Hey All! Classic intro post coming up --> I'm a third year college student at the University of Delaware, and I love to try new things and make changes to my life just to see how things go. I feel strongly about the human need to reduce consumption and waste and how we should be more mindful about how our actions affect our environment, and how what we eat affects our health and body.
Over this last summer I was able to travel to and stay at several organic farms (see my other blog, urbanandnothing.blogspot.com, to see travel stories), where I ate all vegan or at least all vegetarian food, that was organic and grown right on the farm, and I felt great. My body never felt sluggish, after meals I never felt the urge to crawl into bed and nap, and the best part is the food was absolutely delicious - some of the best I have ever eaten.
This blog is basically going to be my story of becoming a vegan, at least for the rest of the school year and as long as possible over the summer. I say 'as long as possible' because I will be traveling back to India for an internship and am not certain about the vegan selection that will be available to me there.
Some background on my vegan-ness: I have been vegetarian for just over two years and will never go back to being an omnivore. I just don't desire to eat meat anymore, its weird to me, borderline gross at this point. For the vegan aspect, I am relatively new to it. Last November, which happened to be national vegan month, I tried to be vegan for a whole month and it worked for the most part. I made some rookie mistakes - taking coffee with cream instead of asking for soy milk, eating white chocolate, etc, and I gave up towards the end of the month for reasons I don't remember. I also developed poor eating habits, basically eating pasta with sauce almost every night, sometimes twice or three times a day. For a $1 pack of pasta and a $3 jar of sauce, I could feed myself for a week, possibly longer (this probably contributed to why I went back to my quesadillas and grilled cheeses eventually).
THIS time, I want things to be different. Being the penny-pinching person I am, I will still be cooking on a budget, with typical ingredients found in a college girls kitchen, but I will make healthy meals, a variety of meals, and share what I make with others through this blog. You heard it here first, this time my vegan-ness will last.
To conclude this post, a quote:
"Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself."
—T. Casey Brennan (1948–)
And a funny T-shirt with a broccoli tree:
Over this last summer I was able to travel to and stay at several organic farms (see my other blog, urbanandnothing.blogspot.com, to see travel stories), where I ate all vegan or at least all vegetarian food, that was organic and grown right on the farm, and I felt great. My body never felt sluggish, after meals I never felt the urge to crawl into bed and nap, and the best part is the food was absolutely delicious - some of the best I have ever eaten.
This blog is basically going to be my story of becoming a vegan, at least for the rest of the school year and as long as possible over the summer. I say 'as long as possible' because I will be traveling back to India for an internship and am not certain about the vegan selection that will be available to me there.
Some background on my vegan-ness: I have been vegetarian for just over two years and will never go back to being an omnivore. I just don't desire to eat meat anymore, its weird to me, borderline gross at this point. For the vegan aspect, I am relatively new to it. Last November, which happened to be national vegan month, I tried to be vegan for a whole month and it worked for the most part. I made some rookie mistakes - taking coffee with cream instead of asking for soy milk, eating white chocolate, etc, and I gave up towards the end of the month for reasons I don't remember. I also developed poor eating habits, basically eating pasta with sauce almost every night, sometimes twice or three times a day. For a $1 pack of pasta and a $3 jar of sauce, I could feed myself for a week, possibly longer (this probably contributed to why I went back to my quesadillas and grilled cheeses eventually).
THIS time, I want things to be different. Being the penny-pinching person I am, I will still be cooking on a budget, with typical ingredients found in a college girls kitchen, but I will make healthy meals, a variety of meals, and share what I make with others through this blog. You heard it here first, this time my vegan-ness will last.
To conclude this post, a quote:
"Poor animals! How jealously they guard their pathetic bodies…that which to us is merely an evening’s meal, but to them is life itself."
—T. Casey Brennan (1948–)
And a funny T-shirt with a broccoli tree:
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