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04/29/2011
The Worldwide Vegan Bakesale is ON, son! »
Check the site for where your local bakesale is, but there’s some in SF and NYC! Dang, what did you guys do to deserve this? There are THREE BAKESALES around the Bay on Saturday, Apr. 30! That’s a lot of Earth Balance!
Oakland!
Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Splash Pad Park (Grand and Lake Park Avenues) near the Grand Lake Farmers’ Market
Join us for a yummy vegan bake sale to benefit Harvest Home Animal Sanctuary. We are looking for both eaters and bakers to support our
event. All baked goods are vegan! To join in, email
christine@harvesthomeanimal.org
Marin!
Saturday, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. outside of Cafe Trio, 363 3rd St. in San Rafael (Montecito Shopping Plaza)
Looking for bakers and eaters of delectable vegan treats for Marin County’s first vegan bakesale, in celebration of the Worldwide Vegan Bakesale and in solidarity with the people and animals of Japan.
Proceeds will go to Kinship Circle and Doctors Without Borders to support their work, especially in Japan relief efforts. Email marinveganbakesale@gmail.com to get involved!
Willow Glen (San Jose)!
Saturday, noon to 2 p.m. at Baby Buzz Café, 1314 Lincoln Ave. (in Charming Willow Glen) San Jose.
Stroll the boulevard and have a treat or two, take some home. We have vegan zucchini muffins, strawberry mini cakes, Cho-P-nut butter cookies, focaccia bread, muffins, seed breads, fruit pies, beer bread, Psycho Donuts, doggie treats and more! All vegan, slave-free, and organic! We’re raffling a copy of Vegan Planet, dollar-off coupons, and sunshine and smiles!
All proceeds will go to support of 13th Street Cat Rescue and The Food Empowerment Project. BAKERS WELCOME TO PARTICIPATE! We also need doggie treat bakers! Call (408) 355.0436 with questions.
East-Coasters do not fear! There are also two in NYC this weekend!
Brooklyn!
Saturday, 2 to 6 p.m. at Pine Box Rock Shop, 12 Grattan St.
We’d love for you to stop by and grab a delicious treat and perhaps a beverage to wash it down. Plus we all know you have a soft spot for kitties and fun!
Proceeds will go towards Power Street Cats’ springtime Trap-Neuter-Return project and VegPress’ outreach fund. For more info, email bkveganbakesale@gmail.com.
Manhattan!
When: Sunday, May 1, 12:30 to 5:30 p.m. at Mooshoes, 78 Orchard St.
We’ll be there with cookies, cupcakes and all manner of deliciousness. The good folks from For the Animals will also be there selling handmade jewelry and answering any questions you may have about the sanctuary. And Hannah Kaminsky, author of My Sweet Vegan, will be there signing copies of her new book, Vegan Desserts: Sumptuous Sweets for Every Season!
All proceeds will benefit For the Animals Sanctuary, Blairstown, N.J. For more info, email seitansaiddance@gmail.com.
Everybody, get out and get chunky! It’s time to eat for charity!
[Photo from NYC Vegan Bakeslae by Eva Prokop. Try not to die from its cuteness/sanitation issues. Screw it, I’d rather that kitten touch something I ate than most humans, for reals.]
∞ posted at 06:15 by youtalkfunny 
03/18/2011
Food Empowerment Project’s fair trade chocolate list! »
You know how most conventional chocolate is flavored with children’s tears? Actually, it’s much, much worse than that but I can’t bring myself to write about it because if I did, I’d have to hit the streets afterwards and start punching Whatchamacallits out of people’s idiot faces.
Lucky for us, we can happily eat everything on the Food Empowerment Project’s list, which includes companies like Sjaaks (we want all the Eli Earth bars SO BAD) and Allison’s Gourmet (looooove, look at those insane pb cups)! Check out the whole list, which includes ice cream companies who use chocolate, too! Vegan ice cream can be evil!? Sadness. Support these companies and not the others because seriously, chocolate that’s not fair trade is FUCKED.
