Inspired by Alicia Silverstone's "The Kind Diet" and Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food," we want to experience the vegan lifestyle to improve our health, boycott animal suffering, and reduce our carbon footprint.

Saturday, March 6, 2010

Update from Katherine

Since my first appearance on this blog, I've made a few adjustments and found a solution to my constant hunger: animal crackers.  So I can't eat animal products, I'll just eat lil delights that look like animals.  This first started as a good thing, but the Jumbo -sized bag at my desk has seen significant activity since it first appeared last week.  To be quite honest, on Friday I ate at least 40-60 animal crackers.  Which leads me to my next topic...

Drinking.  I've been known to handle my alcohol.  Well dabbling in the vegan ways makes drinking very, very hard on the body.  Two glasses of wine made me so hungover that I needed constant animal crackers to keep me alive, and that was in conjunction with 4-5 nalgenes of water and 4+ cups of detox tea.  That, a fun Friday does not make.

But when I'm not feeling hungover, I feel very healthy.  The chefs at work know I'm a vegan and always help point me towards the items I should try.  It's lucky that I love seitan, tempeh, beancurd, tofu, etc., because the chefs make a dish with one of those items every day.  If I don't have that option of the day, there are always an overabundance of salad fixings or a delectable vegetable dish.

Additionally, the Ann Arbor Farmer's Market always has lots of great options for me.  Today I purchased cranberry/walnut grainy bread and smothered it in DARK CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER- ummm..omg.  Also, there is a gluten-free bakery that also typically sells vegan Peanut Butter Granola Squares that taste like candy.  So amazing.

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