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Vegetarian and Vegan Health & Living Tips Explained Quickly & Easily
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The Top 9 Easy Steps to Take When Starting A Vegetarian Diet
Vegetarian Tip 1. Start your transition by dropping junk foods, white sugar, and all meats, including fish and poultry.
Vegetarian Tip 2. Find others who are already vegetarian who can guide and support you during your shift e.g. veg forums, meet-ups and societies in your area.
Vegetarian Tip 3. Read books on vegetarianism and veganism. Or contact your state's Vegan and Vegetarian Society who would be happy to send you a Veg Starter pack.
Vegetarian Tip 4. Try out recipes that substitute plant-based alternatives into your old favorite dishes. (e.g. veggie burgers, veggie sausages, veggie fish cakes, tofu or veggie pies and soy products). Hint: Convenience foods cut out cooking time. Natural food stores stock many such things for you to choose from.
Vegetarian Tip 5. Eat less and less meat and dairy (if you couldn't give-up all meats at once, gradually delete them from your diet over a week or so), and eat more and more fresh, raw fruits and vegetables. Eat large salad every day (hint: make your salads as colorful as a rainbow for maximum nutrient content, with plenty of dark leafy greens).
Vegetarian Tip 6. Replace meat and dairy with a wide variety of organically grown whole grains like breads, beans, rice, nuts, pasta and cereals.
Vegetarian Tip 7. Don't worry about protein. There is protein in all whole foods. Humans need only 8% dietary protein - that percent amount is found in an orange!
Vegetarian Tip 8. Get regular exercise, fresh air, and plenty of clean filtered water. Enjoy your journey, soon you will have more energy, a cleaner body, better skin, plus you'll feel much healthier and lighter, too!
Vegetarian Tip 9. Join the veg community, and educate yourself more about animal and cruelty free living. Here's a good place to start Vegan and Vegetarian Secrets now.
Vegan Carob-Mint-Nut Balls Recipe
(Give yourself a burst of flavor and energy with these power packed little treats)
You will need:
1 cup raw cashews - (crushed or ground finely)
6 medjool dates (mashed up)
3 Tbs rice malt syrup
3 Tbs carob powder (or cocoa if desired)
3 drops peppermint oil
Desicated coconut to roll in
Method:
- Remove pits from fresh dates and mash in a bowl.
- Add rice syrup and peppermint oil and mix well.
- Next put in the crushed/ground cashews into the mixture and mix in very well.
- Now add the carob powder.
- Roll into balls then roll in the coconut.
- Refrigerate before serving.
*You can use any kind of raw nuts you wish, we've found these to be delish with cashews, almonds even macadamias.
Lens of The Day - Thank You Squidoo!
What a wonderful surprise, and it's great to be somewhat famous for the day! LOL
Receiving such an acknowledgement really inspires me to create even bigger and better lenses and keep me moving forward to even more online ventures!
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Find Vegan Recipes and Acceptable Alternatives
Food For Thought
There are many foods that are accepted as part of a vegan diet, and they do not require a recipe at all! People who follow a vegan diet are allowed to eat fruits, vegetables, tofu, and nuts. These foods can be eaten alone, but they often serve as a base for a vegan recipe.
Additionally, modern grocery stores and supermarkets do an exceptional job of providing alternatives to foods that do not comply with a vegan diet. Items such as soy-cheese, non-dairy bread, and tofu ice cream make following a vegan diet and serving vegan recipes much easier. Vegans should check at their local grocery stores to see what products are available.
Gourmet Goodies
Like all other people, people following a vegan diet enjoy foods beyond the basic fruits and vegetables. It is nice to be able to prepare a recipe-or in this case, a vegan recipe-for dinners and special occasions. Being a vegan makes preparing recipes more difficult, because many of the ingredients found in standard recipes do not comply with the vegan lifestyle.
However, this does not mean that vegan food junkies should give up hope. There are many places where vegan recipes are readily available. The Internet is an amazing resource, and many websites contain a large database of animal-free recipes. Additionally, it might be a good idea to check your local library or book store for vegan cookbooks.
"Meat" Loaf and More
Vegan recipes have become very innovative in that they have found many acceptable meat alternatives. It is even possible to find recipes for "meat" loaf, "chicken" strips, and "turkey" roast. The ability to find vegan substitutes for these standard meals demonstrates the adaptability of a vegan's lifestyle.
