Plant Based Learning Curve

There are many aspects of adjusting to a plant based diet.  Some of them which were expected never actually happened.  On the other hand, there have been  some surprises. 

I expected to miss eating meat.  That has never happened.  I especially thought I would miss a really good burger, but now the idea of eating a burger is very unappealing to me.  Now a veggie burger, that is a whole other thing.  I would definitely miss not having a homemade veggie burger most every week. 

I expected that my grocery costs would rise, but they have actually gone down.  A person could eat extremely cheap on a plant based diet if they wanted or needed to do so.  I like to experiment a lot, which adds some to our costs, but it is still cheaper than when I included meat in our diet. 

I expected a plant based diet might be inconvenient.  Well, that is true at times.  We can't just breeze into a town and expect to luck into finding a restaurant that has plant based food available.  I did find a website that helps with that.  happycow.net  You just plug in the city, and it gives restaurant names for vegan and vegetarian foods in that area.  I have used that quite a few times.





One thing I didn't expect was that so many people are interested in changing to a plant based diet or at least interested in learning more about it.  I was aware that some people would challenge me on whether eating plant based was a sound decision.  The number one question is, "How do you get enough protein?"  That one is so very easy to answer.  I think many people are really tired of not feeling great and are open to such an easy solution.