Newbie Rant
Hi everyone!
Few months into being fully vegan and loving it. Slowly made the switch last year by eating what I already had, but only buying vegan products moving forward. My pantry became fully vegan around the new year.
My rant pertains to my family. I have always brought dishes to family events and everyone has always loved eating them, even taking some leftovers home for themselves. However, now that everyone is aware of my lifestyle change, no one even touches the food I bring. I wish I could say this doesn’t hurt my feelings, but it does. More for me I guess?
It doesn’t help that I live in southern USA, where a stick of butter is used in nearly every dish and meat is generally served at all three meals.
I made a pretty bomb carrot cake with cream cheese flavored icing for Easter yesterday and no one except my husband and I touched it. A solid 9/10 only because the consistency was not as fluffy as I would’ve liked, but you would only know that if you actually pulled a slice out of the loaf pan.
Anyways, I don’t expect any advice. Can’t and won’t force someone to eat something I worked hard on, but it’s further alienating to have to bring myself food and then no one even wanting to touch it just because it’s vegan. Just wanted to bitch and moan and get this out of my system with some people who get the struggle.
Thanks for reading. 💖