The package includes:
- Two (2) Mac and Cheese “kits” that each include (1) 10oz Creamy Cheddar Sauce and (1) bag of macaroni noodles.
- One (1) 10oz Nacho Cheese Sauce: Use it as a dip or drizzle on directly.
- One (1) 10oz Mozzarella Vegan Cheese: We love this on a pizza.
- One (1) 10oz Cheddar Vegan Cheese: Make a grilled cheese sandwich.
- One (1) 10oz Dandies Vegan Marshmallows: We’d say, “make smores,” but really we just eat them straight from the bag.
The cheese is Teese brand, fyi!
(via veganfeast)
Please stop. Eating meat is not murder, this is apparently the belief held if you actually consider all species on par with one another, and even humans don’t even consider all humans on par with one another.
A lot of people have these kind of moral…
Mmmm, the sweet smell of logic in the morning
I think the problem with many of us vegans is that we aren’t given a how-to manual when we make that decision to switch our consumer choices. This could be said for many groups and I need to stress that I am the most guilty when it comes to not having the proper vocabulary or education to speak but speaking anyways but that’s really the problem a lot of us have.
And it’s a problem we won’t even recognize because we’re couched in that blinding privilege.
However, I do want to point out that what the anon there was saying speaks to a much broader and complex philosophy that I think is worth considering.
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This, vegans, is why people don’t like you. Because you act like prejudice against pit bulls is the same as a boy being murdered for buying some candy. Seriously. Sit down and stfu.Commentary.
I can’t even begin to express how wrong on almost every level this graphic is but as a vegan with ethical reasons for adopting that practice, I feel like I should tackle this.
First off, semantics! “Race” is a human term and comes with all of the social importance and baggage (good and bad) our identities bring with them. In the case that this was not an ignorant mistake but an attempt to make a trite epiphany blossom in the viewer’s eyes, then you need to start over because that isn’t happening for anyone. You have offended all beings capable of reasoning! ~Awesome job~
Let’s get to the idea behind this though and why you’re actually turning people off, doing more harm than good. This does not engage people on any level. It oversimplifies the concept of speciesism into two lines of pointless evangelism which just works so well for modern day people.
We can absolutely have well-reasoned and thoughtful discussions with non-vegans about animal use and speciesism that might have positive impact. We can suggest Earthlings, Food, Inc., Eating Animal, etc. all these great resources we have! Slapping together a racist AND speciesist graphic and posting it online is just about the opposite of what you wanted.
Please, consider in the future taking the time to either engage in nonviolent direct action (since I get the frustration at society for not making the same connections and the need to do something) or have actual conversations with people. Non-vegans see this and think we’re stunted and incapable of basic logic.
(Source: you-know-the-odd-one, via horrormoans)
Vegan Pumpkin Cupcake Recipe - with (3 yr old) Petey
Cutest baking child in the world, oh my goodness.
As a onetime lover of fried eggs, I was really excited by the promo photos of The Vegg. It proclaimed itself “the first vegan fried egg!” So, this was the first recipe I wanted to try when I received it this weekend.
Unfortunately, the Vegg is merely a powder for a vegan egg yolk. The recipe for the whites was not on the Vegg’s website, nor was it easily accessible on the Vegg’s Facebook page, nor had anyone else (according to Google) created said fried vegan eggs, nor was it in the materials sent with the Vegg:
I was on my own. This is what I did.Fried Vegg
Makes 4 fried “eggs”For the yolk
2 tsp. Vegg powder
1/2 cup waterInstructions
Blend together. Pour into some container and pop in the freezer for a while, some hours. Maybe do this the night before if you’re gonna be making Veggs for breakfast.For the white
1 12 oz. package of extra-firm silken tofu
2 tsp. agar powder
1/4 tsp. black salt (aka kala namak)Instructions
Blend all this stuff in a food processor. Set aside.Put it together
Take your yolk out of the freezer. Run the container under hot water to loosen it up a little bit.Heat your nonstick skillet to medium-high and grease it—I like to use Earth Balance. You could also spray oil. When that’s good and hot, use a spatula to spread 1/4 of the silken tofu mixture onto the skillet. Try to get it so it’s flat. It’ll be tricky, but stick with it.
You’re gonna let that cook for 7 to 8 minutes. Then you’re gonna try to flip it over. This is kind of hard, but it’ll be worth it. Then quick! Scoop out 1/4 of the yolk mixture. Maybe use a spoon to shape it into a yolky shape. Slap it on the white, and put a lid on that skillet for two minutes or so. You want it to be not frozen through, but you don’t want it to melt and fall apart.
Vegg is really yummy. God DAMN, this is so good. It is precisely how I remember egg yolks tasting, and when it’s warm, it’s the perfect consistency, too. It’s also composed of ingredients that I recognize, nothing too weird. But all in all, I’m not nuts about this preparation. It was the best just rubbing my toast all over the Vegg yolk and eating that like the slob that I am.
