Sprouts have been planted!

This is the sprouter that I have and I just finished planting and watering my first batch of seeds! Hopefully they will germinate, they're a year old but I think they will be okay.
I planted a mix bean variety, broccoli, and alfalfa sprouts. I am looking forward to sprout salads, peanut butter with sprouts on raw bread, and hummus with sprouts on raw crackers! 

Taking Stock

Because I am a poor college student, I don't have a lot of money to spend on raw food equipment or food. This is what I have and what I will need to cheat on in the future.

What I Have:

• Sprouter and seeds - A gift to my mom but she never uses it. She says I can use it as long as she gets to eat the sprouts too. Fair enough!
• Toaster Oven - This will be my makeshift dehydrator. It has a dial thermostat so I can set it to below 112F.
• Blender
• Food Processor
• Two Raw cookbook/guidebooks

Concessions to be Made:

• Pasteruized foods - I don't have a juicer and cannot afford one plus all the fresh fruit for it at this time so I will have to drink pasteurized juices as well as nut milks that have been heated until I can get a nut bag.
• My current pantry - My mother will kill me if I don't finish off what I already have but I will try to spread it out over the course of the next month or so. Right now I have a lot of roasted nut butters, soy milk, and protein bars.
• Steam-rolled oats - Right now I don't have the time or energy or money to use raw oats so I will have to use conventionally prepared oats.
• Vinegar - For the sake of salad dressing, I will continue to eat balsamic vinegar. Although its not raw, vinegar isn't exactly a super food so I'm not too worried about this. 

If after a few months or so I decide to stay raw, I will probably invest in a juicer and some other equipment, but for now this is what I will have to make do with.

I'm Going RAW!

So after gaining tons of weight at college and falling off the vegan bandwagon, I have decided to try raw veganism! I'm not sure how long I will do it, but I feel that it is worth a try.
I definitely want to blog about my journey but I am not sure whether I want to blog about it on this blog, on another blogspot blog, or on Tumblr (where my other blogs are). I feel that Blogspot is more professional but Tumblr is a lot easier to use. Hmmm....

Any suggestions good people?

For all the hateful comments

This blog is basically dead.

I did most of the writing when I was 14-15.

I'm 19 right now. I still make $100 every 2 yrs with my ads just by keeping this site up, that is why it's not taken down.

And for the people bashing my reasons to go vegan, etc, they are my personal reasons, not scientific or whatever. Stop picking on a English project a teenage girl started 5 years ago and get a life.

College and Being Vegan

Being vegan at college has been kind of tough, not going to lie. There are no vegan desserts at the dining halls. The soups don't specify whether or not they are made with animal stock or not. Things are supposed to be labeled vegetarian and vegan but I've seen things that are obviously vegan (for example, lettuce) not labeled at all at certain stations. The french fries aren't labeled vegan but I know they are because I asked the chef. So whenever I get something that appears vegan I can never be entirely sure. And one day I saw the vegan meal of the day list "milk" as an allergen.

Of course, none of the servers speak English so when you ask them for help they just smile and nod or give you more food. I literally told one guy that I wanted "everything but the meat" and then he said I looked skinny and gave me the meat anyway saying it was good that day, then got mad when I demanded he give me a new plate after smothering all my veggies in carcass juice.

Its not that bad though, I guess. They have a really nice salad and sandwich bar. They have margarine and lots of non-milk beverages. Soymilk is a pain to get but its there if I need it. And they do sometimes have a tasty vegan meal of the day.

I think I might mosey down to downtown Troy today and check out the vegan bakery. I haven't gone yet because I've been busy but I dropped Organic Chem because it was too hard (and my new major doesnt need it) so now I have time. The hours are crazy but they're open on Saturdays :)