My Journey to Find Vegan Milk By Stacie Stearns

I've Been a vegan for three years now. And a vegetarian for most of my life. My Brother Ron helped me transition to vegan status. He began his vegetarian journey with my help years before, making the transition to vegan on his own. I stalled and put it off for years. "Cheese," "How could I give up my Cheese". Marilou Henner helped me with that one. I listened to her speaking on a radio show one night and I woke up a vegan the next morn.

In the back of my mind I always knew I would one day be vegan. It seemed a natural progression. However, It was a totally shock when my little brother announced he was going vegan. This was MR." Pizza Huts meat lovers pizza with extra sausage". I guess the Mad Cowboy got to him. It surely wasn't me. When I was very young I tried to force my "Laurels Kitchen Beliefs"That was my vegetarian bible) on my family. Lets just say that it didn't work. Funny, my dad who never calls any one of us by name calls me Pork Chop to this day. He used to introduce me as his daughter the Vegetarian. My brothers that"vegan Brother of yours" or the "clowns." That's referring to both of my brothers. Makes me wonder why we were given names at all. I digress.

We learned a lot about vegan eating along the way. One minuet It was OK to eat something, the next I'd learn how it was processed and couldn't eat it. By strict I mean that besides using no animal products we use no refined sugar, bleached flour gelatin or honey. I was trying to find a Vegan restaurant to eat at in Seattle. I was amazed at the vast array of offerings (as opposed to where I live in Cleveland Ohio), but upon calling and asking about ingredients we were able to narrow it down to about one. Some of the rest of the vegan world eats those refined products . I just can't. And I look and feel a lot better for it emotionally and psychically.

I've wrestled with all phases of eating disorders along the way. After becoming vegan I kind of stopped. It was no longer that important anymore. I immediately felt great. My attitude or outlook improved dramatically. I immediately began to lose weight . That helped my attitude also.

My brother confessed he really missed milk chocolate. I on the other hand was perfectly happy without that option. Our mom always trying to make her "starving" grown up children happy came up with a recipe. which she perfected. Ron said "You should sell this." Calling him hard to please does not begin to scratch the surface. He is very talented also, and can name off the ingredients used in a recipe from one taste. So he became the official taste tester. He felt there was a need for a vegan light chocolate. I can relate to getting tired of dark chocolate. It seems to taste somewhat bitter no matter how you fill it. And because we don't know any other way its made with strictly vegan ingredients in a vegan kitchen and tastes delicious.

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