Question by kattt.: What’s easier to transition into: being vegan or gluten free?
I’m already vegetarian for about 5 years but I’ve decided to clean up my diet a bit more. What do you think is easier to transition into? What has better health benefits? If there are any responders that keep vegan or gluten free give me some personal experience. Thanks!
Best answer:
Answer by Lynn
The only reason to consider going gluten free is if you have a gluten intolerance. If you are a normal healthy person then it will make no difference to you whatsoever.
So if you want to ‘clean up’ your diet, then vegan.
What do you think? Answer below!
probably gluten free. i say that because when your vegan you might run into some idiots from time to time.
I think going vegan would be easier than gluten free
I haven’t had trouble being wheat-family-food (gluten) free for several decades now. But then, I never was a huge fan of cereal/flour/bread type foods. If I am going to eat a high-net-carbohydrate food item (besides whole-fruit), it will almost always be freshly prepared Potatoes!. 🙂
I also tend to avoid pretty much all processed foods, and their crazy ingredients (as well as grains in general), so avoiding gluten ingredients hasn’t been to difficult for me personally. On the plus side, there are several important health-related reasons to avoid modern-day wheat-family foods than just gluten – so it is just an all-around beneficial choice to make.
Going from vegetarian to vegan, however, isn’t something that I am eager to do 100%. While I do try to live the “vegan lifestyle” as much as possible in my diet and everyday non-food product buying habits, I do actively consume 2 very specific animal products in my diet, that I am absolutely loathe to give up (organic eggs and organic plain cultured nonfat Greek/European-Style (higher protein) yogurt). Other than that, I just don’t consume any animal products – and I am comfortable with those restrictions/compromises.
I think it depends on how you choose to do it.
– With both, you have a choice of paying a lot more money for premade products or cooking a lot, if you are going strict, so you don’t buy products unless they are vegan or unless they are labeled gluten free.
– With both you’ll be eating a lot of veggies and fruit and whole grains, just without the gluten grains for a gluten free diet. So that would be similar.
– Vegan you’d have more nuts, beans, and seeds for non-grain protein, while celiacs can have more meat.
The biggest difference, I think, would be what you think you would miss the most. Breads, cereals, and pastas, which will NEVER taste the same as wheat based ones. I’ve been gluten free now for three years, and they still don’t taste like wheat. they don’t taste bad anymore, but not the same.
But it may be that you’d miss things like dairy much more, and there’s nothing that quite mimics cheese, either, you know?
Maybe trying one diet for a week and then the other for a week might help you decide which would be harder for you, perhaps? The fact that you don’t have to strictly avoid gluten like a true gluten intolerant means that you have more options than many people who have to eat gluten free, so there IS that. 🙂