jemmina777's Journal, 31 Jul 20

I am making the change to being a vegan but am having difficulty. can you recommend anything in particular that can help? right now I am using pinterest but have had mixed results. 

I'm brand new too, I've been at it a month and no salads so far lol. I started by pinning a lot too, but most were above my skill set, so I just started simply by eating whole fruits and veg, I'm trying to stay away from vegan junk food..like the fake cheese, burgers, eggs, ect. And I bought some tofu and learned how to use that and I added it to soups, pasta, nachos, veggie sheet bakes. I also watched a bunch of documentaries on Prime Video, The Game Changers on Netflix and a bunch on YouTube. Google “easy 15 minute vegan meals” and just start playing. I'm having a blast playing with recipes :) 

@sizzelingtriumph, it takes awhile for your tastebuds to wake up and adjust to new tastes and textures. But when they do...wow! Tastes that you thought were bland, boring or otherwise icky...start to taste amazing! That's also backed up by science, you can “force” yourself to like something by trying it over and over again. It takes something like 7-10 times of trying something to know if you really like it or not. 😊🍽  

I'm vegan too and have been for a really long time. I've been using a site called Clean Food Dirty Girl for recipes and everything is amazing!. 

Thank you ladies! I was pretty slack this week so no real change for me. My biggest problem is I have very limited resources here in BFE NoDak, it is 2 hours to get to Walmart. That is unfortunately the store with the biggest selection.  

The very good thing is that a lot of the vegan staple items like, nutritional yeast, etc.can be ordered on Amazon. I focus entirely on whole and unprocessed foods that I make myself. If you need help finding something specific I probably have a link for it. 🙂 

@atriel2 thanks for the site recommendation!