{"id":13440,"date":"2011-03-29T12:47:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T16:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/?p=13440"},"modified":"2020-04-09T14:27:24","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T18:27:24","slug":"vegan-grocery-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nomeatathlete.com\/vegan-grocery-list\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Vegan Grocery List (and a Must-Make Recipe)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I can’t believe I’m actually going to post a\u00a0 list of what I bought at the grocery store.<\/p>\n

When my wife, Erin, suggested that we save the receipt in case people wanted to know what we bought, given that it was our first full-on vegan<\/a> trip to the store, I told her no way.<\/p>\n

Are you serious?\u00a0 Who gives a rat’s ass what we buy to eat?” I responded.\u00a0 (Actually, I was nicer than that.\u00a0 I may have even offered a foot massage in return for the suggestion.\u00a0 Not really.)<\/p>\n

I mean, I posted my grocery list and all sorts of other boring things about myself when my blog was new and nobody read it, but surely we’re past that now, right?<\/p>\n

Nope.\u00a0 As soon as I wrote something about my first vegan food-shopping trip on Twitter (my current repository for all things personal, petty and childish; follow me there<\/a> if you want), people asked for the list.<\/p>\n

You win, Erin.<\/p>\n

So, with the hope that maybe it will help somebody realize that being vegan doesn’t mean just eating lettuce all day, here goes nothin’.<\/p>\n

My first vegan shopping list<\/h2>\n

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I’m not ashamed that there’s a lot of vegan junk food here — during a diet change like this, I’m absolutely content to have my nutrition take a hit while I adjust psychologically to the added restrictions.\u00a0 Hence the vegan ice cream, Newman O’s, tortilla chips, BBQ soy crisps, and the vegan sausage (Gena<\/a>, who will back me up on the idea of eating some junk while you’re adjusting, tells me Field Roast<\/a> is the best fakewurst there is).<\/p>\n

Also, there was some first-time “stocking up” to be done, so things like vegan sour cream and vegan buttery sticks won’t need to be bought every time, and I’ll use them only rarely.<\/p>\n

Finally, I probably don’t need to add this, but just in case someone is using my list to decide whether they could really eat this way: This isn’t “all you eat” as a vegan or vegetarian. This is just one shopping trip; my cupboards weren’t bare before I went on it.<\/p>\n

In other words, there’s lots of stuff that we eat all the time that we didn’t need to buy on this trip: nuts, hummus, apples, rice, lentils, chickpeas, pitas, popcorn, salad, protein powder, bagels and obscene amounts of almond butter.<\/p>\n

But this trip, here’s what we got:<\/p>\n