What? Why won't you believe me?
One of the most frustrating things I have faced in becoming vegan has not been finding things to eat. I have actually grown more adventurous and developed a love of trying new things. There are so many flavors and great foods out there that are good for you and fully lacking animal products.
No, the most frustrating thing has been trying to eat in non-vegan friendly places with omnivores. I went to T.G.I.Friday's with my parents on Saturday, and the only quasi-healthy option that appealed to me was chips and salsa (with a gigantic margarita, and I say "quasi-healthy" because the only other thing was deep fried green beans which I decided are less healthy). Tomorrow at work they are offering up a Thanksgiving pot-luck lunch and there may be be salad, but even that is not always safe what with cheese, creamy dressings, eggs, or things that people put in salad now. Even this, inherently, is not what really bothers me about having to eat like this. What really bothers me is that I end up looking like a vegan martyr.
It's not that I can't eat anything, people. It's that you just hone in on those few foods that I find entirely inedible and decide those are the only foods in the world that belong on your menu, promptly forgetting that there are other options out there. I don't think I'm suffering from being vegan, stop looking at me like that.
Tomorrow I will take a pumpkin cheese pie that I found the recipe for in Eat, Drink, and be Vegan (awesome cookbook, get it and you won't be disappointed). I'm pretty excited about it, even though I just took it out of the oven and the very edges of the crust look a little dark. I'm excited because it will probably taste good, and people will see that I don't have to miss out on really good food. And this pie didn't even take a whole lot of effort or crazy ingredients.
Oh, and protein? Well, I take it intravenously from needles that all the vegans share. We tried snorting it but it just didn't work out as well. No, seriously, that's why we're all so thin and shaky, we're malnourished and hopped up on protein injections.
Just needed a somewhat sarcastic and venting-type post, it's been awhile. I now encourage you to go out and hug a vegan, or someone different if you are, in fact, a vegan.
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"I am a deeply superficial person."
--Andy Warhol