∞ posted at 11:17 by laurahooperb 
03/23/2010
Sf Vegan Drinks is THIS THURSDAY! It’s on like Donkey Kong! »
Almost entirely copied from the press release because I have a real job and don’t have all day to sit around being amazing for you SHIT.
Just a heads-up that the March installment of SF Vegan Drinks is THIS Thursday, Mar. 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Martuni’s (4 Valencia St. at Market Street). Not only is this a fantastic chance to mingle with other interesting vegans while enjoying drink specials (This month: $5 Peach Melba Martinis (!!!) and a host of non-alcoholic beverage options, you can support a local non-profit as well!
This month, we’re raffling off a dozen cupcakes from Fat Bottom Bakery, and all money goes to the Food Empowerment Project (check out that gorgeous new website!). Don’t miss your chance to win these sweet treats! Raffle tickets are $1 each.
Vegansaurus is an official sponsor of SF Vegan Drinks, so get your ass out there to meet and greet with us and buy us drinks and possibly get a lap dance ON THE HOUSE.*
*Lap dances cost $20. NO TOUCHING. Always tip your dancer.
∞ posted at 13:55 by laurahooperb
01/13/2010
Un-Cookbook review: The Raw Healing Patch! Veganize your rawness! »
In my last post on Vegansaurus, I offered a few strategies for making raw organic foods more accessible and affordable, especially for young people and lower-income folks living in the Bay Area. Wherever you fall on the raw-to-cooked spectrum, it’s indisputable that the raw food movement is helping to bring more folks into the vegan fold, which is something all vegans can be happy about. It seems to me that if we find creative ways to motivate raw foodists to go full-on vegan (e.g., rain down on them with mad knowledge, advice, free vegan food and love), we can help them discover that, through raw veganism, they can make a huge difference not only for their own health, but also for the health of the planet. A couple good places to start are local nonprofit People’s Grocery and Lauren Ornelas’ fabulous food justice/human rights/environmental advocacy group the Food Empowerment Project, which work to source ethical products and make organic produce accessible to everyone.
In the spirit of accessibility, I recently got my hands on a copy of The Healing Patch
Cookbook produced by the down-to-earth, super-ecologically conscious, queer veg couple Julie Cara Hoffenberg and Sarah Woodward, who together make up the raw food team known as The Healing Patch. The cookbook, which they were kind enough to also make available in an eco-friendly e-book format, is utterly unpretentious, and a great way to usher rawies into the ethical vegan eating path. Hoffenberg and Woodward make clear throughout the witty cookbook that their way of eating and (un)cooking is just that—their way—and that they would never wish to impose them on anyone else; yet they are very clear that raw veganism has remarkably improved their lives. Healing Patch’s primary goal is to offer gentle coaxing to adopt a raw vegan lifestyle, basing their recipes and advice on what helped Woodward heal after her battle with ovarian cancer. Thankfully, they do this without laying on the sorts of guilt-trips or strict guidelines usually found in these .
Healing Patch’s recipes are really easy to make, require no esoteric ingredients, and have cute little factoids, including nutritional profiles. They also offer useful tips on economical home sprouting, gardening, selecting the best produce for each season, and how to substitute recipe ingredients for whatever is local and fresh whenever possible. They succeed at providing ample tricks for being a raw vegan while healing yourself and the planet at the lowest possible expense.
The one issue I take with this otherwise charming volume is that some of the recipes include dairy, ostensibly in order to help folks to “transition more gently” to raw veganism. This is disappointing, especially since the authors clearly believe in the tenets of raw veganism and oppose cruelty and oppression. It seems to me like the duo hasn’t quite made the connection that the dairy industry is horribly cruel and directly supports the meat industry. Maybe they should pick up feminist masterpiece The Sexual Politics of Meat by my personal hero Carol J. Adams—which, by the way, has just been released in a newly updated 20th anniversary edition!
