A Vegan Obsession

Raw Food Cookbook Review & Giveaway

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Lisa Viger has been vegan and mostly raw for 10 years now. Her fresh, youthful face belies her age. She’s still rocking it at 50!

A number of health issues, lack of energy and general malaise Lisa on the path to ditching the canned and packaged foods and incorporating a mainly raw diet into her life. She says she is stronger and more flexible than she ever remembers being even in her 20s!

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A few years ago, Lisa began writing a blog. She set out to set the record straight about the view of healthy food being way too expensive. A belief that is held for raw food in particular. When I got hold of a copy of the book and looked at her recipes even I could not help but be sceptical. Well, nuts are expensive, right?! And raw foodists use a lot of nuts. But each of the tasty looking dishes, smoothies and desserts cost less that $2.50 to make. Bringing the total well under her $10 a day total. This is not to mention the money that could be saved on healthcare costs in the future. Eating healthily and choosing organic really can pay dividends. The blog was hugely successful. A cookbook followed.

The cookbook is super useful, equally for ‘old hands’ and those new to cooking (or should I say uncooking..or better..preparing) foods. The first few chapters are dedicated to visual, storyboard techniques for preparing vegetables in exciting ways, making nut milks, sprouting and dehydrating. Yes, you will need a dehydrator for a few of the recipes, especially the raw breads and crackers but if you do not have one it does not detract from the book.

Containing over 100 recipes. I’ve a list of recipes to try. These are a few that turned my head!

Romaine Broccoli and Caramelized Onion with Lemon Tahini Dressing

Spicy Mango and Cucumber Soup with ‘Noodles’ (made from zucchini)

Beet Salad with Basil Nut Cream

Curried Chia-Kraut Crackers (for the day when I stop travelling and my dehydrator and I become reunited).

Pumpkin Pie (made with carrots!…but to taste like pumpkin)

There is even a Chocolate Chapter! Hoorah!

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Lisa puts this all together with tips on reducing prep time, stocking your pantry and budgeting tips. If you are considering a new years resolution to eat healthier in 2015, it’s all here. You want the book, right?! We’ve got one copy of the book to giveaway. US entrants only. Try your luck.

 

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Vegan Cookbook Review and Giveaway

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My current bedtime novel has been relegated to the back of the nightstand ever since I got hold of a preview copy of a brand new vegan cookbook, ‘But I Could Never Go VEGAN’. I have been voraciously thumbing through the recipes. The book is now peppered with Yellow Post-It notes acting as bookmarks of recipes to try. Of these there are many. I would end up listing 90% of the 125 recipes if I told you them all. So here are a few.

  • Tempeh Bacon Mac ‘n’ Cheese with Pecan Parmesan
  • Mushroom Grilled Sandwiches with Sunflower Cheddar
  • Balsamic Baked Pears with Cashew Blue Cheese
  • Savory Corn Cheesecake with Cilantro Pepita Dressing
  • Parmesan-crusted Avocado and Kale Florentine with Smoked Paprika Hollandaise
  • Sesame-Sriracha Tofu Sandwiches
  • Caramel Apple-Stuffed French Toast
  • Potato Sauerkraut Soup with SausageCrumbles
  • Double Chocolate Truffles
  • Molasses Hazelnut Chocolate Mousse Tart with Coconut Whip

Mouth watering. Yep. Author Kristy Turner set out to do just that and debunk any myth about vegan food. Her inventive chapters address concerns that carnivores may have about eating vegan..with titles such as; I Could Never Give Up Cheese, I’d Miss Pizza, It’s All Rabbit Food and Friends Won’t Want To Come For Dinner. Kristy has mouthwatering, myth smashing recipes to show you there is NOTHING to worry should you want to eat vegan. It’s so inviting, Can’t I Be Pescatarian Instead chapter lists recipes like Beer-Battered Faux Fish & Chips and Wild Mushroom Sushi. I hardly know where to begin!

There are many gluten free dishes in the book too. Nearly all of the recipes have food porn photos shot by her talented photographer husband Chris Miller.

Kristy, author of the fabulous food blog Keepinitkind, was once a professional fromagier. A self-confessed ‘die-hard cheese nerd’. She says she has never been more inventive or satisfied in the kitchen until she went vegan.

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The book is absolutely gorgeous. Stunning photographs with simple and easy to follow recipes.

Look at these amazing dishes! They will revolutionise your families meal times.

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My carnivorous friend getting stuck into the book. If I had a dollar for every time they exclaimed ‘oh my God!’….

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Here is the fun book trailer.

The cookbook will be available for sale from December 2nd.

The great news is we have ONE copy to give away. Enter below. Good luck!

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A WEEK OF GIVEAWAYS! Celebrating UK National Vegetarian Week. T-Shirts & A Cookbook Today!!

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The week of Giveaways continue! 
We are celebrating UK National Vegetarian Week.  Prizes to be won EVERYDAY until 26th May.  All competitions close at the same time so there is still time to enter to win.

 Viva! join the party today to give 2 lucky readers the chance to win a gorgeous T Shirt or a fabulous cookbook!

Viva! are a UK based charity who campaign to end of animal suffering, to protect the planet and cease the killing of farmed animals. Viva’s! director Juliet Gellatley and her dedicated team and volunteers are on a mission to make the world a kinder, saner place.  Juliet says, 
“The most powerful action you can take to end animal suffering, improve your health, protect the environment and bring fairness to the world’s poor is to stop eating meat, dairy and fish’. 
Through research, campaigns, information and support they are helping to do just that.  They also have an online shop so you kind find all you need to support an environmentally aware and kinder lifestyle.  Food & Wine, Clothing & Accessories, Books, Beauty, Gifts and Homewares.  And even publications to help support your greener, cleaner life.  

Thanks to the nice people at Viva! you can get a chance to win this vibrant, vivacious vegan cookbook – straight from the hearts of Viva!’s flour-dusted kitchenistas.  100 simple vegan recipes with sections devoted to;
Kid-friendly recipes
Entertaining non-vegetarian friends
Eating solo and how to freeze your food to save time and money

And just to whet your appetite chapters include: Feel the Pulse; Tofu Secrets; Souperb; Lunch-out; A bit on the Side; The Main Event; Sweet Thing and more!  

Do you want it? Then enter below.

Or you can win a Viva! T-Shirt.  Choose from a man’s T or a cute Woman’s Vest.

Viva! has a website packed full of valuable resources, recipes and nutrition advice.  Even their own online magazine.  Be sure to check it out.  

UK Residents Only.  Good luck!   Be sure to sign up to the newsletter and come back tomorrow for another great giveaway.

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A Week Of Giveaways Celebrating National Vegetarian Week - Tibits At Home Cook Book

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Day 2 of our celebration of UK National Vegetarian Week.  Thanks for joining us!   Did you enter yesterdays competition for Rebel Kitchen Mylks?  Great.  

So today we have a cookbook to giveaway.  Everyone loves a cookbook and this book is true food porn.  Tibits is a modern vegetarian restaurant just off Regent Street in London.  I had the pleasure to review a dining experience there last year.   As with most good food hubs, beloved signature dishes develop and public demand for recipes grow.  So Tibits published a cookbook on their 10th anniversary called tibits At Home.  The hard backed book is seasonally compartmentalised, and full of beautiful photographs with simple recipes to try.  One of the staff told me that all the photos in the book were taken in the homes of regular diners in Switzerland.  Today, thanks to the generosity of tibits we have a copy to give away to one lucky winner!  It could be you.  Just enter below.

Good luck!!  Remember to sign up for our newsletter.  We are giving away prizes EVERYDAY this week!

Open to UK residents only.

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