h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Just thought i would add my name to the hopefully growing list of meatless eaters.
Have been a veggie for fourteen years but always thought it too difficult to become vegan, so became a lazy vegetarian, this year decided to shake myself up a bit so have tried to become vegan, it does need some planning but has been positive so far. Giving up milk was easy as i only have cereal and soya milk has improved no end since i first tried. The main thing that i have missed so far is cheese as vegan cheese leaves a little to be desired

Hopefully soon to be a HVS member

DONONE 1

Hi DONONE 1 from a fellow vegan. I've lived as a vegan for the past 20 years or so and have a 15 year-old daughter who has been raised as a vegan (despite her having a meat-eating Dad and brother!).

Which soya milk are you using? I can drink almost any kind but prefer the unsweetened ones whereas my daughter will drink nothing else but the sweetened Plamil soya milk.

Nice to hear from a fellow vegan

Impressed you have been vegan for twenty years and brought daughter up in the proper way pity about the rest of the family but not everyone can be perfect. I have been using so good soya milk which should be renamed not bad and have recently tried alpro which is a bit sweet for me(you could see what your daughter thinks)I have to put up with meat eating brother which is not pleasant, opening fridge can be horrible sometimes
I noticed from your page we have something else in common as i have just joined Amnesty International so keep up with the good work

Fortunately my better half and son seldom eat meat, which probably has something to do with my inability to cook it and the fact that it's burned to a crisp!

I heard somewhere that SoGood's soya milk products weren't suitable for vegans and I would check this out with the Vegan Society or SoGood if you want to use them in future.

I've found that Haldane Food's 'White Wave' unsweetened soya milk is really quite nice and it doesn't curdle in tea or coffee (unless the coffee is very strong). Another benefit is that Morrison's supermarkets retail White Wave sweetened/unsweetened at 65p per litre.

Thanks for the advice on no good sorry so good will stop having it straight away, i only have soya milk on cereal(green tea and black coffee).Just had surf around and cannot so good carton says suitable for veggies and vegans but i will see what further investigations bring
Shopping is taking me much longer searching out all the vegan products but is worth it smiley>

Hi there,

Give me a bit, and I'll get you on the list. Really have to get this essay done!

No problems the essay comes first, can wait to be listed

Gwennie am sorry about the message last night obviously i was talking broken biscuits(vegan ones) just looked at so good site and looking through ingredients saw that it contains vitamin d which i am almost sure is animal based please could you confirm this as carton is hovering over bin as we speak

Done. Welcome to the Society!

glad to be officially a member of H2G2 Vegetarian soceity

I *think* (This is frequently difficult for me to do due to my age and since I had large portions of my brain cell removed during child birth!) that to be suitable for a vegan diet, vitamin D should be specified as D2.

It might be an idea to whack an Email off to SoGood if you can find their address via their Web site/cartons.

Thanks for the advice i have sent e mail and awaiting reply will leave sogood alone until then. Keep on thinking, my brain cell has long since given up the ghost!

Please remember to let me know if you get a reply from SoGood.

Sorry for the delay, just received e mail from so good which states that all their products are suitable for vegans, might have to get on to the vegan soceity to find out if they have any objections to so good and what they are? The investigsation continues!!
Will keep you informed of the outcome

Please do...I will be interested to find out - especially if my information was incorrect! My daughter will kill me if I am wrong as she loves SoGood's soya milk and I stopped buying it a couple of years ago!

Sorry i am taking my time with the reply from the vegan soceity as it is obviously a matter of life and death. I will definitely get in touch with vegan soceity tomorrow and will give the answer a.s.a.p. Hopefully it will not result in the death of a valued h2g2 researcher.
DONONE1

Right i have just been on to the vegan society and they say that so good is ok but only the fresh cartons, the long life so good is non vegan as it contains d3 instead of d2. Hope that your daughter takes the news well and forgives you!!
DONONE1

Thanks! I'll pass the news on to my teenage mutant sulk-a-lot.

So the good news is that fresh SoGood is okay for vegans, but the bad news is that the long-life cartons are unsuitable.

A second bit of bad news is that my local supermarkets don't sell the 'fresh' SoGood!

Oh well...Back to Green & Black's drinking chocolate and Plamil...

Your very welcome hopefully your daughter is forgiving i am sure she is really Disappointing to hear that your local supermarkets do not sell so good even Kwik Save here sells it and they hardly recognise vegetarian food
The funny thing is that i have got used to the alpro now but dont tell So Good