Vegan For Thought » Jordan http://www.veganforthought.com Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:59:42 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 Peta Asia Pacific Blog http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/07/peta-asia-pacific-blog/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=peta-asia-pacific-blog http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/07/peta-asia-pacific-blog/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 21:30:15 +0000 Jordan http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=244 Hey thanks for the mention over at http://blog.petaasiapacific.com/.

Everyone else, they have a great site over there, (a lot more posts coming out than over here…)  Looks like some great recipes and news.

Will start reading it more often!

]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/07/peta-asia-pacific-blog/feed/ 0 Food Inc http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/07/food-inc/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=food-inc http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/07/food-inc/#comments Sun, 04 Jul 2010 06:14:09 +0000 Jordan http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=242 Really good, polished & professional documentary on the origins of our food and the danger that food manufacture brings.  With the increased amounts of food being manufactured in factories with ever increasing technology it would be natural to think that our food safety has gone up.  To the contrary, people are more at risk of food poisoning it would [...]]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/07/food-inc/feed/ 0 Vegan Marshmallows! http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/05/vegan-marshmellows/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vegan-marshmellows http://www.veganforthought.com/2010/05/vegan-marshmellows/#comments Sun, 09 May 2010 10:43:17 +0000 Jordan http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=223 Angel Food provide a brilliant pack for making your own vegan marshmallows and they are great!

The instructions are simple provided you have the required cooking gear:

High Temp (105 *C) thermometer and a heavy duty mixer.

I have put coconut on mine as I much prefer that to corn starch.

http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=202 Weakness strikes!  There is an open packet of fruit mince pies on the bench.

I stood in the supermarket for about 5 full minutes staring at fruit mince pies about two weeks ago.  Took a lot of mental encouragement to walk further down the isle.

Now they sit on the bench (not from my purchase, mothers).  I [...]]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/12/christmas-fruit-mince-pie/feed/ 2 First Vegan Christmas http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/12/first-vegan-christmas/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=first-vegan-christmas http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/12/first-vegan-christmas/#comments Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:53:21 +0000 Jordan http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/12/first-vegan-christmas/ I had considered being vegetarian for Christmas but as with all my similar thoughts it didn’t happen. Vegan I stayed!

For Christmas brunch it was mushrooms, hash brown “buttons”, fried tomatoes, fresh toast, vegan sausages and vegan burger patties. Plus glass after glass of alcohol.

I nearly took a scoop of scrambled egg but was able to [...]]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/12/first-vegan-christmas/feed/ 0 Southdown Holdings wants to keep Cows in ‘cubicle’s http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/12/southdown-holdings-wants-to-keep-cows-in-cubicles/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=southdown-holdings-wants-to-keep-cows-in-cubicles http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/12/southdown-holdings-wants-to-keep-cows-in-cubicles/#comments Sun, 06 Dec 2009 21:15:53 +0000 Jordan http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=186 Southdown Holdings has applied for a resource consent to manufacture milk.  Long gone are the days where a farmer would provide milk for his family and neighbours.  Now it is a massive global industry devoted to money.

Cows will be housed in cubicle stables from March to October, and for 12 hours a day from November [...]]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/12/southdown-holdings-wants-to-keep-cows-in-cubicles/feed/ 0 KFC Chicken http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/kfc-chicken/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=kfc-chicken http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/kfc-chicken/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 04:02:11 +0000 Jordan http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=166 When did you last have KFC?

]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/kfc-chicken/feed/ 0 Where did your chicken come from? http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/where-did-your-chicken-come-from/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=where-did-your-chicken-come-from http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/where-did-your-chicken-come-from/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 03:34:52 +0000 Jordan http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=162 If you don’t know where your chicken came from then you have to accept that it probably came from here, or worse.

]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/where-did-your-chicken-come-from/feed/ 0 BurgerFuel does Vegan Burger! http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/burgerfuel-does-vegan-burger/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burgerfuel-does-vegan-burger http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/burgerfuel-does-vegan-burger/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:08:02 +0000 Jordan http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=139 It’s called a V8 Vegan and it’s delicious!

V8 Vegan Pumpkin, cashew nut and ginger pattie, mushroom, olive and sage pate, salad, relish $8.90

The chips are vegan too which makes this recovering takeaway junkie stoked that the closest BurgerFuel to my AirSpace (aka office) is a mere 4 metres away!

This is [...]]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/burgerfuel-does-vegan-burger/feed/ 0 One Month, I made it! http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/one-month-i-made-it/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=one-month-i-made-it http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/one-month-i-made-it/#comments Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:28:26 +0000 Jordan http://www.veganforthought.com/?p=118 I have now been vegan for one month. To be honest I feel great, I have even had a couple of people comment on how I look leaner. There has only been a few moments where I have wanted to cheat but I managed them.

Only just the other night I was driving home [...]]]> http://www.veganforthought.com/2009/10/one-month-i-made-it/feed/ 0