Vegan Restaurant

I don't remember being to one of these before but while I was in Portland I took my daughter and her boyfriend to one of these. I ordered what was called a "Sun God" which was a fruit juice smoothie which consisted of something like apricot juice, mango juice possibly apple juice mixed with Almond milk. Then I asked for something that consisted of cooks beans and veggies. But, I found I like the beans best and I liked the sweet potatoes and also ate the cauliflowers and broccolli and left the rest.

If you want a definition of what Vegan means first you have to know whether the person is a cooked vegan or a raw vegan and then there are gradiations beyond even that.

This restaurant catered to most variations but also served cooked vegan fare as well.

Basically, if you are a vegan (generally speaking) you only eat things that are grown in the ground or sprouted like Alfalfa sprouts or other sprouts you might make in a jar. So, for example, almond milk would be okay and so would rice milk because they are grown.

Whereas if you were a vegan any meat or fish or dairy product or even eggs would not be okay to eat if you were to stay a vegan vegetarian.

I was raised (the first 32 years of my life) as a lacto ovo vegetarian. This was both good and bad for me. But, likely I might be dead now if I hadn't because when I had my heart virus in 1998 if I had had the clogged arteries that most people have by their late 40s I would have definitely died. So, I can say that I'm grateful to have been raised a lacto ovo vegetarian(veggies, milk and eggs) which is similar to many East Indian Diets. Because it saved my life when I was around 50 so I'm still alive at 65 today and able to write here for you still.(and drive and visit my kids and travel sometimes around the world).