First Post!!!!

Hi everyone this is my very first post for a teen-aged vegan. I started this blog because I haven't seen any Teen vegan sites so I thought I'd start my own. I'll be talking about ways teens can get involved with cooking, shopping, and living in a sustainable vegan way. I became vegan all thanks to Alicia Silverstone's book The Kind Diet. Her site http://www.thekindlife.com/ Is awesome, and has a lot of helpful advice. Sometimes It's just too hard to be vegan when you go out. Especially if you live in a tiny town like I do. So what my Family does is when we go out we eat vegetarian, and vegan whenever it's possible. Do you ever find yourself craving forbidden foods? The answer to that is...stop thinking of them as forbidden food! If you just make super yummy vegan food you'll loose your craving for the forbidden food. If you just have to have that food and there is absolutely no alternative near by, you can have a little bit. I was really craving a Hershey bar so I had one and got really sick afterwards because I'm so healthy that I can't take too much junk food. On my journey down the vegan road I found there were a lot of foods that you thought would be vegan or at least vegetarian and wasn't. Like a lot of people think Gummy Bears and Jello are safe.... But really they aren't! They have a special ingredient that gives them that gummy texture, Gelatin. Gelatin Is made by boiling animal bones. A residue comes of the bone and that is what goes into your strawberry Jello. Yum Doesn't that sound completely disgusting? Not just Jello and gummy bears, but also Marshmallows. More sneaky Items are Toothpaste Which has Glycerol which is made from animal fat, Cashmere is a fabric made from animal materials, Chewing gum also contains Glycerol, Felt is made from wool or fur. Beware of these sneaky road blocks.