Tonight’s dinner got me thinking. It was nothing new- just some reheated vegan eggplant parm rescued from the freezer. (The last of it actually- I need to make more asap!)
But here I go and write this post about decreasing my dairy intake, and then don’t really mention it again.
That’s mostly because I haven’t entirely wrapped my head around it, but I promise I’ll start sharing some more- like the books I’ve read, movies I’ve seen, etc that have made me readjust my thinking.
Either way, ever since I wrote that post, I have been eating significantly less milk, cheese, and eggs: no cow’s milk in my coffee, no cottage cheese in my oatmeal.
I’m not willing to say “I’m going vegan” mostly because I’m not- I’m still open to eating something with egg in the ingredients (cupcakes, anyone?!) or when the situation is entirely out of my control & I’d rather not offend anyone (aka the inlaws). And I’m still eating fish on occasion.
Now that I haven’t been eating those things directly, I’ve been paying attention to what’s on the package as well. Maybe not in every situation, but at least in the learning process.
So the words milk, egg, and cheese are obvious. But what about all those super long words?
I decided to crack open an old dusty textbook and discover some sneaky synonyms:
Dairy
Caramel candy, carob candies, casein and caseinates, custard, curds,
lactalbumin, goats milk, milk chocolate, nougat, protein hydrolysate,
semisweet chocolate, yogurt, pudding, whey, butter, lactose, cream, some “natural” flavorings.
Egg
Albumin, apovitellin, avidin, béarnaise sauce, eggnog, egg whites,
flavoprotein, globulin, hollandaise sauce, imitation egg products, livetin,
lysozyme, mayonnaise, meringe, ovalbuman, ovogycoprotin, ovomucin,
ovomucoid, ovomuxoid, simplesse.
Other
There’s also plenty of things that seem vegan, but technically aren’t.
-Some brands of soy cheese or soy yogurt (contain casein, which is dairy)
-Soup or grains cooked with chicken or beef broth
-Lard (tortillas, refried beans)
-Veggies made with meat for flavoring (collard greens cooked with pork)
-Beer/wine (animal products are sometimes used in processing)
-Honey
-Gelatin
-Food colorings (I wrote a paper in school about cochineal/carmine- red food color made of crushed insects- aaccck)
-Sugar (sometimes processed with animal bone)
Have any to add to the list?
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