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“Everything in it’s right place”

Published by VeganCauldron on August 8th, 2012

So I haven’t written anything in almost a year. It’s not because I didn’t want to, but sometimes life gets in the way. I don’t mean that in a negative way either. As my title states: everything was just in it’s right place. (Thank you Radiohead for such amazing music.)

Over the past weekend we went to Buffalo to buy food items and were pleasantly surprised to see that Sunwarrior was selling for $44 at Feel Rite. This is amazing because the best price I’ve ever seen it in Canada is $56 and most stores sell it for close to $70. Regardless, this just means that we stocked up on a lot of it! For anyone like me who has a gluten intolerance, we’ve come to accept that gluten free items are just out there to cost you a lot of money, hence the need to shop around and try to find better deals wherever we can find them. Wegmans always has a lot of options and much better prices too. I’m not going to list everything we bought but check it out!

In the past half year so many things have changed in our lives. We’ve met amazing people and we’re fully focusing on our upcoming Vegan Bloggers Conference (@VeganBlogsUnite) which will be taking place in Toronto in October 2013. The venue is still being worked on but should be finalized in September, 2012.

One of the most interesting people we met was Laurie Sadowski (author of a series of Gluten Free/Vegan baking books) whom we met at the Niagara VegFest back in June. I highly recommend you buy her book even if you’re not gluten free as the recipes are designed to not have that typical Gluten Free texture/flavour. You can visit her book’s website at The Allergy Free Cook.

And of course to end off the post I will post a video of one my favourite performances of Radiohead’s “Everything In It’s Right Place

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Zojirushi Rice Cooker

Published by VeganCauldron on October 6th, 2011

Who would have guessed that a rice cooker would make a difference in what seemingly appears to be a very simple item to cook. Just stick it in a pan with boiling water and there you go! Boy is that ever wrong. Up until now we used to buy the cheap $20 – $30 rice cookers at Canadian Tire and they worked ok but never stopped annoying me. The spray of starchy water and inconsistent results really didn’t make me want to make rice too often. Luckily (in retrospect) our rice cooker broke, so last weekend we went to Markham to see what the Asian shops were selling. We ended up buying a Zojirushi rice cooker.

 

 

 

 

 

Now the rice turns out perfect every time and it’s as if we were at a restaurant. It sounds funny to say but it has totally changed the way we prepare food because now we actually want to have rice every night and choose vegetables accordingly every day. Changing things up can get tricky, but it makes it a bit more like a game to prepare dinner now.

Here’s a picture of the rice cooker we chose:

So if you’re in the market for a new rice cooker, I definitely recommend investing in one of these bad boys. You won’t regret it!

A few pictures of my dinner tonight:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Concept Branding

Published by VeganCauldron on September 28th, 2011

 

 

 

 

The main reason I haven’t taken the time to blog for myself is that Lidia and I have been busy working on our own business for the past 8 months or so. What really kicked it off was our hatred of working in corporate settings. Us both being vegan made us really want to do something in the vegan community, which is where our idea of social marketing for vegan and ethical businesses was born.

No matter how difficult it can be at first, the number of amazing people we’ve met in the process has been totally worth it.

If you or anyone you know could use our services feel free to contact us! Our website is: http://conceptbranding.co.

 

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Respect

Published by VeganCauldron on September 19th, 2011

Everyone makes their own choices in life. Yet for some reason the mere mention of being vegan can bring out what seems to be pure hatred in some people. I never realized that trying to make a difference in the world was so hated on. Since when does wanting to do the least harm possible become something to be against?

Now yes I do realize that there are some evangelical vegans out there who never miss any opportunity to preach their message and harass anyone around them. That being said, not everyone in the “community” is like that and just like we don’t judge all omnivores it would be very much appreciated if the same respect would be paid back.

I just don’t get how someone’s dietary/lifestyle choices can affect someone so much as to them not wanting to even talk to someone.

