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I want to become a vegan, because my imaginary friend is. I really want her to trust me. She gets mad at me when I eat meat in front of her. Please help!
I know I’m a nut case but i dont care and no need to comment that.
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Get another imaginary friend who eats meat. She would be a much better influence on you.
Avoid imaginary bacon.
You ARE a nut case, but we don’t care, either. It keeps life interesting. Seriously, if you intend to become vegan, research food. Some of the nutrients your body has to have can only be obtained from certain foods. Personally, I’m rabid about having meats of all kinds, but if this is what’s best for you, go for it. Just be educated about what you are doing.
1. how the heck old are you?
2. there is no such thing as imaginary friends,
3. watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4
Yea. Dont…
Veganism is so much easier with a friend. If you have any friends that are vegan, become closer to them. Talk about your issues. Ask questions. If you do not have any vegan friends, try to find at least one person who will help you along your path. The first time I became vegan, I failed to sustain the lifestyle and just crashed out of lack of support. But for the second attempt, I had found a friend who motivated me, and it was so much easier to make the initial transition.
Many new vegans approach eating from a familiar meat-based angle. Specifically, I am talking about the protein issue. One thing to realize is that the human body does not actually need to ingest huge amounts of protein. Therefore, finding substitutes for meat is not necessary. The trick to eating well as a vegan is to consume the building blocks of protein rather than focusing on consuming the proteins themselves. Eating a sufficient quantity of natural (unprocessed) foods will allow this to occur.
Hemp seeds are a great source of essential fatty acids. These seeds are not legal to cultivate in the States, but they are legal (with a license) to cultivate in Canada. Try ordering whole hemp seeds and also hulled (unshelled) hemp seeds. The whole hemp seeds have indigestible fiber in the hull that is good for keeping the intestinal walls clean, and the insides contain quite a bit of hemp oil, the sources of the essential fatty acids. The whole seeds can be crunched by teeth or they can be ground in a mortar and pestle or a coffee grinder or similar device. Try grinding them and sprinkling them over cereal in the morning. They can be added to salads. They can be added to various recipes. But be careful not to cook them too much.
Many healthy foods are heat-sensitive and will lose nutritional value when significantly heated or exposed to oxygen and sunlight. In general, unprocessed, unpreserved food goes bad quickly when exposed to oxygen and sunlight. This is a good thing because it helps to determine what foods probably should be consumed. If you can leave a fresh, undried meal sitting on a counter for a month or more and nothing happens to it, that means nature doesn’t even want to eat it. So perhaps we shouldn’t eat it either.
Kombucha tea is a fermented tea that provides many useful nutrients and will help with your body’s everyday detox process. It’s amazing the improvement one feels when drinking kombucha tea on a regular basis. Drinking it before meals is useful for losing weight and drinking it after meals is useful for gaining weight. The basic idea is to take green or black tea, add some natural sugar to a glass gallon jar (absolutely must be glass for safety reasons) some kombucha starter tea , and the kombucha "mother" or a bottle of raw kombucha if you do not have a "mother." aka S.C.O.B.Y.) If it’s the first batch, a little distilled vinegar may help to ensure safety against mold. Read up on the process if you wish to brew your own. Once you get it going, it’s very easy and only requires about 10-15 minutes each week to prepare a new batch and bottle the prepared batch into smaller glass containers. Enjoy your fresh, bubbly, tangy kombucha.
Grow a garden. If you do not have space to do so, grow it indoors. If you do not have space indoors, go outside and pick fresh herbs anywhere it’s legal to harvest them. Try to learn about local plants and explore the area. It can be rather fun to see what you can find out there in the world. Many “weeds” are actually very healthy plants. When buying produce, try to find organic stuff where possible, especially when buying certain things where the edible part is directly sprayed with pesticides such as broccoli. Nature already perfected itself, so there is no need to use and consume unnecessary chemicals on produce.
Try an avocado, lettuce, onion, and tomato sandwich with hummus spread on bread. Try dish or salad with a dressing or sauce made with tahini (sesame paste), lemon juice, fresh garlic or garlic powder, olive oil or grape seed oil, sea salt, and some cayenne pepper. Fresh basil pesto is divine. If you’ve never tried raw corn on the cob, and you are willing to try it, you may be in for a real treat. Freshly roasted sunflower seeds can be ground up to make sunflower "butter." Try blueberries, chlorella, spirulina, and dandelion. Brew up some yerba maté (leaf from a South American tree.) Try some raw cacao beans. These are the beans that are used to make chocolate. Roast several garlic bulbs in the oven, squeeze the garlic out and mix with olive oil to make a sauce for pasta or spiralize some raw zucchini in place of pasta. Organic apples right off the tree or as fresh as possible are wonderful. Try the ancient grain called quinoa. If you cook beans, soak them and wash them and put 3-4 whole unpeeled cloves of garlic in the pot while it cooks. The garlic takes away any gas you might feel from the beans.