Living Vegan For Dummies - Alexandra Jamieson [54]
Charms Blow Pops and Lollipops
Cracker Jack
Dot candies
Dum Dum Pops
Famous Amos Sandwich Cookies (Vanilla)
Fritos Original corn chips
Hot Tamales
Hubba Bubba bubble gum
Jolly Rancher hard candies
Jujubes
Lemonhead candies
Mike and Ike candies
Now and Later candy
PEZ Candy
Sour Patch Kids candy
Starburst candy
Swedish Fish
Sweet Tarts candy
Twizzlers
Wheat Thins (Original, Multigrain, and Reduced Fat)
Eco-vegan shopping tips
Keeping your vegan head on straight may seem like a big enough challenge without worrying about the health of the planet — but isn’t that one of the reasons veganism sounded like a good idea in the first place? There are countless ways to reduce, reuse, and recycle your way to vegan heaven (like keeping those broccoli rubber bands for organizing long extension cords!). Here are some ideas to get you started:
Buy food in bulk. Buying in bulk can mean one of two things: Either you buy the large packages and quantities of food at once or you buy unpackaged foods from large bulk bins that don’t require individual packaging and labeling. Each option is less expensive than buying one package at a time. Buying unpackaged bulk foods like loose beans, grains, flours, teas, coffees, herbs and spices, nut butters, and oils requires less packaging, and, therefore, less plastic and cardboard is used to deliver the goods.
This method is ideal because it offers big discounts on those foods, and you can even reuse your old plastic bags and containers to refill with food again and again. If you choose to use clean glass jars to refill at the store, be sure to weigh them first so you can subtract the weight of the container from the total cost at check-out.
Use cloth bags to carry your groceries home. They’re nicer looking, and they make eco-sense! You also can consider reusing the plastic shopping bags that you already have stuffed in the closet.
Lather up with bar soaps (instead of liquid) when washing your hands and dishes and even when cleaning around the house. Bar soaps are cheaper, lighter, and require less fuel to transport. Many liquid soaps contain animal-derived ingredients, and all are packaged in unsustainable plastic bottles. To use bar soap when cleaning the dishes, your hands, or your house, simply shave or grate some soap into a spray bottle and fill with water, shake, spray, and clean!
Buy your food in easier-to-recycle containers like cardboard or paper instead of plastic bags or tubs. Some vegan margarines come in cardboard boxes wrapped in paper and others come in plastic tubs. Try the paper one first. You also can buy great healthy pastas in boxes instead of plastic bags.
Grow your own herbs, fruit, and veggies. Growing your own food is inexpensive, good for the environment, and better for you because you have access to fresh food that isn’t treated with herbicides and pesticides. Setting up a little container garden of herbs in your window is easy and inexpensive, and it looks great with any décor.
Chapter 8
Coexisting with the Meat Eaters in Your Home
In This Chapter
Living happily with nonvegans
Understanding the food and comfort needs of everyone in your household
Teaching children valuable cooking and meal planning skills
At some point in your vegan life, you’ll most likely live with a nonvegan. You may find one on craigslist as a roommate, marry one, give birth to one, or marry into a family populated by meat and dairy lovers. All these carnivores will eye your tempeh and nutritional yeast flakes suspiciously at first. Considering vegans comprise less than 5 percent of the population, it’s no surprise that you need to get comfortable with mixed company.
Living with nonvegans presents interesting and unique challenges. Some households are able to find a middle road that works for everyone relatively easily and quickly. Others find it difficult