I just realized I haven't eaten any animal products for a whole week!

And to make this post longer than one sentence, I am going to recommend a yummy salad I had today. It's the Strawberry Poppyseed salad from Panera. It has lettuce strawberries, blueberries, mandarin oranges, pineapple, pecans and a lemon poppyseed dressing. Delicious, perfect ( Read more... )

I always had a "so what" kind of attitude that most people have when it comes to the slaughter of animals for our food. I considered it their purpose, to sustain life sitting on a higher link on the food chain. And maybe if farming were conducted in the same way it was when our grandparents were young, I might still be okay with it. However, it ( Read more... )

For new or non veggies, TVP stands for Textured Vegetable Protein and is used to stand in for or supplement meats like ground beef (apparently some fast food places use TVP to stretch their meat supply).  The kind I used is made by Bob's Redmill and comes in dry flakes that have to be reconstituted by adding water (or a combination of water and ( Read more... )

I moved back in with my mom this year because I resigned from my job and went traveling for two months. Since I got back in the country I've been living with her and job searching. My mom and I get along great so it has actually been kind of fun being back home after a few years on my own. However, for a while it made me put my vegan aspirations ( Read more... )

I just want to give a shout-out to fellow LJ user alias_jems who created the Booth/Brennan custom mood theme I am using here.  They are really cute and you'll especially enjoy them if you watch Bones.  Thanks alias_jems for having the patience to create all those!

The first book I read that talked about vegansim may have been Skinny Bitch, but the first one I read where I knew going into it that it was a vegan book was Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating by Erik Marcus and Howard Lyman.  Not to use eating puns so soon in this blog, but I absolutely devoured this book.  There's no better word for it.  I read it ( Read more... )

The beginning is always the hardest place to start, don't you think?  The middle of anything is much more comfortable, squishy, familiar.  So, although this is my first post to this blog, I'd like to say welcome to the middle of my journey.  As you might have guessed from the title, I am writing this blog to chronicle my attempt at vegan living.  ( Read more... )