
For this post, I just wanna share my experience during Christmas which was my first as a vegan. And since we always spend Christmas with family coming from abroad, this could have been quite a challenge. So for a whole week we were 8 people spending 24/7 with each other and I'm the only vegan (and even vegetarian). I still remember last Christmas when I actually wanted to become a vegan but quite frankly, I didn't have the guts to really tell anyone... I had already quite transitioned during the week when I live at uni. However, I was really afraid of my parents and other family members' reaction. I have been a vegetarian for three years and everyone was very supportive of it. But my mum was always very concerned with my health would constantly tell me to eat eggs and yoghurt so I would get my "protein". However, this year I finally managed to tell my parents and everything turned out fine.
This year's Christmas was really nice and my mum was soooo lovely. She always took care that I would have something special to eat as well. She even got me vegan raclette and fondue cheese which is a Swiss tradition that we always eat during Christmas. She also made sure I had vegan dessert which was so lovely. I also found it nice that many of the family members also ate some vegan things like cake, different soups, "chicken" nuggets or wipped cream my mum made for me and they really liked it. They still had meat or fish though... But I really can't force other people to eat vegan with me.
What I also found really interesting is that I didn't have any cravings for non-vegan foods. During Christmas non-vegan foods can be pretty much be shoved down your throat. Normally, I'm not that exposed to meat or fish since my parents don't really eat it anymore at all when I'm home. In addition to a lot of meat, during Christmas there are also lots of cookies but I didn't feel like eating them at all. I had of course also baked some vegan cookies so I was all settled for the first few days. They also ate eggs quite a lot and I was so obsessed with eggs before I went vegan. I think I ate eggs daily on my sandwiches or as an omelette. But now I really really really didn't feel any longing to have some eggs. This really surprised because in the beginning of my transition I still had a lot of cravings for things like cheese, milk chocolate (especially Kinder Schokolade), cookies and a lot of other stuff. However, I'm totally over that now which made me so happy!!
With regards to gifts, there was only one little issue when my aunt gave me some perfume and body lotion from Versace. I accepted it but during the week she realised how strict I was with my vegan lifestyle and that I normally don't use any non-vegan beauty products anymore. So she offered that I could give it to my mum and get something else instead. I was very happy about that offer and I accepted to give it to my mum so it would at least be used. But I didn't feel like getting anything in return since she had already given me other presents.
So all in all, this Christmas was reeeally nice and really uncomplicated with regards to my vegan lifestyle. I was really apprehensive beforehand but everything turned out just fine!!!
I'm really glad to go back to healthy eating now since I did have quite a few "cheat" meals:)
I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas.
Wow congratulations on sticking to your veganism! I'm so happy for you :) On my blog I have a post of what my vegan Christmas looked like if you want to check it out xxx
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Thank you so much :) I'm gonna check out your blog straightaway! xxx
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