for me there is no missing foods, i just get use to the change and then eventually like it....like tofu and soymilk.

Big old Dagwood-sized bologna and American cheese sandwiches, on 12-grain bread so I can kid myself it isn't completely lethal. There is NO substitute people!

Sounds crazy, but marshmallows are what I missed most. I finally some vegan ones at Sweet & Sara (in New York). I paid $22 just to have them shipped to me in California! They were awesome. My son was so excited to finally try them (he's been a vegetarian since birth).

I finally "found" some....

I am still trying to figure out what I can and can't eat. I am trying to be vegan but it is so hard. Signed--Nora

I have to say, that I don't miss anything.
except maybe butter on saltines. (it was a thing my grandma did for me when I was little).
Other than that, I never really liked cheese when I was omni and meat I got over quickly.

But honestly, if I am craving something I let myself have it. I don't think it's right just to stick to labels. Which I think some vegans do. But if you're really hankering for a piece of cheese pizza, have one.

but do it in a mindful way. Maybe really splurge on yourself. Make the crust and get some good sauce. Then make sure you get some of the best cheese you can afford. Maybe even organic, sustainable. This way you're being responsible in some fashion.

I realize many vegans will critique my opinion, this is fine.

I miss the flavor of buffalo sauce on the buffalo chicken fingers, but after 4-years meat free...I would NEVER eat a piece of meat again.

It's hard now to resist all the goodies and baked goods surrounding me at work at Christmas time. Cakes, cookies, candy - but it makes it easy to not splurge.

I'm a coffee lover and it's hard to look forward to going to Dunkin Donuts or other places w/o soy milk. Even places like Panera that make special soy drinks (hot cocoa), I still have to check to see if there's milk in the syrup!

But I truely don't crave anything that I used to eat. Just thinking about eating something from an animal sickens me and I don't want to. I'm really loving the natural tastes of whole-foods, veggies, natural stuff, and it makes me feel so much healthier!

I did miss spagetti. I love italian food, I love my spagetti and my lasagna and enchiladas, etc. But, actually today I bought some boca meatless "meat" (it tastes great and its made out of soy protein.) Then I bought some vegan noodles and some tomato sauce and made some really good spagetti. I also had some garlic bread.

*I'm a vegetarian but I try to eat as much vegan foods as possible. Becoming a vegan is my New Year's resolution. I'm totally ready for it :)

The thought of eating meat is repulsive to me at this point, but I would pay an arm and a leg if someone came up with a really good substitute to use as hamburger. I used to work in a kitchen and the guys on the grill would make me the BEST cheeseburgers ever!! None of the meat substitutes I've found even come close to comparing. Some of the veggie burgers are really good, but they just don't have the same consistency and they definitely aren't juicy. Still, as long as there are substitutes available I won't touch meat. Then again, if a perfectly healthy cow (wild, that had never even seen a human before, much less been mistreated by one) just dropped dead in front of me, would it be wrong to get some hamburger meat from it?

Kanned, I read somewhere that even Tibetan Buddhist monks -- hardcore vegans -- are allowed to eat meat if it's an animal killed accidentally, by falling off a Himalaya for instance.

That makes sense seeing as how veganism is about preventing suffering and valuing life. I wonder how many of them would chose to eat it, because most vegans/vegetarians (myself included) can't stand to be around meat. I get it from a morale standpoint, I'm just not sure that I would be able to do it physically.

barbeque ribs-but not the meat=barbeque sauce. but i was in the veggie frozen food section one day and found veggie barbeque ribs!!!! and they are DELICIOUS!!!! idk what brand but its a brown box with green writing on it....my bf even tried it and said it "wasn't bad" which is good for him to say. no more eating bbq sauce by itself

I still love the SMELL of bacon. It's the only meat that I will willingly inhale and enjoy the aroma of when it's cooking. The smell of everything else makes my stomache roll. But bacon doesn't TASTE the way it smells...vile salty overly treated flesh (hehehe). The smell though, combined with fresh brewed coffee smell....ahhhhh heaven (tee hee :-D )

OMG, #13, right there with you! last night my BF was making bacon for BLTs and I was like, holy crap that smells AWESOME. Then I remembered that I never even like to eat bacon before I was vege and remembered it was because, despite it's wonderful aroma, it tastes DISGUSTING!

One thing I really miss is sushi! I love sushi and although you can make it vegan, it really is the raw fish part I loved.

Another thing is eggs. But I found a vege restaurant that will make scrambled tofu that is pretty damn close. there is a post up called how do you prepare tofu that says to put tumeric with tofu and add spices to make it like eggs, i think that is what this place does and it ROCKS!

I have not gone back to vegan/vegetarianism yet, but reading all your posts helps! I don't know how i would live without mac and cheese though. :o(