tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15039446541177800332011-04-22T02:13:13.558+02:00my own journey from vegetarian to veganida mariehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12369212109649185883noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1503944654117780033.post-57063167684303478462008-08-23T21:22:00.003+02:002008-08-23T21:36:59.756+02:00

Last day of the challenge! It didn’t really seem like three weeks at all. Went by much faster than expected to be honest. Today was also mine and my boyfriens, Andre, four year anniversity. Cheers to us! So today we wanted our favorite dinner, greek moussaka. It is really good. I have always used the box from Toro. It isn’t vegan, but I didn’t see that till after we had eaten. It was good, but I

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Sencond last day of the challenge. It have really gone fast. I was bit busy and didn’t always have tine to look up and cook new exciting recipes. But I will definitly look up some more soon! I can be a little bit picky about new tastes, but if it have something I already like it might just work out great!But back to topic. This day was boring. I had to work for a coworker that was going away, so

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I can't even remember all I had to eat today! I better speed up before I forget the rest of the remaning days. Breakfast was oats with some yummy raisins, dried banana (fresh is the best, but I usually forget to eat them then) and Almond milk on top. Yup, I finally discovered Almond milk! It was okay for me, but it was a little to "thick" in it's taste. I still prefer rice milAk.Lunch was yummy

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Okay, I am way to slow on posting now a days. School have just started again with all the classes and stuff so I have been busy. And on monday I wrote a really long text for the blog and pushed the wrong button and all got deleted. But back to topic.So on monday I made my self a breakfast/lunch with "Sjokade". I was in a hurry and desided just to make it easy, but not very healthy. I was quite

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So sunday started with left over pizza from saturday. It was great even the day after, much better than left over pizza with cheese in my opinoin! I know many people are "cheeseaddicts", but I think many would be suprised how good pizza without cheese actually is!Later on we made some falafel. I deep fried it, but I couldn't get it to the right color. It got crispy and tasty, but a little black

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I've been a little busy these late days, so I'm a little slow on posting here. Saturday I was supposed to have a few friends over for dinner, but it got a little chaotic so I made a vegan pizza. I made it a little like last time, but without the fake cheese. I also used two large carrots instead of one small, also dropped the onion so I didn't have to go to the store just for that. Filled it up

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So today today I had tofu. Well, tofuburgers. Deffinitly not the best veggie burger I've had, but if it had been a little more crispy I would consider to have it again. We had it with some rice, woked corn, onion and paprika. I added a avacado to mine as well. Topped it all with a little soy sauce and it got quite tasty. I really liked to mix avacado into the rice. Loved it so much that I even

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Two weeks! It dosen't seem like that long at all. I find it quite natural to not buy food that contain milk or eggs now, it is still a little hard to adjust to not buying some products that I used to love but it is much more fun to make it all from scratch.So yesterday I had the usual breakfast that is easy to make when I am off to school, and that I don't have time to eat I bring for lunch. That

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Yesterday I was quite busy. Not much time to cook, so I made a tripple lunch that had had with during the entire day. We had a pub to pub walk from 4pm till 11pm. Was glad I had with me some extra pices of bread. Had them filled with salad, paprika and that vegan "roast beef" that I have completely fallen in love with. I have found it is nice to have a little box with nuts and dried fruit with me

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Had a bunch of tomatos that needed to be used fast, so today I got to make tomatosauce again. The picture are taken with my phone, so not the best quality.Tomatosauce Ida-styleIngredients:1 teaspoon basil1 teaspoon oregano1 medium sized carrot1/3 medium sized onion/red onion4 cloves of garlic5 tablespoon tomato paste2 tomatos1/2 dl dry lentils2-3 dl waterolive oil1. Chop the garlic, onion and

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Today I overslept a bit, so I missed school. There was a welcome ceremony and some information from different student organisations. Last fall I went to the university college here in Bergen so I don't think I missed anything important. I hope I didn't at least. But I have to find out if there is anything going on in "Fadderuken" (talked a little about it yesterday) today.Anyway, today started

