My husband is a militant vegan, what do I do?!

Hey! I'm a vegan, too. And I understand you dads point here, and see yours completely due to the fact my family tries (every day like your dad try to get you to stop) to get me to eat meat and other animal products.
A lot of people on your list are correct: have a chat. When you first become vegan, and ESPECIALLY from a "Meet Your Meat" video, you've chosen to go to the max, stepping up from vegitarian to veganism, because you really, really have a passion for the animals and it disheartens you to see this.

Just explain you don't feel like you want to be a vegan, and tell him you're proud of his choice to become a vegan. You care about the animals, but feel too confterable in your own life style, and don't think you find the vegan one to appealing to you and your own individual taste.

And yeah, veganism can be very pricey... Just ask him to stick to basics! Oat meal (flavored, if he wants), vegan canned soups (very good), check ingrediants and get a bag of vegan chips and dip, oreos are vegan (they're so processed, I don't see where they would put milk and eggs in!), ect. Just start reading lables, ask him to stick to basic lables (like bocca, very good and if you cook them in a pan with hot sauce its amazing) and ask him to not go out so much.

Hope I helped! :)

A year of veganism.

You could plan an intervention. Take him to vegan rehab. they will beat this nonsense out his head!

If you love him to death, then confront him with the truth and sort it out. The key is honesty. I hope for the best.

Vegan ****? That's not very fair, some vegan food is very nice! And not all vegans are pushy about their veganism like your husband - I'm a vegan and I don't care what other people eat, it's their choice!

Support him going vegan, tell him you're proud that he is managing it, but tell him that he can't go around ordering people what to eat. That's not fair, it's their choice and be preaching at them like that you are going to make them think that vegans are stupid with their heads up their own arses!! Tell him if he wants to preach to people about their diet and veganism he should join Viva! ( http://viva.org.uk/ ), set up a local vegan club (for cooking and stuff) or a stall about veganism in the library or something. Something that isn't so embarrassing and in other people's faces and stuff :P

As for eating out at restaurants...I don't understand. I'm vegan and me and my partner go to lots of restaurants (normal ones, lol!), and I can eat something at every single one. The only one I couldn't eat anything at was this rubbish posh one abroad, and when I explained I was vegan they made me a very nice pasta and roasted vegetable salad. A good example is Pizza Hut, they will do you a vegan pizza by putting no cheese on, and using the barbecue sauce base instead of the tomato one (that has cheese powder in I believe). But even a pizza place is willing to do things for vegans!

It's easy being a vegan and eating out, honest. As for vegan food, using lentils, vegetables, potato, herbs, garlic and other spices, you can make your own vegan burgers so easily. Mash it all together, cook 'em then put them in the freezer for when you want them! You can make your own pizza dough too. And often the own-brand meat-free products sold at supermarkets, eg Tesco, well the Nut Cutlets and Mince Meat are usually vegan. Sometimes you can get beanburgers that are vegan too, and none of those are too expensive. You can buy 'value' soya milk for about 50p per carton too.

Being vegan doesn't have to be expensive at all, you just need to get used to it and find out what your husband can eat now. Wheetabix, Chocolate Wheetabix and Coco Pops for example are all cereal which you might not expect to be vegans. And cheap biscuits sold at supermarkets (such as nice biscuits and bourbon creams) are usually vegan, although best to check.

Iron, calcium and vitamin B12 are things he needs to watch out for, too. Get the calcium from soya milk, dark green leafy vegetables, and fortified cereals (such as coco pops, wheetabix etc). Same for iron. Vitamin B12, you can get this from soya milk (check the label), coco pops, and Marmite is great for vegans due to all the vitamins it has in it, especially vit B12!

Hope this helps, sorry your husband is being a bit daft with his veganism :)

vegan for 5 years

we'll you should talk to each other. ask your husband to explain why he feels the way he does and why he's acting so militant.it might be that he's just very passionate and it will stop with time but you should still let him know.tell him how you feel and ask him to back off a bit and let you make your own choice.
next you need to look for cheap vegan meals that will help you guys save money so you can eat out at restaurants more. vegan food can be very cheap if you don't live off processed stuff. also you don't always have to just go to vegan restaurants, just look for ones that offer vegan options or vegetarian options that can be veganized easily. good luck.

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three things you can do: let it pass. First, there is no fanatic like a recent convert Hopefully he mellows out and becomes a "normal" vegan after a time . Second, keep talking to him about it and let him know that it is a marriage between equal partners and not a boss-slave relationship. 3) go to a marriage counselor and if it still does not work get a divorce lawyer.
You know that since you posted about an "evil vegan", you are going to be called a "troll" and " fake story teller" by the fanatics here (who behave just like your husband ironically) who think that ALL vegans, especially PETA, Meet your meat type vegans are all saints walking around with halo on on their heads out to save the world (but only the world of animals, they couldn't care less if humans except themselves of course disappear)

If you were a total carnivore you'd eat nothing but meat, so you're not a carnivore at all. I don't understand why you thought it was okay to come ask vegetarians a question and include nasty details about the meat you like to eat.

A vegan diet is only expensive if specialty vegan foods are purchased. Find recipes that are cheap like rice and beans, steamed vegetables, lentil soup and things like that.

And a salad bar is not compromising. A salad is not enough to sustain someone for dinner unless they have an eating disorder. I can't imagine that you eat out so often that this is an everyday problem. If you do, that's probably why you don't have enough money.

I only spend 130.00/week on groceries and that goes a long way. I make 7 vegan dinners per week, plus breakfasts, lunches and snacks. It's SO much cheaper than buying meat for 4 people. And it's more healthy.

Make good, healthy and inexpensive meals at home. I don't pity your lack of understanding for your husband. It sounds like he has had a life-changing moment and you can't let him have it. It has to be about you.

I kind of doubt this question is even real.