BEAR, LOOKING AT INGREDIENTS

BEAR, THE NOT SO MYSTERIOUS SHOPPER
LOOKING AT INGREDIENTS

SAY WHAT?

Lately, I've been taking a closer look at the ingredients in Vegan food. What's really in 'em? I looked at a few ingredients in popular Vegan foods, and I can't say I'm impressed.

COCONUT MILK

I looked at all the different products pertaining to be “coconut milk” and it doesn't look good. The main ingredient is water, guar gum, and “coconut essence”. Is coconut essence an artificial flavoring? I would imagine that the way this product is created there's little or no nutritional value at all.

I don't think I'll be using such products in my cooking. I was looking at alternatives…

This product by Koko could be good. But after consuming a chocolate based coconut yogurt, I'm hesitant to give this a try.

Coconut cream looks like a good solution.

SAY CHEESE!

What does “Vegan flavour” actually mean?

And, it looks like guar gum is quite a popular thickener in many foods, including Vegan.

I reckon I'd be better off learning how to make my own Vegan cheese.

I will be giving these produces a miss!

I have noticed that in both Vegan and Vegetarian foods there is a need for many substitutional products to mimic dairy and meat. Why is this so? Me? I miss goats cheese, not as a food, but as a flavour. I can do without cheese and the need for a Veganized (that's my word) version that has dubious ingredients, but if I could find a decent natural Vegan food that has a similar flavour I'd be happy. Hmm… What could possibly taste rancid - like baby vomit - and be good for me?

To veer off into another tangent, I had the idea to produce breast milk products. Sometimes I come up with some weird ideas. I think consuming certain foods can alter the brain chemistry of which bizarre dreams is a by-product. Since becoming a Born Again Vegan, my dreams, or nightmares, come about from witnessing such cruelty in this world.

EGGY BREAKY HEART

I also came across some egg replacement products aimed at Vegans. I look at that stuff and I just wonder if crafty business folk make money from the idea that we need Vegan equivalents to eggs for breakfast and cooking in general. I don't think so!

I looked at Vegan Egg and saw the price tag, and realized that I was being sucked into the Matrix of buying into the simulation of the falsehood that happens to be everything non-Vegan.

PECULIARITIES

When I look at a carrot, I am not thinking, “How can I make this thing look like a chicken wing?” Sure, I get foods like burgers as it's a convenient way to consume vegetables in one patty. Still, one has to possess an awfully strange mind to look at a cow and envisage flesh molded into a circle sandwiched between bread. It's the same with the sausage. Who can look at a pig and think, “I can create penis shaped foods out of this creature,”?

Accept no substitutes!

Well, those are my thoughts of the day…

Thank you for reading!

Love,

Bear XOXOXOXOXO