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nutrition– the finale

On March 29, 2011 By

This week con­cludes my series on nutri­tion. If you haven’t seen the other videos, I highly rec­om­mend at least watch­ing this one. This week I cover food label­ing, how to read the nutri­tion facts, FDA guide­lines on some things that can and can’t be said on food pack­ag­ing, the food pyra­mid and more!

Again, I am […]

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nutrition is nomtastic!

On March 14, 2011 By

March is National Nutri­tion Month and in honor of that, this video is my first install­ment in a series of videos on nutrition.

It’s not some crazy, super sci­en­tific video, but real­iz­ing the mis­con­cep­tions and just plain lack of knowl­edge many Amer­i­cans pos­sess on nutri­tion basics, this video starts with my own lit­tle mini-rant about […]

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So… I didn’t MoFo yesterday. Oops.

Today, I want to dis­cuss bak­ing and health. I get enor­mously frus­trated when peo­ple say to me, “Oh, you’re a vegan baker? Your stuff must be really healthy.”

Uh, no, actu­ally. It’s not.

And then I have to try to explain to them that while it’s not […]

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cleanin’ up my act… for now

On September 28, 2010 By

*The win­ners are: Abby, Tracy, Hope, Aimee and Amanda! I dis­cov­ered I had 5 coupons, all good for 1 free Nasoya item so yay for you guys! Email me your addresses and I’ll pop them in the mail!*

There is such a thing as too much of a good thing. That good thing right now […]

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it’s greeeeeeeen

On August 24, 2010 By

{Thanks for your par­tic­i­pa­tion in my poll below! I think it stands that I’ll be play­ing around with cheesecake!}

While I love to talk about food and about all of the deli­cious vegan feasts we enjoy, I can get tired of the ques­tions. You know the kind, where the inquirer doesn’t actu­ally care what the […]

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I don’t nor­mally talk much about my day job, but I was at a sem­i­nar this morn­ing that I thought was so well-timed and dove­tails so nicely with the blog and things we talk about here from time to time, I can’t resist.

I work in Human Resources (and I’m a newly minted PHR, as […]

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muffins on the boob tube

On January 5, 2010 By

Hey there! I was fea­tured on a morn­ing show here in Port­land, talk­ing about vegan bak­ing in the new year. You can check out the seg­ment here.

*sorry, it won’t let me imbed the video.

Yay, vegan baking!

Oh, and here is the recipe.

You Are My Sun­shine Loaf (or Muffins!)

This bread […]

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a baker’s tour of portland

On July 20, 2009 By

Port­land is a great place for food­ies, no doubt. Whether you’re vegan, omni, micro­brew afi­cionado or mixol­o­gist, Port­land has you cov­ered. That’s all fine and good if you wish to be served, but what if you want to be the one behind the apron? One of the things that Port­land has […]

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