Guest guest Posted March 20, 2009 Report Share Posted March 20, 2009 hello all and thank you for allowing me in this group. I am a recovering vegan trying to find ways to compass our menu around our food allergies. I was a vegetarian for 5 yrs followed by 5 yrs as vegan. i fell off the wagon druing the pregnancies of my 3 and 1 yr old. i tned to fall victim to bacon sometimes. i am vegan for ethical and health reasons and my sometimes failures mean i'm human. in addition to wheat and gluten , my daughters and i are also allergic to citrus, strawberry, raw tomatoe and apple based vinegars. so recipes are hard. i use to loave plenty of soy products until i read to much about the soy story and currently not sure if i want my girls consuming it. i am trying to find a balance. i really miss tofu and and other soy items. if anyone can give some advice about this i would appreciate it. i know using soy would make it very easy for us to maintain a vegan diet with out only it rice,potatoe dishes. thank you, unita w..birth momma to Wild Horses- Moms in the Outdoors adventure group. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 24, 2009 Report Share Posted March 24, 2009 I was hoping that someone else would weigh in on the soy issue. I have researched both sides of the soy issue. I found that the negative stuff tends to come from two or three sources, all of them related, who are funded by the meat and dairy industry. Their studies are not unbiased. In order to look more official, they use each other as references, but they are all related. Soy products have been used in Asian cultures for centuries. Those cultures typically have very low rates of cancer and other western diseases. So chances are that if you model your diet after those cultures - plant based diet, with soy used in small amounts, " whole " soy products, mostly in fermented forms, you do not need to worry about the hysterical claims of the meat and dairy industries. There is a big difference between eating the highly processed commercial soy products (meals based around veggie burgers and faux meats, high-sugar soy milk, etc.) and traditional tofu, tempeh, edamame, etc. Pam Pam On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 4:00 PM, uwalburn <uwalburn wrote: > hello all and thank you for allowing me in this group. I am a recovering > vegan trying to find ways to compass our menu around our food allergies. I > was a vegetarian for 5 yrs followed by 5 yrs as vegan. i fell off the wagon > druing the pregnancies of my 3 and 1 yr old. i tned to fall victim to bacon > sometimes. i am vegan for ethical and health reasons and my sometimes > failures mean i'm human. in addition to wheat and gluten , my daughters and > i are also allergic to citrus, strawberry, raw tomatoe and apple based > vinegars. so recipes are hard. i use to loave plenty of soy products until i > read to much about the soy story and currently not sure if i want my girls > consuming it. i am trying to find a balance. i really miss tofu and and > other soy items. if anyone can give some advice about this i would > appreciate it. i know using soy would make it very easy for us to maintain a > vegan diet with out only it rice,potatoe dishes. > thank you, > unita w..birth momma to Wild Horses- Moms in the Outdoors adventure group. > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 27, 2009 Report Share Posted March 27, 2009 , pdw <pdworkman wrote: > > I was hoping that someone else would weigh in on the soy issue. I happily eat soy. Dr. Andrew Weil, whom I trust very much, recommends it. Sierra Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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