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I've been slowly eating through my dad's horded old pants that fit but I'm starting to run out I probably have a while but considering prices I might need to save up. I need durable pants ment for trades men for my own safety that will pass my companies policies(need to be solid black, or blue no fading no visible holes) this has made thrifting for durable pants quite the unicorn hunt. considering im not small I've been repairing the crotches as need be from chub rub but considering my chud still rubs the repairs only last so long I'm running out of margin to keep the repairs invisible for my bosses. I personally prefer heavier materials like duck canvus or duck cloth for many reasons but the sustainable clothing brands I do fallow don't make clothing for heavy labor jobs and wouldnt last with how hard I am on pants at work. Recommendations for brands or new repair methods I'll take eather, im just trying to figure out the best way to reduce my footprint. Keep in mind that for repair methods, I'm working with just hand sewing since my sewing machine won't work with these heavy fabrics.

Im newly vegan and I have medical issues with my feet and since insurance wont cover othortics the only shoe ive found on the market that dosent make me yern for a wheel chair are the fully cork foot bed of berkinstocks after breaking them into my feet but all the ones I find use leather. I've been looking through other brand that use cork and they all seem to share the leather issue. Maybe I just don't know what I'm looking at or looking for. I don't see why I'm struggling to find something similar that's vegan friendly considering how cork the thing that seems to be the key component is from a tree. I'd prefer sustainably made as well but I guess I can't be that picky unless I'm just utterly blind.

I(27) live with my elderly parents and spouse. I've been debating going vegan for years and made an attempt as a kid when there were fewer resources that ended because i got so anxious i starved myself. Any time I've brought going vegan up, it's been met with out right hate from my father and "but you're such a carnivore i can't see you giving up meat" projecting herself onto me from my mother. So, I am working to go vegan without my parents realizing. I have a lot of food allergies (corn being the most impactful one, but im also allergic to palm family foods)and am using them as an excuse for why I'm getting these vegan products. I've been food insecure for a while, so the transition might not be immediate, but my food allergies already make animal products more tedious and expensive. I'm noticing I get better trials on foods from vegan companies than non vegan companies as well. I think this might have something to do with the high moral values reflecting on how high quality their ingredients labels and contamination protocals are. From everything I've researched, I think going vegan might actually be cheaper for me even compared to the vegetarian budget I was looking at.

I'm struggling extremely hard to get an appropriate amount of food, especially protein, in my diet. My doctor wants me to be getting at least 100g of protein a day to meet my health goals safely, but I'm struggling to get even 50g. I'm allergic to Palm family foods(coconut, dates, banana, oil palm, carnauba, ect) and corn, im highly sentive but not deadly reactive(yet?) Though bad reactions can take me out of work for a fue days. These 2 allergies lock me out of most fortified foods, 99% of premade/processed foods and basically the entire supplements industry. I've been moving to a plant based diet thanks to the level of corn-tamination in the meat industry, though the moral issues do make the switch easier. Eggs are completely non options, and the milk I can use is $8 for haft a gallon so i dont really do that much anymore. My allergies can make my diet quite expensive and labor intensive, so I'm dealing with a bit of food insecurity and trying to figure that out as well. Since the couple of times I've gone to food banks, the only things I've left with were mandarins and like 10 oz of lentils after waiting multiple hours, I couldn't use 90% of what they offered. Im trying to find ways to get healthy protein in but many of the common options are showing issues. I can not find a nutritional yeast that states what media they grow in, and corn is a common option that's likely to cause a reaction. I can only eat so many beans and nuts before i have other issues with fiber content and just general fillingness(were talking like 5-8 cups of beans &/or nuts a day to reach that goal i can only get about 3 before i feel bloated no mater how i split it). I'm unsure how safe something like making Seiten would be considering flour seems to always be fortified that, and the yeast issue is why I dont really eat breads. I've honestly been struggling to meet basic calorie needs right now because of how stressful food is. I can't afford a special diet nutritionalist, and I know my stupid insurance won't cover it. While I am heavy and weight loss is a goal, I've confirmed that my current rate isn't really healthy. I finally got where I didn't feel sick all the time from my allergies, and now I'm low-key starving, I guess. I'll be posting this in multiple places I think can offer advice.

