What's Your Vegan Story?

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Comment by Vera E Braswell on February 27, 2012 at 11:15am

Someone at work pointed out that many pastas are made with eggs . . . I guess I need to get the kind that isn't.

Comment by Vera E Braswell on February 20, 2012 at 7:37pm

Jacque, thanks for the suggestion.  I need to step into the 21st century and get a phone with apps!  :-)

Comment by Jacqueline Shukla on February 20, 2012 at 3:18pm

Vera,

One super fast meal is just pasta with marinara sauce.  A lot of jarred sauces are vegan.  I especially like Amy's lower sodium brand (good for helping your husband's blood pressure).  Just serve a green salad with Annie's natural Goddess dressing.  Takes less than 20 minutes!  And get an app VeganXpress for your phone.  It tells you what is vegan at many chain restaurants.

Comment by Vera E Braswell on February 18, 2012 at 8:54pm

I tried veganism last year for Lent.  It went well until my Mom passed and I found myself in Charleston, SC sitting at my cousin's table.  I want to try it again this Lent.  I'm setting a goal of 5 days a week. . .maybe more.  We'll see.  I work full-time and also LOVE to eat out at nice restaurants.  I need healthy, tasty and QUICK meals.  Looking for ideas.  I tend to fall back on what is familiar (which isn't always a healthy choice).  I would also like to help my hubby get his blood pressure under control (without meds).  I recently read "Omnivore's Dilemma" and watched "Food, Inc." and "Forks over Knives".  I want to help effect change by voting differently with my dollars.  I also recently joined "Slow Food USA".  

Comment by may japan on April 9, 2011 at 9:46am

I saw this message in a forum to people don't be hipocrite and confess who  among those animal lovers weren't vegetarian. I was shocked, that sentence for me just made me realize what all my life's signs were preparing me to: I had to test if I really loved them was enough. Risking my life, feeding, rescuing was done, but I needed to take another step.

 

I went to these horrible videos websites and seeked to see for the first time how a poor cow become my hamburguer. I couldn't stop crying. Right after it I saw a pig be slaughtered. I already knew the chicken and wasn't buying Kentucky's chicken anymore after know what they did. I became vegetarian in the next day or next meal after the horrifying videos.

 

It was hard, I'm a foreigner in Japan and can't read, but I seeked for information the way I could with google translator, I buy this and that new food and have to spit when I realize a mistake and there are little cows or something in my food. Seems like japanese put animals in everything. I don't go in restaurants for centuries and there are no vegan groups and hopefully not but vegan people in here, it seems.

 

Then after starting getting used to I started to cook, something I don't like and was living better. One day out of nowhere I just felt I was being horrible for being just vegetarian, it's half way but not everything. Then I decided to be Vegan as I already admired you guys.

 

Oh yeah, I'm Vegan now. Still struggling, only eat at home, sometimes have to spit when a meat in the middle of the food scarries me, it's not my fault but I send e-mails, seek for vegans, I hope be the one to begin the movement in my province of Shizuoka. I was complaning about it, now I want to do something :)

Comment by ali nayeri on September 26, 2010 at 10:53pm

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