Stay tuned for more Vegg talk. I think I’ll try a Vegg custard next! But until then I will just be dribbling Vegg mixture all over my naked body, hopefully hitting my open mouth at some point.
I’m more posting this for my reference later so I can ask my sister-in-law about this but it would take one freaking delicious vegan egg to pull me away from tofu scrambles. I even preferred a well done tofu breakfast compared to eggs when I ate them but I know a few people who are giving these a go. I guess we’ll see.
Here’s a simply amazing video documenting the rescue. Incredible. Watch it and then I defy you not to donate. The song is perfect too. Excellent work! PS: Can’t see the video? Watch it on Vegansaurus.com
The 4,460 hens rescued from the 50,000 hens left to starve in Stanislaus County—the Turlock Hen Rescue—still need our help. What can you do? Go shopping! Food Fight Grocery and some other fine retailers are going to be donating a portion of their sales on these specific days:
- Food Fight will be donating 10% of all online sales (and in-store for those in Portland) on Saturday, March 3.
- Herbivore Clothing will be donating 10% of all their online sales (and in-store) March 3rd and 4th (someone said they’d be donating sales now as well but I can’t confirm)
- Purrfect Pinapples will be donating 20% of this weekend’s sales too. Cruelty-free lingerie! Handmade! Wow!
- Blue Strawberry Scents will donate 10% of their sales for the next week. Buy you some cool soap!
- And I just saw on the event page that for the next month (to March 24th) Veganville on Etsy will donate 15% of all online sales to Animal Place.
Check out the event page for more info and updates. Food Fight adds this note:
If you were planning to place an order, please do it on Saturday, and if you don’t need anything, maybe go here and donate directly.
If you can’t spend any money right now, then please spread the word about these fundraisers and about the rescue.And don’t forget to sign the petition started by Harvest Home to bring the man responsible for this catastrophe to justice.
People! Allow me to introduce you to my new favorite cookbook, Vegan Junk Food by Lane Gold!
Jalapeno Bacon Poppers. Boston Cream Pie. Butterfinger Chunk Cookies. Spring Rolls. Beer Brat-Stuffed Portabello Mushrooms with Steak Fries. Mocha Cheesecake Brownies. Mac and Cheese Bake. Tortilla Chip Soup. Sweet or savory, from appetizers to desserts, this cookbook has got it all!
INCLUDING AN ENTIRE CHAPTER DEDICATED TO PIZZAS AND BREADS! You heard me right, folks! Baked Ziti Pizza. Spicy Onion and Sausage Pizza. Eggplant Parmesan Pizza. Deep Dish Hawaiian Pizza. Rosemary Garlic Potato Pizza. Barbecued Tempeh Pizza. Pizza Dough Garlic Rolls. Pizza Rolls. Do it yourself Vegan Ricotta and Cheese Sauce. AND MORE! Behold the culinary wonders of Vegan Junk Food.
When I saw the pizza & bread chapter, I knew I had to hit Adams Media up for a review copy, and they were nice enough to comply. Though Vegan Junk Food was released in mid-December, and I first contacted the publisher way back in November, it wasn’t until late January that I received my copy. The book’s been so popular, you see, that the first run sold out. Yay vegan junk food!
I haven’t had time to try out many of the recipes yet, but this past weekend the husband and I made the Pesto Chicken Pizza with Creamy Garlic Sauce. A.MAZE.A.BALLS!, y’all! The garlic sauce - actually pureed white beans - tastes like garlicky mashed potatoes. I could seriously eat it as its own meal, it’s so yummy.
All of the recipes look so delish that we had trouble choosing just one, but our lack of ingredients helped to narrow it down. (Seriously, we were short of one or two ingredients for nearly every pizza recipe. THE LUCK.) The Black Bean Taco, Thai, and Meatball pizzas are next up on our list!
The good news for you: Adams Media sent me three copies of Vegan Junk Food, so I have two to give away!
To enter to win, REBLOG THIS POST and describe your favorite VEGAN JUNK FOOD in the notes/comments. Can’t pick just one? Reblog multiple times (always with a different answer) for additional entries (but please, don’t be obnoxious about it. No spamming!) Likes are nice but don’t count.
The contest is open until Monday, February 27 at 4PM CST. I’ll choose one winner randomly and the second winner will be whichever entry most strikes my fancy. I love ALL the vegan junk foods, so don’t feel like you have to suck up by answering “pizza”!
Since I’m shipping these myself, the contest is open internationally. Remember to leave your ask box open so I have a way of contacting you. Once I announce the results, the winners have 72 hours to respond, after which time I’ll choose another winner. Good luck!
And…GO!
My favorite homemade junk food is our Friday Pizza! It’s not an exact recipe and it’s not always on Friday but those are my favorite nights.
