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Making Vegan Easy Week 31 Round-Up

August 6, 2012

Every day in 2012 I am posting one tip on my Facebook page to make living vegan easier. It’s going to take an army of vegans to move the world in a more compassionate direction. Join us today!

This is where we practiced yoga during the VegNews Yoga Retreat.

Tip #211: Check out VegNews’ vacations. Some are in conjunction with Veg Voyages. The next trip is the Vegan Yoga Retreat to Mexico. I went on this trip last year. The food and the yoga were amazing and I met some wonderful people.

Tip #212: Another vegan vacation option. Go sailing with Vegan Sailing.

Tip #213: Support small businesses. They are good for your neighborhood. (I wrote this after learning the yoga studio in my neighborhood closed.)

Tip #214: More vacation options. Go cycling in the UK.

Tip #215: Ready to plan a vegan vacation? Find a bunch of vegan travel tips at Circle Our Earth.

Tip #216: Last vegan vacation suggestion: How about staying at a vegan bed & breakfast.

Tip #217: Before you get a tattoo, do your research to find a vegan tattoo shop.

Hey friends, have you shared these tips with your family and friends yet? If not, do it today. Join me on Facebook to read these tips daily and to learn more about what’s going on in the vegan world.

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Making Vegan Easy Week 30 Round-Up

July 30, 2012

Every day in 2012 I am posting one tip on my Facebook page to make living vegan easier. It’s going to take an army of vegans to move the world in a more compassionate direction. Join us today!

Tip #204: If you ever wondered why environmentalists are against air conditioning, check out, Losing Our Cool. Despite the heat, I’m reading this book now. Then read my post on air conditioning here.

Tip #205: Yoga is for everyBODY. It’s a great compliment to the vegan lifestyle. Yoga helps me find peace of mind in this complicated world. Check out YogaFinder to find a class near you.

Tip #206: Smile.

Tip #207: I don’t know about you but I don’t like to exercise when it’s hot outside. In fact, I get really, really lazy. Maybe some of you feel the same way? Then, here’s a friendly reminder. Daily exercise is important.

Tip #208: Read, Belief on the Right Side of History, and share.

Tip #209: I found some cute message shirts on this website. I think I’ll wear my “There is no mad tofu disease” shirt today. Do you wear message shirts?

Tip #210: Take a vacation! Over the next week, I will share some veg vacation options. Where have you vacationed recently? Did you find good vegan food options?

 

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Eat Vegan Anywhere, Really

October 17, 2011

Wherever you go, be vegan!

It’s easy being vegan ’cause you have a Vegan Passport. Make world-wide travel easy by picking up a copy. Thanks to the folks at The Vegan Society, this handy little book makes vegan eating easy and won’t take up much space in your suitcase.

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Veggie-Friendly Restaurants Everywhere

October 11, 2011

It’s easy being vegan ’cause there are veggie-friendly restaurants all over the place.

Tips for Locating Veg-Friendly Restaurants

Where I’ve been this year:

Blind Faith (Evanston, IL)
Bombay Spice (Chicago. Also in Phoenix.)
Budgies Burritos (Vancouver, BC)
Chicago Diner (Chicago)
Crow’s Nest (Kalamazoo, MI)

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Vegan Travel Made Easy

July 20, 2011

Recently I spent a week in La Jolla, California. When I travel, I rely on Happy Cow. It’s a website listing thousands of veg-friendly restaurants, markets and health food stores worldwide. This website makes eating vegan while traveling a breeze. To use the site, you enter your location and the site lists the veg-friendly options within your chosen radius. I use the Happy Cow app on my smartphone. The app uses the phone’s GPS, which makes the search even easier.

Search results for La Jolla proved disappointing. Only three eateries plus a market popped up. I was in California after all. We were on foot and none of these were within walking distance. Surprised by the lack of choices, I did a quick google search for “healthy restaurants in La Jolla.” I found Lean & Green just a few blocks away — not a vegan or vegetarian restaurant but it offers many vegan options prominently marked on the menu. Problem solved.

My one complaint about Happy Cow is that it won’t allow you to submit primarily omnivore restaurants. I would agree for the most part, however, last Winter I was in Cadillac, Michigan — not exactly a vegan-friendly town. The best option we could find for dinner was Ruby Tuesday’s. This restaurant offers a huge salad bar which is very vegan-friendly. It may be one of the few items on the menu that is vegan-friendly but I created a delicious and fulfilling meal as did my boyfriend and his daughter. When we went to submit this restaurant to Happy Cow, the site refused this listing because it was not vegan-friendly enough. In some parts of the world, the submission rules do a disservice to the vegan community, but other than that, this site is very useful and makes traveling easy.

Happy Cow’s site content is dependent on the veg community submitting new restaurants and adding restaurant reviews. So do your part to increase Happy Cow’s listings as I did by submitting a new restaurant. Now there are four vegan-friendly spots listed in La Jolla!

P.S. I’m off to submit a review for a new Chicago restaurant I visited last weekend, Urban Vegan. Yum!

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