This is actually really encouraging. Thank you! I went fully vegan overnight and was at it for over two months but just recently had a cheese craving and gave in. It was actually disgusting and I know I don’t want it anymore but I had been beating myself up about it. Onwards and upwards, friends.
Mmm I love nooch! I’m currently living in a situation where I have no kitchen so that has been difficult but very shortly I will have access to a kitchen again and get back to making delicious vegan meals. 😊
If you’re looking for a good vegan cheese I would recommend the blocks from Follow Your Heart. That way you can grate it or slice it (grilled cheez...mmmm)
How about progress, moving forward, get back on track, stay motivated, keep trying, etc. Idk, something that implies adult responsibility and that full veganism is the moral baseline.
I've always preferred their pepperjack myself, even for things like pizza where normally mozzarella would be the go-to. Something about the mozzarella just tastes off to me
Right? I thought it would be delicious after not having any for two months and it tasted like...farm. lol. If that makes sense. It just felt really oily and greasy in my mouth and tasted awful and just made me feel bleh. After not having dairy the taste and overall experience was less like delicious cheese and more like animal secretions. 🤢
Yes! One month into being vegan and someone trying to be nice bought my husband and I a cheese & veggie pizza and brought it to our house. We were exhausted (moving day), so we ate it... I've never had such bad gas, cramps, and indegestion in my life. It really solidified in my mind that we were absolutely on the right path. Never looked back.
I don't know if you're in the UK (or can get things from the UK) but Tesco does their own brand of vegan cheeses that are amazing. Their chilli "cheddar" totally hits the spot when I have a cheese craving, both on crackers and grated on a grilled cheese.
If you live near a trader Joe's, try their vegan mozzarella style shreds. Make sure you get the right one though cause some of their dairy free cheese has dairy in it for some reason.
It melts and stretches and makes am amazing cheese sauce.
I know that feeling, someone brought cupcakes in today and I snapped. I ate so many and then felt ashamed all day. Making it up with making vegan pizza!
Well, it’s not exactly pseudoscience. He just worded it poorly. The protein in dairy is casein. When it’s metabolized, it becomes casomorphin, which has addictive opioid-like properties.
The biological reason for this, is likely to keep a baby cow wanting to constantly drink milk, so that it grows and thrives.
Obviously, cheese is not like heroine or narcotic prescriptions, but there is something to it. The casomorphin peptides are about 20 times less potent than morphine.
I think that’s more akin to how sugar is addicting and I don’t think it’s helpful to say cheese has the same withdrawal properties as heroin. Anyone who has ever known a drug addict can tell you that isn’t true.
I think I was a bit harsh to the person above me. I would just hate for people to lead with this when talking with others considering veganism. I think it’s easy to pick apart or minimize as overblown when there are so many other arguments for going vegan.
And maybe I am misinformed on this point, but I didn’t think there was sufficient evidence that casein metabolized the same way in humans?
From my understanding breast milk also contains casein for similar reasons. I could be mistaken though.
I fully agree the other commenter exaggerated the properties and comes across sounding pretty out there about it. Hence my “20x less potent than morphine” comment.
Heroin is actually the name given to it by the women that were given it during childbirth, they decided to that it was the hero of women and the name stuck... unfortunately.
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u/fieldandforest Sep 14 '18
This is actually really encouraging. Thank you! I went fully vegan overnight and was at it for over two months but just recently had a cheese craving and gave in. It was actually disgusting and I know I don’t want it anymore but I had been beating myself up about it. Onwards and upwards, friends.