why it's okay to be vegan and
miss eggs by Laura Maria Grierson
Eggs are off the menu on a vegan diet, but what happens when vegans miss eating them - and are free-roaming backyard chickens the answer? Welcome to Veganuary, folks a movement so ubiquitous
I was a vegetarian for almost eighteen years, and I loved eggs.
right now that we might as well do away with the word
Whenever the subject of going vegan is broached, cheese
'January' and rename the first month of the year in homage to
always seems to be the one product that people feel they can't
all things plantbased. Whether you're giving Veganuary a go,
live without, but I was never a big fan of it, especially since
have been vegan a while, or are trying to cut back on your
I'd started gradually cutting it out of my diet for a couple of
intake of animal products, this month is a great time for
years before I went vegan. For me, it was always eggs.
getting some extra info, connecting with other vegans, or
Boiled, fried, or poached: I loved 'em. Ironically, it's really
simply grabbing some great deals at local restaurants. (Or
easy to create vegan versions of scrambled eggs, quiche,
watching a publicityhungry dolt descend into a tantrum like
omelette etc., which were all things I'd never particularly liked
an attentionseeking threeyearold because Greggs decided to
in the first place. Something that looked and tasted like a real,
launch a vegan sausage roll alongside its traditional offering.)
whole chicken's egg was elusive.
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