Update

So truth... I'm actually far from being the best blogger in the world.

My problem stems primarily from being busy (and a bit lazy) so I go a little while without posting an entry. Then once I go a while without posting, I feel this dread about posting again because I feel like I'm going to have to catch up on all the stuff I should have been posting all along... but didn't... and that would require thinking .... ? You follow?

A quick update then, so I am a better blogger in future. In theory. I have officially been fully-vegan for 37 days. I'm almost surprised it's been that long because I really thought it was going to be more difficult. The only craving I have had really is for cheese (which I am working on what with the vegan cheese experiments and all) and I think my body is mostly over the "new diet" shock. Oh what is this new diet shock you might ask? It's basically that awkward moment where your body basically forgets how to digest anything you eat and freaks out, you have horrid gas, your skin breaks out, and you detox. Part of that was transitioning into my protein powder, but my body seems to have mostly sorted itself out. I imagine it will take about three months to be completely settled in my diet, but the worst part is over.

I was going to post a shwack load of recipes with photos and such, but quite frankly I'm really much too lazy at the moment. I hope to slowly add them on, one at a time, over the next little while but I'm not going to stress about it.

Things I love:

• Nutritional yeast sauce (NOOCH!)
• Vega One protein powder
• Wraps with blackbeans, cabbage slaw, and hummus
• Vegan biscotti and cookies (that I bake... because I'm a balla like that)
• Ginger fried tofu on brown rice
• Lemon blueberry cornmeal pancakes (eating about fifty of these is my new sunday morning tradition.)
• Sherlock Holmes... Totally unrelated to being vegan but it's the truth...

Things I do not love even a smidgen:

• Tofu in my curry (OOOH sure it takes good when you eat it at a restaurant and then you make it at home and it's icky...)
• How vegan un-friendly my city is.
• Working (umm hellloooooo I'm going back to school so I can get NEW job..)
• The fact that there's whey in basically every prepackaged food out there.
• When I've scheduled myself in for a form of exercise other than zumba. Sadness :(

I feel that basically describes most of what I had to say. OOH except that I finally got my mum to read the book "Sleeping Naked is Green" by Vanessa Farquarson (you should read it too) and it's got her thinking about easy little things she can change in order to be more eco-friendly! This makes me so happy!!! OOh yes, and if I don't get into my environmental sciences program I'm applying to (they only take in 40 students each year, I must accept this unfortunate possibility), then archaeology will probably be my kind of random but totally awesome fall-back. Don't ask me how these things are connected and/or make any sense. They don't.

Eat your vegetables!