Can you be a vegetarian if you're allergic to soy?

[Their Satanic Prince]

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[Ratttking]

Yes. While soy is the most common, there are many other good sources of protein that are not derived from animals.

[Their Satanic Prince]

Ratttking

Yes. While soy is the most common, there are many other good sources of protein that are not derived from animals.

Sorry for the series of stupid questions, but can you tell me what some of those sources are?

[Ratttking]

Their Satanic Prince

Ratttking

Yes. While soy is the most common, there are many other good sources of protein that are not derived from animals.

Sorry for the series of stupid questions, but can you tell me what some of those sources are?

They are not stupid questions. smile

Legumes such as garbanzo beans, kidney beans, lentils, lima beans, navy beans, and split peas; nuts and seeds like almonds, cashews, filberts, hemp seeds, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, and walnuts ; grains including barley, brown rice, buckwheat, millet, oatmeal, quinoa, rye, wheat germ, wheat, and wild rice.

If you mean vegetarian but not vegan, eggs and dairy milk will solve all your potential protein issues.

[Their Satanic Prince]

Ratttking

Their Satanic Prince

Ratttking

Yes. While soy is the most common, there are many other good sources of protein that are not derived from animals.

Sorry for the series of stupid questions, but can you tell me what some of those sources are?

They are not stupid questions. smile

Legumes such as garbanzo beans, kidney beans, lentils, lima beans, navy beans, and split peas; nuts and seeds like almonds, cashews, filberts, hemp seeds, peanuts, pumpkin seeds, sesame seeds, sunflower seeds, and walnuts ; grains including barley, brown rice, buckwheat, millet, oatmeal, quinoa, rye, wheat germ, wheat, and wild rice.

If you mean vegetarian but not vegan, eggs and dairy milk will solve all your potential protein issues.

Thank you. I should have figured that other beans would be on that list. sweatdrop

[Super 9-Volt]

There's other things to eat besides soy.

[Telith]

It should be no more difficult than avoiding soy normally (food allergies are always super annoying) I have found that the 'health' food is much more likely to have allergens labeled, and there are vegetarians and vegans that will readily point out on their food blogs when something is soy or gluten free. (my dad and I looooove Ener-G pretzels, but the running joke in the house is 'but what's in them?' since they avoided so many allergens.)

[Flynn MacCumhaill]

In a healthy vegetarian diet, you should have lots of different protein sources; relying too heavily on soy products is actually something a lot of people do wrong, and make themselves sick because of it. As Ratttking has said, beans, nuts, other legumes, etc are very good, as are eggs and dairy, and these should make up the bulk of your protein intake. There's also TVP, (processed veggie protein turned into a meat-like product, can be nice occasionally in stir fries, curries, etc...) which is usually made from wheat, but can be made from soy so take care. It's heavily processed, and often very high in sodium, so it's definitely a "sometimes food".

It may be an option for you to transition to vegetarianism via pescetarianism (vegetarian plus fish) while you are adapting to cooking for yourself without meat.

As always, I highly suggest you talk to your doctor about this, as anyone should when making significant diet changes, to ensure you are doing it safely and apppropriately for your health and personal nutritional needs.