Episode 92: Your Wine Loving Vegan With Seafood Exceptions Launched a Blog

I believe in living a healthy happy life, for myself, my loved ones and future generations who are watching and learning. I put my heart and soul into my accountability groups in the hopes that you will join me on that journey and that together we can meet our goals. It gives me great joy to share an accomplishment that can be directly related to the insights learned and shared in those groups. Today I am helping launch the Wine Loving Vegan with Seafood Exceptions blog, hosted by none other than my mom, Kathy Winderl. She has been a faithful member of my accountability groups from the beginning. She always puts her heart into them by really thinking about the questions I ask and the assignments I give, sharing her thoughts and building discussion among the other members.

Some people become vegan due to concerns about animal’s rights. Mom decided to try a vegan eating plan when she found out that it was possible to avoid medication for extremely high cholesterol if she stuck to a vegan diet. After some experimentation she found she could keep her numbers in control and still take advantage of the wonderful Omega 3 fatty acids in her dearly loved seafood. In one of my accountability groups we worked on defining ourselves so that we stayed true to our health goals. My mom defined herself as a “wine-loving-vegan with seafood exceptions”

She felt so good with this description that she got it printed on a coffee cup and then a wine glass. She loves experimenting with new vegan dishes, (often accompanied by a glass of red wine) and in another accountability group someone suggested she look at the “Oh She Glows” cookbook by Angela Liddon. She fell in love with the cookbook and tried many of the recipes, tweaking a little here and there to fit her likes and the likes of her loved ones. She was so excited about everything she was learning and the foods she was creating that she wanted to share her findings with other people who might be looking for vegan recipes or trying to decide if a vegan lifestyle is for them.

She decided to write a blog. Starting at square one, knowing nothing about blogging, she researched, asked questions and started cooking and documenting the recipes, as she worked her way through Angela Liddon’s cookbook. She had the help of numerous people, especially her husband Fred, as taste tester, the website design skills of Julie Martin of Julie Martin Designs and the labels that got her started made by Kim Winderl, her other daughter, of Label Me Happy Crafts.

The blog starts with 5 of her favorite recipes and she gives details about each one.

Is it vegan and non-vegan friendly?

Is it kid friendly?

How easy is it to prepare?

Do I regularly have the ingredients on hand?

Do I recognize the ingredients, and is it hard to find in the store?

She then tells the different ways she has tweaked it, and any other interesting things she thought about it. She is honest in her blog. This is a flop, this is good. Chicken nugget kid doesn’t like it. She hopes this gives people a chance to be more successful because being vegan can be very expensive and flops are money and time wasters.

Each week she will present 2 new recipes by Friday. Eating healthy can be fun and purposeful and you do not have to be vegan or vegan seeking to appreciate this blog and recipe collection.

One of the constant topics of conversations I have with clients is the importance of celebrating our wins or acknowledging our champagne moments because it’s too easy to work hard and let that victory come and go. I wasn’t going to let that happen with mom! There was too much hard work, time, blood sweat and tears to