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Hello! And welcome to kyraishungry.net, my brand new food blog.
If you don't know me allow me to introduce myself. My name is Kyra, I'm 22 and a brand new transplant to LA from DC. I'm plant based* and have been for roughly the past 2 years. I have a few food allergies: all nuts, which is an anaphylactic** allergy and can be very scary, and all stone fruits, meaning anything with a spherical pit, so like plums, nectarines, peaches, cherries, and saddest of all avocados, but this allergy is not nearly as bad. After hearing that I'm plant based and that I can't eat nuts or avocados people often ask what the hell I eat, this blog is here to show exactly what and how I eat.
I try to eat pretty healthy, emphasis on the try, because my favorite food is french fries, followed closely by chocolate cake and cookie dough. I also am very adamant that junk food should be junk food and I don't really like "healthy junk food". Okay, I do eat kale chips but I think those are actually sorta healthy? I guess we'll find out! I think a healthy diet (and life) is all about balance, so, during the week I don't drink coffee, but on the weekends you'll probably find me with a sugar-free Redbull in hand (yikes I know). This blog will aim to encourage healthy balances and making choices that are better even if they're not the very very best. Always or often making the healthiER choice is a lot easier (and more sustainable in my opinion) than always trying to make the healthiEST choice. None of us are perfect so why try to make our diets perfect? Eat those fries! Eat that cake! But maybe also eat that kale!
So what will this blog look like? Probably not very many recipes from me, I'm not super inventive in the kitchen. But besides that anything food related is fair game. I want to try fancy kitchen gadgets, other people's recipes, taste test and review different foods, try to open hard to open fruits and vegetables, learn and talk about different diets and the way what we eat effects both the planet and our bodies, interview people I know about all things food, watch and review food documentaries, and try new food related challenges like the more extreme diets or cutting certain unhealthy foods (it can be really eye opening trust me!). I know those topics are pretty all over the place, but I want this blog to be about anything and everything food related, as long as in the end we'll have all learned something new about food.
If you're more interested (or only interested) in what I'm actually eating check out my instagram @kyraishungry, that's where I'll be posting pics of the what I consume. But if you want to just learn lots stick around here.
I think that's all for now. Follow me on social and be the first to know when I post!
Instagram: @kyraishungry
Twitter: @kyraisfamished
*If you didn't know, being plant based is a diet when you avoid consuming any and all animal byproducts including meats, fish, dairy products, eggs, and things like gelatin, certain food dyes and additives and honey. It is slightly different from being vegan because where plant based describes only a diet, being vegan is a full lifestyle that also includes things like avoiding wearing animal byproducts (think leather, suede, shearling, and fur, but also wool and silk) and avoiding products that have been tested on animals. Vegans also tend to be more serious about not using insect byproducts like honey, shellac, and beeswax where someone following a plant based diet might be more lenient on those things. At the core, vegans tend to be motivated by ethics first and environmental and health benefits second, whereas someone following a plant-based diet tends to be motivated by health first (plant-based diets also tend to emphasize less processed, whole foods) or potentially environmental factors. There is a lot of overlap between the two, and people following a plant-based/vegan diet can pick and choose different elements of either diet/lifestyle. Down the road I will write a full post elaborating more on the differences between the two, why I decided to cut animal byproducts, and the benefits of the two!
**Anaphylactic allergies are the ones that make your mouth/tongue/throat start to itch and swell and can lead to your throat swelling closed and in serious cases death. This is another thing that I will speak to again in a future blog post.
If you don't know me allow me to introduce myself. My name is Kyra, I'm 22 and a brand new transplant to LA from DC. I'm plant based* and have been for roughly the past 2 years. I have a few food allergies: all nuts, which is an anaphylactic** allergy and can be very scary, and all stone fruits, meaning anything with a spherical pit, so like plums, nectarines, peaches, cherries, and saddest of all avocados, but this allergy is not nearly as bad. After hearing that I'm plant based and that I can't eat nuts or avocados people often ask what the hell I eat, this blog is here to show exactly what and how I eat.
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| It me! Eating some fresh picked strawberries and a Starbucks green tea latte with coconut milk this summer |
I try to eat pretty healthy, emphasis on the try, because my favorite food is french fries, followed closely by chocolate cake and cookie dough. I also am very adamant that junk food should be junk food and I don't really like "healthy junk food". Okay, I do eat kale chips but I think those are actually sorta healthy? I guess we'll find out! I think a healthy diet (and life) is all about balance, so, during the week I don't drink coffee, but on the weekends you'll probably find me with a sugar-free Redbull in hand (yikes I know). This blog will aim to encourage healthy balances and making choices that are better even if they're not the very very best. Always or often making the healthiER choice is a lot easier (and more sustainable in my opinion) than always trying to make the healthiEST choice. None of us are perfect so why try to make our diets perfect? Eat those fries! Eat that cake! But maybe also eat that kale!
So what will this blog look like? Probably not very many recipes from me, I'm not super inventive in the kitchen. But besides that anything food related is fair game. I want to try fancy kitchen gadgets, other people's recipes, taste test and review different foods, try to open hard to open fruits and vegetables, learn and talk about different diets and the way what we eat effects both the planet and our bodies, interview people I know about all things food, watch and review food documentaries, and try new food related challenges like the more extreme diets or cutting certain unhealthy foods (it can be really eye opening trust me!). I know those topics are pretty all over the place, but I want this blog to be about anything and everything food related, as long as in the end we'll have all learned something new about food.
If you're more interested (or only interested) in what I'm actually eating check out my instagram @kyraishungry, that's where I'll be posting pics of the what I consume. But if you want to just learn lots stick around here.
I think that's all for now. Follow me on social and be the first to know when I post!
Instagram: @kyraishungry
Twitter: @kyraisfamished
*If you didn't know, being plant based is a diet when you avoid consuming any and all animal byproducts including meats, fish, dairy products, eggs, and things like gelatin, certain food dyes and additives and honey. It is slightly different from being vegan because where plant based describes only a diet, being vegan is a full lifestyle that also includes things like avoiding wearing animal byproducts (think leather, suede, shearling, and fur, but also wool and silk) and avoiding products that have been tested on animals. Vegans also tend to be more serious about not using insect byproducts like honey, shellac, and beeswax where someone following a plant based diet might be more lenient on those things. At the core, vegans tend to be motivated by ethics first and environmental and health benefits second, whereas someone following a plant-based diet tends to be motivated by health first (plant-based diets also tend to emphasize less processed, whole foods) or potentially environmental factors. There is a lot of overlap between the two, and people following a plant-based/vegan diet can pick and choose different elements of either diet/lifestyle. Down the road I will write a full post elaborating more on the differences between the two, why I decided to cut animal byproducts, and the benefits of the two!
**Anaphylactic allergies are the ones that make your mouth/tongue/throat start to itch and swell and can lead to your throat swelling closed and in serious cases death. This is another thing that I will speak to again in a future blog post.
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