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THE OFFICIAL VEGANUARY STARTER KIT
TEN COMMONLY ASKED
QUESTIONS ABOUT VEGANISM
1. WHAT DO VEGANS EAT?
When we talk about removing all animal animal-free version. Shepherd’s pie, chilli
products from our diet, it can be tricky to see non carne and spaghetti Bolognese can
what is left. But the truth is, vegans are just be made in the same way as their meaty
normal people, who like to eat the same foods versions just by switching to soya mince,
as everyone else and the recent vegan food and for lasagne, using plant milks in the
revolution means they can do just that. There béchamel sauce. For fajitas, there are meaty
are now vegan versions of everything from strips. For curries, casseroles and stews,
sausages, burgers, kebabs and steak to fish there are meaty chunks.
fingers, scampi and tuna. You can choose Supermarkets are increasingly catering
from a wide variety of plant milks, yogurts and to the vegan ready-meal market, and
ice cream, and even find vegan mayonnaise you can find vegan mac ‘n’ cheese,
and cheesecakes. pizzas, Bolognese, Thai green curry, dhal,
All these items and more are available in mushroom carbonara, paella, chilli, burritos,
supermarkets, alongside the vegan foods you a variety of pies and many more options on
already buy, perhaps without thinking of them the high street.
specifically as vegan. This includes pasta, rice, As a new vegan, it can take a few weeks
peanut butter, Marmite, jam, tinned tomatoes, to adjust to buying new ingredients and
baked beans, bread, crackers and crisps, products, but very quickly people discover
coconut milk, curry pastes, tomato puree, that their new diet is far from restrictive. In
tomato ketchup, tea, coffee and fruit juice. fact, people often find that they discover a
All this means, we can make our favourite wealth of new foods and report that they
meals just the way we like them, but in an have never enjoyed such a varied diet.
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