I can't believe I made it all the way through the vegan challenge without baking. I don't know why I didn't do much baking, beyond lack of time, but I didn't. I've been waking up super early this week because I have this irritating cold which makes me cough and get all mucus-y at around 5:00 am every day. Yesterday I decided to use that time to make something yummy for breakfast. So I made some vegan scones. They were surprisingly awesome. I expected them to be solid or hockey-puckish, but they weren't at all. Big, fluffy, and very tasty. I didn't have all the right ingredients so I had to improvise here and there, but you wouldn't have known it. Very good. I'll do more of that kind of baking.
Now that I'm not part of the challenge, I need some structure to this. I spent most of yesterday wandering about the kitchen, looking for things to nibble. I ate way too much yesterday, all in the form of little snacklets. Not a healthy way to live, and definitely not the key to weight loss. In the process of hunting and gathering my snacks, I was sorely tempted to violate the vegan plan, just because that bread looked tasty, nutella was calling, cheese sticks would certainly have hit the spot... but I didn't. I survived.
So new rules:
If I have to eat non-vegan, first priority is to use food where I have already met the animal source, talked to the farmer, or been part of the process in some way. That includes buying eggs from my friend with the backyard coop, getting chicken grown and slaughtered by our friendly neighborhood chicken farmers at the farmer's market, or buying beef/buffalo from the farmer's market.
I am allowing myself to eat non-vegan foods when engaging in traditional behaviors- feast days, time in oklahoma, dinners with grandma- those can be non-vegan. If I have a choice to eat vegan at those occasions, I am going to chose the vegan option.
At times when vegan is inconvenient but not impossible (work travel, visiting with friends, restaurants) I am to chose the vegan option. Even if that means eating mixed nuts and granola bars for a few days.
Okay, that helps. Thanks, blobosphere, for helping me figure that one out.
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