I'm struggling extremely hard to get an appropriate amount of food, especially protein, in my diet. My doctor wants me to be getting at least 100g of protein a day to meet my health goals safely, but I'm struggling to get even 50g. I'm allergic to Palm family foods(coconut, dates, banana, oil palm, carnauba, ect) and corn, im highly sentive but not deadly reactive(yet?) Though bad reactions can take me out of work for a fue days. These 2 allergies lock me out of most fortified foods, 99% of premade/processed foods and basically the entire supplements industry. I've been moving to a plant based diet thanks to the level of corn-tamination in the meat industry, though the moral issues do make the switch easier. Eggs are a complete non options, and the milk I can use is $8 for haft a gallon so i dont really do that much anymore. My allergies can make my diet quite expensive and labor intensive, so I'm dealing with a bit of food insecurity and trying to figure that out as well. Since the couple of times I've gone to food banks, the only things I've left with were mandarins and like 10 oz of lentils after waiting multiple hours, I couldn't use 90% of what they offered. Im trying to find ways to get healthy protein in but many of the common options are showing issues. I can not find a nutritional yeast that states what media they grow in, and corn is a common option that's likely to cause a reaction. I can only eat so many beans and nuts before i have other issues with fiber content and just general fillingness(were talking like 5-8 cups of beans &/or nuts a day to reach that goal i can only get about 3 before i feel bloated no mater how i split it). I'm unsure how safe something like making Seiten would be considering flour seems to always be fortified that, and the yeast issue is why I dont really eat breads. I've honestly been struggling to meet basic calorie needs right now because of how stressful food is. I can't afford a special diet nutritionalist, and I know my stupid insurance won't cover it. While I am heavy and weight loss is a goal, I've confirmed that my current rate isn't really healthy. I finally got where I didn't feel sick all the time from my allergies, and now I'm low-key starving, I guess. I'll be posting this in multiple places I think can offer advice.

I share this in case it can help someone else figure out what's going on with them

I used to be near 400lb and am now 283lb about 80 of that was slow and annoying, and I always felt hungry or uncomfortable, like I was getting weaker with each pound lost. My A1C was elevated. My thyroid was inflamed but not at a point they wanted to medicate. I knew I was doing something wrong, but i couldn't figure it out. I probably did enough research i could be a dietitian. My weight loss was so slow over a decade that it felt stagnant. i couldn't get lower, and if I lost focus, the weight came right back. After years of being ignored for my IBS like symptoms and struggling to control my chronic migraines, they sent me to an allergist where I found out I have some major food allergies that show up in 95% of all processed foods at least in the US: Corn and members of the palm family (coconut, dates, banana, oil palms, carnauba ect) corn on its own hides in every unspecified ingredients on our packaging.

It's been a couple of years since then, and when I started feeling comfortable that I wasn't accidentally poisoning myself through allergies maybe a year ago my appetite suddenly dropped like a rock and I've been loosing weight 2 or 3 pounds a week since then. Everything I mentioned with my health has stabilized or returned to normal levels. My asthma stopped being exorsize induced. My hunger cues actually make sense and aren't just a term someone told me that I couldn't make sense of with my body. I still track my calories and what I eat, and it's a healthy amount of food, but there isn't a sense of restriction. I still have a strong sweet tooth, but it's not ravinace feeling that made me feel like an addict. I'm not starving myself. I feel nourished by my food. It's so weird. I thought people just said that stuff that was more mentality or skill I hadn't gained, but no, it was this chronic allergic inflammation. I've probably had my whole life blinding me to these sensations. I didn't know Hunger wasn't itchy like I didn't think about it like that before, but compared to what I feel now, it was for me for the entire first 25 years of my life. It is more expensive to eat with my allergies and takes a lot of work but that's totally worth it the amount of pain I didn't even realize I was in is staggering early on I joked that it felt like someone gave me stimulants every day but I realized it's like a pug with a nose job I'm breathing and living how I was supposed to be for the first time in my life.