To make "Meat" Loaf, vegan style, begin by assembling the ingredients you will need. These include: 2 cups of prepared vegetable broth, ½ cup ketchup, 2 tablespoons tamari (soy sauce may be substituted), 2 cups of TVP granules, 1 cup of quick oats or bread crumbs, 1/4 cup ground flaxseed, 1 tablespoon of nutritional yeast, 1 tsp each garlic granules, onion powder, oregano, and basil.
After preheating the oven to 375 degrees, start by mixing the prepared vegetable broth, TVP, tamari, and ketchup in a medium bowl. Let the mixture stand until the liquid is absorbed, or for about 10 minutes. Stir in all of the left over ingredients and mix well.
In a 9×5 loaf pan or glass casserole dish, tightly pack the mixture and put it in the oven for 40-45 minutes. Serve with mushroom gravy and mashed potatoes to complete the vegan recipe.
Children Choose "Chicken"
For a kid-friendly meal, "chicken" strips are a great choice. How can you cook chicken strips without the main ingredient-chicken? As usual, vegans have found a way to make their own version of this popular dinner.
The ingredients needed for this recipe are: oakra from one batch of soy milk, one 6 oz can of tomato paste, spices of your choice ( suggestions include salt, garlic powder, sage, cayenne, and black pepper), and 3 cups quick oats.
Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, and mix the okara, spices, and tomato paste in a large bowl. Gradually, one cup at a time, add the oatmeal to the mixture. Mix well (you might need to use your hands), and then shape them into thin strips. For a creative twist, let your kids mold the dough into shapes of their choice. Finally, bake them for 30-45 minutes and enjoy!
The Versatile Vegan
Though society is beginning to gear more foods and meals towards vegan eaters, it can still be more difficult to prepare vegan foods and recipes - but only if you don't know how to do so. So if you want to cut out all the pain and frustration of preparing or even looking for suitable and wonderfully tasting vegan foods, check out the below link today.
The mark of a true vegan is that they are resourceful and able to adapt many meat-based recipes to their own lifestyles.
Click Here To Find Hundreds of Vegan Recipes
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Global Warming & The Animal Agriculture Footprint
Well here are just a few reasons why . . .
- It takes 22 times the acres of land to meet the food energy needs of one person eating meat than it does for one person eating potatoes.
- It takes more than 13 times the water to produce one day's food supply for an omnivore than it does for a vegan.
- It takes 27 times the petroleum to produce a hamburger than it does a soy burger.
- The land animals confined and killed every year excrete 130 times the feces and urine produced by humans.
- Livestock production also utilizes more than eight percent of global water use, primarily for feed-crop irrigation.
- The annual greenhouse gas output from burger consumption is the equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas output from between four and 13 million SUVs.
- In the Amazon, approximately 60-70 percent of deforestation results from cattle ranches and soybean cultivation.
- And according to a UN FAO report, "in all, livestock production amounts to 70 percent of all agricultural land and 30 percent of the land surface of this planet." The USDA says growing crops for animals takes up 80 percent of the agricultural land in the US and animals raised for food in the US consume 90 percent of the soy crop, 80 percent of the corn and 70 percent of its grain.
(Ref: VegNews)
PS> Also just as distressing: according to the United Nations, the meat industry "emerges as one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global"
PLUS ... around the world more than 50 BILLION land animals are slaughter each year.
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Wicked Vegan Berry Choc Cassata
Wicked Vegan Berry & Chocolate Cassata
Here's what you'll need to make it:
1 litre vanilla soy ice cream (softened a little)
150g vegan turkish delight or other jelly lollies (roughly chopped)
100g raspberrries
100g blueberries (chopped)
1/4 cup almonds (chopped roughly)
1/4 macadamias (choppped roughly)
50g chocolate coated goji berries (chopped in half)
1/4 cup of Green & Blacks Maya Gold Chocolate (chopped roughly)
Method:
Line the base and sides of an 8 x 25cm pan with plastic wrap.
In large bowl, combine all ingredients and fold until roughly combined.
Next put some foil or a lid over the pan and freeze until firm.
Remove the log from the pan and remove plastic wrap. Serve sliced with extra rasberries or blueberries.
Tip: if you allow this to rest at room temperature before slicing up, it'll be much easier for you.
PS > Substitue your favorite berries or vegan chocolates in this recipe, as it works wonders with almost any fruit and sweets.
Our TOP Five Vegan Living Tips for You
Vegan Tip 1: Know your nutritional needs. Know the and when within a wholesome and healthy balanced vegan diet. Do this before you put anything else into practice.
