Vegan Outnumbered
Why I Went Vegan When No One Else in My House Did
Most vegan stories start the same way. The documentary. The book. The conversation with a friend who’d already made the switch. A gradual realisation that became impossible to ignore. And then, a clean break. Out with the old, in with the plant-based, surrounded by people on the same journey. That’s not how it went for …
How to Handle Christmas (and Other Big Family Meals) as the Only Vegan at the Table
The family gathering is the Olympics of being a vegan in a non-vegan household. Everything that’s manageable the rest of the year becomes concentrated into one meal. One table one set of relatives who may or may not respect your choices a lot of food that wasn’t made with you in mind, and possibly a …
Vegan Meal Prep for One in a Non-Vegan Household
Meal prepping when you’re the only vegan in the house has one extra layer of complexity that most meal prep guides completely ignore: you’re not prepping for the whole household. You’re prepping for yourself, in a fridge full of other people’s food, with limited containers and limited shelf space, for a week of meals that …
How to Cook One Meal That Works for Vegans and Non-Vegans
If you’ve ever stood in the kitchen trying to figure out how to feed yourself and a household full of people who eat completely differently, you already know the problem. Either you cook two separate meals, which is exhausting, or you eat something that doesn’t really work for you, or you make something vegan and …
Vegan-Friendly Meals Your Non-Vegan Family Will Actually Eat
There’s a particular kind of satisfaction in cooking something vegan that everyone at the table genuinely enjoys. Not grudgingly tolerates. Not picks at politely. Actually enjoys and asks for seconds of. It’s good for you, because you stop feeling like the person making things difficult. And it’s good for the household, because it starts to …
Going Vegan After a Health Scare: What to Eat in the First Month
If a health scare is what brought you here, you’re probably approaching this differently from someone who went vegan for ethical reasons. You’re not doing this because of a documentary. You’re doing it because a doctor said something, or you saw a number on a test result, or you felt something in your body that …