makeajoyfulnoise100 said:
I'm a transitioning vegan and would love recipes. I have never baked in my life but would love to learn vegan baking. I started this diet simply because of how I feel about eating animals. I don't judge others for eating meat, but it is just something that has always bothered me.
Another interesting thing is Daniel's diet. I would want to know if he kept that diet throughout his time with Nebecanezzar.
Thank you for this thread!
Mountain_Girl406 said:
I've done a lot of cooking vegan, but haven't done much baking...but my kids bought me a cookbook called Vegan Chocolate, and we baked our first vegan brownies from there...they were excellent, even a hit with our non vegan friends. There are lots of good vegan baking recipes online too, I would just avoid any the use apple sauce in place of eggs...in my opinion that makes things too sweet.
If makeajoyfulnoise100 is still coming to these forums, and wanting this information that was asked for, I would say I also heard of using apple sauce, that will be good for consistency in cooking and baking things. I haven't tried it though. I don't know about the flavor from that, so I think if it sweetens things more, it can be used for baking sweet things. I will have to try it yet. I have been using flaxseed though, it is very healthy to be using it, with the nutrients from it, and it does give good consistency where thickening is wanted.
Daniel, and I am sure his three Hebrew friends, did keep that diet, for the same reasons that just using fruits and vegetables, and water, was requested to start with, and I am sure they still had pulses and seeds or nuts with it. They avoided Babylonian foods, with the unclean animal products, and they were visibly quite healthier from it, and this can be understood to be expected from what modern studies show there would be for those using a whole food plant-based way of eating. The three friends don't seem to be mentioned again after they were miraculously delivered safely from being burned in the fiery furnace they were cast into. But Daniel is shown to have lived a long life, with having come to Babylon from Jerusalem with the first of those to have been taken, serving as a capable youth then, eleven years before the Babylonians destroyed the city, and took few survivors that were left then as captives, and then, seventy years after, he was still an active figure when the Medo-Persians conquered Babylon, and he was in their service then.
I don't judge others just for their eating meat, or any animal products, either. But there is something wrong in persisting to use those when the reasons why there should be change from using those are known, with a healthy way to be eating possible with not using those. And it should be known, with the knowledge being shared, this change is not a sacrifice, when more delicious vegan recipes are learned, and tastes change to prefer the healthier food when any of it is used more.