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[Kagus]

Guess who has healthy blood with no deficiencies after having been vegan for a year?   

Is the answer Khorne?

[Doomblade187]

Guess who has healthy blood with no deficiencies after having been vegan for a year?   

Is the answer Khorne?

Sounds like.

[Castlecliff]

Oh oh oh I know.
It's JOE MUMMA

[hector13]

Yo mama is so vegan, she has excellent digestion.

[overseer05-15]

Are deez nuts vegan?

[Amperzand]

Hot damn, it's been a long time since I've done anything here. Feels like an old friend.

[WealthyRadish]

Guess who has healthy blood with no deficiencies after having been vegan for a year?   

I've been a vegetarian for around 4 years now and also felt ok about a recent medical test, with eggs being the only exception to that vegan, uh, "cred." I feel bad about eating eggs though, if only because --

1) It feels like "cheating," it's basically meat
2) I intensely hate just about everything about eggs

[Arx]

Hot damn, it's been a long time since I've done anything here. Feels like an old friend.

Welcome back!

[Yoink]

What sort of stuff do you eat, 'sides eggs obviously?
Eggs were probably my main intentional protein source for a while before I went vegan*, although I only had them quite occasionally anyway since buying the free-range kind was quite expensive. I already ate a fair few kidney beans and suchlike, though. For some reason eggs were just my go-to whenever I experienced doubts about the amount of protein I was getting.   

I would personally probably be okay with eating eggs, if they were sourced from the sort of harmless backyard pet-type scenarios my family had with our chooks when I was growing up, but I don't particularly miss them.

_{* I would eat my scrambled eggs made with non-dairy milk.}   

Hot damn, it's been a long time since I've done anything here. Feels like an old friend.

Welcome back! Your username is certainly familiar.   

[WealthyRadish]

What sort of stuff do you eat, 'sides eggs obviously?

The main daily vegetables would be broccoli, carrots, brussel sprouts, and edamame. Less regular or lower quantity would be spinach, onion, garlic, tomatoes, and the odd weird thing like parsnip, squash, etc. For more starchy things, I eat quite a bit of oats (I actually like to mix raw oats and other things in with scrambled eggs to take the edge off my disgust), rice, red potatoes, and usually bake bread a couple times a week. For fat it's mostly tons of olive oil, plus sometimes things like flaxseeds or nuts. Basically no fruit, also no coffee, sugar, or alcohol for what that's worth.

The eggs are just a sort of catch-all I occasionally eat to get B12 and whatever other deficiencies might slip through. But the preparation, the cleanup, the taste (particularly the smell), the ethical implications, they all bother me intensely. I can't think of anything more efficient to serve this lazy backup role, though, and don't want to take supplements. I'm curious how you manage it as a vegan, aside from supplements.

[Amperzand]

I posted a lot in 2015-16, but then things got busy.

[Doomblade187]

I posted a lot in 2015-16, but then things got busy.

It happends. A break rejuvenates the experience anyways, imo. Welcome back!

[Amperzand]

Indeed. I've also been spending a lot of time on science-fiction focused discord servers, so the climate here is an interesting change of pace.

[Kagus]

Black turtle beans are big protein while also being big iron (you thought the ranger was carrying a gun on his hip? You thought wrong), plus they're naturally a bit tastier than kidney beans. Don't get me wrong, kidney beans definitely have their uses, but I think they're just a bit dull without a lot of spice support.

Eggs aren't even really that great a source for B12, might as well just pick up some supplements or dietary yeast products like VEG THE MIGHTY.

For other deficiencies, there's... Well... I mean, eggs slightly cover a lot of bases, so it'd be a long list to go over every alternative, so eh. You're getting a reasonable amount of ALA Omega-3 from flax seeds, and that's generally one that can be troubling for vegan diets. I'm definitely not an expert on Omega-3s though, so I don't really know the difference with mainly getting ALA instead of more animal-sourced types, or if you're getting a proper Omega-3 vs. Omega-6 balance, but I don't know if I'm getting that either so whoopee!

There was an advertisement campaign here in Norway for eggs, with several variations on the theme of "EGGS ARE THE BEST, ALL YOU NEED FOR A BALANCED DIET IS EGGS AND A GLASS OF ORANGE JUICE!!". I think they might still be running it, actually.

You see what happens in a country that's not allowed to advertise alcohol or tobacco products? It's crazy.

[Castlecliff]

I get my B12 from eating dirt and coming here