Guide for New Vegans: Update!

Hi, all!

Just a quick note to say this this week's update is a new chapter in an ambitious project we've been working on, The Guide for New Vegans. One thing I have noticed is that there are many vegan starter kits that help people learn about the "whys" of veganism as well as some of the "hows" but there is a dearth of materials available to help people who are already on the path but who, in those new months, are facing challenges. Without materials addressing the challenges, what we are doing is asking people to consider going vegan but not setting them up for success.

People often struggle, sometimes in silence, when they face challenges with their new vegan path and think that they lack the character, the willpower or whatever else to successfully maintain a vegan transition so they quit. We created the Guide as a user-friendly way to help people navigate the often steep learning curve of the first year, from listing free or inexpensive resources available to discussing how to find community as a vegan and everything in between, trying to keep it succinct but genuinely helpful. As a living document, we will be adding new sections and resources as we think of them and learn of them. As more people are exploring veganism with popular new films and books out that promote it, we feel this resource couldn't come at a better time.  If you've not seen it before, please check out the Guide and send me an email with any materials we should consider adding. If you have seen it before, please check out Chapter Five, our newest chapter and perhaps the most important, on "Staying Strong Against Social Pressure and Gaining Resilience as a Vegan," which is, to my mind, the biggest challenge new vegans face. We also have new links up on Chapter 2 and Chapter 7 as well as revisions throughout.

We are proud of this resource. We'd love it if you would share it as the feedback we've gotten on it has been very positive. Last, if you'd like to support the work we do as Vegan Street to create free materials like the Guide as well as all the recipes, memes and other content we create every week, please consider signing up as a Patreon, which affords us the ability to dedicate our time to creating this work.

Thank you!

PS - It will be available as a PDF soon. :)