At the beginning of this year, I officially decided to become a vegetarian. I was pleasantly surprised by how easy the transition was. Having sticks of biltong shoved under my nose posed as no temptation, not even a little bit. If anything, it was more about curbing mindless habits. When people ask me “but what do you eat?”, I want to laugh out loud. I have actually enjoyed food a lot more now that meat is not the priority in my plate.
What I did not know was that I would be giving up jelly sweets and marshmallows. I was perhaps two weeks into my new lifestyle when I found out the heart-breaking news that these treats were not vegetarian. I struggled to imagine my grocery basket without wine gums or mini marshmallows.
I didn’t know is that gelatine is made from the off-cuts of slaughtered animals. I thought it came from the hooves – in hindsight, I am not sure how I validated this for successful vegetarian diet.
Babbling Thoughts 