Tag Archives: Family

My Vegan Wedding: Part III – The Big Day

June 17, 2012 | No comments

After all the planning, choosing, preparing and stressing the big day finally arrived.Scott and I got married on June 1st, 2012, in a white, vegan, semi-traditional wedding. Even during the week of the wedding itself we were still frantically putting together the finishing touches. Since I was doing my own...

Explaining Veganism to Children

May 23, 2012 | No comments

As a child, I distinctly remember seeing a truck driving by jam packed with live sheep. I had no idea where they were going but I got a kick out of saying hello to the cute little creatures. Had I have known, at the tender age of 6 that they...

How to Throw an Awesome Fairy Party for a Vegan Child

May 20, 2012 | No comments

Throwing a birthday party for a child can be an overly daunting experience… The preparations, the cooking, the decorating, the cleaning, the mess, the millions of little munchkins running around in a pool of chaos… But when you see them laughing with chocolate smeared across their faces and cake crumbs...

Going Au Natural: Naturalized Swimming Pools and Wildlife Ponds in Your Backyard

May 7, 2012 | No comments

As our population increases and we continue to push further and further into wildlife habitats, we have seen the dramatic decrease in the populations of our precious wildlife. We are encouraged to fill our backyards with cement and pavers, fake grass and chemicals. How much better would it be for...

My Vegan Wedding: Part II – The Engagement Party

May 6, 2012 | No comments

You’re engaged: congratulations! It’s such an amazing time! If you are anything like me you must be super delighted and excited about making your vegan wedding plans. But before we get there, there are a few more things to consider: an engagement party is probably a good place to start… ...

Is Birth Control Vegan?

April 28, 2012 | No comments

Now that’s a question that many of us didn’t even consider when we went vegan! As veganism isn’t just a diet, but a comprehensive lifestyle focused on doing as little harm to all animals (human and non) as possible, this is yet another interesting issue to consider. What are the...

Is it Vegan to Have a Pet?
Thoughts on Companion Animals and kids

April 23, 2012 | No comments

Ah, the words every parent dreads and almost every kid utters at some point; ‘Mummy, can we get a puppy?’ It doesn’t sound too drastic on the surface but when you try to fit the concept of a family pet into an ethical vegan lifestyle, we begin to see the...

My Vegan Story

April 19, 2012 | No comments

I often feel like veganism for me is partially innate and partially a legacy of my mother. As a child, I didn’t take a dummy, but I had a security toy – a stuffed white harp seal that I named Sealy. My other favourite toy was “Ducky”, a stuffed duck...

Vegan Since Birth: Meet Shaun Durrance

April 14, 2012 | No comments

Remember those ads on TV in the 80s which insisted that every child must have at least 3 serves of dairy per day in order to prevent children’s bones from crumbling into chalky nothingness? Remember as a result, guzzling down litres of milk, eating cheese sandwiches for lunch and a...

How to Love Soya and Avoid a Soy Overload

April 13, 2012 | No comments

Ah, the great soya debate. ‘It’s a super food. It’s what keeps Japanese people so healthy. It’s great for menopausal women. It lowers your risk of heart disease and osteoporosis’ ‘It’ll give you breast cancer. It’ll result in males growing boobs. It’s responsible for an increase in thyroid conditions.’ These...

The Vegan Easter – Passover Mix

April 4, 2012 | No comments

My husband Rob and I are like polar opposites when it comes to our backgrounds. I am Jewish and I have a mostly Polish/Eastern European background. Rob is Catholic and he is half Burmese and half Scottish. Our daughters, Leilani, 3 and Malia, 9 months are a cultural smoothie and...

Preparing for (Another) Vegan Pregnancy

March 11, 2012 | No comments

So this is the situation: Baby Malia is almost 9 months old, being super cute, crawling around and on the cusp of walking, blabbering away, downing loads of food and cutting down on breastmilk. Loving her cute gummy smile! And after 6 months of literally not sleeping at all, lucky...

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