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If so . . . Make sure you read Peter Tremayne’s fantastic new ebook, “The Essential Gluten Free Guide.” I’ve read the whole thing and there’s some well researched and easy to read information in there about how to stick to a gluten free diet without any kind of gimmick or false hope you see in some print these days. I highly recommend it – it’s very honest, straightforward and represents great value for money. Not only that, it comes with 6 valuable free bonuses; including a ‘Celiac Directory’ and ‘The Big Book of Gluten Free Recipes’ providing you with loads of information links and over 500 gluten free recipes.
Here’s the website where you can get more information:
Gluten Intolerance Information Revealed

by Jane Simpson

Vegans exempt animal products from their lifestyle. This is easy enough for committed older vegans, but how to raise a kid with no milk, ice cream, chocolate, or candy? In today’s, predominantly meat-dependent and animal fashion crazed world, it is certainly a challenge for vegan parents to raise their children. Fortunately, the years brought an abundance of information about vegan fashion, vegan shoes, vegan recipes, vegan lifestyle, and veganism. All that vegan parents need right now are determination and creativity to encourage their children to take up the vegan way of life.

The first hurdle vegans have to face is the question of feeding their children. There are lots of available food choices in the market today for vegan fare. Vegan recipes are not just salads; they extend to casseroles, baked dishes, and even desserts. Vegan ice creams, smoothies, and candies are now available in the market. These items taste just as good as the traditional dairy products minus the animal abuse. Children being raised on vegan diets won’t feel any different from non-vegan kids. The trick is to include substitutes for popular kiddie treats so vegan children won’t feel out of place with their non-vegan peers. Vegan dieticians recommend substituting tomato sauce with meat substitutes for regular meat sauces. There is a variety of soy cheeses and flavored soy milk drinks that are completely vegan without sacrificing flavors. Fruit waffles and juices are most welcomed treats. Meat substitutes in pork, beef, poultry, or fish flavors are available. Vegan kids would not miss out on the joys of junk food, except that theirs won’t cause them acne and make them healthier. “Junk” foods like popcorn, baked potato and vegetable chips, sweetened dried fruits, raisins, and fruit chips are popular choices. Beverages like fruit smoothies and fruit juices are deliciously sinful enough to be considered junk food.

However, kids are easier to manage than teenagers, more so when they’re vegans. There are the fashion trends to reckon with: that trendy leather jacket, the fur scarf, or the chic leather boots everyone is talking about. A teenager must have them. Remind them if they’re really up to wearing dead animal skins on their body and then buy them some enviable vegan fashion items. There are boutiques that sell exclusively vegan apparel. Vegan online shops also have extensive, not to mention, affordable and chic choices for vegan shoes, vegan clothes, vegan jackets, and even vegan accessories. Vegan cosmetics are also available and they have been proven to be better than the ones that are animal-tested and made with animal oils. After all, slim and fit vegan bodies deserve fashionably gorgeous vegan clothes.

Vegan family support groups assert that proper education and information about animal rights and abuse is important. Understanding the vegan lifestyle makes managing and raising vegan kids easier. When they are aware and informed, kids are surprisingly easy to handle. They do make their own choices, but with information, they usually make the right choice. So they strongly advise starting vegan families to encourage each other and educate their children to make them understand why is it good to be vegan. With understanding, the kids become cooperative and healthier, and the family stays together longer.

For more valuable information on vegan, please visit www.whatisavegan.com Provided By:Health and Fitness

Now for Victorians (how lucky are YOU!) You have access to the original Vegan Expo In Oz. Here’s a little history on this Expo . . . The Cruelty Free Lifestyle Expo started in 2002 and has grown each year to become the biggest and best yet. It is a unique event, offering stalls, free workshops and talks, live music and a huge raffle.

Everything you ever wanted to know about living a cruelty-free, vegan lifestyle can be found at this year’s Expo.

It is presented by Animal Liberation Victoria and Choose Cruelty Free, two of Melbourne’s hottest, not-profit animal rights groups. Get involved with the Expo in the magnificent heritage building, the Prahram Town Hall.

