Despite my longstanding appreciation of Lauren's extraordinary talents (tap dancing on the meadow, inspiring fatmess action shots, and making hospitalized children laugh with her dry wit and fusia boa), my love of eating cow leaves me, in the face of Lauren's veagan-transformation, dismayed, defiled, and downright depressed. Repent, O' Lauren! Let the force guide you back to the meat aisle. I know you can do it!

Lauren,

Great recipes, thanks for the tips. I've started making the transition from pescetarian to vegan about a month ago, and I'm finding it harder than I thought. Any advice? I manage pretty well, but then Friday night rolls around and all I want is a big, oozy cheese pizza and soy cheese just doesn't cut it. How do you get through those moments? As a fellow chef, you must know how hard it is to pass up a well-made cheeseboard or a gorgeous peice of tuna. Help!

Liz

Liz-
Glad you are enjoying the site! I guess my first piece of advice would be to try pizza without cheese. I never thought it would be any good, but if you know of a place with good sauce and choose flavorful veggies to top it (garlic, artichokes, spinach, mushrooms, etc), you won't miss the cheese! Other than that, I just try to seek out new and interesting foods that I want to try. Without meat/dairy/other animal products to fall back on, I've found that I've discovered a world of foods that I probably never would have tried. Good luck!

Hi, nice to see your journal, my name peter, come from Indonesia (Southeastasia) n i'm vegan too.. i wish i could be your friend.. C U.

Vegan Power.
XPeterX

i think i wanna tat2 you, sorry for being frank, much love- mikey
hard 2 find me, move to fla, or check out tat2times.com

Congrats on going vegan!

Wow...really love to see all the nice foods u have posted here...makes me wanna learn to cook all these one day!!

Thanks for the inspirations.

Dan, all the way from malaysia.

hi lauren, i just read bout vegan outreach and saw the video showing cruelty on animals. i tried goin vegetarian few years back but i quit cos its hard to get food when i was in malaysia, im an international student in minnesota now. i feel very bad to see how animals suffer unnecesarily and lookin for ways to end it. what are the steps u took towards veganism? is there any network of vegan frens that i could know? please reply to my email. nice meeting you lauren.

wow, great recipes! i think what you are doing is great. you should write a book!! :) :P

Hey there. What a great site. I'm veggie and trying to go vegan.. really inspired me!

Hey Lauren,
just a quick note from London, England (where its raining).....I love your Vegan shirt!!!, very funny (and sexy).

I was just surfing for art work ideas because I'm designing CD album covers for a mate band (he's a producer), and your photo came up in my search in Google images for 'Cuban army shirts', go figure.

Any way, cool site, I may just try your hummus!!!

Andy (London, born New Zealand) Peace.

Hi Lauren,
We publish an environmental health science journa; with a small news section. I would like permission to publish the image of the Miso soup on the page http://www.laurensveganjournal.org/2006/04/.
thanks,
Joseph

What a wonderful website you have! The pictures are gorgeous!!!! You Go girl.

*Vegan hugs*

im real impressed, i like the site.....very good....im hungry already.....3 cheers for lauren, keep up the good work

Wow! I've been looking through your lovely journal all afternoon, what a great addition to my day. Thank you ^.^
~Gillian
from Vancouver Island, B.C.

Hey Lauren!!!!

I loooveee your blog!! You have so many great recipes, it is very inspiring. I am a vegetarian and have been trying to convert to vegan, but really don't know what to use instaed of eggs, milk, flour. So I got a lot of great tips, now I know I can do it!!!

Write a book!!!! write a book!!!!!!

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Hi, I'm Yui from Thailand,It was very nice to see all of your food here, it's interesting and inspired me.

Hello there! Totally love your site. I am not a vegan, I am a vegetarian though, have been since birth...not a big fan of any meat....So your site is perfect!

I write a food blog as well, do drop by sometime to share some love of food.

www.ode2food.wordpress.com
www.supriyaraman.com

hey .. i stummbled onto your site while looking for food ideason my newley found vegan ways .. your awesome for what your doing and i think everyone should be doing this !!... ive been going for about months and have been loving every minute of it.. im sure you must know already .. but take a look at the nutrition facts of hemp seeds. it is what i have been using as my main source of protien !!!

keep up the good work .. - alex

Hi Lauren!
I 'm a vegetarian for almost 6 yrs it's only this yr of Jan I decided to become a vegan and I'm having trouble looking for an engredients, I tried raw food too, but it's not working well, hope you can share more of your recipe's and it's really nice to be a vegan though : )
Lots of luck to u!
CHIQ's