Tag: #dairy
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Gummy Bears & Chocolate – Nov. 2021

Like a whack-a-mole, things I have to deal kept popping up. I attended an all-day leadership workshop at the office and one of the planners of the workshop purchased bags of chocolate bars for the afternoon break. ‘Fuck me’ I thought when I saw them at 7 am, I love chocolate! None were vegan. At…
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Eating Animals Again

After our return from Mexico in 2006, we were permanently back to eating animals. At some point, I emerged from vegetarianism with an odd belief that if vegans didn’t support ’humane farms,’ then they’d go out of business and all farms would be factory farms which meant more animal suffering. I wrote about it in…
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Our Stint with Vegetarianism: Part 2

Part 1 of this story was published last week, read it here if you missed it. We were vegetarians for about 5 years. It opened our minds to ethnic foods and spices and tastes we had never before tried and that foundation has stuck with us to this day. We love a good bean curry,…
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My Hangups with Veganism

To occupy our time during Covid Shannon, Alyssa and I started what we call Habits meetings. These meetings were a sort of hybrid book club to talk about what we read in the book but also to plan out our habit ‘recipes’ and to troubleshoot our habits together, talk about our successes and where we…
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Childhood Reflections

I remember being at my maternal Grandma’s house once as a child, maybe I was 8 years old. I was asked what kind of pizza I wanted for dinner, and I selected my usual Hawaiian. I hated the ham, but it never occurred to me to order it without the ham; so I would order…