If you’re thinking about going vegan, then you’ll want to hear today’s tips. Today, we are gonna share our top tips for going vegan, and we understand firsthand how hard it is to navigate everything at the beginning. Depending on your reasoning, it may depend on how fast or slowly you want to transition to a vegan diet. We’re going to share 10 tips with you today. And we got those tips by just thinking about our own vegan journey and what helped us from the beginning to where we are now. We hope that you find this video helpful, and let’s get right into it. So first up, you don’t have to go vegan all at once. Have you ever quit something cold turkey?
Okay, so I… I use something different. Like you quit something all at once, but either way. Have you ever done that and been super successful? Because if you answer yes, you should stop watching the video. Obviously, you’re like a god or something. And move on. It took us… years to go vegan. I mean… Like, years. So. Over the years, we strategized how we would get there, starting with our meats. We stopped eating pork, and I want to say beef first. And then we went into, okay, let’s try weaning off the chicken and the fish. But again, not completely all at once. And then… Our other thing was…
If you try to go out and be vegan, that’s just like a whole different animal—like that’s a different level of veganism. But either way, you really want to take your time. The next tip is not to guilt yourself if you slip up. Whoo— this one is a doozy! Especially if you went vegan for your health, but you stayed vegan for the animals, or the entire time you went vegan for the animals. I remember one time when we thought we were picking up the vegan burger package, but we actually picked up the vegetarian one. We didn’t realize until we were actually eating that they actually had cheese in them. Man, the guilt that you feel when you do something like that can really get to you.
We’ve also heard that it’s not us personally; people have accidentally been served something with butter or chicken stock from their family, or maybe they were traveling, and there were literally no vegan options where they were. You know, it can start to mess with your head if something like that happens to you. It’s important to remember that veganism is a journey. You shouldn’t beat yourself up, whether it was an accident or a personal choice. Just hop back in the next day and continue on your own vegan journey. The next thing you want to do is just completely brush off other people’s opinions. because the second that you tell them you went vegan, for anybody, the second you tell anybody you want to be your family, your friends, anybody on the street that you just met.
Like… You let them know you’re vegan and all of a sudden… You get a slew of questions, and it’s going to be stuff you were either looking for or weren’t. All those unsolicited questions that you get. Some folks are genuinely curious. Like, maybe they were looking to go vegan, or, you know, maybe they want to know just for knowledge. Other folks? Not so much. Some questions will be like, well, why would you do that? Or… Ah. Where do you get your protein from? So what you want to do is make sure you know why you chose to go vegan and get knowledgeable about how to maintain a healthy vegan lifestyle.
And the last thing is going back to the first thing. But like Tabitha Brown would say, ‘That’s your business.’ The next tip is one of the first things we recommend you do as soon as you go vegan: write down everything. And I literally mean… everything that you already eat that is already accidentally vegan, so think of things like spaghetti, most soups, chilis, and even things like peanut butter and jelly if that’s your thing, whatever you can think of, write it down on a list so that it makes your life easier. And we recommend that you do this for meals, as well as breakfast, snacks, desserts, and anything you can think of. It will make this journey so much easier the more you write down.
All right, this next one is the tip that helped us the most. Thinking of that, we should have put it as number one. But either way, what you want to do is find all of the vegan alternatives for your favorite foods, just like the list we told you to make. Last step. This time you’re going to make a list of all your favorite foods. Then, at this point, use that list to search online, definitely our website. And what you’re going to do is find an alternative to replace it, basically.
Here. So that looks good. Let me just, uh, okay. Bye. What are you doing here? I was going to give some tips. What are you doing in here? I was giving them tips about how to go vegan. That’s what I was giving to Chuck. Bet my tips are better. What were you saying? So don’t worry about it. I bet my tips were better. I bet you they weren’t. Okay, well, we’ll find out. We will probably. I’ll give the next tip. Why not? So the next tip is that it’s okay not to like really popular vegan foods. And we’re talking about things like coconut, tofu, mushrooms, eggplant, and cauliflower. It’s perfectly fine not to like any of those things, or just one or a few.
