Vegan Travelling

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Today, finding anyrecipes you need is as easy as a search on the internet and that’s great! There is incredible number of places online to find just any recipes you want.

But it’s not really so easy to find dietary or vegan-friendly cake’s recipes that are satisfying, delicious and quick making at the same time, but this low calorie Victoria Sponge recipe satisfies all aforementioned criteria and what is important you get it without making a greasy mess.

All what you need for preparing this tasty cake is: raspberries, soft margarine, eggs, sugar and flour.

The preparation takes 10 minutes, baking time is 20 minutes then you can invite your friends, family or work colleagues to taste the cake. Please visit the Bakingmad website for more details.

You see how it’s easy, now you have to try how it’s tasty. Besides that visiting Bakingmad you will find there a lot of recipes that no doubt you will enjoy trying, such as low calorie Blueberry Muffins, excellent Pancake with Spiced Apples or fantastic Raspberry Roulade. You can get baking advice, and share with your own cooking experience on the forum as well.

Yes, there are as many baking recipes there and there is something for everyone.

Whether you are going to spend you Christmas Holidays travelling to Italy, France, Portugal, US or Canada, you can find today a great number of offers providing high class vegan and other special dietary travel needs. First of all check some research, doing a quick Google search for the city name and “vegan society” or “vegan association” and learn about the local vegan options you are going to visit to, choose a comprehensive list of vegetarian and vegan restaurants for all cities you want to be there.

Befor vegetarians and vegans can struggle to find decent food while travelling but today, vegan travel has become much easier as most of European are friendly for vegan travel providing vegetarian restaurants. You can be sure that today there are growing vegetarian communities almost in every large city, or in University town, then you can always find there vegan and vegetarian restaurants as well as health food and organic stores offering needed products.

Finally you always can cook for yourself as you do it at your home and that is also the right solution.

The three best Europe cities provided vegan travel are London (UK) with its various vegan options you can choose choose from; Barcelona (Spain) which also can offer a great number of vegan and vegetarian restaurants and many health food stores; Berlin (Germany) is pretty friendly for vegan travellers as well as being a large city with a growing proportion of young people; and Amsterdam (Netherlands) that is well known as the city which offers wide range of vegan restaurants, buffets, fast food, healthy food stores, yoga studios, juice bars and so on.

Vegan Cruise is truly great choice to all those who take vegan diets seriously and who want to get revamp a mind, body and spirit. Well, checking up different vegan travel online offers I’ve paid attantion on follow ones:

1.Holistic Holiday at Sea™ IX which promises the ultimate gift for your mind, body and spirit and specially prepared organic natural foods and beverages prepared by our own chefs. You have to registrate on their site for order and details – www.atasteofhealth.org/ then use Promo Code “0016 ” you will get a $25.00 credit. You can also make a call for Information about the holistic program, classes or meals, contact Holistic Holiday at Sea directly.

Toll-free: 1-800-496-0989 or Ph: 1-828-749-9537
Email: info@atasteofhealth.org or john@atasteofhealth.org
Cruise the Eastern Caribbean will tale place on one of the world’s premier Italian luxury liners, the MSC Poesia, which combines the style and sophistication of Europe with American comforts and convenience

2. World Cruise on Pacific Princess is also open for booking. Santa Marta (Colombia), Puerto Quepos (Costa Rica) and Manama (Bahrain) are included among the 38 destinations on this sailing from Ft. Lauderdale to Venice.

3. I would prefer something like vegan Yoga Cruise.

Keeping vegetrian diet does not mean you cant make traditional lavish meal because Christmas dinner can be prepared by all rules you are. There are great number of a vegetarian or vegan Christmas menues, you’ll find online to have the Earth singing Hallelujah.

Vegan Olive Tapenade
Ingredients
1 glove garlic?
1 cup pitted and chopped kalamata olives
2 teaspoons white miso paste
2 tablespoons sesame seeds, ground in a coffee grinder or with a mortar and pestle to a coarse powder (optional)
1 tablespoon olive oil?
juice from 1/2 a lemon

Directions
1) Pulse everything in the food processor until combined.
2) Serve the vegan olive tapenade with crudités or toasted vegan bread slices.

