I've been meaning to make one for months, but I haven't gotten around to it/didn't want to conform.
Then as I was perusing the ppk blog, I noticed this little thing going on here:
I thought, "Hey, this is the perfect time to start that blog I've been meaning to start."
So, here it is.
I'm not promising anything except some talk about food that I have been trying and trying to cook.
I guess I should start with my story:
Here's some back-story:
I was born in Lancaster, PA. I moved to NJ. I lived there for 11 years. I found Jesus, friends, my life, veganism, and my future while I was there. I moved back to Lancaster two months ago, and I am finding more here than I did there.
Now, here is my vegan-story:
When I was around 10, I stumbled across a link called milksucks.com. I absolutely abhorred the taste of milk, so I, of course, went to this site. Through this site, I learned a little about what a vegan is, and I got a little excited, it sounded like the thing for me. It seemed like a lot of commitment, and I wasn't sure I could commit to it, but I was considering it.
Then I found the message boards. One of the posts went sort of like this:
"I was in a store and I asked the woman if she had any baking chocolate. She asked me what I was baking and I explained to her that I was vegan etc. Then she started saying 'I don't understand how you people can eat like that' as well as other things. Then I told her, 'Well, that's why I'm a size two and you're not' Haha!"
As a young girl who struggled with her weight and body image, I did not want to be part of anything that made people feel bad about their size. So, I put vegans aside.
A few years later, I was trying to lose weight. In trying, all different ways of eating were presented to me, and I was experimenting with different styles trying to find what was right. Which brought veganism back to my attention.
I debated it, and decided that I was just going to try it for six weeks. The first week would be vegetarian, the rest vegan. I was not doing this for weight loss, but to find what was right for me.
After three days of being a vegetarian I got bored and went on to vegan. I have been a vegan ever since.
When I became a vegan, I did not care for animals at all. As I have progressed eating this way, I find that I am a hundred times more compassionate towards animals than I was, and I can never imagine eating a living thing that feels again.
That being said, I am unapologetically out of the vegan movement. This is not my religion, and I do not do this because I am trying to change the world. I do this because it makes sense in my head, and it works for my body. It goes hand-in-hand with my true "religion" (that is another post), which is Christianity. I can not explain it in a few words, so I'll save what that means for another time.
There needs to be a little but of mystery.
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