websites are good

If it helps, the way I went vegan was once I decided I was going to do it I looked up easy vegan recipes and practiced making them for a few months while still also eating the things I used to eat, and also started swapping the snacks I ate with vegan equivalents. After like 4-5 months I had a bunch of recipes I was comfortable with and knew what vegan products I liked, so I had one final goodbye meal at my favourite fried chicken place, and then officially "went vegan" and haven't gone back since. Learning how to make a lot of vegan food while still eating meat makes it a lot easier to eventually make the switch. I did get some pretty bad meat cravings for the first like month or two, but they do go away eventually.

The first time, I tried to just go vegetarian all at once and it didn't take, because it felt like such a big change to make all at once. I found much better success by saying "this week, I am going to give up pork for good." Then when that felt easy I went on to "this week I will give up beef for good." And so on until I was down to chicken being the only meat I'd eat anymore. I found by tapering it like that, it didn't feel like such a radical change and it was easier for me to sustain it.

I feel that cutting out dairy is going to be much harder for me than cutting out meat has historically been. One day I might be able to go vegan but I need to work my way there or I won't be able to stick to it.

If you can be vegetarian, going vegan is a pretty easy step from there! It's much better for your health, the environment, and most importantly the animals. https://veganbootcamp.org/ is a great resource!

plants tasty :)

I do!

thank you for this because i've been randomly informing family that mango allergy is quite common as a running joke

This is what the refrance: https://www.npr.org/2024/08/01/nx-s1-5001758/have-you-thought-about-cloning-yourself-to-get-all-your-work-done

It’s the same allergen in both plants. Your body is reacting to the compound urushiol. It often doesn’t cause a reaction until you’ve been exposed a few times. A small handful may never react, but there’s no guarantee even if you haven’t reacted before.

What’s scary is urushiol is also found in trace amounts in some foods, including cashes and mangos. Sometimes a bad reaction to poison ivy can sensitize your body to urushiol to the point where you start reacting to the trace urushiol found in these foods.

tl;dr - poison ivy exposure can give you sudden food allergies, even if you have had no reaction in the past

nice!

thanks nature spirits

thature spirits

f/water

Sounds like you might enjoy swimming

Isn't poison ivy one of those things where it doesn't do anything the first time or two and then you become allergic? Or is that poison oak?

and water too

hell yeah i love hikes.

no

neil is so special to me, genuinely look forward to neil day more than any other day of the year! and I had a very good neil day this year!!

Ok Buddy , im about to unjerk you

MANY

damn, great haul tbh

lol not yet :P

I don't think the things humanity creates are in line with what we need. I don't think it's even in line with what humans need

Ive been having the exact same thoughts but in the other direction, often i think id prefer to be known by a more normal name, like my middle name. I guess i can just do that, since plenty of people go by their middle names, but it does feel kind of confusing like idk if i made a mistake or if this is just internalized social pressure, or if its just a manifestation of my general self dislike that’ll fade with time, idk. Anyway it is the name i use on here so i guess for now i can keep using it

It is also a big stupid thorn in my side that my name is generally read as exclusively male in Europe and i keep getting misgendered in written communication, like when i email my gp. Though that might just be intentional misgendering from my experiences there

did you ever try it?