So a little bit ago I was reading a note that I wrote a couple of years ago when we transitioned to eating organic food and grass fed meats and i realized I hadn't yet blogged about now being VEGAN!! Yes, that's right, you read that correctly, we are now vegan and I love it! I made my transition late April 2012. Sam's last non vegan meal was July 20, 2012. He made that decision on his own! I'm so proud. :). This has been far easier than I thought it would be. It was all really about finding substitutions. At first the sub for cheese I did not like but after trying it a few times it grew on me. So now we use Daiya cheese on our home made pizzas. I've found several vegan ice creams that I love. Pizza and ice cream I thought were gonna be the hardest thing ever but nope! Everything else was easy likely because I don't like all the other animal products. Companies are very sneaky though so things like whey and eggs are in everything. About three months in, i bought chips with a hint of like and there was milk in them! WTH?! Good thing for us is that we try and stay away from packaged items and really try only to buy fresh real food. It's all about reading labels. :).
Later we discovered this vegan company called Veggytopia. They are a vegan food deliver company that makes all your food with organic local ingredients and delivers to your doorstep. It is so convenient! I love it because it gives us so much more time after work to relax rather than spending it all in the kitchen prepping meals and cleaning after.
So it's been 8 months for me and I haven't looked back....other than to ask myself "what was I thinking eating all that crap before?!". I never made the connection of a dead animal being on my plate. Now I think about it and think "how or why would anyone want to eat a dead animal?!". It now makes absolutely no sense to me. It sounds barbaric!
