San Antonio Vegans

Vegan Research!

East Carolina University is recruiting pregnant vegan and vegetarian pregnant women to participate in a research study that examines urine and breast milk iodine concentration. We need your help in this process. We have attached a flyer with information regarding eligibility to participate in the study. We are requesting that you forward this e-mail to your members and/or post the attached flyer on your website to inform pregnant women of this study.
The following are the basic eligibility criteria:
• Following one of the following diet patterns: vegan or vegetarian,
• Currently pregnant,
• Willing to provide 1 sample of urine while pregnant and one sample of breast milk approximately one month after delivery,
• Willing to complete a web-based screening survey and a diet questionnaire.
Women selected for the study will receive a gift card to reimburse them for their time.
More information about the study can be found at: https://www.vegstudy.com/
To complete eligibility screening visit (please use Firefox as your browser): https://go.ecu.edu/veg-study
If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact me at: [email protected] or by calling 252-744-1013.
We sincerely appreciate your help.

Roman Pawlak, Ph,D, RD
Principal Investigator
East Carolina University

In case you need a vegan Thanksgiving Meal, Green Vegetarian Cuisine in San Antonio still has plates availalbe for pickup next Wendesday. $25 per person.

Thanksgiving2GO Dinner | Green Vegetarian Cuisine | Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurant in San Antonio, TX Green Vegetarian Cuisine® is a Southern Comfort, 100% plant based restaurant with something for everyone from vegans to vegetarians to flexitarians and beyond.

Thanksgiving vegan plates!

Thanksgiving Pre-Order SATX only | SOULFOOD REIMAGINED Every year, our goal is to create a Major impact globally by making plantbased options available on the biggest meat consumption day of the year! 46 million turkeys are eaten each year on Thanksgiving, that’s a huge carbon imprint! Our way to not only affect health in a positive way but help lower...

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How about some delicious Tex-Mex today? One of my favorite recipes
that I have created is sweet potato enchiladas smothered in vegan cheeze! http://glutenfreeveganjourney.blogspot.com/2016/03/creamy-sweet-potato-enchiladas.html

Creamy Sweet Potato Enchiladas I share recipes and healthful information that supports the journey to vitality with animal free, dairy free, egg free, & gluten free food.

By sharing your favorite vegan products, you have automatically been entered into our Veggie Award Prize Giveaway for a chance to win a Luxury Vegan Wine Country Getaway, 30 Days of Vegan Meal Delivery, the Ultimate Vegan Feast, a Gourmet Vegan Brunch, and a Vegan Burger Bonanza. Want to also score the brand-new issue of VegNews FREE? Here’s where: http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001vFK6omgZTS3-1x9no1pEMfo6Or5JWibF-lWTF9UwN3UDAJhXWhZxdUAQhe8BJklI_guATkBE6UTKeeMhqfknIhm6pPi2PwdO9gfXtpMtT_XwNyY3jykBeQT1SkiRhFbly9rLHQ2TSi6KDvTrqKXFK_HJpnYHS8zB&c=reMJgmbts2Pidwvv9UiOn7lxXgvmmdbYIWhWwxUIbCDonF17Zpjv5A==&ch=Muy-S-qrgbZVEkul2NMFK6c5d8lWvEGtNkzBifIutxuv3pZQ4_8nLA==

Our sister group, the San Antonio Vegan Society, is hosting Dr. William Tuttle, author of the World Peace Diet, next month. Register now!
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-san-antonio-vegan-society-welcomes-back-dr-will-tuttle-tickets-55844669911?fbclid=IwAR1mLVVVEtoB5ErE0EQYg-wt9JXkk3HuN33yI0EDrQzpOpwWj9HBKDluv_Q #

The San Antonio Vegan Society welcomes back Dr. Will Tuttle! The San Antonio Vegan Society (since 1988) is delighted to welcome back Kaz's favorite speaker, the very compassionate and lovely Dr. Will Tuttle and his beautiful wife, Madeleine Tuttle. http://willtuttle.com/madeleine.htm Lecture - Workshop - Piano Music with Dr. Will Tuttle, PhD BIO: Dr. Will Tut...