Of course as previously mentioned this targets both parties, a vegan honestly can’t expect an omnivore to respect their choices if they don’t accept that omnivores also make their own choices.

So please everyone love each other!

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Vegan Bloggers Unite!

Published by VeganCauldron on September 15th, 2011

So my wife @LidiaLF started a group for vegan bloggers (@VeganBlogsUnite) to plan meet ups and to be able to communicate with each other. For now all we have is a Twitter page but we have secured a blog and will work on getting a forum going. So many exciting ideas and so many amazing people out there to connect with.

We’re open to any ideas as we want this to be a group where everyone’s involved.

We look forward to hearing from you all!

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It’s been a while

Published by VeganCauldron on September 13th, 2011

So I haven’t blogged in a couple months and I really don’t have any reason for it. Sometimes it’s just hard to find inspiration or to take the time to sit down and write. To be honest, it’s also difficult to feel relevant or to not feel like I’m rambling.

All in all I had a wonderful summer and am feeling great! It’s funny how I used to be shy about being veg, but now I love living our vegan lifestyle. I love knowing that I am making a difference even if it’s a tiny one. Everything helps right?

I hope this will give me a bit more inspiration to write more often from now on!

A quick run through of random events such as recycled art in Montreal’s Eaton Centre:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raw zucchini spaghetti from Nzyme:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Raw tacos at Live Food Bar:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Playing with my parents dog Coco:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And finally the Toronto Vegetarian Food Festival where we met lots of amazing people and had lots of great food!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Farmers’ Markets

Published by VeganCauldron on July 11th, 2011

This weekend we spent both days at farmer’s markets. Saturday morning we went to Evergreen Brickworks farmers market and on Sunday we went to Leslieville Farmers market. Both markets feature organic produce and items such as coffee and raw chocolate. Brickworks has been around for much longer and is in an amazing location which is hard to beat when it comes to surroundings, but really the most important part of a market is what’s sold there. It wouldn’t be fair to compare the amount of inventory and selection at each as Brickworks has the advantage of being more trafficked due to it being around for so much longer. I enjoyed both markets equally for completely different reasons.

Brickworks has stunning scenery and a huge covered area where the stands are. There’s also an arts & crafts building and a lot of walking trails surrounding it so you can easily spend an afternoon there.

Leslieville Farmers Market on the other hand is much more cosy. The stands are set up around a “field” (open park) but it was much easier to get around and the vendors were extremely friendly.

I highly recommend both and if you ever see us there say hi! We’ll be at both almost every weekend!

 

 

 

 

 

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Chex cereal finally came to Canada!

Published by VeganCauldron on June 27th, 2011

As the subject line says, Chex cereal finally came to Canada! This is exciting for me because there really aren’t many options for gluten free cereals, and out of the few options most aren’t the most appetizing. Up to this point we’ve been driving down to Buffalo to get Chex but it was honestly a bit silly to drive so far just for cereal. Though we’re always looking for a reason to get away.

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Ahimsa

Published by VeganCauldron on June 20th, 2011

Everyone strives to live a life of no harm. Everyone has different ideals as to what no harm is, and if anyone ever tries to tell you that yours is wrong stand up for your beliefs. If you don’t know how to then you might want to rethink your ideals.

Ahimsa is one of those philosophies I truly respect the most from Hinduism. I do believe that non violence does bring good karma in the long run. My personal views are that animals have equal rights in the world as humans. I don’t value one soul over another’s and I will respect them all equally.

Taken from Wikipedia

All this to say that I think everyone should respect everyone and if you have time I highly recommend reading up on ahimsa and Jainism.

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Lifestyle choices

Published by VeganCauldron on June 17th, 2011

I recently read an article on BBC that Morrissey banned meat from any venue he’s performing at. As much as I respect him for it, it also made me wonder how he can force a whole group of people to follow along his ideals. Sure, these ideals are the same as mine but I still find it odd that this would be one of his requirements to perform somewhere.

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