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Hello, everyone! My name is Ivana and I am a flexible vegan.

Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I am from Serbia where I used to work as a teacher.

As I was growing up, I had a typical Serbian diet: meat, meat and meat. And then I grew up and became aware where does all this meat come from. So I became vegetarian. I was actually never very fond of dairy and with eggs I have had a battle my whole life. I just couldn’t imagine myself eating something that came out of the ass of a chicken. As my mum didn’t know how to cook without meat, I started digging through the pile of vegetarian/vegan recipes and I discovered that I love cooking. So thanks mum!

And then I met my husband and moved to the Netherlands. I simply adore this country and the ability to eat variety of food. So I continued my research and enjoying in food and cooking. Since after some time I still didn’t have a job, I’ve decided to start writing down my recipes which eventually has led to this wonderful website! The idea is to show to people that non-meat, non-dairy cooking can be easy and fun. Not to mention the taste! All the recipes on this website contain no meat, no dairy and no eggs.

Why flexible vegan then, huh? Simple! First of all because my body is quite flexible. I do yoga. Although I am still working on shifting my leg all the way to the back of my neck. I am almost there! LOL!

Further I do think that vegan diet is the best one ever. However I also think that any kind of extremism leads to isolation and possible violation and I just think that the art of food and cooking should not be about it. Agree?

The word FLEXIBLE is really powerful. Here is an example. I don’t eat dairy or eggs but most of my friends don’t even know that. They know that I don’t eat meat and they respect that. Every time on a birthday party I do get my version of whatever they are eating. And I am thankful for that. However I do not think that I should be telling them how to make their birthday cake or even worse to say I am refusing to eat it when they are so happy about it. Could you say no? This is where the word flexible comes to its true powerfulness! Eat the darn cake and be flexible, it will make them happy. I love animals and that is why I can’t eat them, but I love my friends even more. Without my friends, I wouldn’t really be what I am today. And I really like who I am today.

So this was a little bit about me and the art of the Flexible Vegan. As you can read, English is not my native language so I apologize for all mistakes I am making. At the moment I am using three languages in EVERYDAY conversation: Serbian, English and Dutch. It can be confusing sometimes but I am trying.

We are all different and that is the beauty of this world. Imagine a world that would walk, talk, think and cook like me. What a dull little world is that, isn’t it? The beauty is in variety! And that goes for my food too.

Stay healthy and happy.