In the U.S., the National Day of Candy Acquisition is fast approaching (October 31st)! Much time and effort would be required reading labels to determine what candies would not violate your compassionate, ethical, and/or health conscious vegan and gluten free values, but being in the know is imperative, so I have compiled a list for you. Candy manufacturers seem to change their allergen statement annually: they have gone from having clear lists to being obscure, sending us to “every label every time”. I advocate that we should always read every label every time, but I also like a good starting point for knowing what is likely to contain gluten so I can just save some time from the start.

The animal products that go into some widely-available sweets may surprise you:

•Gelatin (made from animal bones and tendons)
•Milk fat
•Carmine, used in some artificial color and confectioner’s glaze (made from beetles)
•Lard
•Refined cane sugar (can be processed with charred bone fragments)

Fear not, my vegan and gluten free friends! While it may seem that many potential Halloween candies are not cruelty-free, you would be surprised at the amount of candy in the aisles that is safe for vegans, vegetarians, and gluten free folks.
When you’re about to dig into whatever candy your sweet tooth desires, always double-check the label to ensure the tasty treat your heart craves is also in line with your food ethics. For example, you may want to avoid most chocolate (milk and wheat are rampant in chocolate products), candy corn (contains gelatin), Junior Mints (contains carmine and gelatin) and almost anything made featuring marshmallows (contains gelatin).

Here are the best vegan and gluten free candies you can dig into this Halloween (and well, forever).

1. Cracker Jack Original Caramel Coated Popcorn and Peanuts
If you’re like me and addicted to all things sweet and salty, then Cracker Jack is the snack for you. It offers that sticky-sweet taste reminiscent of popcorn balls while being vegan and gluten free,and although tastes like it, doesn’t contain butter, as some caramel corn does.

2. Airheads
These tangy and taffy-like strips of awesome were introduced in 1986. Coming in a variety of flavors including cherry, watermelon, green apple, strawberry and blue raspberry Airheads are sold in bars, mini-bites and lollipops (found in Mexico and Spain).

3. Lemonheads
The popular lemon-flavored candy is tangy, sour, sugary, vegan and gluten free. According to its manufacturer Ferrara Pan, traditional Lemonheads do not contain any animal byproducts and are safe and ready for Halloween.

4. Hubba Bubba bubble gum
Chewing gum that is vegan and gluten free? Yes! The great thing about Hubba Bubba was that in 2009, they began manufacturing a sugar-free version. Some chewing gum contains gelatin or animal-derived stearic acid, but Hubba Bubba doesn’t, so you’re in the clear.

5. Gummies from Squish Candies
As you know, vegan gummy candies are hard to come by. Not anymore! Squish Candies a Montreal-based shop devoted to gourmet candy and specializing in gummies (particularly unique flavors like champagne, honey, blood orange and more). Their vegan and gluten free gummies are gelatin-free and promise no animal product use. Best part: you can order all these candies online and they ship all throughout North America. (Note: not all of Squish’s candies are vegan, but it’s easy to figure out which by using the filter on the search.)

6. Surfs Sweets Candy
Surf Sweets, founded in California, is a confectionary company dedicated to clean food choices. The company offers many vegan gummies, like Peach Rings, Gummy Worms, Sour Bears—all using no high fructose corn syrup, artificial colors or flavors. Plus they are entirely soy and gluten-free. They’re sold in shops throughout the U.S. and Canada, as well as online.

7. Smarties
Here in Canada we know Smarties as “Rockets.” Touted as “America’s favorite candy roll”, these chalky hard candies are a trick-or-treat classic. The calcium stearate (an anti-caking agent) that they use is vegetable derived.

