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Hi all,

I don't think I've taken the time to introduce myself to the group, though I

have been enjoying the postings. My name is Gayle and I live in Florida. I

have six-year-old quintuplets (3 girls and 2 boys) whom have been vegan since

conception. I have been vegan for about 31 years. My husband tried to be

vegetarian before we got married and even a few years into our marriage but then

became a closet omnivore. Just within the last year has he been up front about

eating animal products (though I've known for some time - just waited for him to

tell me). This causes a few problems between him and the kids, but at

six-years-old they understand that some people do eat animals. They don't know

any other name for meat products other than what they are, i.e. dead cow, dead

pig, dead chicken, etc ... My DH is understanding enough to cook his food on

the grill outside since he knows I get sick at the smell of burning flesh and

don't want those products in my pots and pans. Overall, I can't complain.

Anyone else out there with non-vegan/vegetarian spouses? What do you do? How

do you handle it all?

 

I saw a great recipe on this list for a vegan mac 'n " cheese " using nutritional

yeast (yum! I love nut'l yeast! My kids eat it straight out of the

cannister.). I tried the recipe the other day and loved it. Two of my kids

loved it, the other three did not. They took " no thank-you bites and politely

refused opting for peanut butter sandwiches instead. Hmmm! Go figure! LOL I

think this is because I've been making it a different way. I use cooked pasta

(any and all vegan varieties), drain it, then put olive, canola, safflower -

whatever kind of oil I'm in the mood for or have on hand, or a non-hydrogenated

vegan margarine (i.e. Earth Balance) on the pasta, then sprinkle with a generous

amount of nut'l yeast and some sea salt and garlic. My kids LOVE this. I've

tried it with other additives (one of my sons and I love it with basil) and the

same two that like the other recipe always love it, but with the other three its

always a crap shoot. All but one of them like to have tomato sauce added to it

also.

 

For anyone not sure of what to do with nut'l yeast, Joanne Stepaniak has a

cookbook out called, Nutritional Yeast Cookbook : Recipes Using Red Star

Vegetarian Support Formula Flakes, that came out in 1997. It's a great cookbook

and I find that I use it frequently. There's a great recipe in there for

crackers that I never can make enough of. They are gone before I can put them

in a tin and in the pantry. I guess that saves on shelf space! LOL

 

I'm glad to be on this list. In the short time that I have been on it, I have

found it to be a great list and quite beneficial. Thanx!

 

God's Peace,

Gayle - mom to Naomi, Ethan, Rebekah, Seth, and Arielle - 3/31/97

" Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic

with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong ... for sometime in your

life you will have been all of these. " Author Unknown