Recent discussion topics include:

• Does anyone have brand suggestions for a high quality vegan winter sock for kids?
• Veg-Friendly Summer Camps for Kids
• Vegan Books for Children and Parents
  Plus more!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/VRGparentsandkids/ is intended to be a group that offers support for families raising children on vegan diets and for vegan kids. We envision it as a place to get advice about a wide-variety of topics: pregnancy, birthday parties, school lunches, Halloween, non-leather apparel, cruelty-free products, summer camps, and more. Please use it as a place to share your wisdom, seek advice, or just find a sympathetic ear. The goal is to offer support.

Consequently, any profane, defamatory, offensive, or violent language will be removed. Feel free to disagree, but do so respectfully. Hateful or discriminatory comments regarding race, ethnicity, religion, gender, disability, sexual orientation, or political beliefs will not be tolerated. We expect that posts should relate to vegan diets and lifestyles. The Vegetarian Resource Group reserves the right to monitor all content and ban any user who posts in violation of the above rules, any law or regulation, SPAM, or anything otherwise off topic.

Please share this information with any veggie families that you know! Thanks.

Debra Daniels-Zeller wrote a terrific recipe article featuring citrus fruit in an issue of Vegetarian Journal. It’s worth revisiting this piece during the winter. Debra explains the different types of citrus fruit available this time of year, offers 10 ways to use citrus, and also provides numerous recipes including:

Blood Orange Salad Dressing
Chipotle-Citrus Tofu Marinade
Raw Kale and Avocado Salad with Lemon Dressing
Tangerine Dream Cake
Broiled Grapefruit
Zesty Lemon-Mustard Dip
Parsley Rice with Carrots, Lime, and Pistachios
Orange Oats and Cranberries
Grapefruit, Apple, and Avocado Salad with Satsuma Vinaigrette

Read the entire article here:
https://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2013issue4/2013_issue4_citrus_magic.php

Subscribe to Vegetarian Journal by visiting:
https://www.vrg.org/member/2013sv.php

Photo from Counterpart Deli

The Vegetarian Resource Group maintains an online Guide to Vegan/Vegetarian Restaurants in the USA and Canada. Below are some recent additions. The entire guide can be found here: http://www.vrg.org/restaurant/index.php

To support the updating of this online restaurant guide, please donate at:
www.vrg.org/donate

Here are some new additions to VRG’s guide:

Ah-Sah-EE Café
9635 Bermuda Rd.
Las Vegas, NV 89123
Aside from their eponymous açaí bowls, Ah-Sah-EE Café also offers kale wraps and salads, as well as coffees and teas.

Alternity
333 Bloor St. W.
Toronto, ON M5S 1W7 Canada
Alternity is a new age lounge, cafe, and sometimes event space. As for the food, there are wraps, soups, and salads, as well as truffles, cupcakes, and kombucha.

Antoniette Vegan Café
600 Hibiscus St., Ste. 103
West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Sharing a space with a salon, this small vegan bakery offers donuts, empanadas, cinnamon rolls, and more.

Counterpart Deli
1559 Echo Park Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90026
Counterpart Deli is an all-vegan deli, with salads, toasts, and hot sandwiches made with house-made veggie meats.

Golden Dinosaurs Vegan Deli
2930 Beach Blvd. S.
Gulfport, FL 33707
Golden Dinosaurs Vegan Deli offers many gluten-free options and house-made veggie meats. Sandwiches include Cubans and Reubens, but you can also build your own!

Plantz Café
1734 Lakeview Ave.
Dracut, MA 01826
Plantz Café is a vegan and gluten-free cafe offering a variety of juices, smoothies, coffees, and teas. More solid fare includes salads, all-day breakfast options, and savory comfort foods like burgers, nachos, and Mac-n-Cheez.

Root
6 Broadway
Newport, RI 02840
Root is a vegan juice bar and eatery offering fresh, simple juices, smoothies, and bowls. Try a fan favorite, “Tickled Pink,” a juice made from watermelon, cucumber, lemon, and pink sea salt. They also offer a variety of toasts including avocado, peanut butter, and smashed white bean.

Sukha Café
7384 Highland Rd.
Baton Rouge, LA 70808
Sharing space with Yoga Bliss, Sukha Café offers all-vegan and almost all-organic soups, salads and sandwiches.

Veghada Juice Bar
5912 Old York Rd.
Philadelphia, PA 19141
Check out their Facebook and get your mouth watering! Try a Boboo wrap, vegan fish platter, or a fresh-made smoothie!

VegOut
22 W. Fourth St.
Bethlehem, PA 18015
Sharing space with Roasted, a still-running breakfast and lunch spot, VegOut is a strictly weekend and evening affair. With Impossible Burgers, vegan Reubens, vegan cheesesteaks, and other hot and hearty options, VegOut looks like a great place for a satisfying vegan dinner.

The Vegetarian Resource Group is an activist non-profit organization that does outreach all-year-long. For example, VRG tables at different events throughout the USA and also sends literature free of charge to other groups/individuals doing educational activities in schools, hospitals, camps, restaurants, libraries, etc. Our ability to continue doing this depends on people like you! Your donations allow us to promote the vegan message whenever we’re called upon for assistance. Please consider becoming a monthly or quarterly donor to The Vegetarian Resource Group.

