Retraining myself on how to cook, bake, and in general eat is becoming a very challenging, yet interesting task. I’ve been a vegetarian since I was 16, and figured everything out quickly. Now, switching to veganism (round two, hooray!) it’s very different from what I was doing before.

I mean, I KNEW it was about to be very different, but I didn’t realize that I would be physically cooking more, Googling ingredients and combinations more, or even just going to Whole Foods 2 or 3 times a week to make dinner, hahahaha.

I’m enjoying it though, and everything tastes great, it’s just getting out of the habit of always using eggs, butter, milk, and high calorie sweeteners/other ingredients that is going to be a challenge. I do like trying to adjust recipes to veganize them, since I was doing that before for my salon manager who is allergic to everything (she has a digestive disease, can’t remember the name). Now that I’m doing it for ME, it’s a different feeling. I almost feel selfish that I’m being so “particular” or “difficult”, especially with Keenan. He likes to joke around with me (particularly about honey, which I still have mixed feelings about) and it’s all fine and dandy, because I know he’s not doing it maliciously. 

We’ll see. I’m sure everything will be great, and once I actually have more time on my hands to sit down and look at other recipes and substitutes, I’ll be fine. Unfortunately, it may be a few more weeks before I have a chance to have some “time”…