Visit from a Vegan of 3 Days!

  Our good friend Jan came over today, after three days of veganism, and  I made a batch of vegan doughnuts for the occasion- I have an amazing recipe that I veganized, and one of these days I'm going to get one of the 5 ml syringes that we always keep in the cupboard for feeding baby birds, hedgehogs etc and try injecting jam inside some doughnuts, just for fun.
  We were really excited to see her- we had planned to get together anyway today, we'd arranged it ages ago, but not imagined that we'd be having a vegan strategy meeting today! Jan has obviously been doing loads of research and planning since we last heard from her and has gone through all her cupboards (which turned out to be satisfyingly low on animal by products, anyway!) and checked out the places where she likes to eat out, go out for coffee, planned what she will do for snacks, and so on.

  We are determined to be the best vegan buddies that we can be- we are happy to answer any and all questions about veganism, we have been vegan so long now that it's absolutely second nature to us to be reading the ingredients on everything and we pretty much know everything that's in everything by now (go on- ask me if Salt and Vinegar Walker's crisps are vegan now? or Twiglets? Or plain Pringles?), so we can give Jan a lot of shortcuts, point her to good websites (like..ahem..our totally, gorgeously, righteously 100% vegan shop VegaNation at www.veganation.co.uk ), coffee shops that serve soya milk etc etc

  We printed off all our favourite recipes (Broccoli in Sweet Garlic Sauce, African Sweet Potato Stew, Tomato and Pinenut Linguine, Mediterranean Pasta Salad, Jambalaya), I gave Jan my copy of the Animal Free Shopper (since I now know everything there is to know about veganism..) and, in fact we sold Jan some stuff from our shop.
  I don't think we applied any high pressure sales techniques (we didn't, did we, Jan?), but we did want to show Jan some of the lovely things available to vegans so we couldn't help it if when she was leaving she couldn't bear to part with them!