Kendall_lauren's profile

More About Me

Reasons why I prefer to eat vegetarian or vegan:

I origionally decided to try being vegan for two weeks in January of 2006 after reading about all the health benefits that go along with a vegan lifestyle. Well, after two weeks of doing even more research and finding out all of the ethical reasons for being vegan as well I decided that it was going to be my lifestyle from then on.

I joined HappyCow Members Community because:

I love to travel! I found this site while looking for restaurants and health food stores in European countries that I will be visiting this coming summer and it seems like a great place to network and learn even more about being vegan!

Here are some places I've been that I liked... and places that I would like to visit one day:

I adore India! I went for six weeks through a program at school and I can't wait to go back and take up some of the many social causes that need help there. I will be visiting London for the third time this summer, and it is also a place I hope to live one day. I am making my second trip to Edinburgh Scotland, a beautiful country, and will also be exploring Paris and Amsterdam, both for the first time. I hope to also visit Thailand, Tibet, Japan and pretty much every other country this world has in it. Exploration of different peoples and cultures is something that I have a great passion for.

Some of my favorite veg*n foods include:

Anything at this amazing VEGAN thai restaurant in the U-District of Seattle called Araya's. It is the most amazing vegan restaurant I have ever been to! I also love crunchy peanut butter on pink lady apples, hummus on whatever vegetable i can get my hands on, huge salads, tofu, tempeh, steamed vegetables, stirfy vegetables, tofu noodles, Blue Heron Baking Company spelt muffins and peanut butter spelt chocolate chip cookies... anything from the Flying Apron Baking Co in Seattle (amazing- and usually gluten free as well as alternativly sweetened). Fruit smoothies, coffee with soy milk, almond milk, bran cereal...

Here are some books, movies, magazines, and my favorites that I would recommend to other HappyCow members:

I love to read! I love French films, especially Amelie