be a better vegan

I’m a terrible vegan. The first year was amazing. But I haven’t even been trying recently.
I’m going for it. I’m diving into this goal. If I can’t control anything else in this life, I can control what the hell goes into this body.

Blah…
I think the pizza I had a couple days ago had parmesan cheese in the sauce..
But my mom bought it for me so I couldn’t really not eat it.
And it was pretty damn good, by the way.

Ah well.. forgive, forget, and move on!

drat! I was doing so well! I haven’t mindlessly chewed on rice crackers or sweets or crisps without checking ingredients, or had any late-night after-drink slips with hot chips, but DAMMIT I yesterday accepted a bottle of flavoured vitamin water at a job interview and it had dairy in it!

it’s not the world’s hugest deal but it upsets me that it could’ve been so easily avoided.

recommitting to be ever more vigilant!

I’ve now been vegan for about five months, and it’s a positive wonderful life change that makes me ridiculously happy.

Still, the road to ridding my life of animal products as completely as possible is a long one, and I’ve gotten careless at points. I’ve eaten rice crackers without knowing what flavour they are, for example, and when I’ve had a few drinks I’ve even had hot chips while out (not vegan here in Aus). The worst thing I’ve done, I think, is continue eating a salad even when I realised it had some parmesan in it. It’s not something I’m beating myself up over but it’s something I want to change.

I’m starting now!

I ate three square meals, all of which wear delicious, nutritious, and thoroughly vegan. For lunch I had some of the soup I made with the armful of dumpstered greens (five ready-prepared packs of cabbage, leek and broccoli plus several packs of asparagus) I brought home from work, which ticks the environmentally-friendly box as well as the animal-friendly one. Dinner was more greens (I have a shitload to use up now :P) with mashed potatoes and fried tofu. Yum! I also had three servings of homemade chocolate cake and soya cream. Who cares if it’s nutritionally invalid, it was gorgeous.

To quote a wise woman, “Nom nom fucking nom.”

;)

I’ve been doing so well!!!
I haven’t knowingly put anything unvegan into my body, including honey and even bleached flour, in a super long time!
I’m trying to steer myself a bit towards a raw diet, or at least more natural, with less veggie burgers and more vegetables.
That being said, I found this AWESOME vegan restaurant, with all vegan pizza and subs. Fortunately I don’t live too close to it so I won’t gain a hundred pounds :D
That would also put off my natural nutrition goal too, so it’ll just be an occasional treat.

Should prove rather useful, hopefully. Today was pretty good compared to usual, I prepared two proper meals for myself:

Lunch: Tortillas with onion, green pepper, carrot, beansprouts and mixed pulses

Dinner: Homemade soup (lentil and potato with leftover onion, carrot and pulses thrown in) with wholemeal bread

I also tried oat milk for the first time, which is simply wonderful in tea. I’ve been snacking on salted peanuts lately (I want to include more nuts in my diet so it’s a start, right?) though I noticed my occasional eczema flared up a bit so I’ll need to keep an eye on that to see if there’s a correlation between the two. TMI?

I’ve also been invited to a cupcake-making session by the lady who hosted the wonderful potluck I attended on Saturday. Which isn’t really being a healthy vegan, granted, but I reckon it definitely means being a better one. :P

I keep saying I’m going to go all pure; no sugar or oils and such. I make promises to myself that I keep breaking.
I need to go hardcore vegan and learn how to cook some kick-ass recipes.
Damn the cost.

I’ll crack out my copy of Plant Based Nutrition and Health to get some specifics, but basically I want to stop eating so much shit. I’d like to start cooking more and make packed lunches to take to the office (or, occasionally, get some vegan soup from the nearby deli) instead of having horrible (yet heavenly) chips at least once a week. Yeah.

I need to read labels more closely, and I need to decide for sure whether or not I want to keep eating honey… ehhhh.