Hi! I'm Molly!

I am 20 years old (almost 21), and a recent graduate of the Rochester Institute of Technology! I was born and raised in Houston, TX (unvegan) and then met a young woman at college who was vegan and now is my best friend! I graduated college two years early since my parents pushed me hard as a kid, and now it's hard for people to take me seriously when I tell them I have a college degree in Chemistry even though I'm easily mistaken for a middle school kid.

I am working in Lakeland, FL, and I'm having trouble finding vegans or vegetarians near me. The closest I can find are out in Tampa or Orlando (about an hour in each direction). I'm hoping to meet some people soon because right now the only person I know here is my boss!

I have been almost vegan for about 2 years, with an occasional slip up (no more than once a month). But most of the time I am vegan, and it's only the holidays where I have trouble convincing my mother not to put meat into my stew.

I eat a lot of Asian-based food, and I love baking! But with the weather down here, it might be too hot and sticky for me to do much baking during the summer. I haven't started the whole "vegan lifestyle" thing such as buying vegan clothes and what-not (though most of what I get is vegan simply because I'm too cheap for real leather), and I became vegan simply because the food was good (and the college food or whatever I made shouldn't be considered food at all)! Luckily, I've learned to cook vegetables a little bit, so now I throw things in a pot and call it soup on a regular basis.

I'm excited to meet people, both in Lakeland and online!  :)

Hi guys! My name's Heather, I live in Ottawa, Canada. I love making fun vegan meals, and my favorites are ones that are simple but also delicious and healthy. I cook for myself and my husband, and film some of the things I make for my website. I'm very into health, nutrition and fitness, but my overall motivation for all that is just to have more fun in life.

I've found that I have a LOT more fun in the kitchen now that I cook vegan food. Has anyone else noticed that? I was never good at cooking meat or eggs, so it's a total relief to not have to deal with any of that anymore... And I've always been allergic to dairy, so I definitely wasn't good at any dishes involving dairy.

Hi guys! My name's Heather

Hi! Welcome to the forums! Thanks for all the great recipes. :)

agreed! i enjoy your website videos as well! i'm bummed my rice milk didn't turn out though, sure i did something spastic :/

my pleasure :) I'm glad you enjoy them. Anything I can help with on the rice milk??

idk what i did wrong... i cooked it for the 3 hours and it was slimey :( i was bummed... i have only had luck with almond milk so far

hmm... could be that it was too hot - some stoves have a higher 'simmer' than others. Did you use long grain brown rice? It's the least slimy. Even less slime-potential would be to use the same method with buckwheat (untoasted will have a much milder flavor) or millet (use more water for millet).

hmmmm i am not sure what rice... i even tried making rice milk in my soyabella maker and it turned out crappy... i will be adventurous again someday

Hi guys! My name's Heather, I live in Ottawa, Canada. I love making fun vegan meals, and my favorites are ones that are simple but also delicious and healthy. I cook for myself and my husband, and film some of the things I make for my website. I'm very into health, nutrition and fitness, but my overall motivation for all that is just to have more fun in life.

I've found that I have a LOT more fun in the kitchen now that I cook vegan food. Has anyone else noticed that? I was never good at cooking meat or eggs, so it's a total relief to not have to deal with any of that anymore... And I've always been allergic to dairy, so I definitely wasn't good at any dishes involving dairy.

Funny, I just saw you on YouTube a week or so ago when I was looking for sprouting videos.  I came here today and saw your avatar and was like, "That's the girl from the videos!!"  LOL.

Hello and keep up the good work!!

Hi everyone!  I guess I'm not entirely new to the site, because I had an account, but I have no idea when I signed up for it!! That should tell you something about me and my brain.  I am back (from whenever!) because I recently transitioned to being vegan, and I live in a tiny town where there aren't many options and definitely not many vegans. (And whose county is home to events such as the "Beast Feast.") I am thankful to know one vegan here, and we are going on a vegan field trip to the city south of us next month for lunch and food shopping, can't wait.  :>

I love, love, love animals. I gave up red meat at 12, all meat and fish at 28, and now at 31, I finally made the leap to being a vegan.  I have read about it for the past two years, and tried once, but I am committed to it now in a way that I wasn't before. I have eased into it, giving up leather and trying to avoid animal products/animal tested items since a good while back, and now I'm on board with food. I credit my first rescue pup with opening my eyes to veganism - when I got her in 2006, I just fell in love and couldn't reconcile my love for her with how other animals are treated, when I claim to love all of them!

