How do you start eating vegan?

I would start slowly - like one meal per day or one day per week where you try to be completely vegan if you're totally new to it. Or cutting out one food group per week until you are vegan. Common problems with veganism are not getting enough protein or enough B12 - but they are easily overcome if you're willing to experiment with some foods not part of the Standard American Diet. I personally like soy and soy products like boca burgers and edamame, seitan (you can make this yourself for about 3 min of labor for way cheaper), beans for big protein sources. Nutritional Yeast from Red Star is good too and it's fortified with B12 in a vegan way so that's a good staple too. (it adds "cheese" flavor to things)

Good luck, way to branch out

If you choose raw vegan just eat fruit and veggies with a few nuts. You don't even have to count your calories just make your micros 80/10/10

If you choose raw vegan just eat fruit and veggies with a few nuts. You don't even have to count your calories just make your micros 80/10/10

why dont you think you have to count your calories?

do you think that one cannot gain weight on fruits and vegetables and nuts?

If you choose raw vegan just eat fruit and veggies with a few nuts. You don't even have to count your calories just make your micros 80/10/10

Errr so explain how I became a morbidly obese 333 pound Vegan?

Op I'm a Vegan been one for 15 years feel free to add me as a friend

Well, if you want to know which late night snacks are vegan, PETA has a web page called "Accidentally Vegan" that lists all the junk food you could want. (My favorite: Ritz crackers. Can't leave them alone. And then there are Oreos. And beer.) For healthy vegan snacks, I've been eating edamame, toast with guacamole and tomatoes, or peanut butter & jelly sammies.

And ignore the haters, and the well-intentioned naysayers. Rock on, veggie!

Tie them down first

Read Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer (it is INCREDIBLE) and get a really amazing vegan cook book (/or follow a few vegan blogs) and you will be absolutely joyous to grab a gorgeous vegan burrito, a slice of blueberry pie with coconut ice-cream, or a baguette with any kind of soup or stew you can imagine.

For me personally, being equally parts enraged / ideologically inspired and totally excited to eat the vegan food I had around is what has made it possible. If you have a fridge & cabinets filled with delicious stuff you CAN eat (and not just salads and steamed kale, but pizza, ice(coconut)cream, soy milk and cereal, vegetable-fat pie crust pies, vegan muffins, veggie burritos, etc.) its much better than feeling like you're limited or restricted in some way.

Grab vegan.
Bite vegan.

Late night snacks - booja booja icecream (better than dairy icecream!), baked fruit, raw chocolate, nuts, nakd bars and obviously fruit/veg as well

My current favourite is either veggies with houmous or baked banana (banana in the oven with some almond milk, raisins, cinnamon).

Loads of recipes out there, take a look at some of the vegan blogs. And if you fancy something, try make your own but substitute the dairy for alternatives such as almond milks, cashews etc.

i'm not vegan/vegetarian but i consume a mostly vegetarian diet.. my favorite snack is vegan though.. fried plantains! sliced apple and peanut butter also does it for me. good luck!

If you choose raw vegan just eat fruit and veggies with a few nuts. You don't even have to count your calories just make your micros 80/10/10

I was going to make a wisecrack about using your internet browser, but this is advice is just so wrong it took all my sarcasm away...

Do some online research about the lifestyle to see if it would be sustainable for you long term, otherwise it will be a waste of time for you. If that is overwhelming (there's a LOT of info out there), just try searching some of the groups here on MFP for advice and sending FRs to some of the people you find through there. Best of luck getting healthy!!

Amy's brand products always mark their products that are vegan as vegan (at the top of the ingredients list). All Silk brand products are vegan. All Tofutti brand products are vegan except for blintzes. Two companies that sell vegan products online are Vegan Essentials @ www.veganessentials.com, and Pangea @ www.veganstore.com. ALL of both of those companies' items they sell are vegan. At Subway, the regular white (plain Italian) bread is vegan. Nayonaise and Vegenaise are two vegan mayo substitutes. Ezekiel makes vegan breads.Earth Balance makes vegan margarines. Hormel Vegetarian Chili is vegan. The Minute Rice microwave rice packaged in single-serve round containers-- the white, the jasmine and the brown rice of this type are vegan. Do not expect to be able to tell by reading labels. The additives are of uncertain origin and most of the time, even the manufacturer will not know whether the additives are of animal origin. They say that their suppliers say it is proprietary info. Do not make any assumptions. The enzymes in modified food starch are often of animal origin. "Synthetic" or "natural" ingredients are often of animal origin. The FDA does not require all ingredients to be listed on a label. Only if a bread says it is "100% whole wheat" is it wheat that hasn't been enriched with FDA-mandated additives so, if the label says flour, wheat flour or unbleached flour it might contain nonvegan additives. Do NOT trust the PETA list of so-called vegan products!!!! PETA terms products containing 2% or less of animal ingredients as "vegan." PETA is a mass murderer of precious animals. They kill 97% of animals they "rescue." Do not ever trust PETA. They are not vegans (or 98% vegans) because of any love for animals. It is because they believe no one should own nor breed animals. They are not the only organization that mass murders animals in the name of "animal rights"-- I do not purchase Tofurky vegan products because they are affiliated with the Humane Society.