I did a vegan come dine with me and it was excellent. My menu was:

Starter: Raw vegetable sushi rolls

Main: Thai green curry with wheat noodles and faux-fishcakes with a sweet dip

Dessert: Coconut and Lime cheesecake

I was so excited I forgot to take pics of the main which was delicious, my thai ‘fishcakes’ were yummy, my Thai curry was so rich and creamy and just spicy enough! I normally don’t like my own food even though I know I’ve cooked it well I prefer other people’s food but I really loved this meal.

Yesterday Sam made me this “tortizza” which is like a really saucy pizza on a tortilla, apparently, it also had some vegideli ‘beef’ slices and some of my nacho ‘cheese’ sauce. 

That’s a lot of quotation marks isn’t it?

Then for tea we had bean burger wraps with loads of salad as you can see. 

oh yeah, and I eat all my food in bed because we don’t have a ‘dining area’. Sam eats at the computer desk and I eat at my computer desk, which is my bed. 

lostgrrrls:

bitternessbarbie:

vegangirls:

Photographer Glenn Thomas is doing a short project where he eats his meals vegan, and he eats them cheap. Showing it’s not only possible, but easy. Take that, privilege police.

God, it must be fun to pretend that you’re so much better than everyone else because you think the dietary choices you’re making are saving the world (protip: they’re not) all the while trying to use girls for your cause. “Look, we’ve got girls, hot vegan girls, look at them!” Where’s the vegan guys section? I have nothing against veganism until your diet turns you into an asshole like this.

I wrote a term paper this semester on all of my problems with PETA’s tactics, despite being vegetarian myself (and eating vegan when possible). I won’t go too into it, because it basically boils down to the fact that their ads are super sexist, racist, ableist, and sizeist… and misleading. But seriously? Saying, “Check out these hot ladies who are vegan!” isn’t a very effective way to get people to become vegans as a lifestyle, not a short-lived fad diet.

As for all the food above costing only $21? I don’t know where the hell this guy shops, but even if I bought the produce at a well-stocked farmer’s market like the ones I had in CA, that were generally cheaper than the grocery store (and I definitely DO NOT have access to good farmer’s markets in NM), it would cost WELL over $21 for that haul. And that doesn’t take into account the other economics of the situation like, say, TIME. For the working poor, people who have to work two or more jobs at or near minimum wage just to scrape by, that time is not exactly something they have at their disposal.

I’m reading this Lierre Keith interview linked above right now, and I’ve had this open in my tabs for WEEKS and haven’t yet gotten around to actually reading it, so I’m going to do that asap… And the Lierre Keith attitude is reminding me a bit of Aldo Leopold’s philosophy, and how The Land needs to be our concern, not just sentient life. He talks about how strange it is that we’ve cleared lands for farming, getting rid of the native plants that grew there and using the enriched soil that they created so that we were able to even plant there in the first place… and we ruin that soil with our farming. Basically: if the system is working as is, why screw with it? Has anyone else read A Sand County Almanac? Definitely starting to make me question my diet.

And on another note, even as a vegetarian, I always feel caught between buying organic and buying as local as possible (again- farmer’s markets? Not really an option here, and even our froo-froo markets like Whole Foods force me to make that choice when buying produce and don’t really have local produce). And admittedly, I do eat a lot of vegetarian junk food, like super processed soy products. And vegetarian or not, anyone who doesn’t recognize that there’s suffering that goes into the production of ALL food (at least in our current system) is missing some serious thought behind their actions. There’s a lot more that’s running through my head that I can’t express just yet so… Food for thought. (har har)

ETA: not to mention, but now I’m going and looking at the actual meals on his site, and basically- 3 meals per day similar to the dishes above? That actually looks like a REALLY low calorie intake, which also can’t be healthy.

I really don’t understand your point about calories, all the diet articles that tell you to ‘cut calories’ and all those low calorie diets replace the carbs with protein or low-carb vegetables like celery or cucumber… so as far as I can tell this is a very high-calorie diet since it relies heavily on carbohydrates such as rice and potatoes. 

That also goes along with what people always say when they want to lose weight and cut calories “I eat too many carbs, carbs are sugar, sugar is calories, I need to go on the Atkins diet” 

I just don’t know what to believe anymore I think everyone is just talking so much shit all the time like they are a dietitian or something. 

Anyway, as I said before, all these meals look delicious, this is basically what I live on so I can tell you this is really cheap food, I mean, I’m on unemployment benefits, I know what I can afford and it’s that kind of stuff. 

(Source: xvxavier)