Do Life Right

Thanks to this past Sunday’s Desperate Housewives episode, I’ve been craving potato skins. I haven’t had anything similar since becoming vegan. Here is our version (I came up with the recipe and my husband and my older daughter made them). They were fantastic! The only thing that would have made them [...]

The title of this post is the title of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine’s recent e-mail to me and thousands (millions?) of other people.  PCRM likes to keep up-to-date on health and they like to tell the world of their scientific findings.  Their e-mail mentions that the USDA is currently drafting revisions to The [...]

I’ve written more on this topic here:

“Vegan and Ethical Trick-or-Treating“
“Our Vegan Halloween 2007“

Halloween 2008 looks to be an excellent Halloween for my family.  My daughters have been working on their very artistic costumes for a while now.  I love what unique ideas they keep coming up with for what they will be.  This year my [...]

Oxymoron? No! Much to our surprise (after research on the topic of eating at Disneyland), eating a relatively healthy vegan diet while playing at Disneyland and Disney’s California Adventure wasn’t as hard as we’d imagined it would be (although it was a little boring).
Vegan food we found at multiple locations throughout Disneyland and [...]

I actually received the above insult in a sort-of obscure way. The person saying it honestly and truly believes that the only way a person can learn something — ANYTHING — is to go to school. They don’t believe it is possible to learn outside of a classroom environment about anything “important”. [...]

I honestly didn’t expect to talk about protein again on this blog, but it is looking like I need to again and it probably won’t be the last time. Yep, you’ve guessed it, the whole “Where does a vegan get protein?” question has come up again — multiple times. At a meeting I was [...]

Here’s a cool little quiz for you:

How Green is My Diet?

I’ve found the localvore movement very interesting. The world, or at least the United States, is on a green bandwagon. I’m all for that. I’ve been pushing for a green lifestyle since long before it was popular and in. I used [...]

My oldest daughter turned 12 yesterday! Happy Birthday to Zoë! Since she was born in the Chinese Year of the Rat and it is currently the Year of the Rat again, she decided to have a Chinese New Year’s themed Birthday party. Here are some of the details of her party.
For starters, my [...]

My oldest child turns twelve today.  As birthdays and anniversaries often do, I’ve been contemplating the years and what they’ve meant to me.  It’s true what they say about a parent with young children: The days are long, but the years are short.
There are full days that felt like years, and lately, the years have [...]

No, vegan meatloaf is not an oxymoron. I also don’t know why this is one of the most frequently made fun of vegan foods I hear about. I’ve tasted far more animal-meat meatloaves that tasted disgusting than vegan versions. Plus, you’ll never come across gristle or fat globs in a vegan version. [...]