Hello, I'm Lucy and this is my mum, Julie.
Hello, I'm Lucy's mum. And this is my step
sister, Jenny. Hi!
And we're gonna be taste testing some
wonderful vegan dishes today that
Jenny's created.
I wanted to do like an American taste
testing
theme um but I wanted to make everything
vegan,
so I hope that they like it - I think you
will.
Vegan food has actually made so much
progress
since maybe 10 years ago and now
um vegan food is definitely considered a
healthier
diet. But we've also found a way to make
the same junk food that we all
love but just being herbivores as
opposed to carnivores. So we'll see what
Lucy and Julie think today.
Are you guys excited? Yeah, definitely.
Yeah. I think you'll be, I think you'll be
surprised.
So what are you doing now Jenny? I am
heating up some olive oil for
the veggie burgers. Well I do love a
veggie burger, don't you mum? Oh I do,
absolutely.
You guys ever had these? Beyond Burger. No, have you Lucy? No
never, no. So my husband, who's made an
appearance in the back here ... Hi Dusan! Hello. And he's made a quick disappearance!
He is a big time carnivore and he
uh tried these a few months ago when I
made them for him
and he's actually asked me for them over
regular!
Wow! High praise indeed! So i can't
wait for you guys to try them. What i'm
gonna do for the top -
Violife is the best vegan cheese
uh there is out there. It, it's like - and
that's really hard to find. And that was
actually the hardest part for me
to do a vegan diet, was to give up cheese.
And then I found this,
which is very similar. I mean it tastes
really good.
Um because the only one I've had before
has been really
kind of leathery and not getting too
much taste. Yeah that happens,
yeah yeah that can happen. But this one I
think you'll be
pretty impressed by it. So forget my
ignorance but if it's not cheese,
what is it? Good question.
Everything you can recognize as food.
So these are the Beyond Burgers. As you
can see, they're like
freakishly similar looking. Yeah. I
actually never really ate hamburgers
before
I um became vegan but
I've heard that they taste very
similar. So Jenny, your husband is from
Serbia -
what is the vegan food like out in
Serbia, if there is any?
That's a good question. I actually, I had
a friend of mine go to
Belgrade, the capital. That is a very
progressive
place and if there is anything that is
trendy it is definitely
happening in Belgrade. And he was really
surprised because he went to Spain
beforehand and he figured in Madrid he
would have no problem (he's vegan)
and he did. He could barely find any
options over there and then he went over
to Belgrade -
like there was vegan options at every
restaurant. So I think it's really kind
of catching on.
But where my husband's from, I
don't know so much. They think that
it's kind of
unhealthy, which most people have that
misconception really.
Like they feel that without meat you
can't
you know get your protein and you will
feel really tired, you might get really
sick.
I haven't eaten meat for
eight months now and I can't say that
that ever happened. What did happen is I
substituted
carbs a lot. That was the biggest mistake.
Like I was like
carbing out like crazy when I first
switched diets. Like I would just have a
big
giant bowl of rice and a few vegetables.
Um but then once you get the hang of it
and once you know
what nutrients to get out of what
vegetables and fruits,
it becomes a lot easier and you don't
carb out
like I did. Oh carbing out is a problem for
me and I'm not even a vegan!
Yeah, just imagine! Oh yeah, I know.
So what inspired your diet change? A few
things. Um
I was trying to be better
about the environment, by trying to limit
my use
of plastic bags and straws and things
like that
and just trying to reduce, reuse, recycle
as much as I could.
And then I had read about what
the, without going into a lot of details,
the impact that you know, a lot of food
production has on the environment,
particularly,
particularly the meat industry. I did
my research and found that it was just
something I wanted to get away from,
just based on some of the not so nice
things I saw,
um which we don't often talk about in
the United States.
Uh we just kind of keep those things
behind closed doors. So once that was
brought to light I said
all right, this is the diet I want to go for - for multiple reasons.
And I also feel better, I really do. I've
noticed when I've gone
out to eat with some family members or
whatever the occasion is, people eat a
lot of meat around me and I'm the only
one who orders something vegan
on the menu. At the end of the meal
everybody else is so
sluggish and they're just like I can't
move and I'm like "what are we doing next?!!"
