I started on my Vegan journey yesterday. It was an interesting experience. It started with me waking up late. Yeah I know that's bad. I got up around 8 am. That gave me 20 minutes to get ready for work, which is fine because it usually only takes me 15. But there are some days where I just zone out in the mornings. Yesterday was one of those days. I went into the kitchen to try and find something to eat. But honestly, I had no clue what I could or couldn't eat for breakfast. So I thought, well maybe I'll skip breakfast today and make a lunch. That didn't turn out so well. Not because I didn't know what to eat, but because my ride got to my house as soon as I took out the bread (whole wheat). Basically, I went hungry for most of the day.
Already my vegan experience was going poorly. But it was my own fault. When I got home, I wanted to devour EVERYTHING we had in the kitchen. Don't worry, I held myself back. I had an organic peanut butter and jelly sandwich with some baby carrots and RANCH! OH NO! I HAD RANCH! I'M GOING TO DIE. I was planning on steaming them, but I was so hungry, I couldn't wait. Later on, I was still so hungry, I found some pre-cut broccoli in the back of the fridge. It looked pretty fresh. I was about to go for the ranch again, but my mom pulled out some nasty looking dressing. It was some Greek Vinaigrette. Man it looked so gross. But after I smelled it and tasted it, it was so good. It was better than ranch. And I always thought there was nothing better than ranch. I could drink ranch like it was water. So it goes to show that not everything that looks nasty, is nasty.
There are somethings I'm not looking forward to, like hummus and tofu. But like the dressing, I'm sure it isn't as bad as it looks. My mom says hummus is just mashed beans, which sucks because the only beans I like are baked beans. WHICH, by the way, I found some vegetarian baked beans at Kroger the other day. I bought 2 cans. It's cool cause there are some things that I like that I can still eat, for now. I'm still in the transition stage (obviously, it's only been a day). Eventually, I would like to be on a completely gluten, meat, steak, bacon, chicken free diet.....oh gosh. Sorry, I miss meat already. Now I'm sad. But really, I would like to eat only fruits and vegetables. And I'm cool with that, because I actually like (most) green things. The only problem I have is protein. I hear vegans (on blogs and forums) say that they do get enough protein from nuts and whatever. But my mother says otherwise. Nuts are more of a carb or fat than they are protein. Basically, if you look on the nutrition label of any food, and there are more carbs or fats than there are protein, then that food is a carb or fat. Therefore, I'm out of luck when it comes to nuts being my protein.
I'm not going to rate how this diet is going yet because I don't really have the experience to do that. BUT if you have any comments or just want to know the reasons I chose the vegan diet (which I will probably write about later on), leave me a message or whatever.
God Bless You and God Bless America.
-Rachael
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