The End

I decided to discontinue this blog and start writing a new one in german:
www.alphaeus.ch
Maybe, if my time allows it, I will start another tech-blog, but for now check my brand new blog, where I will keep posting about my vegan experience.

Is thai curry vegan?

My first dilemma.

I was in a hurry, was on the way to Bern with colleagues and we decided to go to the Thai take away. At first I thought that it was a good idea, asian always have something vegan.
After a pretty long queue, I reached the counter and there were four or five menus. Two of them vegetarian, one with egg, which I only saw after I ordered it. I gave it back. The other was thai vegetable curry. I knew that thai curry is done with coconut milk, but what if they added cow milk?
The question was, do I want to ask and risk not to have lunch, or do I prefer to just not ask and assume that there's no cow milk in it. I went for assuming that there's just coconut milk. Am I a hypocrite?

first week

Well, it's already nearly a week that I'm totally vegan.
There were some difficulties:
I was at a kids carnival party with my son and his mother. We were the only vegans. There was plenty of food - hot dogs, cheesy bread and cakes. The only thing we could eat were potato chips, not really satisfying, but in such a situation ok. The hard thing about though was that our two year old son wanted some cake. His reaction was amazing. He stood in front of the cake knowing, that he shouldn't be eating it (don't ask me how he knew) and looked at us. When we told him, that he shouldn't eat it, he just went on playing with the other kids.
Today I had a difficult day. At the restaurant, the only meal which was vegan was salad. You can imagine yourself that this is not very filling and I was hungry all day. To crown it all I had to buy everything for my sons party this weekend in the grocery store with 1001 million delicious non vegan pastry, chocolate, biscuits, snacks and much more. I was starving, but the non-vegan food wasn't really attracting me much.

Two not so difficult difficulties in my first vegan week is not too bad. Except this two, I was enjoying the week a lot. All the food I ate was great, specially my breakfasts.

Second day

It's my second vegan day.

My day starts with a rice-chocolate drink, which tastes amazingly well, vegan "croissants", which I get at the organic market. That's a real tasty and nutritive breakfast.
I miss milk-coffees, but I'll get used to it. Björn told me there's soja milk coffee at Starbucks. I definitely have to try one. What a luxury, vegan Starbucks coffee.

People were supportive, even though the most don't understand why I do this to myself. I don't want to start moralizing, that's why I say I just do it for ethical and ecological reasons.

Going vegan

I decided myself to go vegan. It will be a pretty tough challenge. I already stopped milk (and because of that coffee), which is a first step. I still have some butter and cheese at home, which I will finish and then it will be done.

At workshops abroad I am afraid I can't stick to it (fast-lunch, little choice ...)

I'll keep you informed.

Passpack

Thanks to Michael, who sent me the link to go2web20.com I found this wonderful tool:




You can save all your passwords in one place, encrypted and safe.

VegSpace

I just found VegSpace, MySpace for vegans. I liked from the beginning that VegSpace doesn't try to hide that it is a straigth copy of myspace.
Folk looks like straight out of MySpace... but vegan. There's some activity and it will surely grow, as all in all it's really well done. It's easy to use and there's interesting people.

Btw, that's my profile: www.vegspace.com/alphaeus