Category Archives: Food Help

A Vegan Chocolate Review – What to buy if you want to try vegan chocolate

  One of the best things about being vegan these days is that bigger companies are starting to see the monetary value of having a vegan option. This means more vegan products on the market, in regular grocery stores. And it also means that you don’t have to take a chance with brands that you don’t already know. Today, we get to talk about vegan chocolate, from mainstream companies you’d find in the US.

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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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