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Before I tell you how my Vegan journey began, let me tell you about how I felt about Veganism before. I am going to be honest here. Please don't be offended.  Always I thought Vegans were extremists.  I am not a fan of being extreme.  I live my life in the grey areas.  I am aware of the grey areas.  My parents really did not have strong opinions. I sit on the fence of a lot of things, being able to see both sides. So my thoughts were, being vegan is ridiculous, we are suppose to eat meat.  That's why we have those fangs... for meat.  But that is whole nother argument that I wont get into now. I also didn't sit on the extreme of eating only meat.  I have never been afraid of beans.  All over Lori's Lipsmacking Goodness you will see recipes for bean dishes.  We ate meat, as a family, 2-5 times per week.  Most weeks two times.  But it was heavily laden with cheese.  In our house, cheese was our best friend.  I neve...

When my daughter was two or three I started Lori's Lipsmacking Goodness.  I loved that blog.  At that time I was a stay at home Mom and desperately in need of a creative outlet and something I could look at and feel a sense of accomplishment.  So many years ago.  I poured my heart into that blog.  There were so many blogs that started at the same time as mine and seemed to sky rocket.  My blog, just plugged along.  Never reached 'rock star status'.  Many times I was bummed by that because it is how I saw myself in the world of professionals after leaving my social work job to stay home with the kids.  If my blog failed, it meant I wasn't any good.  Boy, was I hard on myself.  Many times I thought to leave blogdom, be done with it.  But I kept going, thinking that some amazing success would happen with my blog.  Something amazing would spring forth.  Some company would sign me on as a recipe developer.  Or my h...