You are what you eat afterall.
Vegan Tip 2: Your health is the single most important ingredient for life. Look after it by understanding what your own body needs for maximum health and longevity.
Vegan Tip 3: Center your diet on whole plant foods (vegetables, fruits, seeds and nuts); Select a wide variety of foods. Minimize your intake of heavily processed foods.
Therefore it may make sense that you should spend some time making sure that your family understands what a vegan will and won't eat.
Vegan Tip 4: Listen to your body. Eat when you're actually hungry and recognize real hunger from emotional eating.
Vegan Tip 5: Make exercise a regular activity in your life. Try to exercise at least 5 times a week, preferably everyday for optimum health.
Here's a good place to start with Veganism Vegan Tips
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Why?
Because, simply put, the "Vegetarian Cooking" ebook is absolutely one of the best vegetarian guides that I have ever come across.
This ebook is filled with proven, practical tips, informative charts and delicious recipes that will allow you to quickly and easily become a vegetarian, or if you are already a vegetarian, will allow you to maximize the benefits of your diet.
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The Easiest Way to Prepare Yourself for Veganism ...
As a vegan and vegetarian strategist, I get TONS of questions from clients and subscribers about how to go vegan, tips on vegetarianism, veggie nutrition, vegan ideas and of course, vegan recipes.
Here's some of the questions I usually get.
>> Rebecca, how do I go vegan easily?
>> Rebecca, what can I do to keep my vegan lifestyle in sync and healthy?
>> Rebecca, what aids, ideas or even foods do you recommend?
>> Rebecca, we hardly know what we are doing%u2026 please, how do we understand veganism much better? HELP!
>> Rebecca, how do we find 100% vegan foods that'll excite our tastebuds?
Are YOU new to the vegan way of life and you're worried about how to blossom with such a shift in direction and diet?
Concerned that veganism (or a simple vegetarian diet) is not going to supply your optimum nutritional needs and be fully balanced and beneficial?
Are YOU confused with where and how to start when going vegan or vegetarian?
Concerned that vegan living is risky?
If your thoughts are anything like any of the above then you are missing ONE crucial element that spells the difference between a vegan life that's confusing and hard to understand and one that is fully VEGAN-CHARGED - PERIOD!
It Doesn't Have To Be This Way!
Vegan Living has been around for years now and is one of the greenest, cleanest ways of living for your health, for the environment and for the animals. Isn't it about time that you educated yourself to some common sense ways of living healthier and cruelty free?
So is there an easy, yet sure-fire way to start implementing VEGAN (or Vegetarian) Living into your world today! And Yes you bet it's hassle free!
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Mmm.... Veggie Cupcakes Galore!
We used the recipes from the 'Vegan Cupcakes Take Over The World' cookbook.
Scroll down to find the cookbook on this lens under the 'Top Vegetarian & Vegan Books' section.
Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World's Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples
"His advice is mostly commonsensical and scientifically sound, and readers seeking that elusive fountain of youth would be wise to listen up." ... Publishers Weekly
Why do some people age in failing health and sadness, while others grow old with vitality and joy? In this revolutionary book, best-selling author John Robbins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, showing us how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span.
Through the example of four very different cultures that have the distinction of producing some of the world's healthiest, oldest people, Robbins reveals the secrets for living an extended and fulfilling life in which our later years become a period of wisdom, vitality, and happiness. Bringing the traditions of these cultures together with the latest breakthroughs in medical science, Robbins reveals that, remarkably, they both point in the same direction.
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Learn from America's finest chefs, cooks and people just like you, the secrets to creating world class cuisine and a long, happy and healthy life. By following the guidelines in 7 MINUTE CHEF, you will experience results that last a lifetime.
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BONUS We are including our secret popcorn recipe and an ancient Himalayan recipe for longevity!
Please understand - this information can truly transform your life!
You are going to receive the tools you need to take your health back into your own hands. You can turn your life around and feel better than you ever have felt before. Let food be thy medicine ... what does this mean?
Let food be thy medicine ... what does this mean?
7 MINUTE CHEF will show you how food can be your medicine. It is the first in a series of e-books that will demystify the secrets of healthy food preparation.
Each chapter in 7 MINUTE CHEF:
- Shares the tips and tricks as well as basic techniques of natural food preparation
- Provides recipes from the Chefs of the Lotus and kindred spirits from around the World
- Highlights the health benefits and uses of the ingredients used in the recipes
... all this plus cooking charts, the perfect pantry, ingredient log, comprehensive natural food glossary and more!