We’ll grab a bag of GF Bob’s Red Mill pizza crust mix, some red tomato sauce for me, white sauce for my partner (mozza Daiya with some soy milk, melted) and then the real fun commences! He’s pretty straightforward and likes few veggies on top of his but I like to try anything under the sun.
The secret is to find the most disparate tastes you can and bring them together on the crust (which is delicious as anything and a very neutral, carb-y taste). Sriracha sauce and garlic hummus? Amazing. Broccoli and apples? Success!
It’s a chance to be creative and have a delicious meal at the same time!
Mardi Gras Fried Pickles and Purple Slaw
*glares longingly at food* “We could be heroooooooooes, forever and everrrrrrrrrr!”
Though I do like the jubilant bride and groom
I’d like it better if the groom was made of ice cream!
Reblogged for perfect comment (and also delicious ice cream)
U.S.A. Republican Party: If we allow gay marriage, then we’ll have to let people marry ice cream! *unwittingly causes landslide support for marriage equality*
Does PETA ad featuring a young, pantsless woman in a neckbrace promote veganism, or offend?
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is known for its provocative ads—many of them featuring women in various states of undress—that aim to draw attention (however indirectly) to animal rights. But their latest ad, a Valentine’s Day video that warns women about the “dangers” of their boyfriends’ burgeoning veganism, may have crossed a line.
The ad, released online Monday, shows a limping, pantsless woman sporting a neckbrace, struggling to carry a bag of vegetables home from the store. (Unsurprisingly, we’ll warn that this ad, embedded below, may be a bit too racy for the eyes of younger viewers.)
“This is Jessica,” the narrator, Kevin Nealon, says. “She suffers from ‘BWVAKTBOOM,’ ‘Boyfriend Went Vegan and Knocked the Bottom Out of Me,’ a painful condition that occurs when boyfriends go vegan and can suddenly bring it like a tantric porn star.”
Jessica’s boyfriend is then shown fixing a hole in their bedroom wall. “Oh, you’re feeling better?” he asks as she disrobes.
A call to PETA revealed that the campaign was slated to be launched on Valentine’s Day; the accompanying BWVAKTBOOM.com website, launched Monday, includes “tips on how to have sex safely with vegans—such as mounting all TVs and mirrors securely to the wall.”
But does the ad also promote violence against women?
“The piece is tongue-in-cheek,” Lisa Lange, a senior vice president for PETA, told Yahoo News. “People who watch the ad all the way through see the woman has a mischievous smile. She’s happy to go back with him. It’s playful.”
But released on the day after the Grammy Awards, when some criticized the show’s producers for allowing a performance by singer Rihanna’s ex-boyfriend—and domestic abuser—Chris Brown, you have to wonder if PETA is striking the right tone.
“PETA is going for shock value here,” Michael Learmonth, digital editor at Advertising Age, wrote in an email to Yahoo News. “But I don’t think portraying women as beat up physically is a good idea, even in jest.”
Learmonth added: “These ads aren’t made for TV, so the strategy here is that they will cause controversy, trigger coverage, and go viral.”
Last week, the group executed a pre-Valentine’s Day stunt in Shreveport, La., placing a live couple making out in a bed downtown to promote the vegan lifestyle. A sign on the headboard read: “Vegans Make Better Lovers.”
Prior to the Super Bowl, PETA released a “Girls Gone Wild”-style anti-milk ad that it said was banned from the broadcast.
Everytime I wonder if I can dislike PETA any more than I already do, they go and do something like this. Way to knock it out of the park, PETA!
Why the hell is PETA even still around? : |
I relate to PETA in a similar way as I do to the HRC. Both generally attempt to serve causes that I also attempt to serve. Animal rights and LGBTQ rights, respectively.
The methods they go about achieving those ends and the way they sell their beliefs out to achieve notoriety and attention (and thus, longevity, to their way of thinking) puts me off of them almost completely.
The HRC completely ignores trans issues most of the time or is willing to drop them from ballot initiatives at the first sign of resistance. They don’t address racial issues, class issues or internal bigotry in the LGBTQ community. However, they’re also almost solely responsible for most of the political advances we have. I try to use that HRC Shopping Guide when I go to a big store. I really am grateful for what they’ve done even though I see them as a branch of the Democratic party at this point. It’s good with a good dose of bad but probably more good.
PETA goes one step further (making their history that much more tragic for animal rights) in that they almost actively throw their ideas to the wind for any amount of attention at all. They have done some marginal good in recent years in getting some welfare legislation passed but it’s very much an advertising engine.
Engaging people in earnest, thoughtful conversation about how we treat nonhuman animals might be slower but I think it achieves that result more fully. I also support direct action (or any nonviolent action that means less suffering) but you only create people who are interested in no longer harming animals when you talk to them on their level.