Once Healing Patch gets educated in the ways of vegan feminism by Adams, I’m sure they’ll be willing to make all of their recipes totally vegan. Feel free to comment to them about this on their website—it will be good practice for the raw foodists you’ll be converting to raw veganism in the near future! Anyway, hopefully the next edition of The Healing Patch (which I do hope they eventually write!) will address this concern.
This is the second post written by Sarah E. Brown. Thanks, Sarah!
∞ posted at 14:19 by time-for-naps 
12/06/2009
We made over $4,200 at this Saturday’s SF Vegan Bakesale. $4,200. HOLY. FUCKING. SHIT. I thought the last sale was amazing (and it was!) but this tops it by $1,600. CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS SHIT? I’m still freaking out.
All the money is split equally between Food Empowerment Project and SaveABunny. They are both The Wonderful Best so you should visit their sites and give them everything you own. Owning stuff is bullshit anyway, give it all away. Let’s all live in a house together, and share a hot tub! SORRY THAT IS THE BAKESALE HIGH TALKING. I’ll be back to making jokes about how gross hippies are (hilarious!) and calling you all names by early next week.
Also, aren’t those two dudes the cutest? Check out more photos from the sale too! The bakesale crew is the more adorable, right?? I love everyone. Until Tuesday.
OH AND, we’ll have more on this soon but the hot ladies of Fat Bottom Bakery are planning the first ever East Bay Vegan Bakesale!! It’s set for Saturday, Jan. 9th, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front of Issues in Oakland. We’ll totally be there and you should contact them immediately about baking and volunteering! They even have a twitter so get to following! As for the SF Vegan Bakesale, we’ll be back in February just in time for Valentine’s Day (awww or PUKE, depending on how cynical/realistic/coupled you are), MORE DETAILS VERY SOON!
∞ posted at 04:18 by laurahooperb
12/04/2009
THE SF VEGAN BAKESALE IS TOMORROW. We already have Candy Cane Joe-Joe cupcakes and peanut butter bars chilling at our house right now and another vegansaur is working on pumpkin cinnamon rolls and another vegansaur is working on croissants. VEGAN CROISSANTS. Believe it. In addition to the delicious, really bad for you, fatty fat stuff, there will also be raw & gluten-free treats. And dog cookies too. We got you covered. (I’m doing that two fingers to my eyes and then two fingers to your eyes thing…it’s pretty creepy, you love it.)
OH AND DID WE MENTION THAT THERE WILL BE CUDDLY BUNNIES OTS? YEP.
See you tramps there!
∞ posted at 11:53 by laurahooperb
11/09/2009
SF Vegan Bakesale, TAKE TWO! Let’s do this, vegans! »
There was the Worldwide Vegan Bakesale, SF in June and the first SF Vegan Bakesale in October and they were both such insane successes (a total of $5,600 raised for awesome animal groups!) that we’re BACK! And we is better than ever!
Our next sale will raise money for Food Empowerment Project, who work with youth and low-income populations to make healthier, more informed food choices AND SaveABunny, who saves the shit out of the CUTEST BUNNIES EVER. Added bonus, we’ll have adoptable bunnies on the scene (!!!) and ready to go home with loving, awesome homes.
Check it out Saturday, December 5th, in front of Ike’s Place (3506 16th St. at oh come on you know where Ike’s is fine it’s Sanchez can’t you go anywhere without Google Maps?), 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
We badly need volunteers, eaters, bakers, paper plates, compostable to-go containers & flatware, and hella publicity to make this awesome so mobilize, vegan (pacifist) army and email laura@vegansaurus.com if you can/want to/feel obligated to pitch in! Let’s make this happen!!!
Oh, we also have a twitter set up! FOLLOW US!
** The SF Vegan Bakesale is officially sponsored by VegNews Magazine, Veg-Table.net, & Vegansaurus! **
∞ posted at 08:00 by laurahooperb
