VEGAN

So I am a complete idiot and have decided to accompany Charlotte on her vegan adventure - I am doing it for a month to see how easy/difficult it is and whether I feel healthier/worse and it is basically a massive experiment! BUT am still eating fish as I think it would be unhealthy not to and fishy goodness is something that is really hard to substitute. (Eggs in cakes can be replaced with apple sauce apparently!!)

With veganism you obviously have to cut out all meat as it is a continuation of veggies, but also all dairy, eggs, and any products that come from animals - which even includes honey if you are being strict. Chocolate and sweets are definitely off the menu.

I so far haven't found it too hard as my diet consists of mainly vegetables anyway, but I think the cheesy lack and chocolate drought will get to me in a week or so.

VEGANNY-YUMMINESS

To cater for my silly new found habit I have been looking up new recipes and I found a yummy one called 'COCAS' which are a flatbread type pizza thing...

I can't remember the recipe off the top of my head, but will get mummy to send it to me and post it later. It was basically flat bread which consists of flour, yeasty water, a slosh of olive oil and a big pinch of pepper, that you kneed for a minimum of five minutes and then leave to rise to double it's initial size. The topping was onions that you sweat with previously soaked raisins and then lots of spinach, topped with anchovy fillets and pine nuts and all baked in the oven for 20 minutes ish. Pretty simple and yummy with salad etc...very summery.

The best things that I have found so far being a vegan are that you learn what is in everything that you eat, as I have even been checking whether there is any animallyness in everything, as you never know...you can get extract of pork in cheap orange juice!!

TBC...