veggie vegan omni ital? whats your diet and hows it relate to your dreadiness (if at all)
Dreads and Diets
Let me just say I LOVE milk, I grew up in a very humble barrio so chocolate milk was like a candy. But lately I've been "vegan-ized". I had dated a full on organic/vegan/raw foodist years ago when I was stationed in San Diego but I never got into it. Her kitchen was like a Jamba Juice with wheat grass growing in a container and all kinds of nuts, berries & veggies for juicing. Everything had to be locally grown & organic, even her clothes down to her organic rubber soled hemp sandals. The dreads have slowly accomplished what my gastronaut girlfriend never could, I've slowly left animal products little by little.
It started by getting more educated on hair of course, which made me take a closer look at the products I was using on my hair. Which led me to discover how harmful normal detergent soaps truly are for us and I made the switch to locally made artisan soaps from a little shop in my town ( http://www.flagstaffsoap.com ) which happen to be vegan soaps. As I learned more information I started doing away with more & more animal products. It started with red meat, I started to see improvements slowly, so I cut out poultry as well. Slowly but surely my refrigerator became a vegitable garden. The last hold outs where Ahi tuna, cheese & of course milk.
The cheese flavor I missed I found I could have simply by using nutritional yeast in my recipes. For instance tonight I will be making pasta with an Alfredo sauce made from cauliflower puree with almond milk, sauted garlic, vegan balance butter & nutritional yeast. With meat, I discovered if you substitute with highly textured foods like portobello and lots of varied beans that also fill you up quick you don't miss it at all especially if smoke them outside over misquite wood. For my Ahi tuna fish tacos I now use Tempeh and right now I'm drinking coconut milk. What I love of about vegan recipes is you really have to do your research and be intelligent enough to find substitutes & creative enough to make them taste good.
Now I'm starting to look at my clothes, my gastronaut girlfriend would be proud.
