I’ve been borrowing ideas from all the other vegan blogs for so long that I figure it’s high time I start my own. So here’s an intro to me: I’m a college student who’s lived around the world and currently goes to SMU, in Texas. (I transferred from Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania.) I’ve been a vegan for about 7 years (vegetarian for a year before that). I am an avid animal-lover and became vegan whilst living in China, which was easy to do because they don’t eat much cheese and ice cream there (my favorite non-vegan “foods”).
I am trying very hard to gain weight by eating lots of healthy (and oftentimes not-so-healthy lol) high-calorie vegan foods. I am super-skinny, but it’s NOT a fault of veganism, as my omni mom and grandma also had amazingly speedy metabolisms and struggled to gain weight growing up.
I’m happy to be part of the blogging community!!!
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Welcome to blogworld!! Can’t wait to see what you have in store for us. I’ll have to go check out some of your older photos…. Thanks for visiting my blog as well! Us Texas vegans gotta stick together I suppose….
Hello! I’m not sure how I stumbled onto your blog, but I’m glad I did. I look forward to hearing about your adventures, and stories from all the places you’ve lived (I’ve also moved around a lot in my life).
Cheers!
i cant wait to see you new posts!
oi will be looking at the link you give in your post!
I love that you used the word “whilst” haha.
AHH! ahah i FOUND YOUR FIRST POST!! DANG GIRL you’ve been blogging for ages!!!!!!!
Hahahahahahahaha oh my word, you are too funny! Every time I think you can’t get any funnier…
I saw “comment on intro post” and was like, “Huh? When did I write a post titled Intro?” lol
You are adorable Katie! I love your blog! Initially I was “forced” into becoming vegan because I found out I was allergic to dairy products and eggs. I was already vegetarian. And, I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2009. I changed my lifestyle and beat cancer! It is with the help of blogs like yours that I have become a creative cook with healthy foods. It goes to show that you can eat ultra-clean, enjoy food, and restore health! Keep up the good work Katie!
hahah I LOVE your first post! Your just so sweet and thoughtful- certainly my fav vegan blog!
I’d probably die if I could find my first post. It was on Diaryland or something, hahaha. Your first post rocks, though. You’re too cute!
Oh, wow! I’ve been on a quest for gluten-free, dairy-free baking that is within the resources of a college student. (In terms of expense, yes, but also just prep time, equipment needed, practicality of storage, etc. – so single serving desserts? Revolutionary.) Your blog is a convenient resource and it looks like you have so much fun with it, that I’m now dying to try some of your recipes! So thank you. I also wanted to say that it’s uncanny how perfect this is for me. Case in point: I just transferred from Bryn Mawr.
That’s so cool! (Well, not cool that you had to transfer… but cool that I know someone else in the same boat
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I loved Bryn Mawr, but I never regret my decision to leave. Hopefully you’ll feel the same way!
Katie! I can’t believe I’ve loved so many food blogs for so long and I JUST NOW found your blog! AAHH, especially being obsessed with chocolate as I am….oh well, now I’m here! Thank god for Pinterest. I just started my own food blog and look so forward to trying out some of your recipes! Thank you for continuing to write this whole time until I found you!
And by the way – this is a GREAT first post.
Aw thank you, Cheri! And lol thanks for reminding me about this post… it’s so old!
Katie, a friend of mine showed me your blog about a month or two ago, and now I can’t stop reading! I check this blog probably at least a few times everyday, whether it’s to check for new recipes or drool over your pictures of cookies, cakes, oatmeal, etc…
I think anything can. So thank you! Without your blog we wouldn’t have decided to do this. (Virtually sends loads of love)
I love that the ingredients you use aren’t super expensive, and has long shelf lives, which for a broke college-student like me, is veeery important
Also the recipes that I have tried so far are delicious and healthy. You can’t top that.
I have to say: I’m finally going to be able to move out of these college dorms and into apartments next year, and my roommates and I have been inspired by your blog to start our own foodblog! I’m from China, and my roommies are from Latin America and India, and because all three of us love cooking, we decided to take traditional recipes from all around the world, and make our own healthier versions of them. Although I don’t know how exactly we can make those popular Chinese fried dough sticks or fried sesame balls healthy….it’s going to happen! If chocolate chip cookies can be made healthy (using white beans in the recipe? GENIUS
Anyways, I HAD to post this comment on your very first post ever because…because…actually I don’t really have any tangible reasons ahahaha, I just felt that this comment would be more special if I posted it on your first post ever. >_>
KEEP POSTING RECIPES FOR DELICIOUS SINLESS CREATIONS!
I have a question. What type of camera do you use to photograph your food?
Hi Jessica!
Haha good luck
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Right now I have a canon Rebel, with a 50mm f/1.8 lens.
Ha! I finally got to the beggining
I tell ya, read through five years of blogging takes a while. I love your blog dearly, your posts always make me smile 
I´m not vegan (and I´m not vegetarian either…), but I love to eat-waaaay too much- and I love healthy food as well. I found both in your blog, so I want to thank you for that 
I could eat chocolate with every meal, so I really like your recipes( since I definetelly cannot eat as much as I would like to, and your recipes are healthy and super yummy). I came to the U.S. about year ago as foreign exchange student, and put on some pounds, like all foreigners do 
American food – desserts especially – is so much richer than what I was use to, so gaining weight was inevitable (about 17 pounds in ten months in my case). The fact, that I love baking and no one from my host-family likes sweets, didn´t help as well. I tried to make some single-serving recipes at first, like mug cakes etc, but then one day I discovered that they can have up to 950 calories a piece – I lost my apetite for them really fast 
. I observed, you cook for yourself only pretty often, and that your recipes don´t make much – I really like that 
. I agree with your opinion about diets- it´s definetely better to be healthy than skinny. I wish you a lot of sunny days to your life 
and please, please, keep posting your awesome recipes 
(your snicker blondies are my favorite breakfast… I swear I ate the whole pan within the week 
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Aw Kat, your comment put a big smile on my face
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Happy Sunday, girl!!
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