themselves to eat something they don't like. But a food isn't somehow "fake" just because you don't care for it.

    Ok I wont argue that. I don't really know what's in vegan cheese, however, I use the word "fake" food as a generic term meaning things that are deviations from regular dairy cheese. But I also mean fake as in food processed to resemble real unprocessed food i.e. tempeh in order to substitute for a chunk of steak. its just my generic food term, not meaning to be precise & scientific and meaning for all people. Please do not take offense, none meant by me.

    Tempeh is just crushed beans with a bacteria to ferment it. It's less processed than Dannon yogurt, which -- by the way -- is very different from the original yogurt. But does that mean your yogurt is fake? No. People have been eating tempeh for thousands of years. It's a traditional food. Just like yogurt.

    My point isn't that tempeh is somehow better than Dannon yogurt, it's that this isn't really a useful framework for evaluating food.

    I'm less offended than I am annoyed. You're not the first person to critique certain vegan foods on the grounds that they're "deviations" or "fake" or "processed" while regularly eating foods that also fit that description but somehow don't bother you. I'm sure you won't be the last, but it's just frustrating sometimes.

    If you don't know what's in vegan cheese, then why critique it as fake? You know what's in my cheese? Coconut or cashews with some cultures and maybe something to thicken it. It's not that different from the cheese you prefer except for that yours starts with milk from a cow and mine doesn't. They're both real foods.

    I think you may be missing the point of my post. I'm expressing an emotion that is neither scientific nor factually logical. My point is I'm so happy to be able to eat food that I like that I'm used to without having to go to foods that try to mimic food I like. I'm not here to debate the factual evidence of it, just expressing my joy at being able to eat food I prefer that I already like. I'm trying to say I prefer certain kind of food in certain ways and not have to deviate from that food by making it into a vegan type food that tried to taste like the original food. i.e. Dannon Greek Yogurt - vs almond milk yogurt. the one brand of almond milk yogurt was horrid to my taste buds and i do not wish to take 6 weeks to get used to it. The dairy Greek yogurt has better macros for me that the vegan almond brand and tastes 3,000 times better to my tastebuds. I have a free sample of vegan mozzarella cheese in my fridge that Whole Foods let me sample last week, not sure how that will be.

    I understand the point of your post. I am challenging the assertion that cheese (or another food) has some ideal form and all derivations are "fake." I understand that some people have different taste preferences -- that can be expressed without having to draw a line around "real" and "fake" foods.

    ok I understand :)

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