"Eat Mor Chikin"

Chikin vs chick'n or "chicken"

Either way you spell it, it connotates fake meat, vegan chicken.

I think the cows at Chick-fil-A want the world to be vegan.

Ideas about my new diet

I have lots of ideas about my new diet.

First, all animals produce hormones. It's how they function. Thyroid and arthritis are inflammatory diseases, specifically, auto-immune. Has my body been trying to fight foreign hormones, got confused, and was attacking my own thyroid and tissues? Now that I don't have any foreign hormones, is that why it's gotten better?


Not to weird anyone out...It's a known fact that organs have memories. People to get transplants sometimes take on characteristics of the previous owner. Do animals organs have memories? Seems likely. Does that get cooked out of tissues before we consume it? OK, now I'm feeling ill.

I heard that prisoners (in State Pens) showed improve behavior when put on a vegan diet. Might that be because they are suddenly, probably for the first time in their life, eating a healthy diet that allows their bodies to self-heal? Heal from being crack-babies, or merely taking drugs their whole life in place of good food?

Meat, in particular, makes me nauseous when I'm pregnant and smell it cooking. Is that a sign? PCRM's Healthy Eating For Live for Children supports that idea.

Is eating vegan expensive?

I ALWAYS get the question, isn't it expensive to eat vegan? Perhaps, but I don't think so. We definitely don't eat the same portion size we did before, it's much smaller now.

I did make some major changes do my shopping. I can't peruse grocery ads or coupons, they are full of meat, diary, or processed foods (all subsidized by govenment monies). I found a wonderful market to get my produce from. I watch for case-lot sales and buy my canned beans in bulk. Someday I'll fulfill my wish list and buy the whole shabang of canning supplies complete with pressure cooker so I can can my own food.

My food storage is easier to keep track of now, all dry goods I can get at the LDS dry pack, or Honeyville (in the case of extra grains) eat, and rotate. I have no need for a second freezer. The one in my fridge is only half-full at any given time anyway. (And it's usually full of fresh-made, frozen bread, freezer jam, and frozen fruits and vegetables in case our money gets really short at the end of the month.) I can't afford to bake like I used to. That small tub of expeller-pressed vegetable oil (my new butter) is far too expensive to waste on cookies. That only benefits my waistline.

A Food Outlet - pent up thoughts

I just had the most divine cookies ever. EVER! While I am not a fan of the decor, the ppk's website IS full of yummy stuff, try these cookies!


I've been thinking about questions I get when I tell people I eat vegan. They are always a lot more tolerant when they find out it's more a health issue. In reality though, I believe that the benefits seen in vegan-ism is a fulfillment of Word of Wisdom blessings, only because it's the closest diet I've seen that enables someone to more fully live the W of W. And, while doctor's will sometimes make the claim that people start looking sickly after being vegans for a long time (and I'm talking decades) I don't think I will. This is why:

• You can be completely unhealthy, and be vegan. BUT most vegans are already health conscious (don't bother looking at PETA's approved foods list, it's crap). On vegan websites and blogs you're more likely to find recipes that are low-fat, low-sodium, high-vitamin ones.
  
• Vegans traditionally are animal-rights advocates. I assume that means they will just switch all their favorite omnivore foods for vegan ones, like switching dairy products to soy, dairy-free cream cheese, cheese, milk, etc. I'm not a fan. I don't agree on switching one product and going overboard on soy. Nor do I like soy cheese, so I figure if I'm skipping dairy, I'll just skip it, not substitute it. (I must confess, buying a cheese pizza at Costco for the kids lulled me into temptation. 1, 2, then 3 bites of bliss. What the rat on Disney-Pixar's Ratatouille says about the explosion of flavor, oh, I tasted that!)
• I now know of lots of different grains, what to do with them, how to cook them. Last Friday I was tired of wheat, so I made blender pancakes for dinner, but substituted in barley. It was great!