50 Legitimate Reasons To Be Vegan For 2016

In no particular order...

1. Vegetarians are not healthy

2. The top causes of pollution are the manufacturing of meat and diary

3. The top cause for wasting water is manufacturing meat and diary

4. Meat and dairy gives you cancer

5. Meat and Diary gives you diseases

6.Meat and Diary lowers your immune system

7.Meat and diary are difficult for your body to digest

8. Science proves humans we're created to be herbivores/fruitarians

9. Plants and legumes contain just as much protein as its meat equivalent

10. Being vegan repairs your DNA strands (in other words helps you evolve)

11. Being vegan helps you understand your body better

12. Being vegan helps you be more creative

13. Being vegan helps you lower your carbon footprint

14. Being vegan encourages you to make better changes to your lifestyle that better suit you

15. Being vegan encourages you to eat more variety

16. Being vegan keeps your body at optimum health and fitness

17. Being vegan increases your stamina, concentration and reflexes

18. Being vegan is the best way to heal your body

19. Being vegan is the best anti-ageing formula

20. Being vegan gives you better memory and awareness

21. Being vegan encourages you to learn more

22. Being vegan helps animal extinction

23. Being vegan saves the planet

24. Being vegan are the preliminary steps to healing your mind, body and soul

25. Being vegan automatically makes you a winner

26. Being vegan is normal practise in many religious cultures

27. Being vegan is cheaper depending on where you live

28. Being vegan is more self sustainable

29. Vegan food can be planted and regrown to eat again

30. Not being vegan in 2016 doesn't make sense

31. Most vegans live with no signs of ageing

32. Healthy vegans are lean muscle

33. Animals really like vegans

34. Vegans have no body odour

35. Healthy vegan excretion smells like plants

36. Vegans have impeccable memory

37. Vegans are ways slim and eat as much as they want

38. Vegans always have unlimited amounts of energy

39. Vegans are usually much happier then other people (usually because there bodies are happy)

40. Celebrities are vegan (if that helps float your boat)

41. Your not missing anything

42.You can eat as much as you want without getting fat

43. You always know what's in your food

44. Vegans don't get heart disease

45. Vegans don't get diabetes 

46. Vegans don't count calories or watch cholesterol

47. Everyone loves vegans

48. Vegans taste like fruit

49. Vegans are humble

50. Meat = Fruit in the bible

Veganism vs Green Veganism article coming soon..

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Delilah's Festive Apple Crumble

                                            Prep time: 30 minutes Serves: 3-4

Ingredients:

3 cooking apples

100 grams almond flakes 

100 grams oats (or porridge mix)

2 Tbsps Chia seeds

5 Tbsps raw honey
3 Tbsps agave syrup

1/2 cup flour of choice

1 tsp cinnamon 

Sprinkle nutmeg

Coconut oil

 1 cup Oat milk

1 tso Vanilla essence 

(Optional: Blueberries - Blueberry sauce, Handful sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, Handful flaxseeds or granola)

1. Pre-heat your oven to 200C
2. Heat 1 cup of non-dairy milk on a medium fire, when heated stir in raw honey, agave syrup, chia seeds, vanilla essence, cinnamon and nutmeg
3. Stir flour into the milk slowly to desired thickness
4. Dice apples into small squares
5. Grease a deep rounded dish with coconut oil and add the apples layered with flaked almonds.
6. Pour the milk into the apple and almond flake mix.
7. Layer the top with oats and seeds. (Granola is optional and best added first with the oats and seeds on top)
8. Sprinkle with melted coconut oil and cinnamon 
9. Place your apple crumble in the oven, bottom shelf at 200C for 10 minutes, to give the crumble a golden colour.
10. After 10 minutes turn the oven down to 180C and cook for another 10 minutes.
11. (For optional blueberry sauce, heat a handful of blueberries in 2 tbsps on honey and leave to sit for 5 minutes)
12. (Pour over the top)

Best served with milk, ice cream or whippy cream

Explore more plant based recipes with these ingredients:

Blueberries    Apples    Agave

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5 Minute Apples With Honey

                         Prep time: 5 minutes      Serves: 2

Ingredients:

3 Organic Pink Lady, Granny Smith or Cooking Apples (Usually green)

Raw Honey

Sweeeeet

1. Core and slice the 3 apples until you have thin slices. (As seen in photo)
2. Get a small bowl or cup to pour the honey into. 
3. Dip the apples slices into the honey
4. (Optional - Sprinkle with cinnamon, I drizzled mine with agave)
5. Done!