Thanks so much for your support. You can become a monthly or quarterly donor online here: vrg.org/donate

VRG Intern Kalie Ganem interviewed students at Goucher College in Maryland to see why they do or don’t become vegetarian/vegan, even when they think it’s a good thing to do. Listen to her Podcast here:
http://vrg.org/vegpodcast.mp4

Many parents worry about finding a veggie-friendly camp to send their children to. Here’s some suggestions:

Yea Camp will have vegan programs in Charlton, MA July 13-20, 2019 and in Idyllwild, CA August 3-10, 2019
See: http://yeacamp.org/

Global Youth Village is a mostly vegetarian camp for teens and will provide vegan options.
See: https://www.globalyouthvillage.org/

Camp Common Ground is located in Vermont and has programs for the entire family (adults and kids). They serve vegetarian food with vegan options.
See: http://www.cgcvt.org/

Camp Zeke will accommodate vegans and vegetarians. They are located in the Pocono Mountains in Lakewood, PA.
See: www.campzeke.org

Vegan Camp has programs throughout the summer in different locations. Andy Mars is the director.
See: http://www.vegancamp.org

Camp4Real runs vegan programs during the summer.
See: camp4real.com

Camp Kindness is held at the Catskill Animal Sanctuary in Saugerties, NY.
See: https://casanctuary.org/getinvolved/programs/camp-kindness/

Camp Woolman offers primarily vegetarian meals with vegan options. Located in Nevada City, CA.
See: https://www.woolman.org

If you know about any other veg-friendly camps, let us know!

Due to the generosity of an anonymous donor, The Vegetarian Resource Group each year will award $20,000 in college scholarship money to graduating U.S. high school students who have promoted veganism/vegetarianism in their schools and/or communities. Vegetarians do not eat meat, fish, or fowl. Vegans are vegetarians who do not use other animal products such as dairy or eggs.

One award of $10,000 and two awards of $5,000 will be given. Entries may only be sent by students graduating from high school in spring 2019. Deadline is February 20, 2019. We will accept applications postmarked on or before February 20, 2019. Early submission is encouraged.

Applicants will be judged on having shown compassion, courage, and a strong commitment to promoting a peaceful world through a vegan/vegetarian diet/lifestyle. Payment will be made to the student’s college (U.S. based only). Winners of the scholarships give permission to release their names to the media. Applications and essays become property of The Vegetarian Resource Group. We may ask finalists for more information. Scholarship winners are contacted by e-mail or telephone. Please look at your e-mail.

For details on the contest, see: http://www.vrg.org/student/scholar.htm

With cooler temperatures, we often look forward to home-cooked hot meals. Why not try a vegan casserole? This Vegetarian Journal article by Debra Daniels-Zeller features a number of creative casserole dishes including:

Country Shepherd’s Pie
Green Soybeans with Roasted Red Peppers
Garbanzo Lasagna with Roasted Eggplant
Wild Rice and Mushroom Casserole
Spicy Baked Pasta, Peas, and Buckwheat
Barbecue Black-Eyed Pea, Yam, and Corn Casserole
Scalloped Potatoes and Tempeh

Read the entire article here:
https://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2003issue1/2003_issue1_creative_casserole.php

Subscribe to Vegetarian Journal:
https://www.vrg.org/member/2013sv.php

Hi, my name is Marcy Schveibinz and I am a Vegetarian Resource Group member and volunteer in the Baltimore area. I will be in the San Diego, CA area in January and would like to arrange a casual gathering of VRG members for lunch. The purpose is to connect with each other and share our vegan volunteer experiences as well as exchange ideas about the various ways in which we are each living a vegan lifestyle.

We will meet at Flower Child, a restaurant with many vegan options at 2690 Via de la Valle, Del Mar, CA 92014 on Saturday, January 26, 2019 at 12:00 p.m. I have made a reservation for 15. Expect the meal to cost approximately between $15 and $30.

Please RSVP via email at [email protected] by January 18th so I know to expect you. If you plan to come please let me know if you have any food allergies.

I hope you can attend and I am really looking forward to meeting you!

Marcy

This Valentine’s, vegans and vegetarians in 20 cities across North America will be looking for love, thanks to a growing Canadian business, Find Veg Love (https://findveglove.com/). The brainchild of Ottawa vegans Karine Charbonneau and Andy Brighten, Find Veg Love launched in 2017 with a mission to help veg singles meet in person. So why speed dating? “We’ve been hearing consistently that our customers are tired of swiping – they want to meet other vegetarians and vegans in the real world,” explains Andy Brighten. “A structured event, run by a trained host, is the best way to make that happen.”

To eliminate awkwardness, Find Veg Love has designed a unique matching system. Attendees just log into the website and click who they like, during or after the event. “There’s no judgment or rejection, no pressure to tell your ‘date’ whether you like them, and no exchanging personal information,” the company explains. Results are confidential and attendees find out whom they match with by midnight.

The weeks leading up to Valentine’s, February 6-13, Veg Speed Date events will be taking place in 20 cities across Canada and the United States. Learn more at: https://findveglove.com/