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June 11, 2018
Is My Vegan Diet Deficient? Let’s Find Out.
From BakeandDestroy.net:
Disclosure: This post is sponsored by HealthLabs.com, however all opinions expressed here are my own. Please see my disclosure statement for more information.
This is my first sponsored post in more than 10 years of writing this blog. I’ve received hundreds of offers to shill everything from essential oils to matching pajamas for your whole family but I’ve always turned them down because it took me a long time to earn your trust, so when I recommend a product or serv...
June 8, 2018
Friday Five: Trends from the 2018 Sweets and Snacks Expo
From BakeandDestroy.net:
I’ve attended the Sweets and Snacks Expo as an exhibitor a few times, but it’s a whole different world when the press pass goes on. Last year I went with a mission to find at least five really great new vegan products, and I did. (Check out last year’s post and finds here.)
This year I didn’t find as many new products – although I did find a handful, and some new flavors from old favorites. So I thought I’d mention a few throughout this post, which will focus on some...
May 18, 2018
Dough Down Throw Down IV Vegan Edition
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Paulie Gee’s is one of my favorite restaurants in Chicago (find it among my other faves in my Chicago’s Best Vegan Eats Guide). It’s an omnivore, woodfired oven joint with extensive vegan options. We’re talking housemade faux meats, cheese that isn’t nasty old Daiya, vegan cake AND ice cream for dessert… I just love it. So I was EXTRA stoked when the owner of the Logan Square location, Derrick, asked me to compete in their first all-vegan Dough Down Throw Down pizza b...
Friday Five: Vegan Protein Powders That Don’t Suck
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People ask me all the time what my favorite vegan protein powder is, and up until last year when I joined a gym and stopped eating like a raccoon that lives in an all-vegan dumpster, I honestly had no idea because I’d never tried one. Flash forward to now when I down a nutrition shake every morning for breakfast and I’ve definitely separated the studs from the duds.
Everyone’s tastes and dietary preferences are different, of course, so don’t take these picks for gospe...
May 11, 2018
Friday Five: The Five Best Vegan Things I’ve Eaten Lately
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[image error][image error]It’s been a while since I did a random round-up of vegan snacks (re: Vegan Chocolate Attack, Healthy Snack Obsession and Vegan Sweets and Snacks) but I’ve been having really good luck trying new things lately and wanted to share. Some of these are not so much snacks as pantry items, but hear me out because they’re worth a try.
1. Rule Breaker SnacksDuuuuuuuuuuude. The folks at Rule Breaker Snacks reached out to me to see if I wanted to try their new Birthday Cake fla...
April 13, 2018
Friday Five: Five Cupcake Wars Secrets Revealed
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It’s been nine years since I was a judge on the pilot episode of Cupcake Wars, but my tell-all post about the experience is still one of my most popular! At the time I just wanted to address the questions I was getting about my specific episode, but now I want to address some of the more general questions people search, leading them to my original post.
Oh, and if you want to see the episode I was on, it’s on Amazon for $1.99.
1. What Happens to All the Cupcakes?
Agai...
Friday Five: Reusables That Won’t Make You Look Like a Dork
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[image error][image error]My friend Ashlee Piper’s amazing book Give a Sh*t: Do Good. Live Better. Save the Planet.[image error]hits shelves this summer (but you can pre-order it now!) and I’m so stoked for her I decided to dedicate this #FridayFive to her favorite subject – giving a sh*t about the environment.
My favorite thing about Ashlee’s book is how incredibly practical it is. My second favorite thing is that she asked me to write a blurb for the jacket. She makes reducing your footprint fun, easy, a...
April 11, 2018
The Impossible Slider Debuts At White Castle: Vegans Everywhere Fight About It
From BakeandDestroy.net:
Update: Since posting this story I’ve visited my local White Castle to try this burger. I thought I’d pass along the info that the combo they’re promoting includes one Impossible slider and one regular slider – some locations have allowed people to instead purchases two Impossible sliders but the location we went to was not as cooperative. Additionally, ordering this item without the non-vegan cheese was tricky for us – the first round came out with cheese de...
The Impossible Slider Debuts At White Castle
From BakeandDestroy.net:
Starting Thursday, April 12, 2018, the “Impossible Slider” will be available anytime in 140 White Castle locations throughout New York, New Jersey and Chicagoland. I don’t normally share news like this on my site, but as a 20-year herbivore I was struck by the significance of fast food chain White Castle adding it’s third vegan option to the menu.
This news went out as an embargoed release, meaning media outlets aren’t supposed to post until tomorrow, but I’ve seen a...
March 23, 2018
Friday Five: 5 Things I Learned Throwing Chickens for Svengoolie
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Back in 2013, Teno and I got to spend Halloween morning baking BurgerTime-inspired whoopie pies on You & Me This Morning – which was cool, but not as cool as meeting Svengoolie on set. We stayed in touch, and reunited this week on the set of his iconic show.
For any squares reading this, Svengoolie is late-night a horror/sci-fi movie host (think Elvira or Vampiria, but you know, a dude). The character originated with Jerry G. Bishop in 1970, and was taken on by Rich K...
