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Meatless Mondays: Quinoa Sushi Nori Rolls

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach. Ingredients: Nori sheets Sushi bamboo mat 2 cup of cooked quinoa (red, black, or white) and brown…

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Meatless Mondays: Millet Pie

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach.   Ingredients & Method:  3/4 cup cooked millet 3/4 cup cooked brown rice 1/3 cup water pinch…

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HappyCow Site/ Restaurants/ Travel/ Veganism

5 Great Restaurants Perfect For Summer

Top 5 Restaurants Perfect For Summer

Summer is in full force here in Texas. That means hot weather, dips at Barton Springs, and a desire to have a refreshing meal that’s going to cool you off. Today we talk about 5 restaurants that are perfect for summer meals because they have delicious raw menu items, cooling juices, or a perfect patio to enjoy a summer cocktail. What are your favorite restaurants for summer noshing? Leave in…

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Meatless Mondays: Stir-fry with Linseed (Flaxseed)

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach. Ingredients: 6 okra, sliced 2 zucchini (courgettes), sliced lengthwise 1 red capsicum (pepper), thinly sliced ½ cup…

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Animal Companions/ Animal Rights/ General/ HappyCow Site/ Veganism

The Innocents

It is enormously tragic, that the defenseless, the harmless and the gentle sentient beings from whom we might have learned so much, who would have trusted us, and by whose acquaintance our lives could be so much enriched, are rewarded with imprisonment, torture and slaughter. I am often reminded of, and haunted by, a post to the HappyCow blog on July 30, 2011 from Alisa Rutherford-Fortunati. The piece, entitled “Bruno: A New…

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Nutrition/ Recipes/ Veganism

Vegans and Hot Weather Activity: A Nutrition Guide

    I live in the desert where the average temperature throughout the summer months is 105F.  I also train for sprint triathlons and running races but can’t stand gyms.  This leaves one option: figure out how to do it all outdoors without feeling terrible! There are three elements to successful warm weather activity that apply to all people: heat acclimation, proper hydration and wise fuel choices.  In addition to…

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Meatless Mondays: Tofu and Vegetable Gnocchi

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach.   Ingredients: 1 carrot, grated 1/4 pumpkin, grated 1 zucchini (courgette), grated 1/4 broccoli florets 1/2 eggplant…

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Meatless Mondays: Kale, Quinoa, and Falafel Salad

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach.   Ingredients: 6 cooked falafel balls, crumbled 1 bunch kale leaves, chopped 1 cup cooked black and…

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Health/ Nutrition/ Veganism

“Natural” Flavorings and Other Hidden Animal Sources in Your Food Supply

Vegan Beware: Natural Flavorings and Other Hidden Animal Sources in your Food Supply  Finding an ingredient listed as “natural flavorings” may very well be one of the most confusing, misleading and costly issues we face today with truth in labeling practices. In fact, as a Vegan this is especially troublesome because companies are not required to list the source of the flavorings, whether from animal or plant.  Here we’ll go…

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Travel/ Veganism

New Zealand Vegan

I love traveling and never let being vegan hinder me from going somewhere I want, though I admit food sometimes has driven me to visit certain places.  It’s true some places may be more difficult than others but from my experience it’s always possible to stick to my veganness!  For example today I was taking the only bus that was running from Queenstown to Franz Josef, and for lunch we…

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Meatless Mondays: Inca Red Quinoa Stir-fry

Here’s another Meatless Monday recipe to tantalize your taste buds and get you cooking this cruelty-free meal in your kitchen. This week’s Meatless Monday recipe is contributed by our friend, Leigh-Chantelle from Viva la Vegan! a website with a large range of vegan recipes that focuses on positive information, education and vegan outreach.   Ingredients: 1 cup Inca red quinoa 2 cups filtered water 1 eggplant (aubergine), salted and thinly…

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General/ Veganism

Healthy Vegan Trail Snacks

We all know the struggles of being vegan – finding food while you travel, eating out at restaurants (What’s in your salad dressing again??) and dealing with the questions and criticism of meat-eaters, just to name a few. Another big challenge for me personally has been trying to find healthy snacks for hikes, traveling, and times when I can’t be home to prepare a fresh meal. As I write this,…

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Health/ Nutrition/ Veganism

Garbage In, Garbage Out: How To Spot a Junk Vitamin

When you go to a store or online to shop for a multivitamin how do you go about making your choice? Do you feel 100% confident in your purchasing process? Do you rely on better informed friends and family, buy on a whim if the advertising looks reputable enough or do you simply guess your way through it? According to a study done by the Office of Dietary Supplements, in…

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