I have been reading the book Skinny Bitch and I am madly in love with it, although extremely grossed out. This book has not taught me a lot that I don't already know about food and eating and the importance of not eating animal products, but it has been inspiring and hilarious. The horrible truth about they way animals are treated is the disgusting part. I really, really want to go totally vegan. I know I can do it if I never leave the house. Grace and I eat vegan meals all the time. But then I go out to eat...it's not too bad to find something vegetarian, but there's always hidden butter, eggs, dairy to think about. Of course, thanks to Grace's allergies, I am quite educated on where these things are. But what about family get-togethers? Eating veggie pizza? I know there are alternatives and I could make a delicious vegan pizza at home, but they don't have stuff like that at Pizza Hut. Or anywhere else around here. I would have to bring my own food everywhere. I know it would be more difficult, but so is being a vegetarian when most people in this house (and the world) eat meat. And I don't care. Someday I am going to be ready to give up all things made from animals, because I truly believe that is the only really healthy way to eat, and really the only way for the animals and the environment, and my inner peace. I love the pure, fresh energy I feel when eating food that is great for my body. Why can't I do that all the time?
I have gained four pounds recently due to overindulging in chocolate, cookies and chips and cheese. I feel fat, sluggish and lazy. That feeling has GOT to go. So today I have done a little better. Tonight I made scrambled tofu and ate it with pumpernickel bread. So much tastier than eggs! The picture shows Grace taking the first bite, and she heartily approved. I just think it's awesome that my little girl loves tofu (or as she says, "toe-food"). Afterward I made smoothies out of coconut milk (left over from my curry), flax seeds, silken tofu, frozen bananas and frozen strawberries. Absolutely delicious, refreshing and nutritious.
On another note, I have discovered I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, which has to be the coolest name for a band I have ever heard.
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Hey, that's cool -- I just read Skinny Bitch a few months ago too. I agree with you, though: it pretty much rehashed most of the things I already knew, but I enjoyed it nonetheless because of their tone and because it was inspiring and motivating to read.
Also, reading some of those things that people/farms/companies/laboratories do to animals is always horrifying to me. It angers me so incredibly much that anyone can think that it's okay to treat animals that way for *anything*.
-Carissa
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