Hey, it's Wendy and it's Jess and you're listening to the Food Heaven Podcast.

Your online resource for delicious and nutritious living.

Welcome to episode two of the Food Heaven Podcast.

We are so excited to be back for another amazing episode.

This week we are talking about how to make the healthy transition into vegetarianism

into the vegetarian world.

We get emails literally every day from you guys asking us how to be a vegetarian.

If you already are vegetarian, how to be a better vegetarian.

And we get all types of vegetarian-related emails.

Even I had some 16 year old email us saying that he wanted to be a vegetarian but his mom

was saying no, it's not healthy and they wanted us to talk to mom.

But we gave him some coaching on what to say to her that it was healthy, is a kid.

Actually that's a good segue into our personal stories, how we both became vegetarian.

I started, I think I was like 12 years old, which was, I don't want to give away my age,

but I feel like that was 20 years ago.

And it was, I remember exactly what happened.

I was with my family, we're going on a road trip to visit my big brother in Lake Tahoe

and his girlfriend was vegetarian.

And so they were doing one of a plant-based lifestyle.

Never heard of vegetarianism.

I always hated meat with a passion.

Never wanted to eat it, always picked around it.

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