Our Grains

It has been in the north for a long time since I chose to go for a veggie-lover, yet this place has a very impressive “Omni” taste due to my past paleo life. I still have a lot going wrong but sadly, no matter how skeptical I feel about veganism and the amount I am convinced is the best thing I can do for the planet as a creature, and as I have an uncomfortable view of all meat-based and other non-vegetarian plans here, they really do a lot of hard work too. I can't come close just to erase them all. Plus, I feel like it really wouldn’t be the best thing you could do. I will find a way to do it with their essence and embrace my plans as a whole, at different times! I was a vegetarian and I think I have to deal with that.

However, I hope that over time, meat-based recipes will gradually diminish on this blog and will be replaced by more delicious, plant-friendly, environmentally friendly, and environmentally friendly plants.

But my real hope is that this change will happen again on each of your plates if it has not already been done and that you will soon not even bother to do any of my old recipes.

Want to know how the shift started for me? I'm so happy to share the story with you! Who knows, maybe it will inspire you to take the trip down that way, too!

As you may know, I went through many different stages throughout my journey ... From omnivore, calorie restriction, focused on weight loss, almost vegetarian, omnivore and, without grains, to a strong paleo, then omnivore, to now verify vegan. The point is, I've been exploring a lot, asking all kinds of questions, trying to find and explain myself. Honestly, all this time, while always keeping an eye on health, I have been trying to find one diet that would work for me, that would dramatically change my body into what I thought MY ideal body should look like. Any society that made me believe that my body should look, rather.

Then, something amazing happened to me… I was so depressed! For a few months, I remember creating recipes, cooking, and photographing myself while crying almost all the time. In fact, I found myself crying a lot every day. I never talked about it here because I was embarrassed; no one likes to admit that you are sick. And, well… life had to go on, you know.

But that was probably the best thing that ever happened to me because, in the end, I sought help, and that led me to the meditation and teachings of Buddhist philosophy. This has had a very positive effect on my life. Through those teachings, I learned a lot about love and compassion and soon began to feel a great deal about it through our Earthly Mother, and all the emotional creatures she sheltered. I soon discovered that I wanted to make an effort to make a change for the better, first reducing my biodiversity. And, of course, the fastest and most efficient way to do that was to switch to a vegan diet, because animal husbandry is the one that is destroying the planet at an alarming rate.

To say that my mind is against that change would be an understatement - as a serious matter ... to give up the flesh for good? Are you crazy? - but I was determined that it was the right thing to do. To help me reinforce that feeling, I dared to deal with my hatred - who really wants to watch innocent animals being tortured and abused? - I took my head off the sand and looked at the important documents (all available on Netflix) namely What the Health, Fork Over Knives, Cowspiracy and Food, Inc. That totally worked out for me, it was like waking up from a sleepless night. My eyes are finally opened to how animals are being treated, how we were able to turn them into real products, and how much we are destroying the planet to produce our precious meat. I cried.

This also led me to finally see the true meaning of "voting for your dollar". Every time I bought a product from one of these worst companies, I was actually not only telling myself that I fully agreed with their methods and actions, but I was also financing myself! I no longer wanted to be a part of this. Even though I bought most of my meat from local, continuous farms, I was still contributing to the deforestation, because the effect of raising animals is the same. Moreover, all animals end up going through the same slaughter process, and, there is no human way of killing an animal. And so I became vegan, almost all night.

For the first time since my trip, I changed my diet for the sake of self-sacrifice. And by seeing how it could not happen to me that I do not know what I know now, or do not see everything I have seen, I know that I will never go back to eating meat again. I can no longer be a part of the massacre, torture, torture, and murder of innocent creatures, all for the sake of our own entertainment.

And that is why I feel so strongly about this new way of life. I am not doing it for myself, I am doing it for you, for future generations, the planet, and especially, for animals.

I really hope you will consider going vegan, too, if you haven’t already. Or at least, reduce your meat intake significantly.

Just do it For me, for future generations, the planet, and

especially, animals.