Miranda Levy: I went vegan (reluctantly) for a month to improve my heart health – here’s how it went
How do you give up meat and dairy when you hate most vegetables and love cheese? Miranda Levy found out
I’ve never been that crazy about vegetables. Somehow I got through childhood on tins of Green Giant sweetcorn: there may also have been the odd pea at some point. Fruit was always more fun, which is probably how I survived into adulthood without getting scurvy.
As a grownup, I’ve added broccoli, spinach, salad leaves and tomatoes to my repertoire − as well as the now obligatory avocado. But much of the vegetable kingdom still leaves me cold. Pulses are mushy and suspicious. I can’t stand anything pepper-adjacent and the smell of celery reminds me of cleaning out our childhood guinea-pigs’ cage.
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