October 1st - Reflections on my first Vegan MoFo

Wow, I made it.  I did a post every day of September for my first Vegan MoFo.  I must say I’m pretty proud of myself!  It truly hasn't been easy since I've been at my parents' house in California for the past two weeks and my dad was in the hospital the first week I was here.  I think it’s harder being in someone else’s kitchen any way and then add that you don’t eat animal products and you want to try to make things for this Vegan MoFo you've signed up to do!  I did prepare many of my posts and post ideas on my flight here.  I had five hours to kill on the flight to Phoenix.  (I’m still here until Saturday!)  I was lucky enough to have quite a few pictures of meals I've already made and lots of ideas in my head.  My mom has also been pretty open to whatever I made too.  My dad is recovering from surgery and he needs his “protein” (insert animal protein in their eyes) to heal so we've been making a few beef hamburger patties for him too.  I keep teasing him and telling him I’m putting him on the “Bill Clinton Diet” soon! 

Vegan MoFo is one of the many internet “things” that have really helped me in my first year of switching to a plant base diet.  I couldn't imagine doing it without the internet.  There are so many resources out there to help figure out meal ideas, information and support.  I pretty much search any recipe I’m thinking about and put vegan in the search too.  Sometimes it works and sometimes it comes up vegetarian.  Sometimes I just figure out how to make it vegan and taste good.  I truly think plant base eating is going to explode in the next few years.  So many people are leaning towards it. 

Since I've been pretty busy with my parents and their needs I really haven’t had much time to do my internet searches.  I really wanted to check out more of the other Vegan MoFo participants.  I will go back to their posts and note the blogs that inspire me and those I’d like to follow.  Speaking of which, this blog Your Mom's a Vegan was one of the ones I found last year when I came across their blog roll last year.  The name of her blog made me want to check it out.  It is fun to periodically check out other’s blogs and see what they are doing. 

My sister-in-law has been eating this way for a while and my nephew, her son, is vegan.  They live here in California and they are coming over this morning.  It’s fun to have someone who eats like you.  I’m going to make the rest of the mushroom puffs (I froze the half I didn't use).  I may even try some of my cashew cheese in some of the puff pastry.  I was thinking I could even do pinwheel like bites.  I think I even saw some vegan vegetable egg rolls in my parent’s freezer. I could make those to snack on too!