Reid! Thanks for joining! We have pick up COED games at UIC every Saturday at 1pm. I will send you more information by email.

Thanks and welcome! Looking forward to meeting with you on the field!
Carlos

Hello Reid: I want to thank you for this event. It looks like it will be a terrific evening. I've been on the waiting list and received a spot yesterday but forgot to mention I would like the wheat-free option. I suspect it's too late but I thought I would try in any event. Looking forward to my first Chicago meetup event!

Hi Reid, thank you for organizing the Ethiopian Dimond meetup. I wanted to post because I need the wheat/gluten free option. Thanks!

hi reid, i just missed the rsvp deadline. would it be possible for me to bring my elderly veg mom? i'm from wilmette and she still lives there but i don't think she's been inside the temple. i thought it would be a nice event for her. thanks!
valerie

(Posts make more sense reading old to new) In restaurants, ask, and be nice (sometimes I wasn't nice, blush!!) Not all servers or restaurants "get it" about vegans. Soon, you'll spot when they don't, and order "just a greens-only salad, oil and vinegar on the side".

Don't forget Chicago's Green fest May 22-23, we have a Meetup scheduled (or just go). (Consider public transportation, parking at Navy Pier will be around $20!)

Again, congratulations and welcome to the Green Side!
Alan

... Don't make yourself crazy, don't beat yourself up for a slip or mistake. My most recent goof: four days ago at a farmers' market, I ate the free sample of granola ... with honey; I suggested the vendor try using agave nectar light in her recipe, then bought from her a really nice jam.
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... I'm sure lots of us on this Meetup will help you with specifics - I won't promise to be here everyday, but I'm "cyber-present" a few times a week. Three rules: read the ingredients; read the ingredients and read the ingredients. The red side is sneaky: casein, gelatin, carmine (coloring), lactic acid, stearates and others, guess what... But you'll be busy enough at first checking on the obvious biggies (my favorite "Now What!?!" ingredients moment: "xxx, jellyfish, ....")
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Not sure how much I can help you out, but here goes. Please be as sure as you can be of your reasons and motives, it will seem to be a big change. If you are tempted to go back to the "red side", remind yourself of your reasons for going vegan, doing this helps me a lot. "Do your homework" - there are 2-3 things not (easily) available from plants, e. g. vitamin B-12.
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Greetings, Reid:
Congratulations on wanting to come over to the "green side". I've been vegan for 2+ years (OK, I fell off the veggie wagon a few times, unusual circumstances, and sometimes I misread an ingredients list, and sometimes a restaurant goofs up... but I just get back on veggie wagon, without beating myself up for the slip.)
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Help! I am SO technologically illiterate!! I did not mean to offend, lol Peace, Gill