There are still plenty of fruits and vegetables that you can eat while on a vegan diet, even if you don’t like some of the more popular ones. That’s actually a good tip. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Let’s see what you got next. All right. Let’s see. So the next thing is be open to trying new foods more than once. And I say that because. Whoa. As we were vegan for quite some time, it seemed like, and I want to say this is very true, that your taste buds just evolved differently. Like, some foods you’ve tried maybe back before you were vegan, you didn’t like, or when you first started being vegan, you didn’t like. A couple of months later, it’ll be the best thing you’ve ever tasted.
Um… But… In some cases, things don’t change. I hate mushrooms. I hated mushrooms back then. I still hate mushrooms. So, give it a try. You might hate mushrooms, too. My next tip is actually that you find either an in-person or an online group of other vegans, and that is because going vegan isn’t easy for everyone. So it’s always nice to have ideas to bounce off other people, whether you are looking for a dinner idea, you find something new that you think is vegan and want to make sure it is, or you want to ask somebody else. We encourage you to do that. Facebook is a great place to find vegan support groups, and we even have one ourselves that we will link to in the comments below.
Yeah, no, for sure. Gotta have you as a support person, right? Yeah, always. Next up, I want to say is you, uh… Have you ever heard that acronym K-I-S-S? Keep it simple. And we’re not allowed to say the next word in this household. So I’m going to say ‘son.’ Keep it simple, son. All right. But it’s supposed to be stupid, so keep it simple, son. Not stupid either way. The whole point of me saying that is— you definitely want to keep it simple as soon as you’re going to go vegan, because vegans have some weird ingredients. Like, weird as hell, so ultimately, what you want to do is stick with the basics. As we gave you those tips earlier, stay there for a little while.
Wait till you’re comfortable, and a little later, journey out. Get some nutritional yeast and tapioca starch. Maybe even some, uh… What is that, jackfruit? Try that thing out. Either way, you want to keep it really simple as soon as you start and as you ease into it. Use your support group and the other tips we mentioned earlier. Things will definitely become a lot more. Simple. It was like… a whole year of being vegan before we tried vital wheat gluten to make seitan. We were like, ‘I don’t know what this stuff is. I don’t want to touch it.’ Yeah, yeah. That’s a good one. Thanks. The last tip that we want to give today is that veganism is an evolution.
And that means that it doesn’t matter how you start. It’s just… journey along the way. If you start as we did—with one or two meatless meals a week —if you jump in and fall off, and you need to start over again, it doesn’t matter. You don’t have to get rid of everything that’s in your house, and we don’t recommend it because it’s not good for the environment. Don’t go throwing away a couch that you paid all that money for, because it’s leather or your shoes or anything like that. It’s just quite ridiculous. So, you know, as she said, it’s an evolution. Right, but once you do need to swap those things out, then you can look for a vegan alternative at that time.
So veganism is not a race—it is everybody’s individual journey, and it’s important to remember that it is your journey, not anyone else’s. And so do it the best you can, and involve yourself in evolving every single day for sure. We truly hope we can help you on your vegan journey, whether you need a recipe on our website, find a tutorial like this very helpful, or follow our social media so you can see someone like you on this journey. We hope we can help you in any way, and we are pretty much always available for questions or anything like that. We hope you liked this video. If you did, give it a thumbs up and subscribe to our channel so you don’t miss anything for your own vegan journey.
And we hope you have a great week, a happy New Year, and a ton of success on your new vegan journey. And last but not least, to toss this in there to help you on your vegan journey, we are looking to start some classes soon. I hope you can join in on that. A newsletter where we’re sending good tips out there, and some of our popular recipes or current recipes. But we can help support you in that journey. So, if you’re looking to go vegan, I would say chat with us, and we’ll get you there. Have a great day, guys, and we’ll see you soon. Peace.
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