Vegan Peas. How do you live without cheese?

You get used to it. After a while your tastebuds change and become more sensitive to the flavours in vegetables, etc, without extras like cheese or butter added. Or, there are vegan alternatives that provide some of the same salt or consistency that you would normally use cheese for.

I was 99.5% vegan for about two years but ultimately gave it up.

I'm not vegan, but I'm not a fan of cheese. I avoid it unless it is on pizza. The thought of a slice of cheese on a cracker doesn't excite me even a little bit.

I make mock feta with a marinated tofu, and use Daiya for cooking and snacking. Other than the occasional grilled cheese sandwich, I mainly used cheese for cooking, so I don't miss it that much.

You do get used to it. Your palate changes and after awhile (quite shortly for me which I thought shocking) I didn't even miss it and I loved cheese. There are always substitute vegan cheeses, but I don't bother with those because the craving is gone.

It works the same with meat. After awhile the thought of eating meat grosses you out especially once you learn what it does to your body. But it is an individual choice. I recognize that and am not trying to preach to anyone. I just ask that you watch "Forks over Knives" the documentary and get educated. Learn what meat and dairy does to your body. Then decide for yourself what you want to do, or change nothing.

I always believed education is power.

Debbie in MD.

My husband is intolerant of cheese, so I haven't used cheese at home in the last five+ years. I miss it badly, and sometimes we'll go out just so I can have something cheesy.

I don't think I was very clear. He can't eat cheese. It makes him sick. He doesn't care if I eat it or not, but I'm not going to make one meal for him and another for myself. I just go out to eat and treat myself to lasagne and all the cheesy goodness that I no longer cook at home. (I used to cook these things when I was married to someone else. But DH1 passed away, and now DH2 is cheese intolerant.)

Haha, I totally read that as Vegas Peas but the cheese part didn't make sense so I re-read it.

I could live without cheese, meat, FISH!!!, pork, but lamb and steak I would have a problem with. 

Do you eat tofu? 

Banish the thought, Caro! A life without cheese is not a life worth living! (Unless, of course, we're talking about spray cheese, lol).

You become a "lacto-ovo" vegetarian! Lol

This was the oblast that I would have survived! I watch what I eat now, my body is very sensitive to meats/proteins but what I lack there I make up for in cheese, eggs and milk.

I have become vegetarian recently, since my other half moved in (he's also veggie, and does almost all the cooking). Cheese is a big part of our diet though and I'd like to change that really - it's not that great for you, apart from anything else. Becoming a vegetarian made me put on weight!

I guess I thought I would never manage to cook without meat, and now I do perfectly fine, so I could learn to cope without cheese. It would be hard though!