Sorry it's been so long since the last post. It's been really hard trying to find time and motivation since I started working full time. Not that I'm complaining, my job rocks!
Recently before we moved, Evan and I decided to transition into a vegan diet. I celebrated my 5 year vegetarian anniversary this February :D and am ready to take it a little further. I don't mean to preach, but cutting meat out of your diet is one of the most effective things you can do to help save the environment! Livestock are responsible for more greenhouse gases than anything else in the world. There are also tons and tons of stats on the health benefits of vegans/vegetarians over their meat-eating brethren. Not to mention human and animal rights issues, food poisoning debacles, artificial hormones...
I've been thinking about how weird it is that we drink other animals' milk a lot lately. And the fact that we do it as adults! Think about how weird it would be if someone you knew told you they had human breast milk every morning with their cereal. Ew. And you don't normally see other animals drinking inter-species milk.
As a kid, I drank a lot of milk. probably around 3-4 big glasses a day, and this carried on until recently, when I started to look for milk replacements such as almond milk. Now that I rarely drink milk, whenever I do, I feel sick within half an hour. Now I realize that I just never really noticed that I was feeling like that all the time before, and just assuming it was normal. Cutting milk out of my diet was a really natural step for me, especially with so many substitutes.
Eggs are yet another product of the livestock industry that I don't want to be a part of anymore. Chickens are farmed in outrageous conditions, which you only need look to Food Inc. to discover. Countless other Youtube videos for animal cruelty will show you the same thing.
I know a lot of people are scared of veganism, because they think that there's nothing left to eat at that point. Wrong! The key to vegan eating is cooking your own food. You can learn to modify almost any recipe to be vegan, as long as it's not meat-based, like steak. Here is an example of a recipe that I modified to be completely vegan!
Original Recipe: My Favourite Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Cookie Recipe
Modified Recipe:
1/2 cup margarine
1/4 cup apple sauce
1/4 cup unrefined coconut oil
1 cup brown sugar
1 banana
a bunch of vanilla (who measures?)
1 1/4 cups multigrain or brown flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon sea salt
1 cup rolled oats
1 cup porridge oats (a mix of whole oats, steel cut oats, flax bran and a bunch of other stuff)
1 cup quinoa
as many chocolate chips (vegan ones!) as you like!
1/3 cup of vegan cocoa
This is just an example of what you can do, there are so many different ingredients you can swap in/out!
Don't take my word for it! Thanks for reading,
Brett
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