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May 02, 2008
Sarah's Online Reference Warehouse: Vegan Resources
This is the second installment in the Sarah's Online Reference Warehouse. The first installment was about recommended Real Estate sites. This one is about vegan resources. As a new vegan, I had a hard time finding what I needed, and maybe this list will help somebody else.
Vegan/Vegetarian Recipe Sites
- The Vegetarian Lunchbox: veggie lunch recipes including a good deal of kid-friendly resources and recipes, and focusing on recipes for salads, soups, and sandwiches
- The Post Punk Kitchen: written by the author of some of my favorite vegan cookbooks, this site is one I often visit
- The Vegan Chef: written by a well-known vegan chef, hundreds of great recipes
- Compassionate Cooks Recipes: recipes organized by function or cuisine
- VegWeb Recipes: huge number of vegetarian and vegan recipes
- International Vegetarian Union Recipes: hundreds of world cuisine recipes, great stuff for experimenting with something new
- Veg Cooking: vegetarian and vegan cooking, also includes information on becoming veggie, shopping, and dining out
Vegan Shopping Online (where you can find Sarah "virtually" on the weekends)
- Food
- Allison's Gourmet: excellent vegan cookies, fudge, cocoa, brownies, chocolates, gift baskets
- Good Baker: vegan baking mixes for things like cakes, brownies, muffins, etc.
- Sticky Fingers Bakery: cakes and other confections to make your head spin
- Food Fight Vegan Grocery: based in Portland at their brick-and-mortar store, we're fortunate that these guys sell online too...great selection.
- Sweet & Sara: vegan marshmallows--heck yes!
- Not Food
- Alternative Outfitters: vegan apparel and beauty products
- MooShoes: vegan shoes and other goods
- Shop Humanitaire: animal-friendly shopping of all kinds...belts, wallets, clothing, shoes, books, etc.
- Both
- Vegan Essentials: includes vegan apparel, beauty products, home accessories, and an amazing food assortment
Other Vegan Resources
- International Vegetarian Union: anything and everything you want to know about going and being veggie
- The Vegetarian Resource Group: information about going veggie, newsletter, vegetarian nutrition info, and other support information
- I Can't Believe It's Vegan: a site listing common store-bought foods that you wouldn't think were vegan (like Pillsbury "Butter Flake" flavor crescent rolls). The foods aren't necessarily good for you, but they are vegan so in a pinch when you're visiting the folks you can play nice with their traditional food values.
- Happy Cow's Vegetarian Guide: guide to veg-friendly restaurants and health food stores (excellent for traveling information)
- VegGuide: international guide to veg-friendly food and dining
- Vegan Beers: beer that does not use animal products in its ingredients or brewing process
- Vegan Wines: wine that does not use animal products (namely isinglass, made from fish)
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I've been to Little Otsu. They have vegan stuff? It seemed to be primarily stationary and some t-shirts. I suppose that is vegan, but...maybe I'm missing something.
Posted by: Sarah Houghton-Jan (LiB) | May15, 2008
Great list!
There's also Little Otsu in the Mission: http://littleotsu.myshopify.com/
Posted by: Chris | May14, 2008
Yah! This is great!
OMG, conference survival...
:-\
I end up packing fruits and veggies as well as oatmeal (you can use the coffee maker to boil water), all the stuff Sarah mentioned, as well as dried goods (check out Glaser Organic Farms...click on their online store and select the raw foods dried and low temperatures).
Also, I check out what restaurants are around the hotel and try to see if they have their menus online. That way I can be prepared ahead of time...and not waste time being hungry and frustrated (that's the worst).
I just returned from the LOEX conference. Most of the food was buffet style (hello salad...) however one evening we were provided with a sit down dinner. I had my little 'vegetarian' card (no vegan option)...what did I get? A thin slice of eggplant drowning in cheese.
Posted by: Sarah C. | May 6, 2008
Well, yes, granola bars. Trail mix, veggie jerky, dried fruit, crackers, cookies, and power/energy bars (inc. the Lara Bars from heaven). That's about all I do.
Posted by: Sarah Houghton-Jan (LiB) | May 6, 2008
Speaking of being a vegan librarian, does anybody have good tips for library conference survival? Beyond carrying around a bag of granola bars? I also get frustrated when attending conference events that require purchasing an overpriced meal I can't eat- award banquets, author breakfasts, etc. Has anybody come up with a good way to get around this?
Posted by: Robin | May 5, 2008
Welcome fellow plant eaters! Here are some resources that have been really helpful to me.
My favorite source for online recipes is http://blog.fatfreevegan.com/ -- if you come to veganism via Eat to Live, she has a lot of really tasty recipes that pertain to that. Her recipes are always well-tested and really tasty, and very frequently not-fat-free (but she always notes that if that's the case).
A new book that looks excellent, really simple and really fast is Vegan Express by Nava Atlas -- you can get an idea of her style at http://blog.vegkitchen.com/. More reading material that I really like are the magazines Veg News and Herbivore.
And finally, come visit Portland Oregon. There are lots of vegans and librarians here, lots of vegan resources and tons of great vegan food.
Posted by: vj | May 4, 2008
Hi Sarah!
I enjoyed seeing you at CIL last month. Thanks for putting together this list for vegans. I've been there, I know what a challenge it can be to find bare sustenance as a vegan (especially at a conference!). Good work you're doing. Thanks for being you!
Tony
Posted by: Tony Tallent | May 3, 2008
You're welcome Anne! And thanks Melissa--that is one of the stores I have visited, but have not bought anything from yet. Thanks for the recommendation, tho!
Posted by: Sarah Houghton-Jan (LiB) | May 2, 2008
Welcome to veganism from a fellow vegan librarian! Another great online shopping resource you should check out is Pangea (http://www.veganstore.com/). It's long been a favorite of mine!
Posted by: Melissa Mallon | May 2, 2008
Wow. I could have really used a nice list like this when I went vegan last year. Thanks for posting it.
Posted by: anne | May 2, 2008
