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Eating out as a vegan with a tiny appetite

Started 3 January 2026 · 14 replies · 116 hearts · read 2.1k times

MableBolton, UK · 3 January 2026
7 months ago

Starting a thread on this because it keeps coming up in ones and twos: Eating out as a vegan with a tiny appetite

The logistics of this are defeating me more than the medicine is.

The social side of this is harder for me than any of the logistics, and I have not found anywhere else where that is discussed practically.

The arrangements are the hard bit for me. Nothing medical has been difficult; the organising has been relentless.

No hurry. I have a fortnight before I need to decide anything.

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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#1

My bloods have been unremarkable throughout, which I attribute mostly to a supplement I was already taking rather than anything clever.

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TorrinAberdeen, UK
#2

I found the restaurant side harder than the home side. Two constraints at once narrows a menu considerably.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#3

Thank you for writing this down. It helped.

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RenFacilitatorBristol, UK
#4

Facilitator note: everything discussed here is a matter for you and your household. We are here for the ideas, not the decisions.

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NemoneLewes, UK
#5

Picking up Bryn’s point rather than starting a new one.

My honest report is that I eat better now than I did before, mostly because I finally had to think about it properly.

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CloverTotnes, UK
#6

I would say ask specifically for somebody who knows plant-based eating. The first person I saw clearly did not and it wasted an appointment.

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PietPretoria, ZA
#7

The texture changes early on were a bigger obstacle for me than the protein arithmetic, and nobody had warned me about them.

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TanviMumbai, IN
#8

Clover has already said most of this and I want to add the one part that was different for me.

Something practical: I batch things on a Sunday, which sounds tedious and takes forty minutes and covers most of my week.

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IvesPenzance, UK
#9

What I found is that the powders I had dismissed turned out to be the thing that made this manageable during the hard months.

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MorayElgin, UK
#10

Piet, thank you for that. It gives me somewhere to start from.

My family eat the same things I do and nothing about the household changed, which was more achievable than I had expected.

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MableBolton, UK
#11

I found the volume difficult when my appetite dropped. Plant protein takes up more room and there was less room available.

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AshwinBengaluru, IN
#12

I read this twice. The second time was for the last paragraph.

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BrynAberystwyth, UK
#14

What helped was two things I actually enjoy rather than five things I felt I should eat. The should list never survived a difficult week.

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