I'm pro insect protein.

Anyone want to share their favorite vegetarian and vegan meals? I still eat eggs, but have cut meat and dairy out of most of my diet. I'll still have it on occasion out of convenience when traveling, but focusing on having a whole foods plant-based diet.

I tried going vegan, but I had trouble getting enough micronutrients/minerals in my diet such as iron and calcium that it was hard to see if I was actually doing my body any favors. I started to feel off.

Kite Hill can now be found at other natural-food stores. Source: I'm a buyer for natural food stores

We have a local company called Punk Rawk Labs that has pretty good nut-based cheese.

I use nutritional yeast to flavor some product for a vaguely cheesy flavor and get more B12 in my diet.

What part of this was divisive?

"Pea milk" usually gets a laugh out of me.

Full-time vegetarian the past 3 years aside from the infrequent, once a year "oops I bought something that I didn't know had meat in it but already took a bite" incidents, no sense in letting it go to waste. This was after multiple false starts over the years. Vegan? I want to make it work, usually start strong, then months later just feel incredibly run down. I probably did something wrong.

I only went vegetarian to see how I'd feel and if I could do it. I feel like I did this backwards, because I know many try going vegan or vegetarian because of their values, but I feel like the idea of meat being repulsive didn't hit me until a year into being vegetarian. Like a switch just flipped. Particularly red meat.

I should add that I'd love to see everyone's favorite vegan dishes. I was in a vegan facebook group briefly, most people were cool, but a few were incredibly insufferable that it killed any desire for me to part of that community.