Almost Vegan

Waverley Kitchens WK Pacs
Waverley Kitchens contacted me and offered to send me a sample of their new WK Pacs for me to taste test. The pacs contain spices for authentic Indian dishes and detailed cooking instructions that were very easy to follow. You have to shop for the rest of the ingredients yourself. They have vegan alternatives for all their WK Pac recipies. WK Pacs are packaged together as a meal and include a curry, sabji (dry vegetable dish), and raita (yogurt based dish).
I tried the Masala Paneer Curry, Green Beans Sabji, Mixed Vegetable Raita using their instructions for the vegan alternative – firm tofu in place of paneer cheese, soy instead of cow’s milk, soy yogurt, etc..
It was very tasty, a bit spicy, and very authentic tasting.
If you like to cook and want to make some authentic Indian dishes, but the complex spices elude you, then these are the pacs for you.
They have a nice website, here’s the page with all the different meals they offer. They even have videos on how to make the meals on their website as well as online ordering.
Take a look — http://waverleykitchens.ning.com/page/meals-1

Vegan Chocolates, YUM!!!
The folks at Sjaak’s sent me an incredible assortment of their vegan chocolates this week, about 2-3 days ago. THANK YOU SO MUCH! Now while there were a great number of small bite-size pieces in one bag, and all their vegan chocolates bars in another… all of it is gone.
I ate them all!!!
These are good chocolates. They even have vegan caramel, which was really good. So were the peanut butter and the almond butter creams, as well as the really tasty acai bites (try these). They have beautiful vegan assortments in boxes, tubs, and pretty gift packages.
For vegans, can you believe it?
And we’re talking real vegan chocolates. Organic, and fair trade too. Read the text at the top of Sjaak’s vegan chocolates webpage: They even state that the sugar they use is non bone char. Do visit their website, you can purchase all of their amazing vegan chocolates online.
— PURCHASE VEGAN CHOCOLATES at Sjaak’s
I’m gonna buy some more…

These 2 guys below are Justin and Dave, the guys behind Bacon Salt

This is a tasty meal, especially for summer, very light and zesty.

Unfortunately this is the only vegan offering from Kashi frozen meals so far, and be warned, some have meat in them…
http://www.kashi.com/products/kashi_entrees_black_bean_mango
Black Bean Mango is sweet and spicy and quite tasty, so I forgive them.

I just happened upon this news flash about the new, So Delicious Dairy Free Yogurt, online on the Turtle Mountain Website. I have not seen it in stores, even my really good health food store in Kalamazoo that rivals Whole Foods, but I gotta get me some.
Soy yogurt from the Turtle Mountain folks… I am so excited!!!

2008 already? Here’s a couple things I got from 2007 that I want to share:
First a note from me… I read on the GreanPeace site that they “kinda” saved the whales. It seems the Japanese gov. decided to not allow the hunting of humpbacks so Mr. Splashy Pants (GreenPeace name this whale campaign) is safe for now. GreanPeace has a cool Google Maps “Great Whale Trail” mashup:

Amy S Quinn sent me a link to this article —
Top 50 Vegan and Vegetarian Restaurants in the World
I don’t know if you are looking for veg/vegan love, but these folks want to help you… Green Friends
Rene River from Ohio is so excited about the cheesecake she found that she had to tell me about it, here’s her email:
I don’t know what state you are in but please let the vegans of Northeast Ohio know that there is some very delicious vegan cheesecake in Cleveland Ohio. Quantum Cakes, Cookies & More! has their vegan cheesecake at the Phoenix coffee shops and it is also at Johnny Mango World Cafe & Bar. OH yeah, the Mustard Seed Market Cafe in Montrose Ohio has it too! There are no caseins, totally vegan and mainly organic ingredients. Scrumptious!
Here’s a vegan ecommerce website in Toronto that the owner, or “Chief Executive Activist”, Adam Wilson, wanted me to tell you about a really long time ago and I am just getting around to it now, (sorry Adam) take a look:
downBOUND.com
down the corporate ladder
down the food chain
down to earth
A safe and healthy 2008 to all of you…

I have been very disturbed by the Japanese government’s whaling practices that I have been hearing about lately. These creatures are most likely far beyond us on the evolutionary scale and we are just not smart enough to know it.
Today, Treehugger’s name a whale newsletter item led me to GreenPeace and then to this really funny story of how GreenPeace activists tried to make their point when the Prime Minister of Japan came to the White House. Here are a couple of the pictures in the slideshow —


Here’s a link to the rest of the slideshow >>
I was about to cry, and then I did cry from laughter when I saw this…
Save the Whales!

I found these Gardenburger BBQ Riblets at Village Market — they make up for their lack of soy yogurt with their vegan frozen food selection.
These are incredibly tasty… a must try!

I hate to say anything bad about a product, and maybe there are a lot of people out there who like Stonyfield Farm O’Soy, but I don’t like the stuff. It seems slimy to me.

This is the only soy yogurt my local Village Market carries. I wish they had a few more brands.

I had a very nice event a while back. A woman from Turtle Mountain sent me a cooler filled with full size samples of 3 new Purely Decadent Flavors:
Cookie Dough
Coconut Craze
So Very Strawberry
They were all so good. Cookie Dough was evil good, the Coconut Craze was incredible and the So Very Strawberry was fresh and yummy.
Thanks so much, Gail.
She also sent a link to dollar off coupons for all Purely Decadent products:
Purely Decadent Coupons
Enjoy…