For more info go here: http://www.livecrueltyfree.org/

This year is very exciting for Aussies, due to the fact that we now have another ‘Vegan’ Festival to choose from…

This one is for Sydney-siders. The Upcoming ’Cruelty-Free Living Festival’ is estimated to be a fun-filled, day-long event with live bands, performers and speakers, cooking demonstrations, kids’ entertainment and more than 30 stalls from cruelty-free product producers, vegan restaurants, vegetarian food producers and animal charities. There will also be free workshops on topics such as vegetarian and vegan nutrition, ethical investment, armchair activism, etc, and screenings of the amazing Tribe of Heart documentaries: Peaceable Kingdom and The Witness in a mini-cinema.

So if you’re in Sydney on the 5th November why not go (or better yet drag your non-veg friends to the event – a great way to show them all about your lifestlye simply and easily) along to learn about simple things you can do every day to help save animals from cruelty, such as using products that haven’t been tested on animals, adopting homeless animals from shelters or pounds, kinder dietary choices, sponsoring animals in need, responsible pet care, and much more. Find out about the ethical, health and environmental benefits of cruelty-free living – all while eating delicious food, enjoying the entertainment and having fun.

Find out more here at the website: http://crueltyfreefestival.org.au/

Check out these cool fair labor, sweatshop free, vegan, vegetarian, and spiritual themed t-shirts.

If you haven’t seen this website you owe it to yourself to stop by. It’s all about ‘Veg Humor’ with heaps of cartoons that pick on carnivores. Some of these vegetarian cartoons are a real blast!

http://www.vegetus.org/vegtoon/vegtoon.html

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This is a Sampling of our ‘Veggie & Famous’
Quotes For Your Inspiration and Ethics Book
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Empowering Veggie Quote 1
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“Most people are largely unaware of the wide-ranging effects cattle are having on the ecosystems of the planet and the ortunes of civilization. Yet, cattle production and beef consumption now rank among the gravest threats to the future well-being of the earth and its human population. The world’s environment can no longer handle beef.”

                 – Jeremy Rifkin Of Beyond Beef

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Empowering Veggie Quote 2
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“Man Without Enemies: You have no enemies you say? Alas, my friend the boast is poor. He who has mingled in the fray of duty, that the brave endure, Must have made foes. If you have none, small is the work that you have done. You’ve hit no traitor on the hip, you’ve dashed no cup from perjured lip, you’ve never turned the wrong to right, you’ve been a coward in the fight.”

                 – Charles Mackay (British poet 1814-1889)
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Empowering Veggie Quote 3
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“All the arguments to prove human superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering, the animals are our equals.”

                 – Peter Singer
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Empowering Veggie Quote 4
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“I understand the allure of rigid orthodoxies for I used to be very ideologically inflexible. I used to be a rigid Vegan, Christian, Dance enthusiast, Marxist, etc. I was so locked into my beliefs that I genuinely believed (in the late 80’s and early 90’s by the way) that I was right and anyone who disagreed with me was wrong. Luckily time has passed and
I’ve (hopefully) become less of an ideologically uptight jerk. I’m still a began and I love Christ and dance music (the Marxism has fallen by the wayside) but now I would never say that I was right in my beliefs or that someone who disagreed with me was wrong. … I guess that democracy and a belief in individuals’ right to self-determination would be my fundamentalism now. …We can find comfort and utility in our beliefs, but that doesn’t mean that we’re right and that someone else is wrong. …The universe is a complicated place, and our belief systems should reflect and accommodate that fact, and our belief systems should be based on humility and a respect for the beliefs of others.”

        – Moby, in the printed introduction to his album “18,” February 2002
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Empowering Veggie Quote 5
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“As custodians of the planet, it is our responsibility to deal with all species with kindness, love and compassion. That these animals suffer through human cruelty is beyond understanding. Please help to stop the madness.”

      – Richard Gere

We love coconut in our household, so here’s a very quick and easy recipe for you to enjoy …

You will need:

• Shredded coconut (how ever much you desire)
• Dairy Free cooking chocolate

Method:

1. Melt chocolate in a double saucepan until fully melted and smooth..
2. Mix the coconut in with the melted chocolate.
3. Next spoon out onto some waxed paper or prepared dish.
4. Refrigerate until firm.

P.S. Add some dreid fruit or crushed nuts for an extra nice change to this recipe.

Enjoy