I fear that this month of (hopefully) consistent blogging will get boring. I cannot constantly write about my food choices and random culinary temptations that cross my path. While on that note, i just want to shout out to all of my faithful blog followers (hi mom) that i will make every effort to make this blog exciting and action packed...and NOT repetitive!
What does this mean? It means that i can no longer write about:
1) My confessions of breaking the meat-dairy-egg fast on products that are not predominantly meat, dairy, or egg dishes
2) Products that i have purchased and am unable, like any other good saintly vegan, to consume (honey-flavoured-delicious goat cheese...wait delicious wasn’t on the package? it was just THAT delicious)
Now, let me take the opportunity to discuss number 1. This point was in reference to me breaking my veganism by eating a slice (potentially more than slice) of chocolate cake on my friend’s birthday. I confessed my vegan-sin to my friends after it happened and they were shocked. They were both under the impression that if i were to break my veganism, i might as well do so by eating something that more un-vegan. The idea that chocolate cake isn’t that un-vegan, is rooted in the fact that while chocolate cake contains both milk and eggs as ingredients, neither are main highlight/focus of the dish. The two that had heard my confession were disappointed at my actions and advising said that if i were to break my veganism, it should be by eating steak.
But giving up steak is not necessarily difficult. Steak doesn’t creep into my life whenever it can. Cake creeps up!
When you go out with your friends, when you attend a foodshare (commonly known as potluck), when you are at some random on-campus even that serves free food—there is often a vegetarian and vegan options (veggies, humus and pita, etc.etc.) but there are very rarely vegan cakes.
There are very rarely vegan cakes, cookies, muffins, deserts....and scones!
Why do i single out scones? Because the scone brought up a very interesting conversation i had with my friend John today. John ordered a scone today, and upon noticing how large it was he suggested that I have some. I kindly declined, “sorry...the blog.” We discussed the scone refusal. An interesting thing about baked goods is that unless there is vegan in the name, it is likely NOT vegan.
So here we have it kids....Challenge No. 3: Baked goods!
While that entire discussion about my afternoon tea-and-scone date may have been effective in presenting one more challenge to veganism, i bet many of you (hi mom) are left wondering....was that the end of the conversation?
NO!
John’s suggestion was that I stop eating meat, eggs, and dairy, but that i continue eating baked goods. We coined this term: Bake-atarianism. He suggested I be a bake-atarian and then blog about it. His argument was that baked goods were just too prevalent in our society for me to give them up.
“Be a bake-atarian, and then blog about it, no?” I looked at him with my usual john-i-am-not-taking-you-seriously look.
There was a pause
“and can i blog on your blog? No?”
It was as if he never wanted the look to go away.
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why are you implying that i follow your blog, you told me not to
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