new person intro

September 17, 2005

My name is Anne and I have been lurking for awhile and decided I

should introduce myself. Let's see, I am a one-week old vegetarian

and am making a transition to vegan. I was originally going to stick

with dairy products but I haven't had them for last 4 days and my

allergies are actually tolerable without medication : ). Eggs were

not hard to give up at all as I have never liked them.

I'm also married with 2 kids. Hubby will never change but has been

willing to try a few new veg recipes over the past few days and was

actually impressed : ). My kids prefer veggie but detest soymilk. We

have a good organic dairy farm not far from us where we get milk for

them. But meat they don't really like so transitioning them won't be

hard at all : ). We live pretty rurally and any healthfood-type

stores are 40+ miles away. But in that 40-mile radius we have an

organic dairy, a organic family farm of whole grains/beans/dried

fruits/etc, and a few organic produce stands on family farms. It is

just a lot more driving and scouting than going to a natural foods

market : ). I am looking forward to learning a lot from all

you " seasoned " veggies : ).

Anne

September 17, 2005

So glad to meet you Anne!

sounds likeyou really have your act together. Glad to hear your allergies

are now controllable. What state do you live in? Sounds like you live around

a lot of nature, that's great. Can you have a garden?

Blessings,

Chanda

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" jandemommy " <jandemommy

Saturday, September 17, 2005 7:16 AM

new person intro

> My name is Anne and I have been lurking for awhile and decided I

> should introduce myself. Let's see, I am a one-week old vegetarian

> and am making a transition to vegan. I was originally going to stick

> with dairy products but I haven't had them for last 4 days and my

> allergies are actually tolerable without medication : ). Eggs were

> not hard to give up at all as I have never liked them.

> I'm also married with 2 kids. Hubby will never change but has been

> willing to try a few new veg recipes over the past few days and was

> actually impressed : ). My kids prefer veggie but detest soymilk. We

> have a good organic dairy farm not far from us where we get milk for

> them. But meat they don't really like so transitioning them won't be

> hard at all : ). We live pretty rurally and any healthfood-type

> stores are 40+ miles away. But in that 40-mile radius we have an

> organic dairy, a organic family farm of whole grains/beans/dried

> fruits/etc, and a few organic produce stands on family farms. It is

> just a lot more driving and scouting than going to a natural foods

> market : ). I am looking forward to learning a lot from all

> you " seasoned " veggies : ).

>

> Anne

>

September 17, 2005

Chanda,

I live in dead center of rural Iowa : ). Where we live things are

few and far between. I did have a strange encounter at our local

library this morning though. I have been busy checking out all the

back issues of Vegetarian Times and picked up a few issues of

Organic Gardening and one of the patrons asked me if I was familiar

with the Moosewood cookbooks. They are one of my favorite series of

cookbooks and she proceeded to tell me she had eaten at the

Moosewood restaurent in NY and one of her favorite cookbook authors

was Mollie Katzen. I think by then my mouth might have been hanging

open as our town is about 200 people total and nobody is familiar

with veg cooking at all. It was kind of cool.

I don't have much room for gardening but currently we have 12

raspberry plants, 10 tomato plants (we only planted 2-rest

volunteer), 2 green pepper plants, some butternut squash which has 2

good-sized squash and one new baby, and a large rhubarb patch. I

would like to do some container gardening so I can turn the back

patch into an all-berry patch next summer. I would love to put in

strawberries and either blackberries or blueberries. Our total back

patch is probably 12'x12' with no room to go elsewhere. I would like

to see about a getting a share in one of our local CSA groups for

some more unusual vegetables I don't have access too. I would also

like to grow my own herbs but haven't had much good luck with it--

anyone have any tips?

Thankfully I like to cook and experiment. Hubby isn't likely to

change but it won't matter much for next few years anyway, he is

leaving for a long deployment in about 2 weeks and I am not making

mealtime an issue at all. Plus he needs to eat what meat is left in

the freezer and then the rest will likely go to a family at church

that can use it. So right now I am doing streamlined cooking--a

veggie dish with a serving of meat on the side for him and calling

it good. He did like the bean burgers I made out of the current

issue of Vegetarian Times so I think when he gets back I can get

away with some all-veg suppers and have him cook anything extra he

wants. But the next 2 years I can get the kids and myself into good

eating habits so it becomes second-nature. Then it won't be so

difficult when he returns : ).

Thanks for the warm welcome : ). Take care : )..........

Anne

September 17, 2005

Welcome, Anne!!! Have you checked www.localharvest.org? Some of

those farms near you may have a CSA program, where you can

for a fee and each week get a box of whatever's ready, freshly

picked... or since you know them - just ask if they do something like

that! :-) It might make it a little easier for you... The

localharvest site is self-register, so I don't think it's

all-inclusive but has some anyway.

Stick with us, we'll get you recipes your non-veg DH will enjoy! :-)

*newveghugs*

Amy

, " jandemommy "

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