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bugshaw at 11:29pm on 17/01/2010
bugshaw at 11:29pm on 17/01/2010101 Things in 101 Days
68. Eat vegan for a week
Done - as in a committed attempt was made (though it fell short by 3 hours as it was raining and lunchtime my back hurt and we'd sat down in a Chinese restaurant and I just had stuff from the buffet). I learnt more about how difficult it can be to identify vegan packet food without some sort of special decoder for the ingredients list, and that some vegans avoid sugar which has been refined using bone (this distinction tends not to be made on packets, which simply list "sugar"). I suspect I ate some animal-processed sugar during this week.
It was easy enough to cook for myself, but harder to eat out, and I could have tried more of a challenge.
So, what have I found out about my staple foods?
Good
Diet Cherry Coke
Co-op mincemeat (nice with baked apple)
Antidepressants
Rice/peanut crackers
Bad
Salad cream (eggs)
Sandwich spread (eggs)
Jaffa cakes (eggs)
Contraceptive pill (lactose)
Calcium capsules (gelatin)
Multivitamins (beeswax)
56. Drink more tea (currently one cup/week despite the array of interesting coloured packets in the cupboard). DONE.
I've had a cup most days, it's quite pleasant but I'm not developing a habit, and might switch now to "Boil fewer kettles" :-)
68. Eat vegan for a week
Done - as in a committed attempt was made (though it fell short by 3 hours as it was raining and lunchtime my back hurt and we'd sat down in a Chinese restaurant and I just had stuff from the buffet). I learnt more about how difficult it can be to identify vegan packet food without some sort of special decoder for the ingredients list, and that some vegans avoid sugar which has been refined using bone (this distinction tends not to be made on packets, which simply list "sugar"). I suspect I ate some animal-processed sugar during this week.
It was easy enough to cook for myself, but harder to eat out, and I could have tried more of a challenge.
So, what have I found out about my staple foods?
Good
Diet Cherry Coke
Co-op mincemeat (nice with baked apple)
Antidepressants
Rice/peanut crackers
Bad
Salad cream (eggs)
Sandwich spread (eggs)
Jaffa cakes (eggs)
Contraceptive pill (lactose)
Calcium capsules (gelatin)
Multivitamins (beeswax)
56. Drink more tea (currently one cup/week despite the array of interesting coloured packets in the cupboard). DONE.
I've had a cup most days, it's quite pleasant but I'm not developing a habit, and might switch now to "Boil fewer kettles" :-)
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Non-vegan sugar?
Apparently bone char "is not used in making white beet sugar and it is not used in making raw cane sugar." according to the SKIL (Sugar Knowledge International - !) website.
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(Not a vegetarian, but lived with one for years and years.)
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(I don't like drinks that have been processed using non-veggie finings either, although again due to labelling it's hard to stick to that.)
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