7 MINUTE CHEF contains many of the techniques and concepts used at our award-winning restaurants. The Blossoming Lotus Restaurants are recognized for serving the best plant based cuisine available anywhere. Our Kaua'i restaurant is given the food critics award for 'Best Restaurant'. In Portland, our customers have voted us the Best vegetarian Restaurant in Portland. Our restaurants prepare everything from scratch using all organic ingredients featuring the best of vegan and live food cuisine with a dash of medicinals.
Volume 1 covers such great topics as:
- what to do at the BBQ
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- fun with a blender - sauces and dressings
- preparation basics
- soup creation
- season and spice
- roasting and grilling
- cooking grains, beans and pasta
Try it RISK FREE - you have nothing to loose and everything to gain!
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Yummo Vanilla Vegan Cake Recipe
You will need ...
4 oz vegan margarine
2 tsp vanilla
2 egg replacer
1 cup caster sugar
½-1 cup soy milk
1¼ cups Self Raising Flour
1. Cream margarine and sugar together until fluffy.
2. Add egg replacer and vanilla, and beat well.
3. Next, add the sifted flour, and then stir in the soymilk gradually, until all the ingredients are combined and smooth.
4. Cook in a moderate oven for 30-45 minutes.
5. Ice when cool and top off with shredded coconut.
This recipe and many more can be found in the Vegan Secrets Wicked Recipe Cookbook.
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Great Veggie Stuff on Amazon
Highly recommended reading if you are looking into the veg*n lifestyle.
Skinny Bitch
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The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health
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Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75 Dairy-Free Recipes for Cupcakes that Rule
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The Joy of Vegan Baking: The Compassionate Cooks' Traditional Treats and Sinful Sweets
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The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World
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Hot Avocado Salad Recipe
You will need:
3 medium avocados
1 medium tomato
1 medium red onion, finely chopped
1 red capsicum, finely chopped
1 stick celery, finely chopped
2 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons sweet chilli sauce
2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
1 cup grated vegan cheese (optional)
Here's what to do with your ingredients:
- Preheat oven to moderate 180 C, and prepare a non-stick oven tray.
- Cut avocados in half lengthways and remove seeds. Scoop out two-thirds of the flesh, roughly chop. Retain shells.
- Peel, seed and finely chop tomato. Combine avocado, tomato, onion, capsicum and celery in a medium bowl.
- Combine sugar, chilli sauce and vinegar in a small screw-top jar. Shake until combined and pour over the other ingredients in bowl and mix well.
- Next spoon the fill into avocado halves; sprinkle with the vegan cheese. Place onto prepared oven tray and bake for 7-10 minutes or until heated through.
- Serve immediately with corn chips, crackers or sour dough bread.
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The Raw Secrets: The Raw Food Diet in the Real World
In the Raw Secrets, you will discover:
- Diseases and conditions caused or aggravated by bread and grain consumption.
- The most overlooked and important causes for lack of energy.
- Why certain foods are poisons and drugs, and how to find out which ones are.
- An absolutely effective and low-cost way to give up bad habits.
- All about a healthy diet that doesn't require you to buy special products.
- Sure signs that the diet you're not (even if it's raw) is not working for you
- The easiest (and best) way to transition to a raw food diet.
- Why you don't need to eat 100% raw to achieve excellent health, if you don't want to.
- This insider secret to eating a raw food diet in the north.
- Why most raw-food diets are unhealthy and what to do instead.
- The one key principle to achieving a higher level of health, no matter what diet you're on!
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Vegetarian Quotes . . .
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Meat: The REAL forbidden Fruit
Written by: Jeff Popick
Jeff Popick is a passionate man with a compelling message. In The Real Forbidden Fruit he describes, often with great brilliance, the reasons he and many others feel both a moral and intellectual imperative to be vegan. As outspoken as he is thoughtful, Jeff Popick isn't about to sit back in resignation and watch humanity descend ever deeper into darkness. Shining like a torch, his writings come from deeply held convictions, and profound concern for the welfare of all sentient beings.
- John Robbins, author of Diet For A New America and Healthy At 100.
WARNING: This book is not for the faint-hearted!
In "The Real Forbidden Fruit," Jeff Popick blows wide open the myths and misconceptions surrounding meat and its effects on our planet, our bodies, our society and our spirituality - and it's not a pretty picture.