8. JJ Sweet’s Cocomels
If you’re a fan of chocolate and caramel, then you’re going to love JJ Sweet’s Cocomels offerings. Using coconut milk, organic brown rice sugar, organic evaporated cane juice and xanthan gum, JJ Sweet’s Cocomels are an entirely certified gluten free, organic, non-GMO, kosher—and, of, course vegan—caramel company. Cocomels caramels and chocolate-covered caramels come in a in a wide range of flavors, including sea salt, vanilla and espresso. While you can buy Cocomels at many stores throughout North America, you can also order them online.

9. Swedish Fish
What’s not to love about Swedish Fish, the fish-shaped red chewy candy? Did you also know that they are vegan and gluten free? Yes!

10. Skittles
Praise to the candy gods! Skittles have been vegan and gluten free for a while. Which means you can still taste the rainbow without feeling guilty.

11. Sweet Tarts
A staple on the Halloween scene, Sweet Tarts—which have always been like a bigger, firmer, more sour cousin to Smarties—come in a number of offerings including classic, chewy rope, chewy, and lollipops.

12. Sour Patch Kids
These yummy gummy candies are bound with corn starch, not gelatin, and will help you get your sugary sweet fix. They’re vegan and gluten free, but probably still condemned by your dentist.

13. Sweet and Sara marshmallow confections
For Sara Sohn, owner of Sweet and Sara, giving up marshmallows and marshmallow-based treats was the toughest part of going vegan. So rather than become frustrated, she started her company to create vegan, non-GMO, kosher and gluten-free treats—many of them featuring marshmallows. Some of Sweet and Sara’s marshmallowy goodness includes peanut butter s’mores, and chocolate-covered lollipops, all vegan and gluten free!

14. SMARTIES
All Smarties® candy made by Smarties Candy Company are gluten‑free and vegan. All products are also free of milk, egg, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soy. All candy is made in entirely peanut‑free manufacturing facilities.

Repost from Gluten free Vegan Journey

Do you have any Almond Breeze?

Also, always be aware any pre-sweetened ANYTHING is not vegan if it contains sugar! (Animal bone char is used to refine sugar) Make sure your plant milk is vegan!

Recall: Some Almond Breeze almond milk may have actual milk Check your fridge. Cartons of Vanilla Almond Breeze almond milk are being recalled in more than two dozen states because they may have undeclared milk.

Exciting news!! Freebirds is now offering gluten-free, vegan alternatives to meat in all of their menu items!!!!! We are beyond excited for beyond meat, how about you?

All are invited join the San Antonio PlantPure pod at their next potluck, Monday, July 9 at 6:30 p.m. at Lions Field Center, 2809 Broadway Street, San Antonio, TX.
Please bring a whole food plant based (WFPB) dish. We eat foods cooked without oil and little to no added salt and refined sugar. If you need inspiration for a dish, check out the PlantPure, Engine2, or Dr. McDougall websites. If cooking is not your thing, feel free to bring some cut up fruit or vegetables.
Remember to bring your own drink, plate, bowl, and utensils. A copy of your recipe would be great, too!

The Corpus Christi VegFest is just a 3 weeks away! We hope to see you there. Please visit the event page and let us know you're coming 👍👍 https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1962096463824909&id=1667103736657518

All things vegan and great music, too! Come and enjoy the island sounds of the Padre Island Ukulele Club! Come on down to Veganvillle Corpus Christi June 23!!🌴🌴🎶🎶

https://www.facebook.com/PadreIslandUkeClub/

only one letter needed to describe this ... Mmmmmmmmmmm!!

Broccoli Rice I share recipes and healthful information that supports the journey to vitality with animal free, dairy free, egg free, & gluten free food.

CAN YOY HELP? A vegan traveler will be visiting San Antonio through Sunday and wants to find someone that would do hair and vegan makeup. Thank you in advance for your help!

