having to stop eating meat is fuarking hard ngl tbh
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It’s as simple as not buying it. There’s no trick.
Check out some stuff like the vegan home cooks discord for some recipes, some blogs in whatever cusine you enjoy. Then make those foods.
i’ve been trying for the last decade or so as well and i think i will have to make peace with the fact that i’m never going to fully succeed; only minimize as much as possible.
i think that lentils are the closest thing to a meat replacement you can find; but they usually have a lot of carbohydrates. the fiber and protein helps a little bit in keeping the glucose level down and adding in fats/oils while cooking/preparation helps too; but i find that i sometimes have to pair it with meat to give my pancreas the break it needs.
some lentils are better than others and i place emphasis on the good ones to help me stay away from meat; but all the best & most delicious lentil recipes i know have been handed down through the generations and only seem to work with the “less better” lentils like pinto beans. (vegan and vegetarian restaurants have great recipes, but they’re expensive and sometimes won’t share their recipes).
Literally any whole grain paired with literally any legume. The combination gives you every essential amino acid in protein. Popcorn and baked beans is a meat replacement.
i’m going to give this a try and see if my glucose monitor goes off from all the carbohydrates; i hope it works because this is the only thing holding me back and ty for making me aware.
I was diagnosed with prediabetes in my late 30s and I followed the precursor to this program https://www.masteringdiabetes.org/book/ along with the work of PCRM to get it under control with a vegan diet and its been 8 years now, I’m in my mid 40s now and its all under control for me. I get it that different people are different and I don’t really know anything about type 1, but this really worked for me and I can’t sing its praises enough, it really totally changed my life.
I’m honestly not trying to be snarky, but just go to YouTube and search for “slaugherhouse footage”. Once you see it, you can’t go back.
This is what did it for me. Once you see that shit you stop seeing meat as food.
Without knowing your specific experience, I’ll say incremental change might be easier. Start with cutting out only dark meat, it’s the worst for you anyways. Opt for more meals including vegetables and such rather than focusing on cutting because that would be the space your moving into anyways so you’ll need to get comfortable eating that way.
I get where you are coming from, I experienced something similar. It wasn’t so much that I desired meat, because I didn’t really. I was ready to give it up. It was more that I just didn’t know how to replace all the meat I would normally consume. Like, it would be time make dinner and I would just sorta blank out and have no idea what to make because I was so used to basing meals (dinner especially) around meat.
If that describes your situation, then I would suggest a 2 step process:
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Go online and try to grab as many interesting vegan recipes that you can find. Even just pictures of vegan food can open up ideas.
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Invest time, if you are able, in planning out each of your meals for the week or even just the next couple days. If you have a plan and have all the ingredients set up in advance, I think you’ll find it’s much easier.
An additional tip if you happen to live in a larger city with vegan restaurants… see if they will sell you their “meat” separately. For example, one of my local places will let you buy any of the vegan “meats” they make by the pound, but they don’t advertise it. It’s a great replacement for lunch meat. You could just email them and see if they would do it. I find most vegan restaurants are pretty cool about stuff like that.
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