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Review: Eat Awesome: A regular person’s guide to plant-based, whole foods.
Posted on April 5, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYLet me start out by saying this really is “A regular person’s guide to plant-based, whole foods.” I flipped through these recipes and they are all fairly simple and basic. I love that this entire e-cookbook is all about YOU! You get to decide how much of what ingredients you want. There are no [...]
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Downtown Las Vegas is Going Green
Posted on March 25, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYSaturday was filled with community, consciousness and social change… needless to say that is my kind of day! My morning started off at Vegas Roots Community Garden to work on my garden plot for the ‘giving back‘ project. We have to get the plot ready for Spring planting. In order to get the plot [...]
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Vegas SOUP is cooking up social change!
Posted on March 22, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYLast Sunday Vegas Roots Community Garden hosted Vegas SOUP. The first Vegas SOUP launched in November 2011 and is set to be a bi-monthly event (with the holidays they skipped a month). The idea of SOUP is spreading around the country. It’s a grassroots micro-grant program the connects caring individuals in the local community to supporting people [...]
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broccoli talk with kids in las vegas
Posted on March 22, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYLast Saturday afternoon, I was asked to speak on behalf of Vegas Roots Community Garden at a Junior League Las Vegas event entitled ‘Kids in the Kitchen’. The event aims to promote healthy eating from an early start. Not going to lie, I wasn’t sure what type of ‘healthy’ eating was going to be [...]
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my birthday recap.
Posted on March 20, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYFirst of all, thank you all for the kind birthday messages. I had so much fun reading everyone’s positive mantra and greatly appreciated the notes of encouragements. You all rock my world! So I’ll be honest. Every year the day before my birthday I freak out… like really get into my own head. It’s [...]
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my birthday give a-way!
Posted on March 18, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYHi everyone! Today is my BIRTHDAY (27 years young playa!) and I wanted to spread some extra love to my veganconsultant.com family because you all are helping me make my birthday wish come true! Today you have the chance to win my FAVORITE yoga dvd by the lovely Tara Stiles. It’s an AMAZING work out to get [...]
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NEW vegan online marketplace with free shipping!
Posted on March 8, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYDo you love a good discount, free shipping and looking to purchase products with a consciousnesses? Our friends at Vegan Cuts has you covered. They just launched Vegan Cuts Market. It’s a curated online shop full of special offers on vegan food, clothing, body care products and more. There is more than 25 vegan products in [...]
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Review: Ronald’s Donuts
Posted on March 7, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYA common misconception about the vegan diet is vegans just can eat tofu everyday and are deprived of delicious foods. The major difference of vegan dessert is they do not contain eggs, milk, or any other animal byproducts. Vegans love their sweets too! A great local spot to get your vegan sweets fix is located [...]
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Vegan pancake time!
Posted on March 2, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYThink you have to go without pancakes because you are vegan? Hell no! Vegans enjoy super yummy pancakes like the best of them just without the cruelty {I swear that makes the pancakes taste better}. Our wonderful friend Kat of Kat’s Hot Cakes is here to show you a fun step-by-step guide to make cornmeal-flax [...]
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Berkeley Vegan Earth Day is coming up!
Posted on February 21, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYI am SUPER excited to be a part of this years Berkeley Vegan Earth Day! This is the second annual event and is hosted by the lovely Karine of Karine Brighten Events. The event will feature John McDougall MD, Michael Klaper MD, Eco Chef Bryan Au, screenings of Vegucated, The Cove and many more super cool speakers including [...]
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Review: Chia Goodness
Posted on February 19, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYThese products were great to try and are actually pretty nice because you can eat them hot or cold, there is no cooking required and they are quick and easy to make. You can have Chia Goodness for breakfast or snack or whenever you want a healthy meal. You can also add this to yogurts [...]
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Las Vegas gets Plant-Strong!
Posted on February 6, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYLast Monday evening, Rip Esselstyn gave a free lecture at Whole Foods Las Vegas Blvd. To be honest, I wasn’t sure how many locals would come to an event to learn about eating a plant-based diet. To my surprise by 6:45pm it was standing room only. The room was filled with people from all [...]
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Zappo’s Delivering Happiness Experience
Posted on January 30, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYLast Thursday I attended Zappo’s “Delivering Happiness” event which highlighted a non-profit I work closely with called Tonopah Community Garden. The night also featured three other speakers who talked about what made them happy and how they found happiness. It was an interesting experience. At first I felt uncomfortable because the format of the [...]
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Paula Deen with a side of diabetes
Posted on January 13, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in HEALTH + WELLNESSWe know Paula Deen for her Southern charm, deep fried foods, butter loving ways and her take on “comfort food” with recipes including grilled steak sandwiches, shrimp salad sandwiches and yellow squash and ham soup. Non of which sound comforting to me. In today’s New York magazine they reported Paula Deen has diabetes. Knowing what she [...]
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Americans are eating less meat
Posted on January 12, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYAccording to a recent New York Times article written by Mark Bittman “Americans eat more meat than any other population in the world; about one-sixth of the total, though we’re less than one-twentieth of the population”. However, these facts are changing. The department of agriculture predicts Americans’s will cut down their our meat and poultry consumption 12.2% less in [...]
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Review: The Compassionate Diet
Posted on January 7, 2012 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYLet me start out by saying that I read this book in one day. The entire book is only 160 pages! That is a book anyone is able to read whether or not they are super busy. This book is very straightforward and lays out the cold hard facts about being vegan. The authors explain [...]
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“Shit Vegans Say” goes viral
Posted on December 30, 2011 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYI think it’s so crazy cool amazing that only since Christmas night {5 days ago} “Shit Vegans Say” has over 100,000 hits! The moral of this story is vegans have a sense of humor and enjoy a good laugh. I showed my family and they even got a kick out of it because they have heard [...]
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Holiday Give-Away Winners!
Posted on December 23, 2011 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYTo give your holidays an extra vegan boost, the winners of our 1st ever holiday give a-way will receive an email today! It was amazing to read every one’s reasons for living vegan, very inspiring. Just wanted to say thank you again for all the business owners who generously donated gifts and to everyone who [...]
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Christmas miracle for mom and baby
Posted on December 20, 2011 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYLove heart warming stories with happy endings? If so, you’ll love this one! Farm Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York received a call from a woman whose relative own a slaughterhouse. Her family purchased “spent” dairy goats at a stockyard and were ready for slaughter the goats. To every one’s amazement, one of the goats gave [...]
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“…jumped off the carnivore ship with both feet”
Posted on December 19, 2011 by VEGAN CONSULTANT in COMMUNITYI left my corporate life behind me in the middle of 2010 to chase my dreams, capture them and tame them in to reality. Little did I know at the time where that would take me! The prior ten plus years of my life were spent in corporate mentoring and management roles which comes [...]
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