I’m a vegan but I instantly don’t want to hear a single thing from PETA when I see one of their sexist ads, plain and simple. I’m already a vegan, PETA! And I don’t like you!
It pisses me off so much that they don’t see how much harm they’re causing, especially when you know their beginnings as real, hard-working activists invested in changing the world for the better.
I’ve read a few vegetarians and vegans on Tumblr talking about how they are having Oreos, and since I have never even seen it (they aren’t sold in my country) I’m in doubt, are they vegan?
If so, where in the world are they sold? I travel a lot and would like to buy it if it’s really vegan.
Depending on if you’re concerned about sourcing your sugar, vitamins and minerals, and preservatives, many Oreos are actually vegan!
However, all of them have sugar that may have been bleached with bone char so some vegans avoid them outright.
you attend a social justice retreat and, when they’re all talking about privilege and oppression and the resistance they face in raising awareness, you point out that non-human animals are the most oppressed and we, the oppressors, have human privilege, and they look at you like you’re crazy while denying their privilege.
non-human animals are the most oppressed
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I knew I’d be seeing that one again someday when I saw it posted originally. While the basic idea is a common experience and possibly a funny “you know you’re vegan when…” is in there somewhere, the wording is atrocious.
Every rights-based vegan I’ve ever talked to does actually understand reality, that of course there isn’t some kind of competition between oppressed groups.
What the submitter most likely meant (or maybe this vegan really does need to go back to basic training) is that speciesism is one of those ones that never gets talked about in the broader sense of social justice. I’ve seen that and classism myself but I’m sure the mileage is different for everyone.
(Inspired by seeing a post someone else reblogged in which a vegan referred to those who eat meat as “bloodmouths”…which has just made me hungry for a rare steak…)
No, not at all. Any vegans that do are acting out of an overwhelmed and unstable mentality. Truly and deeply unpacking the compartmentalization our society requires to use animals makes some of us pretty nutty and downright caustic to our fellow human animals.
Veganism is a defensible ethical standpoint but not one that biology makes for us. Of course, biology makes no argument at all. Saying things like “canines are meant for this, obviously we are omnivores, these organs process flesh better, etc.” is an unscientific and ultimately futile way to broach the conversation. Things can’t be proven to have a “why” or a “reason”.
That’s just my issue with vegans who try to argue with non-vegans that way, like somehow we are all mystically descended from pure herbivores.
What we do have are fully rational, sentient choices, a blessing and a curse. We can see the pain we cause in other beings and we can choose to change that or not. Adding hate towards others is non-vegan, I’d venture.
Now do I have ill will for the systems of oppression in the world that entrap all kinds of species and subdivision of species? Hell yeah, I do. Anytime I hear about a successful, nonviolent liberation strike I let out a cheer. The same for when I hear about a country enacting two-partner marriage equality or lifting bans on abortion or anything at all done to relieve suffering and fight oppression and slavery.
It’s an issue of modulation which I struggle with myself but I never see hate against non-veg people in the vegan and vegetarians circles and forums I visit, to answer your question.
Basically.
I mean, I’m sure make up and lighting help, but c’mon. HAVE SOME CAKE!
Man, I guess I am having a surly morning so sorry if I come across as gruff here! Not my intent.
The problem I have with this joke (and don’t get me wrong, vegans/vegetarians are just as bad about this, it’s a societal problem) is that it equates health with “beauty”.
I don’t know the first thing about either of these women, maybe they’re both angels or assholes, whatever. However, who can say the health level of either of these people? Maybe Nigeliea (?) Lawson has arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure. Maybe Gillian McKeith literally can levitate off the ground with how healthy she is. Maybe it’s the exact opposite. Does Lawson’s conventional attractiveness make her healthier, a better person or more interesting? Of course not.
I could look like the bark-iest tree in the world and have perfect health. I could be 100 pounds over the usual weight for my height and have perfect health. I could be 50 pounds under and have the same. I could be the Western/Aryan epitome of physical beauty and be healthy or have constant pains and physical maladies.
The Biggest Loser is wrong and our society is wrong. Your size is not how beautiful you are. Your health is not your size.
And on a less important note, I eat way too richly as a vegan! Seriously, it is delicious cakes and cookies 24/7 up in my GI tract. Also, if the cake you’re having isn’t vegetarian then you might need to look at your cake-choices and look at your cake-life.
Health should come with carbs! Fat is a good thing or else why would our bodies need and use it? There are some correlations to look at between having much excess body fat and negative health but only you can know your body and what it needs.
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I don’t do New Year’s resolutions since I feel better about making changes in my life without attaching excess emotions or a particular holiday to them (do or do not, as they say) so this post is a way to track myself as I attempt to make a big change in my food purchasing.
First, I’m going to run down my current diet, making note of how and when I buy certain things.
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