Vegan - how?
Nice, you want to get some information on how to transition your lifestyle to veganism. 🖤
The change
Please keep in mind that your taste buds have been tuned to a certain taste your whole life.
When trying plant-based alternatives, it may taste strange or "not what you're used to" at first.
But if you keep it up for a month, your taste buds will readjust and the taste of the plant-based product will become the new reference.
At this point we can recommend the Veganuary Challenge.
There you can register online at any time and you will receive an email with helpful tips every day for a month.
At the same time it is a challenge for you where you try to eat completely vegan for 30 days.
It is very interesting to experience how your physical well-being changes positively after 30 days of vegan nutrition.
Of course, tastes are different and there are countless different vegan meat alternatives, plant milk, etc.
Therefore, please try something through the offer and do not decide completely against vegan products after your first product which you did not like.
We list below some steps that you can gradually incorporate into your daily life in the order of your choice.
But always remember that if you are against animal suffering, the goal should be to take all these steps in the near future.
- Dairy products
Replace the milk in your coffee, cereal or cooking with a plant-based alternative.
For cooking you can use instead of cream - Soy Cuisine, Oat Cuisine or regular plant milk.
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- Meat and fish
Try vegan burgers or other meat and fish alternatives.
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- Honey
Just replace the honey with flower honey, it tastes fantastic and also offers a much larger flavor selection.
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- Shoes and clothes
The next time you need shoes or clothes, make sure you choose products that do not contain leather, fur (hood trim), down (jacket lining), silk or animal wool.
It's also best to avoid fake fur, because real fur is often cheaper than fake fur. Which is why, unfortunately, articles are often wrong declared.
In addition, you yourself would make a fashion statement with fake fur on the street, which may encourage other people to buy something similar, they then do not pay attention and catch real fur.
- Beauty and body care products
Look for the Vegan label on your beauty and body care products.
If you see the Vegan Label or the Vegan Flower on the packaging of a product, you can assume that it does not contain any animal ingredients and has not been tested on animals.
However, the control mechanisms are not as strict as for the Cruelty Free labels that exist specifically for this purpose.
If you want to be on the safe side, make sure that both labels are on the packaging.
Here you can find a detailed explanation of the labels.
- Entertainment
Instead of going to the zoo or circus, visit an animal sanctuary where the animals are really free to live without being exploited.
A more detailed list of vegan products for everyday life which we recommend can be found in this vegan blog.
What should I look for when shopping?
If you find these labels on the packaging, you can access without looking, but be careful that the yellow label says vegan underneath, there is an identical one for vegetarian.
Products with these labels are officially licensed, which costs the manufacturer something. Some manufacturers do not want to bear these costs and therefore simply write Vegan on the packaging.
Here we recommend to quickly read through the ingredients list to be sure it’s vegan.
Many products without label are also vegan, here we recommend you to go through the ingredients list.
You will find that often, for example, "milk powder" is added as a cheap filler, which is why the product is then not vegan.
Some more tips:
- Pasta made from durum wheat semolina (without egg) is usually vegan
- Bread is gernerally vegan but it often contains honey which makes it not vegan
- Wine and fruit juices were probably filtered / clarified with animal products, which is why most of them are not vegan.
Beer which was brewed according to the German Purity Law is vegan. Pay attention especially to the addition of honey.
But do not worry on the website Barnivore you will find a huge database of vegan beers, wines and spirits.
- On the back of the packaging you can often read "May contain traces of milk, eggs...", these products are also vegan if the main ingredients are not of animal origin.
This is an allergy notice which means that on this production conveyor belt also other products with e.g. milk / eggs are produced.
Info on nutrient requirements
If you want to learn more about a nutrient-dense vegan diet (which we highly recommend) we can recommend the book
Vegan Klischee ade as well as the
Youtube channel from Niko Rittenau.
Or you can make it easy for yourself and get advice from a professional vegan nutritionist. We can recommend Simon from
Plantbased Ernährungsberatung.
However, we would like to share one nutrient info here:
It is imperative to supplement vitamin B12 when following a vegan diet.
We recommend a supplement in spray or drop form.
In animal products it has nowadays only vitamin B12 because it was given to the animals also via supplement, so we can also omit the detour over the animal and take the B12 directly to us.
Finally, the vegan food pyramid so that you get a rough overview of a balanced vegan diet. The vegan meat alternatives are mostly made from legumes.
The vegan food pyramid
