Any Vegetarians/Vegans here?

[NoraBrimstone]

I've been a Vegetarian since December 1991, just after my 5th Birthday. I'd recently found out that meat was dead animals, which I thought was gross because animals are gross and smelly, so eating meat had been making me sick for a little while. Then I found out from a friend at school that I didn't have to eat meat, so I went home and told my mum I wasn't going to eat animals anymore. 22 years later I've never eaten meat.

Every now and then I have a go at veganism, but I've never lasted longer than 3 months because I've yet to find a decent substitute for Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate. Sainsbury's do a decent soya milk chocolate, but that doesn't satisfy my chocolate cravings for long. Cheese used to be an issue with my attempts at staying vegan, but then I discovered nutritional yeast flakes and they do a good job as a cheese substitute in many situations and I rarely even buy cheese anymore. Eggs just disgust me. I'll still eat products containing eggs, like cakes (though when I make my own cakes they're egg-free) but I hate anything that tastes like egg and the sight of raw eggs grosses me out so much I won't have eggs in the house.

I also hate mushrooms as much as I hate meat. That makes being a veggie kinda awkward!