Life-changing vegan food stuff (ppk2013)

Quarantined · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:17 am

does anyone know of good round-ups from the Natural Products Expo West from vegan bloggers? I've been searching but my skills are off today.

allularpunk · **Posted:** Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:34 am

I think the new vegan snack box trend is super cool. Guess that started last year though, but maybe it'll really take off this year?

Also, these: http://vegancuts.com/offer/dang-coconut-chips Coconut chips! They were so surprisingly delicious amazing crunchy salty sweet toasty wonderfulness!

InVegetablesWeTrust · **Posted:** Thu Mar 14, 2013 9:25 am

lepelaar wrote:

They're finally making vegan Oreos in Europe!

I second this! ITS AMAZING! Biggest let down when I first went vegan, read online, not realizing it was an american site I was looking at, that oreos were vegan. I went to the shop, read the packet and collapsed in the biscuit isle and cried.

brassicajane · **Posted:** Thu Mar 14, 2013 7:36 pm

My favorite new (to me) recipe is the Ugandan Peanut Stew in Vegan World Feast. I'm blissed out every time I eat it. I always use soy curls and I add a ton of kale or collards to it. It's amazing over noodles or rice. Hell, it'd probably be good on cardboard.

ijustdiedinside · **Joined:** Sun Sep 05, 2010 8:43 pm **Posts:** 8678

strawberryrock wrote:

I ate a box of the new Enjoy Life crispy chocolate chip cookies in a pretty short amount of time. I don't usually buy boxes of cookies but I was kind of drunk and they were new and the Enjoy Life not crispy ones aren't that great but I figured I would give them a try and either they are the best boxed xgfx cookies ever or they were because I was drunk.

those are vegan? damn! i should have known they were, but they just said dairy free on the front, so i assumed they'd have eggs. I'll have to give them a try!

strawberryrock · **Joined:** Sun Oct 24, 2010 6:15 pm **Posts:** 1695

ijustdiedinside wrote:

strawberryrock wrote:

I ate a box of the new Enjoy Life crispy chocolate chip cookies in a pretty short amount of time. I don't usually buy boxes of cookies but I was kind of drunk and they were new and the Enjoy Life not crispy ones aren't that great but I figured I would give them a try and either they are the best boxed xgfx cookies ever or they were because I was drunk.

those are vegan? damn! i should have known they were, but they just said dairy free on the front, so i assumed they'd have eggs. I'll have to give them a try!

I'm pretty sure every product by Enjoy Life is free of the nine most common allergens, so no eggs anywhere.

parkerk · **Joined:** Thu Aug 16, 2012 2:52 pm **Posts:** 158

I predict that this year will be the year of vegan meringue. First there's Loomi's ongoing success with Miyoko's flax goo, and then the other day I noticed that one of the winning desserts in the latest VegNews contest was a pavlova. What exciting times we live in!

m.iau · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 6:28 am **Posts:** 184

Speculoos has a chocolate version. It says "new" on the jar, but I'm not sure when it first came out.

saveur · **Joined:** Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:36 am **Posts:** 148

Sometimes I am behind the ball, but this is what I have been loving lately:

soft/fresh tofu for tofu scrambles: http://tastespace.wordpress.com/2013/03 ... -scramble/

I have heard boiling tofu is the next best thing but have not tried it yet: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/885145

beer-soaked fries (yes this was "discovered" a while ago but still very very good): http://tastespace.wordpress.com/2013/03 ... ato-fries/

I have been loving Ayurvedic cooking after getting this cookbook:
http://www.amazon.ca/AYURVEDIC-VEGAN-KI ... 1570672865

Etsy vegan lip balms. I have a complete list of my favourites here but I love Orange Thyme:
http://tastespace.wordpress.com/2013/03 ... lip-balms/

Mango puree for baked goods, as seen in this Mango cupcake with a mango buttercream frosting:
http://tastespace.wordpress.com/2013/02 ... ing-vegan/

saveur · **Joined:** Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:36 am **Posts:** 148

Some more ideas...

1 - jackfruit, done BBQ style mostly. VEW has a recipe but have not tried it yet. I also have a crab cake recipe with jackfruit on my hit-list

2- ecookbooks. I never thought I'd like them but they are very useful for searching for specific ingredients and are usually cheaper. I still love leafing through real books, though. Even better when I can take ecookbooks out from my library! No fines, too, because they automatically get returned, ha!)

