Veggie Me

For over a decade vegetarianism has been a journey, an adventure, and often a challenge. It’s not about judging others or punishing one’s self for imperfection, life is too short for that. It’s also too short to eat bad food, although sometimes that seems unavoidable. It can sometimes be even harder to avoid if you’re vegan or vegetarian. It doesn’t take an expert in nutrition or vegetarianism to understand and celebrate the constant journey, struggles, and surprises found along the way. Forget the boxes that separate us and bring on the food. Food should be an adventure as well as being a communal celebration of life. It feeds the body and the soul, literally making up what is every individual.

I’ve been a vegetarian for over a decade, opening new doors, greater awareness, and new connections to myself and to the world around me. It changed me for the body. After struggling with illness, it gave me my life back, and as I grew in it, it gave me other surprises along the way. It broadened my pallet and increased my awareness. It make me think outside the boxes that I had known my entire childhood and strengthened something inside of me. It challenged my cooking skills and the recipes I had always known. It challenged my perceptions about myself and the world in which I live. It has been full of changes, challenges, celebrations, struggles, frustration, adaptation, and constant questions. It had forced me to be more aware, more sensitive, and to research, research, and research some more.

I’m just a veggie girl, in a less than veggie world. Life is yummy, it’s vegtastic. The journey continues... I've just got started.