Cooking a traditional, vegetarian Christmas dinner
If you’re a traditionalist at heart and want your family to experience a classic Christmas meal without the meat, have no fear! There are many ways to achieve a vegetarian or vegan Christmas. If you’re a gourmet in the kitchen, than these recipes and meal planning ideas will be a great fit:

•Main entree: Instead of the traditional holiday turkey, ham, goose, or roast beef, try something new using tofu protein and other healthy ingredients. Online recipes abound: Stuffed Tofu Roast, Tofu Turkey, Tofu Ham, Oven-baked Marinated Tempeh, Soy and Seitan “Turkey”, Holiday Tofu Loaf, or Southern Baked Tofu. Alternatively, you can buy a pre-made imitation roast (turkey or ham) and jazz it up with these unique twists (deep fried, maple-roasted, or ginger garlic).
•Cranberry sauce: Nothing says Christmas like cranberry sauce, but did you know that some canned options contain gelatin? Gelatin is derived from boiling down the bones, connective tissue, organs, and some intestines of animals, so if you’re aiming for vegan, buy gelatin-free, or make your own: Cranberry Sauce with Orange and Cinnamon, Grand Marnier Cranberry Sauce, Cranberry Sauce with Port and Dried Figs, or Jellied Cranberry Sauce.
•Mashed potatoes and yams: Whip up some dairy-free mashed potatoes and forgo the animal products with these delicious options: Creamy Mashed Potatoes, Garlic Herb Mashed Potatoes, and Roasted Garlic Mashed Potatoes. And, if you’re making marshmallow-topped sweet potato pie, top this year’s with vegan marshmallows (most brands contain gelatin).
•Stuffing: Instead of stuffing a bird or roast, build your own dressing and stuff it in a squash or cook it in a crock pot. Check out these tasty alternatives: Neo-Classical Dressing with Apricots and Prunes in a Pumpkin, Wild Rice and Mushroom Stuffing, or Kamut Berry, Spelt Berry, and Wild Rice Stuffing.
•Gravy: Smother your mashed potatoes and carrots in tasty vegetarian gravy, made from a pre-packaged spice pack or from scratch: Cashew Gravy, Mushroom-miso-mustard Gravy, Nutritional Yeast Gravy, Red Wine and Shallot Gravy, or Portobello Madeira Gravy.
•Yule logs, plum pudding, and fruit cake: Finish off your Christmas meal with some sustainable treats, baked using organic, fair trade, and vegan ingredients.
Now that you’ve got some great ideas for making a meatless meal for the holidays, you may also need some assistance convincing family and friends to make the switch. If so, check out GoVeg.com’s guide to asking your family for a vegan Christmas, which includes facts about meat consumption, sample letters you can send to loved ones about your desire for a cruelty-free dinner, recipes, and more.

via www.greenyour.com/

My acquaintance Acai berry has begun in Brazil but then I still did not know about its wonderful properties. Scientists have opened a secret of a berry of Asai only in 2004.The berry for today wins first place among all vegetation by its antioxidant properties. With my interest to healthy food I couldn’t miss such a remarkable plant. So, what can we learn about Acai berry.

Euterpe Oleracea
Euterpe badiocarpa, Cabbage palm, Euterpe palm, multistemmed assai palm, Palisade palm
Berry has the unusual taste reminding taste of a raspberry or a blackberry with smack of a nut. Acai oil is very strange looking it is liquid, greenish, with very weak nut smell.
The berry is rich with the antioxidants, necessary fatty acids (Omega 3, 6 and 9), vitamins and minerals, fibers, amino acids, micro minerals, a complex of carbohydrates.

Acai comprises in 30 times more antioxidants and at 10-20 times more anthocyianins, than red wine has them. The berry is very calorific (in 100gr is 182 kcal), contains the same quantity of proteins, as well as cow milk. It is especially rich with iron, vitamins ?1 and E. Also it’s notable for low level of cholesterol, strengthens immune system, promotes regeneration of muscles (that especially important for sportsmen), has the general toning up an effect, is recommended to those who have an anemia.
Some time Acai remained fruit of exclusively local consumption, then, thanks to the unusual nutritious properties, and present “boom of health”, has extended across all Brazil and the beginnings successfully to win the western and European countries.
They eat it fresh. Also make of them juice, wines, liquors, cocktails, ice-cream, various desserts, with addition of sugar, honey and other fruit. All it looks wonderfully. But it is necessary to learn about opinion of opponents of special Acai Berry Diet or using acai in diet pills. Special researches show, that everything is not as simple as it seems. We can try, we can decide.