My name is Tracy. I love people. I love being helpful. I love fast cars. I paint art. I am a paralegal. I have vacationed at Niagara Falls. I painted there. I love traveling. I am not a vegan. My best friend is a vegetarian trying to be a vegan. I make veggie dishes for my friend's house parties. The smokey mountains are one of my favorite places and I hope to travel there soon. I visited the smokey mountains before. I don't think I have the stamina to go hiking. I recently decided to go vegan. I am currently feeling overwhelmed by having a plant based diet. I enjoy beef and broccoli. I do not like the texture of rubbery foods. I shop at Trader Joe's. I love eating veggies.
My name is Amanda. I am a vegan. I enjoy going to the gym. I am not a singer. I love art. I have a husband who is a lawyer and also loves art. I am a baker. I do zumba. I have a Jeep. I love traveling in the mountains for the exercise. I love vehicles that handle rough terrain.  My favorite food is pizza. I went to the smokey mountains when I was young. I like to take day trips hiking that last 8 hours. I have a very small individual tent for camping. I own a vegan cookbook. I am looking forward to a new vegan cheese shop that I live by. I was a vegetarian before I became a vegan. I slowly stopped eating meat. I make a lot of different recipes with tofu. I own an oven. I enjoy eating tofu. I love vegetables, so converting to a vegan diet was easy for me.
I just tried the best recipe for vegan beef and broccoli!  What did you think! I'm always curious about what non-vegans think about vegan recipes. When I was a meat-eater, I was surprised how good they were! I am enjoying the food but it will take some time for my insides to get used to all the veg! Haha, that makes sense. Don't worry, I always manage to make my friends understand why I love veggies so much. Me, you, and your vegetarian friend can meet up every week and learn a new recipe if you're down! That would be awesome, we should definitely share recipes. What is your favorite meal using tofu? I recently tried a Korean tofu recipe and i LOVED it! It used gochujang, a spicy paste that a lot of Korean recipes use. I love spicy food, it makes everythng so delicious. Do you like spicy stuff? Wow, I never thought about making a spicy meal with tofu. Thanks for the idea! How did you find your performance at the gym after going fully vegan? Its interesting, I actually had a lot more energy once I went vegan! That's how I can do my eight hour hikes. I feel like a lot of athletic guys think that meat is necessary to get buff in the gym. It's actually a myth that vegetarian food doesn't have enough protein. Interesting, I do not think I could do a 8 hour hike but going vegan might help then. Honestly, even just doing zumba classes gives me the same endorphins that I get from my hikes. Next time I go to a zumba class, you should come! I have never done Zumba but it does sound fun. I need to wait for my body to get used to just veggies first, do not want to be constantly passing gas while doing Zumba.  Lol, you'd be surprised how quickly it can happen. Plus, vegan food isn't just all vegges. There's tofu, seitan, beans, rice, quinoa, pasta... the list goes on! You can actually eat a pretty unhealthy diet while being vegan with no veggies if you wanted.