It’s been a while since we have blogged. We cannot believe it has been already two months since we started with our blog and challenges! As you know, we are building it up in a way that we are adding challenges every two weeks. Building up is challenging for us and we did fail a couple of times. So what kind of situations challenged us?

Being a vegan guest in India

Probably this problem sounds familiar to many vegans in India. Maybe you did not announce your conversion loudly or maybe people could not understand or accept your decision. For us it was difficult to REFUSE already prepared chai (tea with milk) which is traditionally served in every Indian home. In that situation, we decided that we value the host so much that we will not refuse her offer. We explained later that we are not consuming dairy anymore and we will really appreciate if we can simply say no to this traditional serving.

Bread and palm oil

“What the hell?” Even if we got used to reading the labels, we totally forgot to check the ingredients since we thought about bread as “flour and water”. From all of the challenges, we found saying no to palm oil as the most difficult one. But this challenge showed us, how serious is the problem with palm oil and since it is everywhere, we did spend time to check out brands and companies that are using sustainable palm oil.

Reading and time

This one we did not completely fail, but we are a little behind on the schedule. We both read some amazing books and we both believe that we have to continue with this challenge in the future as well.

Overall, the last month our biggest challenge was finding time to write blogs, since we both had an insane month of work and life. Going forward, we will be more punctual and hopefully, you will hear from our side at least once a week.

Katja and Yash