Ideas
- Suggest that if young adults can’t commit to going completely “vegan” during Lent, they might adopt vegan eating one day each week.
- Create a vegan cookbook or start a Pinterest page where you post vegan recipes for young adults to use during Lent.
- Start a video blog with vegan recipes, cooking tips, and reflections on the experience.
- Make each vegan meal a “ritual.” Light candles, read Bible passages, reflect on the upcoming week’s gospel, talk about simplicity as a group. Consider SINGING together! Share highs and lows for the week together, and mostly, reflect on the experience. Two great questions to ask: What has to die in you in order for you to become more alive this Lent? (For example, I have to stop and consider what I’m doing to the environment when I eat too many animal products!) How is this experience changing you? (For example, Simple observations like I’m losing weight! I have more energy! Complex observations like I find that I’m able to be more sensitive to others who are hungry and I can eat less than I thought and still be satisfied.
Recommends
Vegan recipes:
Tips for vegan eating:
Vegan movement articles:
- “The Truth About Poverty and How Going Vegan Can Help”
- “Vegan 2000: Environmental Benefits”
- “We all want to help the planet. But how?”
- “The Challenge of Going Vegan”
- “UN Urges Global Move To Eat Meat- and Dairy-Free Diet”
- “Is Veganism Good for Everyone” — a series of articles that looks at both sides of the “vegan debate”
