12 Things I've Learnt During The First Week Of Veganuary

I'm not going to lie to you, it's been blooming hard during the first week of Veganuary. The few days before I started, we were thinking of what I could actually eat, we came up with a few ideas and have gone on from there. It makes it more difficult as the rest of my family will be eating meat and pasta and basically everything I can't eat and I can't force them to eat Vegan with me! So it's been tough finding the right balance between eating what I can with them and making my own meals.

1. Read every label, like every one, there's so many unexpected ingredients
2. Lunches are the hardest, smoothies are great for breakfast but lunch seems impossible
3. Quorn is my new best friend (the Vegan one they do ofc)
4. So are lentils
5. Drink all the green tea in the world, because work only has normal milk
6. I feel a million times better already as I'm not eating as much processed food
7. I miss chicken more than anything
8. People actually do this all the time...how?!
9. I could consider carrying on but I would need to add back in meat
10. The amount of times people asked if I miss cheese! I never ate that much anyway...
11. I need carbs, like so bad (I'm cutting back on carbs as part of my diet anyway, for those wondering)
12. The headaches from detoxing from all the bad stuff is literally unbearable

At the end of the day, this isn't as bad as I had imagined and I've even thought about having more vegetarian meals and cutting back on meat!