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Cosmo's Vegan
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February
2008 Newsletter
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Volume 33 |
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Hello
Friends, There's still time to buy some Valentine Day Gifts for your vegan sweetie. We have chocolates, candles, bags, candy, cookies...lots of stuff! Click here for our complete listing of valentine gift ideas. To be on the safe side, be sure to order using USPS Priority by Friday, February 8th, or UPS Ground by Wednesday, February 6th for delivery before the big day. Oh, we have so many new products that have arrived in the past month! For a full list of New Products, click here. And as always, we are offering a discount for newsletter subscribers only (see right sidebar). We are pleased to offer the full line of Vega Whole Food Nutritional Supplements, developed by Brendan Brazier, vegan, professional Ironman triathlete and best-selling author on performance nutrition. We can't guarantee that using Vega products will make you a famous vegan professional Ironman triathlete like Brendan, but hey. You never know. We are also super excited to have found some local vegan artists who make beautiful, handmade goods. We now offer some funky, one-of-a-kind bags from Flo Sheffield of Sugar Blossom Boutique for only $15 each! Also, check out these clever and adorable Recycled Lunch Totes from Becky Striepe of Glue & Glitter. Both of these vegan ladies do an awesome job producing quality crafts that are fun to give and receive. New shoe styles are now in stock! Introducing the Dennis Shoe for men and the Lucy Shoe for women, both by Novacas. And take a look at the two new sneaker styles from Autonomie Project: The Ethletic Black High Top and the Ethletic White Low Top. Autonomie Project is a company that creates fair trade and eco-friendly footwear. Autonomie Project works exclusively with small, independent worker-owned cooperatives and Fair Trade certified facilities located in rural and developing areas of the world. Enough said! We have so many more new products to offer you this month, including seven new book titles, one fantastic cook zine, food items, purses and handbags, new Vegan Dish Pottery and much more. See all new products here. Thank you
so much for your support and for another great month! Stay vegan.
Ken, Leigh,
Cosmo & Miles http://www.cosmosveganshoppe.com Add us as
your friend: "Where do you get your Protein?" As a vegan, do you just get sick of that question? We all do. Of course by now you probably know that eating a varied diet of plant foods can provide you with all of the protein you need. But do you know where exactly your protein is coming from, and how much of it you actually need? Well read on to find out, my tofu loving friend. Strict protein combining is not necessary, as long as you are consuming a good variety of plant foods and enough calories throughout the day. To meet protein recommendations, the typical adult male vegan needs only 2.5 to 2.9 grams of protein per 100 calories and the typical adult female vegan needs only 2.1 to 2.4 grams of protein per 100 calories. The following is a list of some common foods in a vegan diet, and how much protein they provide: -Tofu, 4 ounces
11 grams Cooked
Lentils,1 cup 18 grams (see recipe below) Almost
all vegetables, beans, grains, nuts, and seeds contain some
protein. Fruits, sugars, fats, and alcohol do not provide
much protein, so a diet based only on these foods would have
a good chance of being too low in protein. The moral of this
story? Eat a varied diet of real, whole food with plenty of
calories, and you will have all of the protein your body requires.
This information was obtained from The Vegetarian Resource
Group. For more information on protein in the vegan diet,
please click here: Slow-Cooker Lentil Soup It's
still pretty chilly here in Georgia, and in most of the
country. What does that mean? Why... it's soup weather!
Leigh decided to break out our slow-cooker, which is not
used nearly enough We had these with the "Buttermilk" Biscuits from Yellow Rose Recipes for a perfect light dinner.
Set
slow cooker to fastest setting (ours is four hours). Coat
the bottom with olive oil, and add the onions and garlic.
Let those warm for about ten minutes, then add the rest
of the ingredients except for the fresh parsley.
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