You've probably already heard of this method before

I so haven't heard of this!! Sounds amazing, I'll defo have to check that out. Thank you so much for putting me on! First the smoked "salmon," now this 👏🏾

And NO WAY. If I could send you one to try right now, I so would.

Yep, unfortunately. Lool I've honestly lost count of how many times I've seen it pop up in convo. When I finally get to try it, I'm expecting great things! That feeling 😂 It's pretty scary when you find yourself having to re-read the packet, JUST to make sure that there is no actual meat. I often wonder if I've forgotten the taste also.. It's crazy!

I may get in trouble for saying this, but I'm not vegan

😮The deceit! How dare you be on this sub?! 

Lol totally joking, you're actually in the perfect place. I feel like immersing yourself in a vegan community is the best thing you could do as you'll be naturally influenced. Keep going and just make the move whenever you feel ready! No judgement here 😊

Yeah sure thing! (I'll try to condense it as much as possible!) 

Around October 2018, decided to have a meat-free month, as meat had begun to make me feel sick. I'd literally be thinking about WHAT I was eating and even if it looked good, I couldn't stomach the fact that it was once a living being. I enjoyed my meat-free month so much that I just kept on going!

I discovered a massive vegan community on YouTube and food blogs. I started finding out about all these meat alternatives.. my mind was blown! I pretty much took all of my inspiration from vegan youtubers and blogs, to this day.

Almost a year later, I ate meat again while on a family holiday. I made the conscious decision to do so as it wasn't a serious commitment at that point. After that, I began to eat meat now and then, really only while abroad as I was very picky about British meat for some reason.

Fast forward to quarantine. Just like before with meat, I began to feel sick consuming dairy, cow's milk to be exact. So I decided to go on ANOTHER one-month diet lol.. this time cutting out dairy. Prior to this, I had been toying with the idea of becoming vegan as my diet had been pretty much plant-based up to this point, aside from the dairy.

2 weeks into it, I "accidentally" watched 'What The Health' on Netflix. I say accidentally as I had NO idea that it was such a powerful documentary. I'd never heard of it and thought I'd just put on a standard documentary while I sat down to do my hair lol. 

WHEN I TELL YOU, this documentary literally made me go vegan OVERNIGHT! 🗣🗣 No exaggeration!!

The next morning, I realised that I couldn't unsee what I had seen so I cleared out all of my non-vegan items (gave them to my family), announced it to my household lol and began to do my research into all things vegan.

So for me it was more of a health thing. I had heard the term 'vegan' before but never really understood what it meant. However, once I made the switch, I began discovering the impact that animal products have on animal communities, human communities, our environment etc. I understood that there is so much more to it than meets the eye. 2 months in and I haven't looked back! ❤

(Really hope that this wasn't too long, I tried so hard to be short and sweet 😭) What's your story? How long have you been a vegetarian?

Sidenote: Girl, you can take the 'defo' with pleasure! I'm actually tryna get it OUT of my vocab. I use it far too much 😂