Eco-Vegan Daily Download: New Frozen Vegan Food, Eco Marketplace, and The Coconut Shortage

Highlighted Greenwala Article

A Cruel Delicacy: Eating Animals While They're Still Alive

Business Opportunity

Greenwala is launching an eco marketplace on which they're looking for companies to sell their products and services. It's free to have your own store, and there's just a minimal commission percentage taken out of each sale. Since I'm one of the editors for the site, you can contact me if you're interested in more details and I'll put you in touch with the right people.

Vegan Food News

If you're not in New York City you can now enjoy Candle 79 & Candle Cafe's foods by visiting a Whole Foods near you! The famous vegan restaurants now offer 4 of their delicious meals in frozen form for just $5.99! The mouthwatering options are: Seitan Piccata with Lemon Caper Sauce, Ginger Miso Stir-Fry, and Mac & Vegan Cheese (made with Daiya of course). If you prefer to have freshly made food, check out Candle 79's new cookbook, which is available by pre-order (looks amazing!)

There's a new pizza spot in town and it's called Stella Rossa Pizza Bar. Located in Santa Monica, their food is created by a hip, young chef who's happy to cater to vegans and gets his ingredients from the farmers market. Though I haven't tried it myself yet, I've been told that the pizza dough is vegan, so they’re able to make a variety of vegan pizzas. Each of the salads can be made vegan, and the vegetable anti pasta can be made vegan too.

Events

Dallas, TX - October 23rd: Texas State Veggie Fair. Vegan events with speakers, cooking demos, and more!

Worth a Read

Can't find your favorite flavor of Coconut Bliss? It's probably because there's a coconut shortage! I'm bummed that the new Maca flavor is so hard to find. : (

Cool Eco Stuff

Children's book swap through ThreadUp

Eco-Vegan Daily Download: Radio Interview, Raw Food Recipes, Festivals, & Books

Eco-Vegan Gal News

I'm being interviewed on a live radio station this Tuesday the 14th at 10:15am Eastern (7:15 PST) on The Mary Jones Show. If you can't tune in I'll try to post a recording of it afterwards.

Mini Review

Sunshine "Hemp-Fast" Breakfast Patties ~ For the longest time I didn't like Sunshine's burgers - they tasted really bland and...well, too earthy. But since going gluten and soy free I forced myself to try them again and realized they're actually really good. I'm assuming this is because my palate has changed, but they're actually a really popular brand and are available in most natural markets, probably because they are virtually allergy free. This morning I tried their Hemp-Fest Breakfast Patty and loved it. It has that breakfast patty flavor and hearty whole grain taste. The only problem is that they're quite dry, especially when you don't cook them in oil (healthier) and they fall apart really easily. But I enjoyed it completely on it's on and was very satisfied.

Eco-Vegan Daily Download: Vegan Dating, Drive Through, and Organic Wine

Vegan News

Image from QuarryGirl

You won't believe this, but a vegan drive through is opening outside of Los Angeles! Best of al, they'll have jackfruit! It's called Plant Food for People and will be located in Highland Park. Check out QuarryGirl for the rest of the scoop.

Eco-Vegan Daily Download: Virgins, CSA, and New Vegan Food!

Food News

Sol Cuisine's products are finally available in Whole Foods stores in Northern California, Southern California, North Atlantic, North East, Midwest and Southwest regions. I love their falafel.

Eco-Vegan Daily Download: tortillas, beer, and free desserts!

Mini Review

I just tried Food For Life's Brown Rice Tortillas for the first time and they are so yummy! What a great gluten-free option for making wraps, burritos, and quesadillas! You can have them uncooked, warm and soft, or baked/broiled and crispy (my favorite). Put them in the freezer and they can last a while, but with only 6 in a package they'll probably be gone before long!

Eco-Vegan Daily Download: Race Car Drivers, Yummy Chocolate Dessert, and Free Yoga!

