how do you Vegans do it?!

Wait, are you looking for vegan sweet foods, or for ways to avoid junk food?

Anyways....
List of vegan junk:
-potato chips
-soy puddings
-soy or coconut milk ice cream with hershey's syrup
-brownies
-cookies
-cakes
-cupcakes
-pies
-tarts
-oreos
-sour patch kids
-swedish fish
-dark chocolate
-chocolate fondue
-cookie dough bites (vegan baking= as much dough as you want :D)
-smores (vegan marshmallows/chocolate/crackers)
-quick chocolate fix: a spoonful of nut butter with chocolate chips, or a banana mashed up with some cocoa powder, nut butter, and a few chocolate chips.
-banana nut bread (not super-sweet but a personal favorite)
www.vegweb.com or cookbooks (like Vegan Comfort Food, Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar, or Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World) are great for recipes.

How I avoid sweets.... honestly, just willpower. Nobody can give you willpower. Even if you do everything else, if you don't have self-control it doesn't matter.
Make sure you eat filling meals
Try to keep junk food out of the house.
You can first cut down to 1 dessert a day, then to one every other day, and so on- it is easier for me that way.
I have gone cold turkey when I start seriously training for XC, and then it's a 3-day thing: it's so hard for the first 3-4 days, and you get cravings and all, but after those days I don't even think about it.
When you do want to binge on junk food, think about how you can be if you don't- slimmer, a better athlete, free from cancer and diabetes, etcetera.
When you do bake, make healthier versions- for example, when making banana bread, reduce the sugar and use white whole-wheat flour and some chopped walnuts.

vegan

peanut butter pancakes.

vegan muffins and cupcakes, are IMO some of the best ones out there- using oil or sunflower spread makes a much moister lighter muffin. Use brown sugar and date paste, not eggs. I LOVE those vegan muffins.
Applesauce, banana, and date paste, apricot paste, lecithin, soyyoghurt, almond milk and sweet nori all make very good sweet fillers, where eggs may be used otherwise.
I find them much nicer to eat- lighter but more fresh tasting, and no heaviness after, no acid stomach, no heartburn or stuffed feeling.

If you need to keep away from sweets but have the same sweet tooth- keep a tub of dates handy, and start eating them anytime you get a sweet craving. They will satisfy anyone's sweet craving, I guarantee it. I can eat 6 lbs of them easy.

Hi Gina.

Changing the way you eat is not an overnight thing, if you go to fast you'll burn out and find yourself eating things you want to get away from. Don't go killing yourself because you've stumbled either. The best thing you can do whenever you stumble is to not get frustrated with yourself, after all you're only human.

I inherited two sweet tooths, one from each parent so I know how you feel. What I did was to teach myself how to cook & make sweets. Like that I know exactly whats going in my body.

Good luck & good health to you.

For my sweet tooth I eat either Envirokidz bars in Peanut Butter, or Clif kid Z bars in Chocolate Chip or Chocolate Brownie:D

For easy to find foods, here's a list of them from PETA
http://www.peta.org/living/vegetarian-li…

(P.S: Oreos are NOT vegan, ignore that item on the list. They are 99.9%, but one ingredient is not vegan)

Vegan

See this Vegan Dessert Substitutes Guide and I hope it helps!

http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/sweet-creamy-and-cruelty-free-vegan-substitutes-for-desserts/

Here are some other useful guides.

Meat Substitutes:
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/miss-meat-not-a-problem-a-quick-guide-to-vegan-meat-substitutes/

Vegan Vitamin Substitutes:
http://www.onegreenplanet.org/lifestyle/the-essential-vegan-supplement-guide/

http://www.onegreenplanet.org

There are plenty of sweets, in fact most sweets don't involve animal products. Go to a health food store or specialty department of a super market, there are tons of healthy sweet snacks.

Go to your local health food store and indulge in some vegan cookies, cakes, cupcakes, muffins, candies, chocolates... You name it, it'll be there. =)

Vegan/Raw Vegan.

There plenty of vegans with a sweet tooth, you can buy dairy free chocolate, cakes, sweets and biscuits or you could make your own. Check the vegan website for recepe ideas.

There are plenty of vegan sweets and baked goods. You just have to look them up online. There are bakeries and companies specifically dedicated to vegan baked goods and sweets.

vegan :D

Sweets (well, sugar itself) just like other junk food components such as salt & saturated fats are all addictive, so it's just a matter of finding enough discipline to stay away from your sweets for long enough to break the addiction.
For me, the health benefits and knowing the effects of consuming junk are enough to have put me off them. I would recommend reading a book like Eat To Live by Dr Joel Furhman. He has a 6 week programme you can follow where you commit to eliminating all the junk for just 6 weeks and see how you feel by the end of it, and while you're eating the foods in the programme for the 6 weeks - you can read the rest of the book where he explains really well all the drawbacks of eating things cause damage to you body (eg refined sugars depleting your body of B vitamins and spiking your blood sugar levels and the implications of that eg type 2 diabetes when you're older, etc etc). It worked for me and broke my addiction for salty foods, and put me off several other types of junk food at the same time :-)

http://www.drfuhrman.com/shop/books.aspx

im not a vegan but i belive this relates to an issue i have, attempting to "diet" well, cut down on fatty and junk food and i do keep slipping after doing so well and feel rubbish after

its all down to self disapline im afraid, things to help is when even you think about eating something you shouldnt hold it in your hand think about why you are a vegan and that eating it you are failing what you belive in

or you could try setting yourself a goal and constantly tell your self "if you eat correctly you can go out shopping on "date" and try so hard to stick to it and if you do treat your self :) NOT to the food, but keep that up

last result is to make yourself feel bad, not good idea proberly buts your confidence down, but from time to time i find it good when im trying really bad, tell your self "dont do it you idiot your going to kill a animal by eating this" or somthing silly like that (i wont say what i tell myself but its very harsh), but like i said not best idea

just do it nike