As it turns out, making the change from vegetarian to vegan is SO MUCH HARDER than the change from meat-eater to vegetarian. Becoming vegetarian couldn't even be described as hard. So I'm going easy on myself, forgiving myself for not going cold tofurky, allowing myself to do this incrementally, one day, one choice at a time. I am very slowly reading Becoming Vegan, and it seems to be an excellent resource. More on the book as I delve deeper.
Also, I am NOT big on convenience foods, but to ease the transition I tried a couple products. One gets a big thumbs up, the other I would only loosely define as "food." The unsuccessful experiment first: Soy-sation shredded "cheese." I don't even think this is totally animal-free, and it's terrible anyway. Bad flavor, bad texture. Boo. BUT, the triumph: Purely Decadent vegan ice cream. I have tried two flavors, Cookie Dough and Peanut Butter Zig Zag. The latter is my favorite, but both are quite tasty. Though this is vegan, it is not, I repeat NOT, health food. Vegans need something sinful every now and then, too.
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