I don't feel that way anymore. That's
fantastic. Um yeah.
Does Teo have like any vegetarian or
vegan diet or
does he just eat what he'll eat? Um
between Dusan and I we have
some disagreements about that. He does
not like to eat a lot of meat, which i'm
fine with. Uh but Dusan, again like and
I'm not
blaming him - I thought this way for many
years too -
believes that he must eat meat or else
he can't grow strong. Sometimes we'll
try to get him to,
you know just give them a taste of both
diets really. I was bought up vegetarian
and a lot of people try and tell me,
because I love vegetarian food,
they try and tell me if you eat a
vegetarian diet it will stunt your
growth.
Well I'm five foot ten, pretty much. I'd
dread think how tall I would be if I'd
been brought up eating meat!
You were a huge baby Lucy and I
was, well I was pescatarian, I wasn't
completely vegetarian, but ate no red
meat or
white, or any meat. And you had a huge
baby! I had a a huge
baby, yeah I know!  So you were a hearty child!
I was, I had the chubbiest cheeks of any
baby you've ever seen!
She was a monster!
Do you want mustard or no mustard? No
I'll pass on the mustard, thank you.
Lucy really doesn't do spicy
or hot very well at all, do you Lucy.
Not at all, no. I'm very much like my dad
in that sense.
Yeah. Dad will literally order a McFlurry
from McDonald's with no filling,
like no sweets. He'll just order the
plain ice cream!
So basically it's ice cream. Ice cream
without the Flurry, yeah! One other thing I'm making,
which I don't believe you guys have ever
tried and again 100 per cent vegan,
um is the all-time american favorite
Frito
Pie. And what Frito Pie has in it is
these corn chips.
I don't know if you guys have anything
similar to this? This is the organic
version.
We do have something called Fritos which
is just like this little corn strip,
kinda like a tortilla strip or something.
Not that I can think of. I don't recognize.
I've not ever tried those. No.
And then we put like um chili, which
mine
has tofu in it as a protein, which isn't
something I normally
use but this came with it and then just
some vegan
shredded cheese over here, so we'll see
what you guys think about it.
I am intrigued about the vegan cheese. Yes
because you're very
cheesy. I love cheese, yeah so I think if
I was vegan that be the hardest thing.
What do you substitute for milk, if
anything?
Oh oat milk. Oat milk is the best thing
ever. I don't like uh almond milk.
I don't that at all. Try that, you will be so
surprised. It is one of the best milk
substitutes out there. Very good for your
heart.
Um yeah exactly, I'd give it a try. Are you
excited?
I am excited, yes yes. I'm excited too!
I bet a lot of people are thinking oh
they're not gonna like that because it's
you know, not real meat, maybe. Maybe. I
mean let us know in the comments below.
Do you think we'll like it?
Do you think our vegetarian/pescatarian
lifestyle will help us with this? Or
um do you think we'll be A-okay? I mean,
this is new.
I mean if you saw this you'd think this
was just like a normal burger, wouldn't you?
Yeah. That's quite a nice shot there.
Cinematographer in the making!
Is that creme fraiche? Oh this is vegan
cream cheese , I'm sorry - sour cream.
Oh I love sour cream. So see what you
think about that. I'm just giving you a
little taste of it because I've actually
never had vegan sour cream before. So you
guys are going to be the guinea pigs!
So this is the Frito pie or Frito. I was
gonna say is it ...
The Frito Pie - doesn't sound right,
does it? No.
it's it's Frito Pie. Frito Pie. Nothing fancy about
it.
Okay, it's not a fancy dish. I'm gonna get a
big, there's some sour cream too
on my fork.
Oh wow! Wow! This
is good! This is much nicer than I
thought it was going to be! Sorry!
The one thing about my stepmother is she
never doubts me!!
I never doubted you for a second and I
love it! It'd be interesting to compare,
just from a foodie perspective, like a
meat one
and this one, just to see how they differ
because we have no point of reference
what this should taste like. It could be
exactly the same, you might not be able
to tell the difference or it could be
a completely different thing. I like the
combination of like a little bit of
spice
and the crispiness of the little Frito
chips.
If you hadn't told me, I wouldn't have
known that this was vegan sour cream.
No, it tastes just the same as far as I
can tell.
