Guest guest Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Good Morning all, Today is the start of week two of the veg lifestyle. The first two weeks were about taking meat out of our diets. Now next week it is grocery shopping and I would like to start weeding out products that I usually buy that are made with animal products. I'm not weeding out dairy yet since I don't eat a lot of that anyway.. There are so many ingredients that are animal products, how do you keep track of all of it? Did you start by just replacing a few items at a time or did you spend hours in the grocery stores reading labels. Right now I am going through my cupboards and looking at the label of foods I normally buy. Then I'll figure out what to replace them with. I normally buy Fig Newtons. Maybe the sugar free ones will work out since they don't have sugar. No more chocolate chip cookie, 100 calorie snacks. Any tips for grocery shopping and staying away from animal products would be most helpful. And any tips for what to buy since I need to lose weight would be helpful. Thanks     Tami Your life is an occasion. Rise to it! 210.8\183\135 = 27.8 pounds gone forever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 I wouldn't buy the sugar free fig newtons...don't they contain a sugar substitute? I bet there is a good recipe using date sugar somewhere (I need to start looking, as they are sounding really good to me LOL ) Other than that, I just replaced things as they were out and needed replacing. I don't have enough $$$ to buy all new Congrats on surviving the first 2 weeks. It gets much easier as habits form, and there are so many recipes in the files, you never get bored! Cassie Tami <windswept.serenity.528 wrote: Good Morning all, Today is the start of week two of the veg lifestyle. The first two weeks were about taking meat out of our diets. Now next week it is grocery shopping and I would like to start weeding out products that I usually buy that are made with animal products. I'm not weeding out dairy yet since I don't eat a lot of that anyway.. There are so many ingredients that are animal products, how do you keep track of all of it? Did you start by just replacing a few items at a time or did you spend hours in the grocery stores reading labels. Right now I am going through my cupboards and looking at the label of foods I normally buy. Then I'll figure out what to replace them with. I normally buy Fig Newtons. Maybe the sugar free ones will work out since they don't have sugar. No more chocolate chip cookie, 100 calorie snacks. Any tips for grocery shopping and staying away from animal products would be most helpful. And any tips for what to buy since I need to lose weight would be helpful. Thanks     Tami Your life is an occasion. Rise to it! 210.8\183\135 = 27.8 pounds gone forever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Tami, what I do (and I am sure many other here too) is buy some pantry essentials, non perishables, like spices, herbs, seasonings, beans, olive oil, nuts, seeds, rice, other grains, and flours (I make my bread often). I try to keep my pantry stocked with these items. This way you just buy the fruits and vegetables that are in season, tofu if you use that, look in the files and find recipes to cook them with. I avoid regular supermarkets since I find cheaper, fresher and more local veggies in either farmers markets or ethnic markets. The less packaged and processed the items you buy, the less expensive they will be and the healthier they will be too, also less chance of non veggie stuff creeping in there...Good luck in your shopping and enjoy the process! Roseta , " Tami " <windswept.serenity.528 wrote: > > Good Morning all, > Today is the start of week two of the veg lifestyle. The first two weeks > were about taking meat out of our diets. > Now next week it is grocery shopping and I would like to start weeding out > products that I usually buy that are made with animal products. > I'm not weeding out dairy yet since I don't eat a lot of that anyway.. > > There are so many ingredients that are animal products, how do you keep > track of all of it? > Did you start by just replacing a few items at a time or did you spend hours > in the grocery stores reading labels. > > Right now I am going through my cupboards and looking at the label of foods > I normally buy. Then I'll figure out what to replace them with. > I normally buy Fig Newtons. Maybe the sugar free ones will work out since > they don't have sugar. > No more chocolate chip cookie, 100 calorie snacks. > > Any tips for grocery shopping and staying away from animal products would be > most helpful. > And any tips for what to buy since I need to lose weight would be helpful. > > Thanks     > Tami > Your life is an occasion. Rise to it! > 210.8\183\135 = 27.8 pounds gone forever > > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Read the lables closely on any sauses and condiments other than catsup and mustard. Lots of them have meat biproducts in them. Marshmellows are out and so is Jello, Both have animal products. Katie. Tami <windswept.serenity.528 wrote: Good Morning all, Today is the start of week two of the veg lifestyle. The first two weeks were about taking meat out of our diets. Now next week it is grocery shopping and I would like to start weeding out products that I usually buy that are made with animal products. I'm not weeding out dairy yet since I don't eat a lot of that anyway.. There are so many ingredients that are animal products, how do you keep track of all of it? Did you start by just replacing a few items at a time or did you spend hours in the grocery stores reading labels. Right now I am going through my cupboards and looking at the label of foods I normally buy. Then I'll figure out what to replace them with. I normally buy Fig Newtons. Maybe the sugar free ones will work out since they don't have sugar. No more chocolate chip cookie, 100 calorie snacks. Any tips for grocery shopping and staying away from animal products would be most helpful. And any tips for what to buy since I need to lose weight would be helpful. Thanks     Tami Your life is an occasion. Rise to it! 210.8\183\135 = 27.8 pounds gone forever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 27, 2008 Report Share Posted May 27, 2008 Katie <cozycate wrote: > Read the lables closely on any sauses and condiments other than catsup and mustard. Lots of them have meat biproducts in them. Marshmellows are out and so is Jello, Both have animal products. > Katie. Be on the lookout for high fructose corn syrup, it's not an animal product but it's in SO many things (catsup is one!). Jann > Tami <windswept.serenity.528 wrote: > Now next week it is grocery shopping and I would like to start weeding out products that I usually buy that are made with animal products. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 17, 2008 Report Share Posted June 17, 2008 Some of those E food additives have meat byproducts in them http://www.foodfigures.com/ Katie <cozycate wrote: Read the lables closely on any sauses and condiments other than catsup and mustard. Lots of them have meat biproducts in them. Marshmellows are out and so is Jello, Both have animal products. Katie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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