Vegan Food

Coconut Milk "ice cream" at Trader Joes. Gluten-free & vegan, but not organic and contains sugar, as opposed to name brands that are organic and use agave nectar. But it's really delicious - tastes like creamy chocolate frozen pudding!

Eco-Vegan Daily Download: Peanut Butter, Yams, Celebs, & New Years/York

• Review of Justin's Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups ~ I am really impressed with their sustainability initiatives!

• Ancient Harvest quinoa/corn pasta with nutritional yeast, olive oil, peas, carrots, corn, green beans, basil, dulse flakes, paprika, and sea salt. Very satisfying meal.

• Yam rice (adapted from this recipe) ~ flavors and texture were a little off...

• Baked yams with coconut oil and sea salt ~ yummmmm!

Eco-Vegan News

• Animal Rights Conference in LA is coming up (July 2011) - register now to get the discounted rate.
• Some say Jessica Simpson is becoming a vegan celebrity, even though she's not actually vegan, her fiancé is. But, she's taking cooking classes (I wonder with who), so maybe she'll adapt the plant-based diet...
• Carrie Underwood Says to Protect Others She Will Not Cook Meat
• Alicia Silverstone is added to the list of veg celebs who are pregnant right now - hopefully this means vegans will really be taking over the world in 20+ years (just wait until I start having kids!). Alicia has some great articles on vegan pregnancy on her website The Kind Life.
• Fairmont Hotels offer vegan options ~ "The luxury hotel line has begun to include a “Lifestyle Cuisine Plus” option on their menu which targets guests with diabetes, heart disease and gluten free issues as well as those eating a macrobiotic, raw or vegan diet."

5 Eco-Vegan Things Worth Sharing from the Web:

1. Why Bees Matter ~ most vegans choose not to eat honey because we care about bees, and this is a big topic of debate. I'm honestly still not sure how I feel about the matter, especially when I read about the bee crisis. We need bees to pollinate our crops and plants, otherwise we're pretty much screwed.
2. Bring Back the Bar: Soap Flakes ~ a cool, non-wasteful way to get the most out of your bar soap. But you may not be using this if you go Soap Free.
3. Carnival cruise line is far from vegan ~ check out this sad post my friend Lindsey at Happy Herbivore wrote about her awful experience with the ship. We should all raise our voices and express our disapproval with Carnival and let them know they should serve plant-based options.
4. 5 Food New Year’s Resolutions ~ sure, it may be well past the typical time to make resolutions, but I believe you can make them any time of year. This article highlights a lot of things that I believe are crucial to the health of our bodies and the planet.
5. New York City’s Plan for Sustainability ~ it's about time one of my favorite cities in the world became greener!

Eco-Vegan Daily Download: Nuts, Kale Chips, & Healthy Beauty

• I have to say I think the Sir Richard's review is one of my favorites that I've ever done.

• Vegan Alfredo (cashew & almond based) with Ancient Harvest Quinoa spiral pasta and broccoli. Wow. This recipe proves that you don't need gluten or soy to have a delicious vegan meal!

Eco-Vegan Daily Download: Dogs, Beauty, Revolutions, & Plastic

• A local vegan blogger in LA nominated me for a Stylish Blogger Award - how sweet! She also listed some of my favorite sites, like Babe in Soyland and ¡Yo Soy!, and I found some new blogs to follow. Thanks Erika!

• I'm managing the digital content of a dog website and they want me to green it up! The site is called Dog News Daily and I'll be blogging about how to raise an eco companion! This will be great way for me to get back into the swing of my Eco-Vegan Dog site! Stay tuned.

Eco-Vegan Daily Download: Easy Health Food, Home Solutions, & Inspirations

Here's a new post concept I'm trying on for size: a download from my brain into yours. I have so many eco-vegan thoughts swarming through my mind all day and not enough time to write long posts on each topics, so why not give you a quick summary in hopes you'll be inspired? It's kinda like a journal of what I read, researched, ate, and want to do in the future. Since I'm testing this idea out, let me know what you think in the comment section - do you benefit from reading this?