Amelia's Menagerie

Hello dear friends! You have all been with me through so much, for many years, and even though i have neglected this blog, i hope you'll come back a few more times. Anyways, on to the subject at hand: a vegan cookbook, catered to vegans living with their omnivorous family. Since i went vegan over a year ago, i have come up with tons of recipes, omnivore approved or base recipes that are vegan and can be split into the fully vegan version and, if the other family members so choose, the omnivorous version.  I am focusing on classic foods hard to find affordable vegan options for, such as mac n cheese, biscuits and gravy, general tso's, "chicken" and dumpling soup, you get the idea. I'm very excited for this, and i think it is a fairly unique idea, so i'm very hopeful about how it will do :) Just wanted to let you guys know about that :) Have a fantastic day, and be kind!

oh hello, dear patient readers. i am incredibly sorry for being quite possibly the very worst blogger on the planet. i can't really even call my self a blogger anymore, to be completely honest, but the label i am known by matters not, for i am back! well, at least for this post. i cannot make any more promises, because i know i will break them if i do, but i will *attempt* to be better with regularly posting updates on the animals here. ah yes, the animals! so many incredible changes have been going on, some sad and some wonderful. first off, i no longer have ducks or  chickens. this was a hard decision to make, but i rehomed my flock of ducks and chickens to some of our friends who run a local farm. since i went vegan just over ten months ago, i kind of forgot about collecting eggs because, well, i no longer ate them. the ducks and chickens were pets that weren't being treated like pets, and weren't getting enough attention, so we gave them to our friends who have a creek ...

I always have goals. I try and reach them, but in all honesty, that's a rare occasion. It's not that I don't want to keep my cages clean, I just get distracted. It's not that I am not willing to put the work in to get fit, it's just, well, I get distracted, I am not consistent, or an event comes up that prevents me from doing my workout or eating well. I have never really had a real new year's resolution, but this year that is going to change. One 'resolution' or goal has been to get back to my vegan diet. I don't understand why people wait until new year to make resolutions; it makes sense to maybe come up with things to change for the new year, but if you want to change something about yourself, don't wait! Do it. That's what I did with going vegan. I didn't prepare days ahead, I just decided one day, hey, I have beans and rice and quinoa, that means I can get complete protein, I still have dairy free shakes, I can do this, and I did it...