Using thoughtful and thorough analysis, "The Real Forbidden Fruit" demonstrates how the animal industry, and our complicity with it, has created the dysfunctional and self-destructive world we live in today. Disease, famine, environmental disaster and even war are demonstrated to be direct results of our callous treatment of our fellow inhabitants of this planet.
Fortunately, there is a solution that can lead us all back to the Paradise this world once was, but it requires that we finally recognize what was "The Real Forbidden Fruit".
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Top Vegetarian & Vegan Books
Some of the books I've found to me most useful.
If you've read any of these vegetarian books, you can vote your choices up or down the ranking by clicking the arrows to the left of each picture. And if you have a favorite vegetarian book that isn't on my list, please add it. That way we can check it out for ourselves!
Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World: 75 Dairy-Free Recipes for Cupcakes that Rule by Isa Chandra Moskowitz, Terry Hope Romero
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MAD COWBOY: Plain Truth from the Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat by Howard F. Lyman, Glen Merzer
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The Mcdougall Quick and Easy Cookbook: Over 300 Delicious Low-Fat Recipes You Can Prepare in Fifteen Minutes or Less by John A. McDougall, Mary McDougall
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Vegan Fusion World Cuisine: Healing Recipes and Timeless Wisdom from our Hearts to Yours by Mark Reinfeld, Bo Rinaldi
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Vegetarian Times Study Shows 7.3 Million Americans are Vegetarian
Additional 22.8 Million Follow a Vegetarian-Inclined Diet
The just-released "Vegetarianism in America" study, published by Vegetarian Times (vegetariantimes.com), shows that 3.2 percent of U.S. adults, or 7.3 million people, follow a vegetarian-based diet. Approximately 0.5 percent, or 1 million, of those are vegans, who consume no animal products at all. In addition, 10 percent of U.S., adults, or 22.8 million people, say they largely follow a vegetarian-inclined diet.
Data for this survey were collected by the Harris Interactive Service Bureau on behalf of Vegetarian Times. The poll surveyed 5,050 respondents, a statistically representative sample of the total U.S. population. Vegetarian Times commissioned RRC Associates, a research firm in Boulder, Colo., to perform the data analysis.
The 2008 study also indicates that of the non-vegetarians surveyed 5.2 percent, or 11.9 million people, are "definitely interested" in following a vegetarian-based diet in the future.
The study also collected data on age, gender and other demographic factors. Of the vegetarians surveyed:
# 59 percent are female; 41 percent are male.
# 42.0 percent are age 18 to 34 years old; 40.7 percent are 35 to 54; and 17.4 percent are over 55.
# 57.1 percent have followed a vegetarian diet for more than 10 years; 18 percent for 5 to 10 years; # 10.8 percent for 2 to 5 years, 14.1 percent for less than 2 years.
The 2008 study also indicated that over half (53 percent) of current vegetarians eat a vegetarian diet to improve their overall health. Environmental concerns were cited by 47 percent ; 39 percent cited " natural approaches to wellness" ; 31 percent cited food-safety concerns; 54 percent cited animal welfare; 25 percent cited weight loss; and 24 percent weight maintenance.
"The vegetarian sector is one of the fastest-growing categories in food publishing," says Elizabeth Turner, Vegetarian Times' editor in chief. "It's a dedicated group of consumers that is growing daily."
"A vast number of people are seeking to reduce their meat intake, creating a rapidly growing market for all things vegetarian," says Bill Harper, vice president and publisher of Vegetarian Times. That trend is reflected in the growth of the magazine, which saw July through December 2007 newsstand sales increase 19.4 percent over the same period in 2006.
About Vegetarian Times: For over 30 years, Vegetarian Times has been at the forefront of the healthful-living movement, providing recipes, expert wellness information, and environmentally sound lifestyle solutions to vegetarians, vegans, and non-vegetarians alike.
Vegetarian and Vegan Secrets Talk
Please share your thoughts, ideas and tips on vegetarian or vegan living - or comment on mine!
| Tiddledeewinks
Nice lookin' veggie books you have listed on here! Posted April 25, 2008 |
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collagen
Great lens 5* I am sure will be helpful for many and solving problem for others. Keep up a good work. Health Beauty and Skin Care Posted April 24, 2008 |
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TraderJane
Great tips going healthy with vegan or vegetarian. Thanks! Posted April 24, 2008 |
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Jenafern
Love the lens! I lensrolled it on my Posted April 22, 2008 |
| clouda9
Very nice lens! I just created a lens about healthy snacks and have included this on a Good Food Choices Plexo. Keep on keeping on! Posted April 22, 2008 |
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