Balance Jan Issue 2018 - 69

Transform: M A K I N G

E N D S M E AT L E S S

go vegan stay vegan
Think it's too hard to eliminate animal products from your life?
It's actually easier than you might think...

About:
Sean O'Callaghan is the
award-winning vegan
blogger and activist
behind Fat Gay Vegan
(@FatGayVegan).
Motto:
Removing selected
products from your
life in order to do good
is not a life-altering
drama. Nothing will
happen to you as
a vegan that could
possibly make your
life any less satisfying.
If anything, the
inflated sense of selfrighteousness you will
struggle to keep in
check will make you
rather chirpy most
of the time. Being a
vegan in London can
be as easy and basic
as baked beans (and
I don't mean fancy
Duchy of Cornwall
baked beans either).

PRICE ISN'T
AN ISSUE
Many of the foods you
are used to eating are
now available in vegan
form at similar or equal
prices as non-vegan
counterparts. Other
things you ate prior to
going vegan are still
there and still cost the
same - salad, vegetables,
beans and pasta.

EATING OUT IS SUITABLY
HIGH STREET You cannot walk
down a high street without tripping over
an A-frame proudly declaring, 'We have
vegan options'. Wagamama. Pho. Pizza
Express. Even Pizza Hut has started
using vegan cheese.

TRUST ME I've been doing this
vegan thing for 20 years, starting
long before the options were as
abundant as they are today. The
good you do for non-human
animals is all the drive you need,
but by all means chuck in saving
the environment, too.

YOUR LOCAL SHOP

THINGS CAN GET TRICKY
WHEN IT COMES TO BOOZE

has almond milk, supermarkets
have chillers piled high with
vegan cheese, and
neighbourhood vegan food
markets are popping up faster
than you can say, 'make mine a
soya latte'. Plant-based eating
doesn't simply refer to kale
smoothies and seitan burgers
in a Shoreditch back-alley.

but Barnivore is a user-driven app
that allows you to check the vegan
status of most major brands. Many
cheap UK beers are vegan and major
supermarkets are good at labelling
their wine. You can even get suitable
wines on the regular menu at Zizzi.

VEGANISING YOUR
FAVOURITE MEALS

MY MAIN
ADVICE FOR
GOING VEGAN

is an easy way to move to a plantbased lifestyle without giving up your
whole routine. Sunday roast lunch stays
the same except you eat seitan instead
of something that used to be alive.
Sausage and mash can easily be vegan
with Quorn and dairy-free spreads, and
pasta with cheese, are a breeze with
mainstream supermarket alternatives.

is that you need to get
your head and your heart
straight about why you
want to do it. Once you
have a deep understanding
of the 'why', the 'how' will
start to fall into place, and
it won't feel hard when
you're living in alignment
with your values.

ONCE YOU'VE GOT THE FOOD
PART OF LIVING VEGAN SORTED
you can move onto footwear, clothing and
personal care products (like Rick Owens' vegan
sneakers), but we'll save that for another day.

January 2018 BA LA N CE

find out more

THE EXPERT

Fat Gay Vegan: Eat, Drink
and Live Like You Give a Sh!t
by Sean O'Callaghan
(£8.99, Nourish Books)
is a manifesto for
compassion, taking
you through the
what, why, and
how of veganism.

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