Also, weird addtional note, I used to hate spicy food. Now I love it because everything used to have this spice to it that I didn't realize was there. And now I get why people called my old cooking bland.

This is something i mentally fight with more than I'd like to admit, but I'm genuinely curious how you guys feel about this kinda thing. I would like to hear how you handle this or dont.

Context i dont consider myself a vegan, but my morals have shifted in that direction more and more over time, but one sticking point is I find food waist abhorrent. If someone is about to toss something or if my parents' leftovers have sat long enough, I believe they will rott in the fridge and there's no allergy barrier I feel like I'm doing a disservice to the sacrifice made by the animal that went to make that food even though i dont agree with that animal being food in the first place. Like if some aliens were farming and slottering humans for consumption and I was one, I think I'd be doubly annoyed as a ghost if part of the thing they killed me for rotted and went to waist. if you want to eat me, eat all of me, use my whole body. Don't let me rott in the fridge next to your cucumbers. like I have been exploited as a human by other humans and been annoyed when they don't use my skills fully or waist the labor I put into something even though I don't even want to be apart of it and I feel like that sits in that same realm something wrong is almost more offensive when done poorly or waistfully.

How do you weigh that?

I don't think it justifies my personal consumption of animal products it mostly just makes me want to be more dominant in the kitchen and shopping so less meat is bought or waist fully cooked, but it feels weirdly nuanced morally when these things do happen like im betraying some moral contract made by the purchase of those products even when I didnt purchase them. I want to hear other people's thoughts on this, especially when morally opposed to the exploitation of animals.

I have always stayed away from makeup because I didn't know what I was allergic to until a couple of years ago. Now I know and am a bit more comfortable with reading labels and wanting to try to get into makeup. I'm struggling to find anything that doesn't have any of my allergens.

I'm allergic to Corn and Palm. These make up a lot of ingredients. From vitamine with palmitate in the name to citric acid to the more obvious coconut oil and corn starch. The biggest thing I watch out for is undefined ingredients like starch and the generic vegetables things like oils and waxes. I can't use carnuda or paraphin wax. I also try to keep vegan friendly products when they are nonessential. I use badger balm brand sunscreen and moisterizer and am extremely pale with a dry skin type if any of that matters.

Allergen list:(including common derivatives and common labeled ingredients I can think of off the top of my head)

Corn

Palm

Carnuba

Coconut

Banana

Dates

Citric acid(corn derivative)

Ascorbic acid(corn derivative)

Paraphin wax

palmitate (normally vitamine derived from Palm)

magnesium stearate (commonly from Palm)

I've been looking for a while buy keep coming up short I know my allergies are vary restrictive and I don't expect any results just hoping for some options.

I have 2 primary food allergies, corn and palm(that's coconut, dates, banana, carnuda, and anything else made from palms). These 2 allergies force me into a near-palio diet as most processed foods in the US come in contact with these 2 things at some point

But on top of that, I have some maladsorbtion issues which primarily affect my obsorbstion of micro nutrients, so I need nutrients, dense, but calory low foods pretty much every day.

I've tried going vegan a few times in my teens and, every time, landed me in the doctors office with Mal nutrition and a prescription for red meat.

My sensitivity to corn means I'm reacting to animal products if they ate too much corn before getting to me this is not something that is at all regulated in a meaningful way for me, even grass fed foods are often finished on corn. Trying to cut and substitute animal products has been leading to iron and B12 issues. I can't take most supplements without allergy safety issues mixing with lack or regulations on the industry, and I can't afford a nutritionist as my insurance doesn't cover it even with my weird health conundrum.

So I'm trying to do my own research, and it feels like I've met a rock and a hard place. I think I can figure out the iron issues, but b12 is a whole other story. I already eat an ubserd amount of mushrooms to get vitamin D since apparently the sun hates this patch of earth, but B12 seems like I'm just asking for an allergic reaction no matter what I do I've been able to get some from wild caught fish but meat processors often use water based lubricants with corn in them and ive had some lower level reactions from that and id honestly like to try to remove that as well as i do get some stress and discomfort from the idea of eating animals.