3- recipes on my android. i love cheftap (free!). i collect recipes form blogs and elsewhere and have my own collection on my android. i LOVE that it can swoop in and take recipes from pinterest albums without any copying-pasting:
http://cheftap.com/

4- psyllium. this has to do with sarah's loaf of bread. it calls for psyllium. i have seen quite a few recipes for psyllium recently. i love it, too. i've made a chocolate-hemp microwave cake with psyllium as the binder. :)

geeksweetheart · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 12:05 pm

Thanks for that post saveur, I'm ordering some Orange Thyme lippies!

missmuffcake · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 2:08 pm

the butterfinger bar from Go Max Go was a hit. i liked the EB cheeze puffs enough - but i am just not a chip/snack chip person. the new cookie cereal from Barbra's is good, reminds me of something i had as a kid!

saveur · **Joined:** Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:36 am **Posts:** 148

geeksweetheart wrote:

Thanks for that post saveur, I'm ordering some Orange Thyme lippies!

Awesome! I love them! Please, let me know how you like them. :)

jdfunks · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 3:55 pm

Quarantined wrote:

does anyone know of good round-ups from the Natural Products Expo West from vegan bloggers? I've been searching but my skills are off today.

I saw this: http://supervegan.com/blog/all-you-real ... expo-west/

saveur · **Joined:** Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:36 am **Posts:** 148

jdfunks wrote:

Quarantined wrote:

does anyone know of good round-ups from the Natural Products Expo West from vegan bloggers? I've been searching but my skills are off today.

I saw this: http://supervegan.com/blog/all-you-real ... expo-west/

This is a good facebook album:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 742&type=1

geeksweetheart · **Posted:** Mon Mar 25, 2013 10:04 pm

saveur wrote:

geeksweetheart wrote:

Thanks for that post saveur, I'm ordering some Orange Thyme lippies!

Awesome! I love them! Please, let me know how you like them. :)

I'm psyched, I got peach honey cream, earl grey tea, jasmine tea, green tea with honey, and meyer lemon cupcake. Emailed prior to confirm the honey flavors do not contain actual honey. I was JUST saying last week how badly I wanted perfume that smelled like earl grey and jasmine teas. Yum.

saveur · **Joined:** Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:36 am **Posts:** 148

geeksweetheart wrote:

saveur wrote:

geeksweetheart wrote:

Thanks for that post saveur, I'm ordering some Orange Thyme lippies!

Awesome! I love them! Please, let me know how you like them. :)

I'm psyched, I got peach honey cream, earl grey tea, jasmine tea, green tea with honey, and meyer lemon cupcake. Emailed prior to confirm the honey flavors do not contain actual honey. I was JUST saying last week how badly I wanted perfume that smelled like earl grey and jasmine teas. Yum.

Yay! I have the vanilla honey and it is very nice.. and smells like honey! The meyer lemon cupcake smells like a cupcake, I was baffled... it smells like a baked good! :)

Moon · **Posted:** Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:40 am

geeksweetheart wrote:

saveur wrote:

geeksweetheart wrote:

Thanks for that post saveur, I'm ordering some Orange Thyme lippies!

Awesome! I love them! Please, let me know how you like them. :)

I'm psyched, I got peach honey cream, earl grey tea, jasmine tea, green tea with honey, and meyer lemon cupcake. Emailed prior to confirm the honey flavors do not contain actual honey. I was JUST saying last week how badly I wanted perfume that smelled like earl grey and jasmine teas. Yum.

Earl grey tea perfume? Heaven!

missmuffcake · **Posted:** Tue Mar 26, 2013 9:58 am

i have been looking for a earl grey perfume for years!

geeksweetheart · **Posted:** Tue Mar 26, 2013 10:33 am

Well... the earl grey and jasmine tea scents are in lip balm rather than perfume... but if I love it, I'm going to ask her if she'd make perfume oil--she makes other perfume oils.

fetalexplosion · **Joined:** Thu Oct 21, 2010 10:11 pm **Posts:** 447

Couldn't you just use bergamont essential oil?

missmuffcake · **Posted:** Tue Mar 26, 2013 2:20 pm

fetalexplosion - you may be onto something!

Carolina · **Joined:** Sat Nov 06, 2010 6:55 pm **Posts:** 10

I've been on ppk for a while but when the forum changed I forgot my logon info (darn you autolog!) so have not been posting. in fact, though, my husband & I were testers for AFR. I'm posting this just in a sort of celebration/recognition. I teach at a university in texas, and of course caf options have been few - until recently. I just got an email from the caf people, sent out to all and sundry: a special menu based on the idea of 'forks over knives' - all vegan, most gf! when I wrote to express my gratitude, the author of the msg outed herself as a longtime vegan, and told me that a number of the recipes being used are yours, Isa. she'd never heard of ppk (I know!) so will be checking it out. and I made a friend - first other vegan I've met on campus :)

saveur · **Joined:** Sat Apr 16, 2011 4:36 am **Posts:** 148

That's awesome! I am moving to Texas in a few months so it is nice to know I will not be a lone vegan. ;)

kittee · **Posted:** Tue Mar 26, 2013 11:57 pm

this should have been on last year's list but:
hurraw lip balm.

xo
kittee

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