Explore more plant based recipes with these ingredients here:

Apples       Honey        Agave 

Delilah's Festive Apple Crumble - Recipe Coming Soon

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How To Live Within Your Means

We all have too many things, too many belongings. Way more then we could ever use or need. We hoard things and keep things in case we may need it in the future. We live in a consumerist society. Any material thing you need is easily accessible and always available, at your local shop or shipped to your door. We all behave as though the finite natural resources we have will last forever, much like having good health when you are young. 

The earth's magnetic field is deteriorating, there a gaping holes in the ozone layer, increasing earthquakes and sinkholes, not to mention the global temperature rising, animals are facing extinction at the fastest rate known to man. It would not be far fetched to say, you should know at least some of these things. 

So how can you make a difference?

Start small, do what you can do instead of nothing at all. Here are a few of my tips to start living within your means: 

Recycling

Keep 2 bins in your house and 2 bins outside. One for recycling and one for non recycling. You'll find that the bin used for recycling will fill up much quicker then the other one, so eventually I used my other one for food waste.

Keep a small sealed food waste bin. Keeping in mind that a lot of your food scraps can either be regrown, composted or eaten by pets which would also be a good way of living within your means. Throw away anything that will decompose inside this bin, you can buy counter top ones if your not going to eat that much.

Reusing Things 

I do this with everything including cosmetic and make up bottles. Sometimes I buy products just for the containers, you'd be surprised at the amount of household items that have reusable packaging even if you don't like the product. Old honey jars or sweet jam jars, lip gloss containers, I favour anything in a glass container, because glass containers preserve things very well. 

Do It Yourself

It's actually better for you to consider making your own cosmetic products or at least buying it from small businesses that do. Traditionally many cultures across the world, made their own cosmetic products and passed the knowledge down to the later generations. Buying toothpaste in tube or shower gel soap in a bottle was unheard of. It's healthier and ecofriendly, to do it yourself.

Giving To The Needy

Face it, we all have way more then we actually need. My simple rule is if I cannot fit all my belongings into the storage I have (with extra space left over), then I have too much. If I don't use something weekly or monthly I don't need it. Apply this rule to all your belongings and give them to people who need them, you'll be surprised how easy they are to replace when you do. You should be able to fit all your precious belongings on your back to carry around with you, any more then that and you have too much. 

I usually give to charity every season, so 4 times a year because of how easy it is nowadays to accumulate things.

 Support Small Businesses/Charity Shops

Buy Reusable Bags

I have always reused plastic bags, but the time has come to buy some quality reusable bags and actually remember to use them for shopping, no more purchasing plastic bags that ruin the environment.

Get On Your Bike

Cycling more, if your only going somewhere local within a 5 mile radius, try cycling. It's fulfilling, it gives your body a good work out and you actually learn more about where you live, scenic routes, different bike paths, small shops etc.

Eat Vegan

Plant based eating is one of the easiest ways to reduce your carbon footprint, the amount of manufacturing that meat has to go through to get to our shops is ridiculous. It's also by far much easier to grow produce then farm animals. If you had to hunt or farm your own food, this would be a much easier decision for you to make.

Grow Your Own Food

Which leads to my last tip. If you have a garden or even just a sunny window seal. Grow your own food, there are really no excuses, change your food with the season and taste the difference between the GMO versions that are sold in the shops. Start with spring onions, celery or leeks, try herbs that grow easily if your unsure where to start check out my article on growing food at home

Ultimately the more self sustainable you are, the lower your carbon footprint. Try to live within your means, for the planets sake and your own.

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