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So today was first day of school at the university. I have been busy all day long and didn't have much time to cook any food then. So before I left for school I heated up some baguettes. I put some vegan butter on them and packed them down in my bag. We were having a lunch with the class, so I wanted to make sure I had vegan bread and butter, and not risk anything while there. We also have

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So today I had a friend over for pancakes! We also had a nightmare og elm street-maraton. So today when I got up with a little bit of hangover, I just ate some nuts and dried fruit, with a glass of water on the side, most boring breakfast so far in my life perhaps.But back to my sweet little vegan pancakes. I used to package I got the otherday at the healthstore. It worked, but we had to improve

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I am a little slow on updating my blog during weekends I see. Can't remember all I had to eat. Well, we got a deep fryer yesterday, and we had to test of course. So when I got off work I picked up loads of potatoes to use. We had a few friends over so that was to make sure everyone got a taste of it. But it ended up with me and veggie friend of mine ate it all up in a few minutes. It was really

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Today was very boring in the food. I had work from 16 till 22.30, and wasn't really in the mood for cooking just before work. So I made a few baguettes for myselfe, and filled them up with tufutti mozerella and cheddar, some viana "roast beef", a lot of paprika, topped it all with mayonaise. Made so much that I had to pack half for lunch and bring it to work.When I was at work I ate the rest of

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One week today! That needed a celebration, and what is better for celebrations than hot dogs? Yes, I finally found veggie dog's that didn't have eggs in them. For those vegans and vegetarians in Norway might have heard of Kinsarvik frukt og grønt. Here I got many different vegan sausages, vegan cheese, vegan butter and margarine, and I also found a vegan pancake mix too.So I shopped a little at

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So today I was home all day. Had quite a bad cold when I got up and didn't want to risk getting ill or anything. So I didn't do much cooking to day. A small amount of oats with my own little nut mix, some rice milk and a few raisins spread on top for breakfast. Quite a filling breakfast too.Around our normal dinner time, my boyfriend left for work, so no dinner before that (well, when he start

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I must admit that I am quite supprised over how fast the days are going now. And today was a fun cooking day too. We had homemade blueberry jam for breakfast! Was amazing. Put on some oat bread it got even better. I also had some tartex with basil and tomatoes as well. We don't usually have a big breakfast, but was nice to have one today.For dinner we warmed up some left over lentils from

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We all have some food items we can not see our kitchen without. I wonder what food items you all mut have in your kitchen?My list is quite simple: - spices. I need at all times a mix of diffrent spices. Just salt and pepper is a little to boring for me. - dried beans. Dried beans last long. When I got the time I usually boil up a large portion and freeze them in several

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So day number 4 is already here. Seem to me that the days are coming really fast now. Well, anyway, to day we had a friend over. He was supposed to come to dinne too, but got a bit delaid so he ate before he came then. But I was thinking I'd better make something that's easy for all to like (well, people that are afraid of veg* food in general).So I boiled up a large portion of lentils for

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So today is vegan day number three for me. We got up really late since we got home when it was almost morning last night. So our breakfast was just a few diffrent fruits and nuts. But something fresh is always good, especially when it is summer!Later today I got a call from a friend of mine that wanted us for dinner. And when we got there we got some amazing beans with chili and other veggies.

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Day number 2 was a bit hard. Since it was saturday I had work at 2pm and very little time to cook a healthy meal, so it was left-overs for breakfast. I had some veggies from the other day in a little box kept cold, so the were still eatable. For work at lunch I wanted something other than the usual avacado with tomatoes, I think I have had that a little to often latly, but it is sooo good so was

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So yesterday was my first official day in my vegan challenge. I work every friday so I needed something quick, tasty and vegan for dinner, so I ended up making myselfe some pasta. I always use whole grain pasta, most due to the fact that I find its taste better. When we have pasta for dinner, I always make my own sauce. I prefer it that way, I know what is in it and it taste way better too.So I

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I guess I can start by telling a little about how I became a vegetarian and why I now plan to go vegan.It all started in february 2001, it was the day of my last meal containing meat. All I could think of when I was eating it was the cows and pigs that was blended together in it. really gross when you think about it! And after a little time I started to feel quite sick, and had to trow up that

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