what dairy do you rely on?
milk?
get oat milk, rice milk or soy milk.. oat is nice for cereals and hot drinks.. rice for drinking normally i guess aaanndd... soy.. for feeling congested lol.
cheese? um.. I guess just don't eat it. icecream... ? soy ice cream is much nicer.
yogurt... eh.. same as cheese, it isn't necessary. Tofutti makes a nice cream cheese spread.
I forget what dairy is actually in that needs to be eaten lol.
look up what foods calcium is in, that is a major thing I guess.
avoid or read most chippies labels.. they often have milk in them or milk solids.
the hardest thing about veganism is the hidden / concealed animal derivatives.. if every product said 'animal' 'non-animal' HOW easy would it be to be vegan LOL... you'd just eat the stufff. that doesn't use animals LOL... I mean... how is that difficult.. so slowly build up your repertoire of things you know are entirely vegan and slowly it becomes easy to shop and survive ... adding more and more to that list until yay... you have more options than things you even liked/would eat before anyways
the first part is looking for something you like the idea of eating ...like a can of soup.. and read the labels.. after time you will associate that 'ew' feeling to 'what you like the idea of eating' and you'l become less likely to pick up something which has animools in it. I read so many labels... bring it home and milk is sitting right there.. in bold... so you need to really want to find it straight up.. it is just exercise for your will. Don't be too bummed out if you keep finding animal in stuff,there are heaps of alternatives.
I found animal in.. most canned soups, almost all rice crackers (the sakata sort of ones)... all doritos but the original ones, all baked beans but the plain ones, all chips... pretty much >_> red rock... grain waves etc. most flavour enhancers... Keep a list of enumbers with you, as soon as it says e-something... be a lil suspicious unless you recognise it.. most 'acids' are fine.. you can kind of tell the ew ones.
apparently orange soft drinks are suspicious esp made by coke... I don't know i've emailed so many companies.. don't be afraid to call the customer line either, they are used to the question and the call is free usually too. so when you're out shopping just read labels of things you want to om nom.
hmm for home cooked meals.. it makes it difficult.
just be certain about it.. your parents can leave the cheese off your serve... or use heaps of olive oil instead of butter fats and stuff.
vegan pizza.. no cheese.. actually turns out really quite nice.
sorry i'm not more informative.. maybe I need more information :p
