It sounds like we share some similar views on eating and health. I certainly do not advocate ‘meat substitute’ style foods, but I understand they can be useful in the transition from meat eating. I did use TVP and quorn when first starting out, but much of that was to convince my boyfriend of that time that this could work for us!

You left a comment on my site and I wandered across to yours. I must say that you hardly look as if you need the bloggers course - it’s SO professional! Nevertheless, I hope that doing the programme allows you some fresh ideas to further grow and flourish.

Regards this post in particular, I was intrigued to know that there’s going to be a world vegan day on the 1st November. Fabulous! I am vegetarian and eat an almost vegan diet - no fish, meat, and little dairy - and believe firmly in good, natural food. Vegetarian or vegan “meats” etc don’t cut it for me. My primary reason for becoming vegetarian was health. As a lot of the “like meat” products have synthetic ingredients, I won’t touch them for the same reasons I now won’t touch meat: toxicity. Also, switching to a primarily vegetable based diet requires a mindset change that I think the “like meat” products avoid. I now eat completely different types of dishes to the “meat and two veg” that was once my staple. This makes it quite difficult to eat out sometimes and indeed to visit with friends, but I am so much more healthy and energetic as a result of switching that I think it’s a price worth paying.

Looking forward to connecting more with you!