Want to go vegan, but don't know where to start? Here's an excellent way: https://youtu.be/1piLL5yjz9E

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The big day is almost here: Super bowl Sunday. For some fans it won't be a fun day. Intense emotional strain, excitement, and distress experienced during viewing dramatic athletic games such as the Super Bowl can trigger a cardiovascular event. The type of foods eaten contributes GREATLY!

Super Bowl Food/Stress Can Trigger Heart Attacks Intense emotional strain and excitement along with high-fat, rich meals can trigger cardiac events, especially during sporting events and holidays.

Don't forget next week Dec 7th is a party benefiting Society For Animal Rescue and Adoption at the The Bonham Exchange A ticket purchase is part of the fundraiser they are having! You can purchase at door too (or show up to have a great time) They love meeting people who love animals! This is a human party so don't bring your pets! If you like to dance i recommend you go! :D Its all furrrr a great cause 🐾

This is Vegan Week at Mellow Mushroom in San Antonio! Be sure you check out the six amazing pizzas the Vegan chef has lined up for you! Support vegan pizza!!! https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1636798533032868&id=423889977657069

VEGAN WEEK is coming!

Here’s a sneak peek of what’s in the works for Dec 4 - Dec 10...

Featuring 6 specialty pies handcrafted by our Vegan Pie Master, Shae!

Vegan Pizzette with Roasted Pumpkin, Red Onion, & Sage

The flavors of fall!

vegnews.com For the dough:1-3/4 cups white bread flour1 teaspoon sea salt1 teaspoon active dry yeast1 teaspoon sugar7/8 cup lukewarm water1 tablespoon olive oil, plus more for oilingFine semolina, for dusting

Vegan Halloween Guide: Costumes, Candy, And Trick Or Treating

Vegan halloween guide https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fbitesizevegan.com%2Fvegan-lifestyle-2%2Fvegan-halloween-guide-costumes-candy-and-trick-or-treating%2F&h=ATOvzShy4spR7RIuhuz82kgl3Od_6nYyAMJxxjb41MzdXw-gJxB70jrdCBqoMnjh2mvYpuPUit82xA74Ua_pNQwdmoH6SmGFPVjQj4vxgpsEHYVSfPNf6PTKPmGKM2uSVy0WKkxFhOBQFVbfw_dTUZpSsT1CEtFBrSvzjOTia613xEklW7NhnAECMHGWRC95ZepwBc7jYIyMkAMt3QPHf0AXMy_i4U7gHazTdEPQk6E46-LzX03GE7fQ9GlXmqS6FCJvnCyK_5VUu42RZSDX20ngWmtO4M_-

bitesizevegan.com Halloween is a time for telling scary stories with the lights off, for braving haunted houses and coming up with the greatest costume concept ever created. But nothing says Halloween quite like cos…

Natalie Portman’s New Documentary About Farmed Animals Gets Standing Ovation at Telluride

Thank you Natalie.

mercyforanimals.org 👏👏👏

The Vegan Impossible Burger is Hitting a U.S. Burger Chain For the First Time Ever

Change is coming! It may not be in San Antonio YET, but this vegan burger IS the change we want to SEE! Now if only it were gluten free! ~ Shelley

onegreenplanet.org , also known as “the burger that bleeds.” Earlier this year, the meat-free patty had meat-eaters, vegans, and vegetarians lining up outside of Momofuku Nishi in hopes of getting a taste of its hyper-realistic goodness. The popularity of the burger led to it being added to

San Antonio Vegans at Texas Vegfest 2012

Rob Marenghi, ‘The Vegan Guitar Slinger’ – Free Song!

Hello you beautiful people. Have you heard 'The Vegan Guitar Slinger'? Think Nick Drake meets early Dylan with the philosophical ethics of Morrissey. Free song here!

robmarenghi.com 'Kick off your non-leather shoes and recline with w**d or wine to enjoy a…