Coming out and asking for personal help

**Akar** · January 21, 2020, 11:27 AM

I'm gonna say no.

**Cookiegod** · January 21, 2020, 11:34 AM

After which I'm gonna say that I don't think I have it in me

**Septentrionalis** · January 21, 2020, 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by Cookiegod

How do I get that constant farting under control?

Being fully aware that you are not necessarily serious, I will give you a serious answer.

If beans, or legumes in general, give you problems, chances are that they are processed wrong. Legumes contain complex carbohydrates that the human digestive track cannot handle well, but their concentration goes down with proper treatment, especially soaking and lengthy boiling. Undercook beans can give great discomfort and in some cases, such as the kidney bean, even a poisoning of sorts.

However, processed soy products should not contain a lot of them. In that case, you might be one of those people who just cannot handle soy or bean products well in general. What is important though is that many experience these problems at first when transitioning to a more vegetarian diet, but somehow their system starts processing the stuff better over time. I have no clue what that mechanism could be, but take my word for it and give it some time.

Originally Posted by Roma_Victrix

Tofu is supposed to be a substitute for meat and naturally it contains soy milk, but what's the substitute for tofu? Please don't say beans.

It depends a lot on where you live, but at least in countries where being vegetarian is common or many people opt for vegetarian alternatives, there are a number of other plant-based protein products.

The most obvious one is seitan ("all hail seitan!"), which is wheat protein that is also commonly known as gluten. If you have the celiac disease, steer clear, but others can go nuts. It does not even contain wheat carbs to any great degree (that many view a poor nutrient). Seitan makes excellent steaks, sausages and the like with often very meat-like texture.

Other things are tofu-like or more firm protein products made of other plant proteins such as pea, fava beans, and even oats. Finland has many kinds, such as trademarked Härkis and Beanit (both made of fava beans, the latter should be available in North America soon if not already), Pulled oats (made of pea protein and oats), and Vöner (seitan-based döner kebab kind of thingy).

Soy milk alternatives can be made of peas as well, but they usually taste pretty horrible. Oats-based milk alternatives are commonplace in Scandinavia today and are pretty much a staple at coffee shops and offices etc. Some of them, like the Swedish Oatly products, taste so good that many meat and dairy consumers prefer them even if they had no reason to stay off milk.

Here is a nice (albeit corporate) vegan Beanit recipe for a geeky Greeky gamer such as yourself:

https://www.beanit.fi/en/recipe/greek-pasta-bake/

EDIT: sorry, not vegan with the feta cheese. Vegetarian. And the link does not work. This is what you get when you put a soy boy on the case.