Category Archives: Food Help

How to get a vegan meal at a restaurant

  Hello and welcome to Eight Years In. And if you’re a returning reader, welcome back! For those of you who don’t know me, I’m Rebekah. I’ve been vegan for nine years now. And I don’t live in LA or the UK or anywhere that has a ton of vegan options. While this fact can get me frustrated at times, it has brought me some pretty good wisdom for new vegans who may be in a similar situation as I am. 

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How I quit eating cheese

   Hello and welcome back to Eight Years In. (And if you’re new, welcome!) I’m Rebekah and I’ve been vegan for nine years now. If there’s something about veganism that I hear a lot, it’s that people don’t think they could give up cheese. Which I understand. Living in the Midwestern US, cheese was a big part of my diet before going vegan. And if you had asked me two months before going vegan if I could give up all animal products, I would have told you no way. (Once you explained to me what they were.)

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Review of Panda Chocolate (A Vegan Chocolate Company)

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.

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