And the cheese! The cheese is good. Yeah.
Okay, so you're just gonna want to see
our chili now!
Should we make a start on the burger? You
have to get it all in there. Okay, bit of
everything. One, two, three!
Mmm-mm. Mmm-mm. Right - oh wow! So there's a wonderful sweet taste.
A lot of flavor in there. A lot of flavor, a lovely consistency, it's just ...
The texture is very similar to me, I
would say. But it's not like,
I don't know, I can remember a burger
being kind of a, I don't know, a kind of a
gritty, not gritty, I can't explain. It's
definitely not as greasy as you might
expect. A greasy taste, yeah.
This is much nicer. This is
oh.
Yeah I definitely know what you mean
Jenny, like you feel like you could eat
this and then like
run a marathon! Maybe. Right, not fall
over. Yeah exactly, you don't,
you wouldn't just want to pass out, I
imagine after eating this.
And everything there is vegan - the
mayonnaise, the cheese, the ketchup - but I
mean I think ketchup's always vegan - but
um yeah, everything on there. Do you know
that combination is delicious
and with that little bit of mustard too,
this is so
moist and flavorful and - look at that! I mean, what's wrong with that?
Would you guys like to try a bite of
vegan dessert?
Oh yeah, we are converts now. I'm not rushing you but ... I'm so excited about this.
Sometimes veggie burgers are a weird
consistency, don't you think? Like they're,
they're a very weird ...
They're kinda dry sometimes, yeah. This
is not. This is very juicy.
If you're intrigued, we're going to put a
link to some of these food items in the
description below.
So check that out if you just want to
try them or if you're looking to change
your diet, whatever you know.
That's super good. Oh I'm back on the
chili.
Coming back to that - do not take that
away! The thing about
um American food, like I was talking
about earlier.
is that we tend to take things that are
you know healthy or just a little bit
unhealthy and see if we can push the
limit ...
as far as we can too unhealthy! Whether
it's a vegan diet
or anything else! So we have the
chocolate chip cookie and we said what
could we do,
because this isn't really sugary or
unhealthy enough.
So we made it into a sandwich with some
sugary cream in the middle. So this
is a vegan chocolate chip cookie
sandwich. Okay. Okay,
interesting. Oh yeah.
It's very, I don't necessarily mean this
in a bad way, it's very dense.
Yes, but i like the fact that it's not
over sweet
and the chocolate, I'm assuming this is a
vegan chocolate? Yes,
everything is 100 per cent vegan there. I wouldn't normally eat something like this with
that filling because it's so sickly
sweet and it tastes so unnatural that I would not. I would have the cookie but I would peel it off.
That's what I want to do too. I want to
take the cookie off the filling.
I like the cookie but I'm not sure about
this innard  .. innard?
I'm not sure about the inside. Do you do
that with Oreos too?
Yeah yeah yeah. Maybe that's just simple.
Yes I think the middle is
nice but yeah I have to say I agree with
Lucy,
I just love the flavor of the cookie.
Do you know how many calories is in one
of these? I don't look! No, probably not a good idea! No don't look at those sort of things. No
why would you ruin it? Quite right. Actually, we could, just for funsies.
There's 360 calories in one biscuit.
That's not terrible, if you were having
it as a dessert.
Yeah. You know, it's a bit much for a
snack for me but for a dessert.
Yeah. I mean we certainly have bigger
desserts than that, don't we?
Mum do you think this has persuaded you
in the direction of a vegan diet any
further, like honestly?
Um, I don't think I could give up
fish very easily because I love
all fish and I would not give that
up.
But I would definitely eat this kind of
meal for sure
and choose this off a menu in a
restaurant, yeah.
It's not boring at all. No, it's not. And I
think a lot of the time like what
sometimes
keeps me from trying something like this
is that it would be limiting.
Yeah. But like this is you know, this is
something that I would eat
normally so maybe it wouldn't be such a
limiting diet?
There is so much variety. And no animals
were harmed in the making of this video!
Yeah, cruelty free, yeah. Yeah cruelty free - that's the way to be! Yeah definitely, yeah and much kinder to
the planet.
Yes. Well thank you Jenny for doing this
for us. It was really interesting and
we really enjoyed it. You're welcome.Yeah thank you. And
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