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As a life-long animal lover, I have been vegetarian from childhood. I became vegan 13 years ago, when I moved to London for university and stumbled across a fruit and vegetable market, which left me intoxicated with new fragrances and tastes. I had a very limited budget and found that vegan foods allowed me to cook dishes that would become staples, without the use of any animal ingredients. I also switched to cruelty-free cosmetics, and never again bought clothing that used animal products. A few years later, after a lot of requests from friends for the recipes I had cooked, I decided to put them all on a small blog that I called Little Miss Meat-Free. Within a few weeks of starting the blog, I was commissioned to write recipes for a magazine, and the work continued to come in.