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amanda@picklesnhoney.com
welcome to pickles & honey!
I'm Amanda. I love baking, farmer's markets, bodypump, spinning, bad reality TV, and big sunglasses.
I recently left my full-time job to pursue my passions. Read more about my story...
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Hi Amanda,
My tastes have changed quite a lot. I am now vegan with some food limitations due to allergies, so eating out has become a thing of the past! It actually makes me anxious, so I just avoid it altogether. Cooking at home has become the norm, and subsequently the ingredients are good quality (decent, anyway), and I use less of the fake meats and other processed foods. Mainly I eat smoothies and soups! Soups have beans and rice (or millet or quinoa in them) as the base with lots of veggies and lots of spices (sometimes curry, or basil, or soy sauce). Snacks are hummus with veggies and rice crackers, fresh fruit with a few nuts (nutritionist advised to always have carbs including fruit with some protein, like a few nuts, which agrees with me) , etc… My special snack is a potato!!! However, I am trying to limit that to once weekly. And my special, special snack is a molasses ginger cookie that is gluten and dairy free. The cookies happen 2-3 times/week (I am only human!!!). As a result, my skin has improved (not so red anymore at all), my gut feels better, and I am losing weight (long way to go , but still-right direction). Unfortunately, I am still not well (have been sick since last June), but really feel I am doing something important for healing by eating this way.
Like your mother, I would be thrilled if YOU opened a vegan restaurant. Your blog is amazing, and I couldn’t be happier with the recipes. I still have to adjust some recipes because I am allergic to wheat, bananas,chocolate in addition to milk/dairy and eggs (not the issues as your recipes are vegan). I am also apparently allergic to beef which is NOT an issue!!!! My point is that your recipes and ideas are appealing and tasty! So a vegan restaurant run by you is a great idea!!!
Be Well,
Ann
Hi Ann! I can only imagine how difficult it would be to eat out as a gluten-free vegan with additional food allergies. But, on the plus side, you can now reallocate your dining out budget to groceries, and probably indulge in some pretty amazing specialty ingredients! I’m finding more and more often that I prefer to eat at home because I know exactly what’s going into my food and how it will make me feel (energized, instead of weighed down and ready to take a nap). Kudos to you for taking the steps necessary to improve your health, while still incorporating small indulgences along the way. It’s great to hear that you’re feeling better!
I appreciate the vote of confidence with regard to opening a vegan restaurant. Maybe down the road, although I’d personally be more partial to a vegan bakery.
Hi Amanda,
She is soooooo cute! I like the name Olive. A long time ago I had a Siamese cat names Pickles, and for a birthday, my former husband got me a Siamese kitten that we named Olives. They were sweet together, and I adored them. They used to curl up for naps together.
The dog is amazing! Enjoy her!
Warmly,
Ann
Thanks, Ann! I think we’ll probably go with Olive.
OMG! Olive’s little face! She is soooo cute!
Ann
Aloha,
Checking out your blog. Great story, I think you have found your flow.
I stumbled here after listening to the FoodRebels talk/youtube “show” about Dr. Westen A Price. And I think I have finally found a food philosophy that I agree with that I already live. I’m a designer of Urban Agriculture systems, really its “farmyard in the backyard of suburbia” ideas. Anyway, just wanted to let you know I think you made a brilliant choice with this blog “pickles and honey”
Philip
Thank you, Philip! That’s so nice to hear.
Also, your career sounds really interesting! We definitely need more urban agriculture, that’s for sure.