One of the downsides of a plant-based diet is that it is high in carbs and also high in sugar. I recently bought a blood sugar monitor and was quite shocked at how much my blood sugar spiked after enjoying my morning porridge. I love my porridge. Favourite meal of the day. But shortly after eating it, I often crashed … Read More
Vegan-ish: 18 Months In
It was sometime in February 2017 that I went 100% plant-based. I thought it was time to do an update after the honeymoon period ended. There are certain “facts” that the vegan propoganda machine is keen to report. One of those is that you can get adequate amounts of protein with the vegan diet. I spewed this myself in the … Read More
To The Rescue!
We got three new additions to the menagerie today: Po, Phasma and Penguin. They are ex-battery chickens who had reached the end of their useful life so were due to become cat or dog food. Poor little buggers only stopped laying for a brief period as the moult but, any pause in egg production and they’re outta there! What a … Read More
Challenge Your Long-held Beliefs
Something we are seeing a lot of lately is the phenomenon of Cognitive Dissonance. Brexit. Trump. Creationism. Religion. Terrorism. People are not only refusing to accept new evidence or listen to different points of view, they double-down on their own position, regardless of what they are presented with. Take Trump, for example. Most rational people thought it was a bad … Read More
Hail, Seitan!
I’ll be honest. One thing that I kind of miss since becoming a PBMF is the “bite” of meat. I spent 44 years chewing and chomping my way through all of the chickens and turkeys and piggies and occasional cows. That doesn’t make me proud (just guilty), but you will understand when I say that none of the pretend meats … Read More
What Are You Waiting For?
If you have spent any time pondering moving over to a 100% plant-based diet, I have one question for you: what are you waiting for? Look, I get it. I have lived with a vegetarian (latterly vegan) for coming up 17 years. We had a mutual understanding of eachother, she wouldn’t hassle me to quit meat and I wouldn’t take … Read More
22 Out Of 24 Healthiest Foods Are Plant Based
I stumbled across this health webiste on my internet travels. As always, I was keen to read up on the latest science and opinion on healthy foods and scrolled through the list. Hmm, nothing new, really; the usual suspects were present. I was just about to click away when I noticed something: an abundance of plant-based foods. I double checked … Read More
PBMF Healthy Chinese Recipe
I’ve been tinkering with various healthy versions of Chinese food for years now. I had just about got it nailed when I ditched all the meat, fish and dairy to become a PBMF. This was a real headscratch for me as I was so used to have lumps of chewy things to chomp on. After further tinkering, I have come … Read More
The Hardest Thing About Being A PBMF
Before starting this journey, I suspected that the hardest thing to present itself to me would be removing, avoiding and missing all the things I previously ate. And, yes, I have been surprised by how many foods contain milk when they really don’t need to – which causes constant disappointment – but I have never felt like I am missing … Read More
PBMF Sausage Recipe
These sausages taste as delicious as they look. It was very exciting for me to create this recipe, having been on a low-fat diet for decades, traditional sausages were off the menu. As a result, I’d not eaten sausages in about twenty years, until I made these! Very easy to put together (and cheap) with little preparation. INGREDIENTS Tin of … Read More
