Hey!
Just a quick note today as I am on my way out the door to Pangea! Two things:
1. How is the 9-A-Day Challenge going for you?? Here is my tally from yesterday:
- 1 banana in my morning smoothie (some of you have asked for smoothie recipes – I’ll do a post on this soon!)
- 1/2 serving swiss chard in my smoothie
- 2 cups of salad for lunch
- 1 smallish tomato in my sandwich
- 1 apple snack
- 2 serving veggies in my Lotus dinner
So that’s 7 1/2 servings – I didn’t make it!!
IRREGARDLESS (heh heh don’t worry I KNOW that is incorrect I just think it’s funny 
), I think I did pretty well. It’s too bad the two homemade peanut butter cookies I inhaled after dinner don’t count as veggies! Anywho, today is a new day. I’m off to a good start with four servings under my belt (literally) before noon.
2. There’s a vegan myth I’d like to dispel, and that is that VEGANS ARE PERFECT.
It’s just not true.
While it might seem that way because often times you’ll hear vegans ranting about the injustices that are happening to animals,
it might SOUND like we are on the high horse, so to speak.
Or like vegans are saying “your food isn’t good enough for me!”
The myth that vegans are perfect – or THINK they are perfect – couldn’t be further from the truth.
Heck, I just realized yesterday that my Morningstar Farms veggie bacon and sausage contains egg whites!
I’ve been railing against the egg industry and here I am eating eggs! Am I a hypocrite? Or just lame because I didn’t read the ingredients?
And YES I have leather shoes that I bought when I wasn’t thinking about what happens to cows in order to make those shoes.
Should I get rid of them? I haven’t. Is that “bad?” I don’t know.
So my point is, we’re not perfect.
And trying to “catch” a vegan being imperfect really doesn’t change anything anyway – the animals are still suffering. The environment is still being damaged. Our meat, dairy, and eggs are still killing us.
As Collen Patrick-Goudreau says,
Just because you can’t do everything, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t do anything.
DO SOMETHING.
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where does corn fall in this? i consider it as more of a starch. i am not sure if it really should count as a veg.
btw…LOVE the quote.
perfect vegans? i think that often, the impression that vegans try to send out is an attitude that they are “better than” the rest of the people who do not eat the same way they do. not all vegans, but some.
I made it to 5 1/2 yesterday. 9 servings is tough but worth the challenge!
do something…good advice! take pride in what you have done to change instead of being discouraged by what you’ve done..yet
corn is a grain
and yes – i think that’s exactly the impression about vegans I’m talking about. I don’t agree though that vegans are trying to send out that attitude. At least for me, it’s more about being so passionate about a huge injustice that is happening and it seems like no one notices.
Amen, Doug!
So, I started the challenge today and have to say i did not do so well. I had 4 servings total. Now I was in the car traveling for half of the day, but I only ate slightly less than normal. I thought i did pretty good on getting plenty of fruits and veggies in usually. i have a feeling this is going to be quite the eye opener for me
I hope to get all the servings in tomorrow!
Oh yes it is a HUGE wake up for me! You’ll do better tomorrow. It took me 2 or 3 days to get up to 9. Hang in there!
Ok, so day 3 has been the best for me yet! I almost made it!!!
Strawberry/Banana/Kale/Spinach smoothie (3)
1 large apple
Blueberry/Pineapple smoothie (2)
carrot sticks-snack
thai tofu and veggies
8 servings!! Hopefully tomorrow i will get 9!!!
Hope everyone is doing well!