So, you caveat your statement with ready-made foods, but that's kinda disingenuous, as you're vegan. That means you have to seek out your food in general, and it's more likely that your food may contain lentils, like bean patties that replace beef patties for burgers. Maybe not all of them, but they definitely exist. I imagine a lot of pre-made vegan meals also probably intentionally make up for difficiencies natural to the diet.

I like to cook my own food, so everything I make could be counted as "seeking out". Split peas, lentils, and dal are common beans I keep, along with northern beans, black beans, kidney beans, pinto beans, and pigeon peas.

When I ate pasta more, I also often bought lentil based pasta for a quick meal, so if you're making anything it isn't too hard. Also made lentils and rice often. My bean/pasta drawer(obvious none of the canned stuff):

https://i.imgur.com/ATSvuGy.jpeg

Accidentally hit post before finishing this.

[–] zarkanian 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Your question was "How is it that people turn vegan and don't eat enough lentils?" and my answer is "Easily enough, if lentils weren't part of their diet in the first place".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oh, that wasn't me who asked you that. I just took maybe too much confusion to your statement about lentils being something you had to seek out, which I probably somewhat misunderstood as saying lentils are hard to get outside of soup or something. I don't have an argument against veganism nor am I confused on how they get nutrients nor that some dietary changes are necessary. In other words, I probably shouldn't have made my prior post...