Hello from Ireland

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

Hey, I am 18 years old and living in Dublin, Ireland. I have been eating a vegan diet (and lifestyle as best as I can) for the past 2 years. I first heard about raw in December 2007, I had my first brief trial of one week in Jan '08. I loved it but, didn't know enough about it and wasn't too pushed on committing to it at that point.

2 month ago I tried raw again for about 2 weeks, lost 6 pounds, felt great, gradually went back to cooked with no problems. Then 3 weeks ago tried it for just over 2 weeks, this time when I went back to cooked I felt really sick for a few days, I have been eating cooked the past few days and feeling less than good. I am incorporating a good lot of raw foods in though and plan to try a 30 day raw trial in the coming week.

I have always had a lot of fruit and veg in my diet while being vegan.

I have experimented with raw recipes such as:
Raw cheesecake
Raw lasagne
Raw tomato ketchup
Raw cashew cheese
Raw puddings

But I generally prefer to stick to fresh raw produce and keep it simple, works best for me.

Anyway, I am also into fitness and health.

No one else in my family is raw or vegan. My brother is a pescetarian. Although, my family are supportive, especially my mom, in buying food for me and helping me eat well. My Dad seems to think the vegan thing is "a phase", how inspiring... Ha. But he is always buying me fresh fruit from the local market and he knows how to pick a good mango!! He does eat lots of fresh fruit himself.

I finished school in may and am currently working.

Thats [some of] me!

=)

[Frugal Raw]

Welcome!! I wish you the best of rawesome health!!

[sport]

Hi
Greetings from Kinsale.
I have been raw for four and a half years so if there is any way that I can help you along be sure to ask.

Mary

[rayofsunshine]

Fantastic! Good luck on your raw journey. Nice to hear how supportive your family is.

[freshlight]

Hello and welcome :) Your dad must be an incredibly clever man for being able to pick a good mango,-it's not an easy task. Lucky you :D Keep up the good work and enjoy the beautiful feeling of raw.
Eva xxx

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

Welcome!! I wish you the best of rawesome health!!



Thank you very much <3

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

Hi
Greetings from Kinsale.
I have been raw for four and a half years so if there is any way that I can help you along be sure to ask.

Mary

Oh I have been to kinsale a few years ago, lovely place. Yeah, well, you will defo be hearing 4m me then! =D thank you for your support x

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

Fantastic! Good luck on your raw journey. Nice to hear how supportive your family is.

Ah they do their bit =P. Thanks, I can't wait to start again. <3

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

Hello and welcome :) Your dad must be an incredibly clever man for being able to pick a good mango,-it's not an easy task. Lucky you :D Keep up the good work and enjoy the beautiful feeling of raw.
Eva xxx

Hah, oh yeah :P! Mangos are my FAVourite food. Thanksss for d nice comment x


-alva-

[Colorawdo girl]

welcome to you in Ireland.I hear and see pix it is beauty full there.

[Bananna]

Cool...I'm part Irish :)

It's kind of great that you are experimenting back and forth, I have learned so much about specific foods from doing that, like the food is teaching me.

Your family sounds way supportive compared to some I've read about!!

Welcome anyways, this is a great board!

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

welcome to you in Ireland.I hear and see pix it is beauty full there.

Well, I guess the beauty is there is you look for it, and not to taint your vision of ireland, but Dublin, where I live, (i live in the suburbs so it's not so bad) is pretty polluted, in town and all. But I think it's really beautiful down the country. Where there are fields instead of masses of housing estates.

Where r u 4m?

<3

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

Cool...I'm part Irish :)

It's kind of great that you are experimenting back and forth, I have learned so much about specific foods from doing that, like the food is teaching me.

Your family sounds way supportive compared to some I've read about!!

Welcome anyways, this is a great board!

Yeah, it is good to experiment, I think. It gives your body a chance to show us that it really thrives on fresh whole foods.

I'm taking it easy this time, a gradual change - I don't want to experience the pendulum effect again.

Yeah, people have been commenting on how supportive my family are which is really nice and now that I have read some not so great support from families, I can see what they mean.

What other part are you? lol, that sounds strange, I don't know how to ask that properly... =P, part irish, part?

<3

[freshlight]

Hah, oh yeah :P! Mangos are my FAVourite food.

I beg your pardon??? I thought they are MY fav. food! Ah well, as long as there is plenty for everyone.....:)

BTW: how much do they cost in Ireland?

[selina_k]

Hi!


I'm half irish, half mexican. (i don't know which half is the irish half.);)

my daugher want to do some emoticons, so i'm going to humor her.

Welcome!

:eek::cool::o

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

I beg your pardon??? I thought they are MY fav. food! Ah well, as long as there is plenty for everyone.....:)

BTW: how much do they cost in Ireland?

Hmm, not plenty enough here! Well, not enough good one's anyway... hmm.. haha.
Price range in Ireland can be from 69c(when they are on sale, doing badly because nobody wants to pay 3 euro for a mango..) to 3 euro, I think, is the highest I have seen them. Generally I find marks and spencers sell 2 for 4 euros when on sale and they have really nice mangoes.

How much do they charge where you are??

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

Hi!


I'm half irish, half mexican. (i don't know which half is the irish half.);)

my daugher want to do some emoticons, so i'm going to humor her.

Welcome!

:eek::cool::o

=), I'm just Irish, I would love to have another ethnicity mixed in with it.

Haha, loving the emoticons !!

[freshlight]

Lucky you,-the good ones cost starting with €3,- up to €7,- :eek: But they taste GOOD :p :p

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

Lucky you,-the good ones cost starting with €3,- up to €7,- :eek: But they taste GOOD :p :p

Whaat? Are you kidding! Where are you living/shopping?

[freshlight]

In Germany. The good ones from Australia taste really good though....and they are as big as a small honey melon,-yum-yum

[Bananna]

What other part are you? lol, that sounds strange, I don't know how to ask that properly... =P, part irish, part?

<3

My father is Irish. My mother is many things...1/2 Dutch, 1/4 Indonesian, 1/4 German primarily...(slices of other things too apparently all central/south European stuff).

[Irish_Vegan_Girl]

My father is Irish. My mother is many things...1/2 Dutch, 1/4 Indonesian, 1/4 German primarily...(slices of other things too apparently all central/south European stuff).


That's really cool, you have a great mix in there. :)

[JCB44]

Welcome to the site!