Eating food in general? Hard. Eating vegan in comparison with eating carnic? Easy.

  • TheFriar@lemm.eeEnglish
    72·
    1 year ago

    Is ramen vegan? Being coupled with “potatoes” makes me think instant ramen, which isn’t vegan. But fancy ramen, sure, it can be

    • DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      21·
      1 year ago

      Some instant ramens are vegan and some aren’t. My favourite ramen is Shin Ramyun. The Korean and US versions aren’t vegan, but the Japanese, European, and Australian ones are. It has textured soybean bits that look just like beef chunks, so after I tried it for the first time I had to go back and look at the label in disbelief. But yeah, vegan.

      I’m too poor to have fancy meals all the time, but when I feel like a treat I have VEEF’s fake meat. It’s so realistic, the beef burger patties actually made me nauseous. I prefer the fake meatballs and the fake chicken schnitzel. Put some peri peri spice and soy sauce on the schnitzel and it’s to die for. I only wish there were more calories. Being vegan might be easy, but being fat and vegan is still hard.

    • owatnext@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      1 year ago

      Depends on the instant ramen in question. There is definitely vegan instant ramen out there.

      Edit to add: I say this as a vegan with instant ramen of the vegan variety in my cupboard.

    • 3laws@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 year ago

      I was just camping last week and we had instant ramen for breakfast. It’s not that hard to find it tbh.

  • Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    How do you handle restaurants? My wife is extremely picky, and most restaurants are off the table.

    I feel like a lot of social events would be off the table too.

    • DroneRights [it/its]@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      121·
      1 year ago

      I have ARFID, and a well known side effect is going to fancy restaurants, looking at a huge menu of great options that might trigger my eating disorder, and just ordering the chips because they’re a safe food and at least I won’t go hungry. It sucks, because it makes me feel so immature.

      But as a vegan, I can just say “I can’t find any good vegan options. I guess I’ll just have the chips”, and now it’s someone else’s fault and I don’t have to feel guilty! Being vegan is so easy!