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Eco-positive weekly diary #121: attending a Vedic cooking class

Posted on January 23, 2020July 6, 2023

Hi there, welcome back into my personal weekly diary. Great that you’re here! In this diary I’d like to show you what an eco-positive lifestyle looks like on a daily basis. What habits make me reduce my negative impact? And what do I do to create positive impact? The past week I made some vegan sushi with friends, attended a Vedic cooking class and made some vegan apple crumble! Here’s eco-positive weekly diary #121.

Thursday

I went off to Amsterdam with a friend to another friend who lives on Uilenstede. Uilenstede is the campus of the Free University where I study. We went to the supermarket to buy some groceries. They were not package free since that is nearly impossible when making sushi, but unfortunately there was a limited amount of options for organic food. Yet, it was still all vegan so that was good! Once home we made the sushi together, which I always feel like is much fun. It’s a really interactive way of dining, you make and eat the sushi, I can really recommend it. Everything turned out great and so today two of my non-vegan friends ate vegan as well! They said they they liked it and didn’t even miss the fish. We went for drinks with our student association afterwards.

Friday

After I went to school I was going to go to my boyfriend but since I was off quite early and he wasn’t, I had to stay at school for four hours. I spend that time making homework, but after a while my brain was just fried. So, I watched an episode of ‘Gefileerd’ (Dutch) again, a show about the origin of our fast food. It’s quite confronting and this is the exact reason why I try to avoid MacDonalds and such. At night my boyfriend and I went to do some groceries and there we saved some food. I try to choose the discounted food, since it’s the second most sustainable choice you can make when it comes to food (the first is to choose plant-based). We saved some no-fish sticks, lettuce and kale and made lovely burgers for dinner with the lettuce and no-fish sticks.

Saturday

When my boyfriend turned 23 back in June, I gave him a cooking class for his birthday. That’s because it’s more sustainable than buying stuff, but most importantly it’s way more fun I think. We make memories together. We went out to do a Vedic cooking class, which is the ancient Indian cuisine. It’s 100% plant-based and healthy. It’s a whole-foods diet with a lot of herbs. We enjoyed it a lot! We went out to have a drinks afterwards and I am still going strong with the only-drinking-water thing. With the exception of Thursday-night, I only drink water. I want to be more healthy and this is going well so far.

Sunday

Sundays are the best lazy days. We had a lovely breakfast. I had some vegan filet American and vegan cream cheese from Violife again and they’re both amazing! Afterwards we went for a walk in a nature park nearby, Nature Park Lelystad. It was lovely but they have a lot of animals and so I would like to look more into how they treat them. Do they let them grow old there? Do they breed with them? All that stuff I’d like to know since I do support the park by visiting it and I want to make sure it’s all vegan-friendly. Once back home we made some vegan nachos with pulled oats, grated Violife cheese, guacamole and sour cream. All vegan and so good! I could eat this for dinner every day. As a dessert we made some apple crumble, which I had never had before but oh my, it’s so good! We ate the apple crumble with some vegan Ben and Jerries. On days like this I never understand why people would still eat animal products. There are so many great plant-based alternatives out there, why still choose to hurt and abuse animals?

Environmental Reasons Against Meat Consumption
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eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121

Monday

Time to go back to school and afterwards to Haarlem! On Saturday I forgot to meditate for one day (that tends to happen when I’m not by myself), but I have I picked it back up Sunday and today and it’ll be fine! Once home in Haarlem I did some small tasks and edited my vlog from last week for my Youtube-channel.

eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121

Tuesday

On Tuesdays I am free from school. I started the day with some meditation and breakfast and made some homework. I had to make a presentation, since my end-presentation is coming up next week. After a few hours I was done and I chose to just chill. I watched a Netflix-documentary from Brené Brown. She has done a lot of research about vulnerability and courage and I must say I really liked it! I would definitely recommend watching it. At night I finally made the decision to buy a second-hand coat I saw on United Wardrobe. I had seen it a while back but I am scared of buying things online since you don’t know if it’s fit. A new long winter coat is on my list of things I need (I keep a list on my phone with things I need so that when I am in a thrift shop I can look for it). The old coat is just worn out. I have finally decided to buy it. It was 29 euros with sending and administration costs included. I am really hoping it is what I imagine it to be.

eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121

Wednesday

Today I had some sandwiches with vegan apple-celery salad and peanut-butter for lunch. The apple-celery sandwich from Johma is something I would really recommend! It’s delicious. At around half past 4 I went of to Amsterdam. I am meeting up with a friend (and classmate) to go eat some dinner at The Loving Hut. I have never been there before but I really have been wanting to. The menu looks amazing, it’s all vegan. I had a lovely noodle soup with dumplings! I really thought it was tasty and can’t wait to try more of the menu. For desert I had a vegan milk-shake and so I made an exception to my water-only rule since they barely offer them anywhere. I forgot to refuse the paper straw, bummer. Afterwards we went to Pakhuis De Zwijger for an informative meet-up about waste in the city. It was quite fun and I always feel so good after it, full of energy again when I see that so many people are tackling the waste problem we have. We can do it!

eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121
eco-positive weekly diary #121

Favorite song of the week:

‘Martin Jensen – Nobody’

I hope you had a lovely week too!

Yours sincerely,
Romee

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Hi! My name is Romee Hoeksma and I am on a journey to an eco-positive life. An eco-positive lifestyle is a lifestyle in which I have a more positive than negative impact on the beautiful planet earth. On this blog you can follow my journey to a life with only positive impact. At this blog you can find all sorts of things, from tips to recipes to personal experiences, but most of all fun (I hope!). I write about how I want to change the world, but don’t look at it as if I’m judging you. If anything, I like responses from my dear readers the most, so don’t hesitate to contact me or respond to any of my posts!

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