Do Life Right

Ask any person today where calcium comes from and 99 times out of 100, you’ll hear: Dairy, cheese, milk, or calcium fortified orange juice.
I find it fascinating how the milk industry has used this marketing gimmick so effectively that practically everyone I have ever met truly and honestly believes this myth.
Let’s start over. What [...]

After watching a fun McDougall M.D. episode (they are 30 minute shows shown once per week), we made a yummy vegan lasagna based on a recipe on the show. My daughters enjoyed making it!
Ingredients:

1 package uncooked whole wheat lasagna noodles
1 package lite tofu
1 package vegan mozzarella cheese - cut however you want
1 package frozen [...]

My family and I live on an acreage south of Tucson, Arizona. We are fortunate enough to have land with many mature saguaros (as evidenced by many of my photographs on this site). We’ve owned our land for four years and we’ve lived on it for slightly over two. In those years, [...]

No, not all maple syrup is technically vegan or even vegetarian. Seems unbelievable, doesn’t it?
What is in maple syrup that isn’t vegan? Possibly animal fats.
A small amount of fat (oil) is often added to maple syrup during its processing in order to reduce the foaming. The fat is skimmed off at the [...]

I am vegan and I enjoy a nice glass of wine. So, any ol’ bottle is fine, right? Well… Sorry to disappoint, but not all wine is vegan, nor even vegetarian for that matter. How could it not be? Well, it’s similar to sugar and maple syrup; the product [...]

My completely vegan family (2 adults and 2 children- ages 11.5 and 7.5) is currently “On the Road Again” traveling around northern Arizona, and eastern and southern Utah. This is why there hasn’t been a post for a couple of days. We had the highest intentions of bringing bags of food with us. [...]

The following unedited post is written (and typed up) by my Always Unschooled 11.5 year old daughter, Zoë. She interviewed my Always Unschooled 7.5 year old daughter, Teagan, yesterday. Teagan, on her own with no prompting, took a variety of food ingredients and created a solar system on our kitchen table. All [...]

Johnny Rockets is giving away free veggie burgers for World Vegetarian Week (May 19 to 25).  They seem to do this annually.  The Streamliner burger itself is a vegan Boca Burger.  Just order it with no cheese and no mayo and it is instantly vegan.  I’ve found this restaurant to be very accommodating to vegans [...]

A degree, a simple piece of paper. It’s a declaration to the world that the bearer of said paper officially “Now Knows Enough”. Woo-Hoo! Party Time!
But, do you? Does that little piece of paper really mean you know enough? Enough for what? To be successful? To be happy? [...]

Having attended Pie Party 2007, I’m thrilled to advertise the 6th annual Pie Party 2008. There will be over 150 pies and they are all vegan (raw, gluten-free, and sugar-free options available)! Amazing! Everyone in my family highly enjoyed the party last year. There were door prizes, raffles, t-shirts and pins [...]