Hi! I'm Lynn Johnstone.

When my daughter was 14 she declared she wanted to go vegan. I didn’t totally agree with the dramatic change in diet for my adolescent girl and I wanted to give her a good reason for saying No (other than 'because I said so' which was still ringing in my ears from my childhood :) ).

So, I thought I'd investigate more, thinking that I would find out that it isn't a healthy choice and that would be that.

I went back to university. Well. Turns out it is OK to go vegan at any age as long as it is done the right way.

I wrote down what I learnt, for my daughter to follow so she could be responsible herself. Now I want to help other parents/carers in the same position, so they don’t have to stress.

Aside from the nutrition side of things, what also happened was by engaging with her in this vegan thing – it opened up communication lines that I’m sure I had been excluded from before.

I really love what this one thing did for our relationship.