While I'm eating plants and excited to see if next month I'll be tranforming a catholic convent or reforming the eductation system, I'll share with you how I experienced giving for a month! Which was challenging in it's own way...
How are you doing Maarten. Can you tell a bit about your experiences and your thoughts about PlantEating? How is your surroundings reacting on you. Do you feel a difference, although only 3 weeks going.
There are some good reasons:
1. the environment
2. sharing equally once we don't produce meat/dairy anymore
3. reducing starvation by not producing meat/dairy anymore
4. personal health
Maybe you can split your writing up in these 4 sub-subjects. :)
Thanks for asking Hans, I'm planning to share my experiences soon, especially since it's been a very good one until now.
And maybe Hans you will be pleased to know that Maarten has already been sharing his experiences in several places, just maybe not so much online ;)
He has, for instance, shared yesterday with a group of my (/our) friends and we 've had a very inspiring afternoon!
He did a wonderful job, even though he's way too modest about what he's doing and the impact he thinks it has :)
Please feel free to share whatever you like Maarten, just like yesterday. Remember what Dave posted a while ago: don't try doing/ being anything, just be yourself!
I still had to thank you for your talk at the TEDxYouth @ Delft, where I attended. I enjoyed your speech a great deal - hence my appearance on your site, and I admire your simple but in so many ways effective ideas. You know the butterfly effect says the swoosh of a butterfly's wings can cause a tornado at the other end of the world. It are the little things that make the difference. Big things will likely not happen, the little ones will :) Go on!
I love watching TedTalks, searched for Maartens, but didn't find it yet.
I'm glad that you spread the message, really nice. If I lived closer, I would absolutely attend some of them. Denmark is a bit far away. :) Online is my only possibility to be with (all of) you. ;)
Thanks all, currently it's not out of shyness that I'm not sharing so much but because of a busy agenda :-) Happy you enjoyed the TEDx talk Arlette, so did I! Hans, it's not currently online yet, but I did just see a talk that I did a month ago in Utrecht that got online :-)
Can you tell us the recipe? I usually eat it with mushrooms. Other dish I can recommend: vegetable curry with potatoe. In case you don't feel like cooking: BijBao (Pannenkoekstraat Rotterdam) serves very special, delicate food from the Beijng kitchen. Meat as well as vegetarian. But as the Chinese don't use cheese or milk, there must be a nice vegan meal for you. Today I discovered CigköfteM in the Zwart-Janstraat. The first Turkish takeway that sells vegan kofte!
As some of you might have seen on other places, this is the last month in which you decide what I'll do. So I want to make this month special!
Thank you Marteen, you really inpired me during this year and I firmly decided to try to move things myself as well! Since I will be moving by the end of the month, I will organize a small flee market in our living room, selling stuff I don't need anymore. The raised money will go to a project for water in Benin: http://www.helvetas.org/projects___countries/projects/keystone_projects/water_for_healthy_schools_and_safe_births_in_benin/
A small step...
The other day I made a pumkin soup which was seriously delecious!!! (my new favorite word :-) The recipe is a mix between tips of my sister, her boyfriend and a bit of improvisation on my side. So be free to experiment with it yourself!
Ingredients
Instructions
Cut the garlic, onion and red pepper, put olive oil in the pan and add everything while keeping it on a low fire. Peel and cut the potatoes and add them with a little water just before the carlic is starting to get brown. After a while (potatoes need more time to get soft then the pumkin) add the peeled and cut pumkin. Add a little bit more water, but not to much because you'll add the coconut milk later...
When the potatoes are soft. Blend it all!! While blending it add the coconut milk and curry paste. Now it will start to smell and taste great!! Add some salt if you think it needs it and water if it's to solid (or more coconut milk of course, I love coconut milk :-)
Put the soup in the bowls and add some chive or other herbs on top to make it look as delicious as it will smell and taste. You can now serve your soup.
Enjoy!!!
ps. you can use the seeds of the pumkin to grow new ones. It's quite easy. We (me and my mom) did it this year and we got 4 pumkins from one plant! Made me happy.
Yeah, this wasn't the most creative dinner ever. But I just put my pumpkin soup recipe online! That one was great! http://www.iwanttomaketheworldabetterplace.com/progress/a-recipe-for-a-delicious-pumpkin-soup
Have you seen the movie 'Pay it forward'; that movie is a great example of giving (only the end is a little bit sad). Really, you should see it!
Yes, you are such a hippie, but an adorable one ;)!
Now I come to think of it, I think being called a hippie is somehow "hip" again nowadays, don't know why :)
@Nina G, yes! Beautiful movie! Don't remember the sad ending anymore, maybe it's time for a refresh.
@Verena, hehehehe, yeah. Being a hippie is hip. Just don't tell Cartman: http://www.southparkstudios.com/clips/103809/hippie-infestation
Won't tell him ;) It's too late anyway: the college-know-it-all hippies have long since taken over, hahaha!