Hello, and welcome to Eight Years In. I’m your host, Rebekah. And I’ve been vegan for nine years now. But I don’t love animals. And that’s what I want to talk about with you today.
Continue reading You don’t have to be an animal lover to be vegan
Hello, and welcome back to Eight Years In. And if you’re new, welcome to you. Today we’re talking about vegan burnout. It’s a really important subject to me because I’ve seen it happen to many, and I’ve felt it in myself as well.
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Hello, and welcome to Eight Years In. Here, we discuss many topics surrounding veganism and living a more ethical, positive life.
Continue reading What to do with vegan loneliness
Hello, and welcome to Eight Years In. And if you’re a returning reader, welcome back. Today we’re talking about vegan breakfast again, which slowly seems to be becoming one of my favorite subjects.
Continue reading You can make an omelet out of chickpeas? (Adventures in Veganism)
Hello, and welcome to Eight Years In! And if you’re a returning reader, welcome back, and thank you! Now, if you’ve been reading my posts recently, you’ll know that I celebrated my nine year vegan anniversary not too long ago. And I wanted to talk about the practice of having and celebrating your vegan anniversary. Because there is a significance to it, if you ask me. So let’s get into it, shall we?
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Hello, and welcome back to Eight Years In! If you’re a returning reader, you may remember earlier on this blog, when I taste tested a vegan jerky from Louisville Vegan Jerky Company (you can find it here, if you’re interested).
Hello and welcome to Eight Years In! Today we’re talking about veganism and depression. This is a very important topic that I don’t think gets talked about often enough in the vegan community, and I wanted to change that today. So let’s get real and talk about all of these depressed vegans!
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Hello, and welcome back to Eight Years In! As the name of the site suggests, I’ve been vegan for years now. And recently, I celebrated my nine year vegan anniversary! I’ve very much enjoyed my vegan journey, as well as creating this website for you all to follow along and learn with me.
And today, I wanted to look back at some of the lessons that I’ve learned along the way. Because as much as being vegan is simple in theory, it is what I would consider a learning experience.
Continue reading What I’ve learned as a long-term vegan
When I first went vegan, I didn’t eat chocolate for a really long time. I didn’t like dark chocolate at first and there weren’t any other options if you didn’t want to consume dairy. And over the years, I started enjoying dark chocolate, so I started eating chocolate again. But if I had gone vegan more recently, I wouldn’t have had that problem. Because now there’s Panda Chocolate.
Continue reading Review of Panda Chocolate (A Vegan Chocolate Company)
Hello and welcome to Eight Years In! There’s a book called, “How to Create a Vegan World: a Pragmatic Approach” by Tobias Leenaert. And believe me when I tell you that with a title like that, I had been itching to read it for quite some time. So I finally got my hands on it and I read it. Voraciously. Here’s what I thought.
Continue reading How to Create a Vegan World: A Review