Posts by queenfairypants
queenfairypants
oooooh ok fair dos 
You could just go veggie rather then vegan, little easier to do and your family might start eating quorn and stuff and accept it. Show your mum some of the things about a vegetarian diet. Is it because she thinks you won't be healthy? Here are some links to pages that show what vitamins and protein can be found in vegetables
http://www.vegsoc.org/info/vitmineral.html
http://www.veggieglobal.com/nutrition/vitamins.htm
Animals kill other animals for food but humans have a conscience and the option to not go and kill something for food. Sorry if that sounded rude, it wasn't supposed to be rude! Sometimes I think my reasons for being veggie is just as much about the industry as the actual animals, the way it's mass produced like tshirts.
I go into kind of like shock! I still have the disascosiation (hard word to spell) between animals and the meat though, kind of a good though or I'd cry every time I saw a steak lol Jelly tots are vegetarian yeeey!
oh god yeh I feel bad when they live in awful conditions too, its a given really with being veggie but the be all and end up for me is that they had to die. I had a moral dilemma with the wool thing, it's not a bad thing. They reckon the wolf choose to live with humans, easy life but of course I don't agree with the sick breeding things they do...that is different to sheep breeding in my opinion, a farmer will breed healthy sheep only, you'd think dog lovers would want to do that even more so...anyway just saying because I hate it when I think people might not have understood me lol uurgh...
I agree with what you said there opposites about being able to watch it be killed and stuff...and another thing is, I wouldn't eat my dog, or an eagle or something so why is a cow any different. People say things like 'animals don't have souls' or 'they don't feel pain'..feeling pain is one of the most primal things ever of course they fucking feel it..sorry ranted. I don't mind other people eating meat at all, the ignorance and lack of respect pees me off though. I don't get why animals stopped being treated right in the first place, oh yes I do pull of the industry but I mean how can people eat something that was ill when it was alive or ill when it produced eggs etc.
I just remembered, I accidently ate a bit of chicken today I think a bit of chicken from Mike's pizza fell off and onto mine in the oven! Now I know I really won't be going back to being a meat eater, I can't really explain why, the texture was really strange not just the fact that it was an animal thing. Almost a year *waves ickle flag*
Well that's what I do...explain because people seem to panic when you say you're vegetarian/vegan. 'Do you eat fish' 'no' 'no you can cuz that's veegan' 'not it is not shut up' lol. People go 'we've eaten meat for aaages' yes but a hundred years ago we'd be looking after our own chickens or hunting, taking what we need rather then nipping into asda and getting it pre killed and pre packaged. People go 'but vegetarians aren't healthy, we neeed meat to survive' I felt more awake and energised when I stopped eating meat and also it got me cooking more. Felt like a rant that but I was encouraging you hehe!
If you keep milking an animal it will keep lactating, so they don't have to keep being made the have babies...but still, I thought a while ago how unnatural it is really, no other animals drink other animals milk! I do keep meaning to get soya milk btw. As for free range chickens, well we sometimes buy these eggs that are blue from a breed that is completely free range. I know someone who adopted some ex battery hen chickens and they did fine, but there was only a few of them. It's better then a cage.
My reason for being vegetarian is that I feel bad that something had to die because of me. I try to avoid wool most of the time, they have been bred to have such big coats however I like that it's natural fibre, actually why the hell do I avoid it, it's better then fake fibre which make pollution!! There's this thing where they cut the sheep under the tail to stop fly strike, but that's more good then bad! (uurgh I make myself feel all morally obligated and get myself confused!) I go no where near silk because they have to kill the silk worm for it. I try to avoid leather too, it's easy to get fake leather. The reason I haven't gone vegan is because animals didn't have to die for dairy but I do get that animals are still treated like crap so we go for free range, it may not be completely good for the chickens but it's a start and as I said I do mean to get soya milk. The industry is changing now though, everything has a consequence mind, the more soya milk people drink the more soy that needs to be grown, so more destruction of forests etc. It's catch 22 really.
The current climate that the press is at though I have no idea what to believe because we're told all these things about food that leaves me thinking for fs sake we're not immortal, we're gonna die whether we get cancer from eating crap food or not..etc. Just found an article about how soya is bad for us now too...gah! http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2004/nov/07/foodanddrink.features7
wooah that's a surprise!!! mind you you never said you would never go veggie/vegan! well done.
I always spot baking things every where i was tempted to buy a cupcake tray last sunday we could do with another one, erm wallmart?
oo no I was rather disappointed that they weren't actually cups and not multicoloured! at least there is some colours. I kept finding microwaveable saucepans and getting very excited then read the labels and they have cookie cutters but they were expensive or crap! The good thing is that theres a little square clip thing with these that you press onto them so you don't loose them
I FOUND SOME MEASURING CUPS! they double up as measuring spoonss because they are scoops, SCOONS! Can't complain for a quid!
T J Hughes! Bakers every where salute yooou!
Ikea is really far away! well by bus anyway I have no idea how to get to it by bus! might go on monday cuz I'll be seeing my dad but ikea on a bank holiday sounds iikky but I love Ikea, if I can't find any tomorrow I'll probably go to the range which is a really cheap shop and it has garden and kitchen and craft stuff in it
I thought so!!
I need to get me some measuring cups I wonder if pound shops sell them! lol
omg omg omg I think I just found THE recipe to make frosting for cupcakes with!!!
''This is the best frosting. Tastes like marshmellows and is not greasy. 5 Large Egg whites. 1.5 cups granulated sugar. 1 cup light corn syrup (the clear colored one) (Karo). 1/4 teaspoon cream of tartar. 1 teaspoon vanilla extract. 2 tablespoons tap water. Disolve sugar, water, syrup and eggwhites in a low temperature double boiler, mixing continuously so the whites don't become scramble, until the sugar is completely disolved. It takes a few minutes and that will heat the eggwhites enough to be safe for consumption. Put the mixture in the mixing bowl and add cream of tartar and vainilla. Mix in medium speed (also works with a hand held mixer) until white and fluffy and hard peaks form about 10 minutes. It is delicious and you will want to eat it as is.''
http://www.videojug.com/filmsuggestion/does-anyone-have-a-recipe-for-cake-frosting
what's a double boiler!? I probably have a recipe like this some where but oo well IT TASTES LIKE MARSHMALLOWS! and i can't eat those
oh my! those ALL rule.
why do we love cupcakes sooooo...I know what book I want for my birthday!
PENGUINS! i love the little fishy things do you think they're like sprinkles or plastic?
EDIT: I just had a look at that book, but there are so many other cupcake books I don't know which one I should get!