How to be vegan when you don’t like vegetables: let lentils and fruit do the work
Lean on lentils and fruit, and keep one orange vegetable. Lentils outrank greens for potassium on NIH's list; vitamin A is where fruit falls short.
Vegan Living
Being vegan at home is easy. It gets interesting at Thanksgiving, at the Italian place your colleagues picked, at an airport at 6 a.m., and when your dog gives you that look. Vegan Living covers the parts of the week that happen outside your own kitchen: holidays, eating out, travel, budgets, pets, and the documentaries someone will recommend to you over dinner. The aim is to get you through the week without living on side salads and bread rolls.
These are practical guides rather than product verdicts. I’ve been the one with the special plate at family dinners since 2012, and I’ve learned that bringing a good dish beats explaining your diet for the fifth time. When a guide points you to a product, it links to the right aisle, where the label checking happens.
Start here: Surviving Thanksgiving as a vegan · Vegan during the holidays · Vegan options at Italian restaurants · What it costs to be vegan · Can your dog be vegan?
Is it cheaper to be vegan? On average, yes, and the savings come from what you stop eating
On average, yes. In a 16-week US trial, food costs fell about 16% on a low-fat vegan diet, more than in the control group, mostly from meat and dairy.
How to stay vegan while traveling: the vegan airline meal has fine print, so pack your own
On short US flights you often can't order a vegan meal: American offers it domestically only in First. Pack solid food; hummus falls under the 3.4 oz rule.
Best vegan documentaries on Netflix: what’s actually on it now, and the one with a trial behind it
Forks Over Knives and The Game Changers have left Netflix US. Start with You Are What You Eat: it follows a published trial, though Netflix overstates it.
Vegan options at Italian restaurants: the pasta is the easy part, the minestrone isn’t
Plain pasta with tomato sauce is the safe vegan order at Olive Garden, Carrabba's and Macaroni Grill. Minestrone, bread and gluten-free pasta differ by chain.
Vegan at an Indian restaurant: what to order, and the ghee question to ask first
Order dal and vegetable dishes and ask what fat each is cooked in. Ghee and paneer are milk products by Indian law, and vegetable ghee is a different fat.
Best vegan dog food: 8 checked against the label, 1 to skip, and none for puppies
Our pick is Wild Earth Maintenance: vitamin D2 from yeast, no pulses in the first three ingredients. 8 foods compared, skip Evolution, none labeled for puppies.
Can dogs be vegan? Adult dogs can on the right food, and the evidence is thinner than either side admits
Most dogs can do well on a carefully designed vegan diet, a Tufts vet nutritionist wrote. The studies are small, and none of the foods is for puppies.
How to eat vegan at a work event or conference
Ask in allergen terms, milk and egg, not 'is it vegan': the label has no US legal definition. Say you're vegan, not allergic, and pack a backup.
