Eternal Cheesecake

(this post was never finished nor published)

There are foods that you can go to the store and start substituting for what you’re used to. This isn’t an exercise in nutrient density; it’s about seeing that it doesn’t need to come from an animal to give you the same pleasure and joy.

Not all animal-free food is tasty, or well made. That’s why these are some of my favorites because I don’t feel like I’m missing anything; I get the full comfort of the fattiness, the chewiness, the mouth-feel that I want, plus I feel lighter afterwards, not so heavy and slow.

super-easily replace with what you’re accustomed to that will give you that comfortable

• Daiya cheese http://www.daiyafoods.com/
• Gardein
• Veganaise
• Coconut Bliss
• Earth Balance
• Mana bread
• Tinkyada Pasta Joy – whole grain brown rice pasta that doesn’t get mushy (which showed me that you don’t need eggs to make things)

Have you ever thought, “Global warming? What can I do? Pfft. Nothing.” (mind gives up & moves on)

Yeah, me too. At least until what I discovered from my own research these past 2.5 years…

…that many of my meals were “dirty”, energy production-wise. They required literally thousands of gallons of water, created pollutants, and reinforced a system that was ego created. I was eating unconscious food, unconsciously, selfishly decimating the earth with my knife & fork because I had all these nutritional ideas that I wouldn’t challenge.

When I began to look at the details, I was momentarily scared because I didn’t know what to eat in place of this broken thing. Yet I found alternatives that were:

1. tastier
2. gave me more energy
3. cheaper(!)
4. more nutrient dense
5. and slashed my carbon foot print

It was a win-win-win-win situation. It even helped my meditations! As this new food palette was lighter on my body, it healed, and my head became sharper and more naturally alert.

Thus my passion and why I’m sharing this with you. Living lighter on the planet is easy, once you know how.

There’s an organization that was founded by the son of the Baskin-Robbins ice cream empire called EarthSave. The Vancouver EarthSave was responsible for gently helping me to discover this whole new spectrum of food choices, and a big part of my “awakening to food”. There’s many EarthSave chapters all over the place. I suggest that you call them up and tap their minds–they’ll make it easy and the rewards are returned at every meal with increasing joy.

In Vancouver, there’s this neat event coming up called the Taste of Health which has a lot to see, sample, and play with in a light, positive way, focusing more on what is good, rather than what isn’t. Check it out. I’ll see you there this year, although I won’t be volunteering as before. Invite your friends, too.