Free to a good home – 2 copies of The Vegan Cook’s Bible!
For your chance to win one of these copies, leave me a comment below sharing your favorite non-meat meal. Mine is avocado on toast. Oh, yum!
The Vegan Cook’s Bible, by Pat Crocker,  is good for vegans and non-vegans alike. It features 250 recipes including Bulgar Asparagus Salad(it’s Aspargus season, you know!), homemade Candied Nuts (a healthy snack treat), Almond and Curry Brocoli Stir-fry (Ooh, I can use locally grown almonds for this one!), and Dark Chocolate Pudding (I have to have chocolate at least once a day).
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I know that canola oil (aka rapeseed oil) has been receiving a lot of flak in the recent years. According to researchers at the University of Illinois and Pennsylvania State University, however, using canola oil instead of other vegetable oil may actually help meet dietary recommendations for fatty acid and cholesterol consumption and thus help lower people’s risk of heart disease.
Substituting canola oil and canola-based margarine for vegetable oils and spreads, such as corn, cottonseed and soybean, “increases compliance with dietary recommendations for saturated fatty acid, monounsaturated fatty acid and alpha-linolenic acid.
According to the researchers, switching to canola-based products …read more