I live with my wonderful omnivore fiance, who is supportive but confused by my vegan decision.  He did go with me to a Veg Fest in our nearest big city two weeks ago though, and afterwards expressed interest in eating less meat, so that is great! I do find it somewhat hard to be in a "mixed" relationship, but we are making it work. We like to hike, read, laugh and travel. He has an almost 10 year old son who is lots of fun.

So here I am on the vegan journey!  It is going on two months, and the funny thing I have noticed, is that I still haven't been able to bring myself to say I'm vegan.  I keep saying vegetarian. I don't know if I am afraid of failing, or if I'm waiting for some threshold before I feel "official?" 

Tweety's opening post inspired me to post here - so friendly and honest.  Glad to be here with all of you! 

Hi everyone!  I guess I'm not entirely new to the site, because I had an account, but I have no idea when I signed up for it!! That should tell you something about me and my brain.  I am back (from whenever!) because I recently transitioned to being vegan, and I live in a tiny town where there aren't many options and definitely not many vegans. (And whose county is home to events such as the "Beast Feast.") I am thankful to know one vegan here, and we are going on a vegan field trip to the city south of us next month for lunch and food shopping, can't wait.  :>

I love, love, love animals. I gave up red meat at 12, all meat and fish at 28, and now at 31, I finally made the leap to being a vegan.  I have read about it for the past two years, and tried once, but I am committed to it now in a way that I wasn't before. I have eased into it, giving up leather and trying to avoid animal products/animal tested items since a good while back, and now I'm on board with food. I credit my first rescue pup with opening my eyes to veganism - when I got her in 2006, I just fell in love and couldn't reconcile my love for her with how other animals are treated, when I claim to love all of them!

I live with my wonderful omnivore fiance, who is supportive but confused by my vegan decision.  He did go with me to a Veg Fest in our nearest big city two weeks ago though, and afterwards expressed interest in eating less meat, so that is great! I do find it somewhat hard to be in a "mixed" relationship, but we are making it work. We like to hike, read, laugh and travel. He has an almost 10 year old son who is lots of fun.

So here I am on the vegan journey!  It is going on two months, and the funny thing I have noticed, is that I still haven't been able to bring myself to say I'm vegan.  I keep saying vegetarian. I don't know if I am afraid of failing, or if I'm waiting for some threshold before I feel "official?" 

Tweety's opening post inspired me to post here - so friendly and honest.  Glad to be here with all of you!   

Nice to meet you Oiseau!  Like you I live with an omnivore and after 8 months of me being vegan he STILL doesnt understand it, but he has become a little more relaxed about my decision.  I dragged him to see the director of "Food Inc." who came to a local university to speak about the film.  Although it isnt a vegan film, it helped open his eyes to the food industry and thinking about what is on his plate.  He does eat many of my vegan meals so probably half the week he eats vegan, and most of his recent tests (he has a certain disability and has checkups periodically) have improved! (although he is underweight he has had high cholesterol and low oxygen levels but since eating more vegan both have improved a lot) Except his iron is low.  I eat a ton of leafy greens but I cant get him to touch those. 

At any rate I hope you enjoy it here!  I am sort of an introvert and really busy with school and work so I don't "socialize" here as much as I should but I pop in from time to time. I like the laid back atmosphere of vegweb versus the politically charged atmosphere of other vegan forums, although there is the food fight forum here to voice ones views which is nice.  The recipes here have been a lifesaver for me!  I am utterly amazed at the variety of vegan food choices!  Hope to see you around the boards!

Hey everybody,

I live in Northern British Columbia, Canada, and I've been vegan for about 6 months now. Used to be a no dairy chickenatarian because I got into this big gym routine, but then i heard Jason Ellis on the radio talking about how the top athletes in the world are vegan, so I decided to try it out and been loving it ever since!