I am a vegan stay-at-home mom. I am in the kitchen a lot, because I make most everything from scratch. We stopped buying cereals, any bread products, fake cheeses, etc. We've only been vegan for about a year, so it's really been a challenge learning how to cook all over again, but I'm really enjoying it. One of my favorite things to do is looking at non-vegan recipes and making them vegan, and changing dessert recipes to make them more nutritious. Vegetarian taco salad (Haystacks!), salads, panzanella, tofu tacos, smoothies, apple crisp, spaghetti sauce (saves me so much money, too!), vegan alfredo sauce, bagels, bread, desserts. Cooking with my children. They love being in the kitchen with me, and even though it takes a lot longer to get things done when they're helping, it really makes my time in the kitchen more fun. Every time I make something and one of my children says "that's good, mom." I mistook a canister of powdered sugar for flour when I was making cookies one time, and didn't realize it until they turned out horribly and I went to make a new batch.