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“Three In A Bed” Puts Vegetarian Lodge Owner In Last Place

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 30th, 2010 in Food & Drink, Reality TV, Travel.

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A meatless bed and breakfast owner came in last in the UK reality TV show Three In A Bed that lets B&B owners stay at others’ inns and then pay what they consider fair price.

Apparently, some of the other B&B owners may have missed their morning meat.

Andrew Blackall, who owns The Lodge at Avebury, is vegetarian and does not serve meat with his breakfasts.

Blackall’s price of £250 (approximately $383 in U.S. dollars) left the other contestants feeling as if they’d be missing their savings and their sausage.

Mr. Blackwell’s place is near the famous Stonehenge, plus you won’t smell the neighbors’ bacon in the morning.

For a traveling vegetarian, you may very well get what you pay for.

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Recently dismissed Survivor “Heroes Vs. Villains” contestant Amanda Kimmel may have worked as a hiking guide before finding her way in the jungle on the CBS reality TV series, but she won’t be returning to the woods.

“I’m really passionate about organic food and skin care and actually have been working on three organic fragrances called ‘Wild,'” Kimmel told TV Squad. “They’re coming out soon.”

Organic food must have been hard to come by on the island.

Maybe Rupert wasn’t the only one with a secret food stash.

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Cornelia Guest Debuts Line Of Vegan Cookies

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 30th, 2010 in Actresses, Business, Food & Drink.

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Cornelia Guest has created her own line of vegan cookies.

The actress, author and socialite debuted these in a goodies bag given to attendees at a recent event for the New York Humane Society.

Guest hopes to sell the cookies, made with vegan chocolate and coconut oil, to bakeries, retailers and airports.

And she is really excited about the airline outlet.

“I really want my cookies to be on planes,” Guest said, according to the Wall Street Journal. “People should be able to have a healthy snack in the air.”

The packaging for the cookies reads, “No animals were hurt while making these cookies…I just have a bruises!”

The chocolate chip cookie is complete but Guest is currently trying to perfect another version–oatmeal raisin.

More information about the cookies can be obtained from the website, which currently exists in two different versions, but say the same thing, so that area of the business must still be in development as well.

Either way, CorneliasCookies or CorneliaGuestCookies will get you to the vegan cookie official you need.

Photo: PR Photos

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Gwyneth Paltrow Vegetarian Sushi, Almond Butter And Jelly Recipes

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 30th, 2010 in Actresses, Food & Drink, Recipes.

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Gwyneth Paltrow packs her kids’ lunch boxes with plenty of vegetarian sushi and almond butter and jelly sandwiches.

This was revealed in the latest edition of Goop, the actress’ online newsletter.

According to Gwyneth, veggie sushi is, “A great way to use leftover cooked rice and sneak some extra vegetables into your kid’s diet—not to mention a great way to get rid of those extra soy sauce packages that always seem to accumulate in the kitchen drawer.”

No kidding.

How many times have you thrown away those dozens of soy sauce packages, along with the two dozen more salt and pepper condiments that have hardened since your last visit from Chinese take out?

Be eco-friendly and save money by using them before purchasing similar condiments from the grocery.

Gwyneth’s recipe uses asparagus wrapped inside sheets of Nori and brown rice, but adds you can substitute any vegetable you’d like, including carrots, cucumbers or mushrooms.

Nori makes a great substitute for bread or tortilla wraps and is rich in Iodine and Vitamins A and C.

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Actress Kristin Bauer speaks at a rally on Whaling in Washington

True Blood actress Kristin Bauer made her tail for the whales when she attended a rally in Washington, D.C., urging United States president Barack Obama not to overturn a ban on commercial whaling.

The signature hand gesture was created by the International Fund for Animal Welfare’s Tails for Whales campaign.

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PETA Asks For Vegetarian White House Correspondents Dinner

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 30th, 2010 in Food & Drink, Politicians.

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Although it may be a little late to change the menu, PETA is asking that the White House Correspondents Dinner tomorrow be vegetarian.

In a letter written to executive director Julie Whiston, PETA’s executive vice president Tracy Reiman says, “Asking your members and guests to carpool and drive hybrids is a great start, but the benefits of these measures are largely canceled out by the beef, fish, and dairy products on your menu. As you may know, a 2006 United Nations report called raising animals for food “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.” A major report by the University of Chicago found that adopting a vegan diet has a greater impact in the fight against climate change than switching to a hybrid car.”

The letter then goes on to describe the conditions animals raised for food endure before and during slaughter.

“Chickens and turkeys have their throats cut while they’re still conscious, piglets have their tails and testicles cut off without being given any painkillers, fish suffocate or are cut open while they’re still alive on the decks of fishing boats, and mother cows have their calves taken away almost immediately after birth so that the milk meant for the calves can be sold.”

The planned menu for the event can be found here.

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Kevin Eubanks Approached For Reality TV Cooking Show

Written by Vegetarian Star on Friday, April 30th, 2010 in Food & Drink, Male Musicians, Reality TV.

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Kevin Eubanks announced he’s resigning from his 18 year job as a musician for Jay Leno‘s The Tonight Show, but could fans see him on the screen again soon?

Hollywood News reports Eubanks has been approached to do a reality TV show where he’s preparing meals with other celebrities.

Sounds great, considering Eubanks is a longtime vegetarian who could make dishes consisting of couscous, whole grain pasta and tempeh popular among prime time viewers, given his popularity.

Eubanks recorded a PSA for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine where he promoted going vegetarian and eating dishes like “grilled portabello mushrooms over pasta” as a way stay healthy and fit.

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Woody Harrelson and his wife Laura Louie have written to Congress, asking them to support H.R. 4870, a bill that would incorporate more vegetarian lunches and non dairy beverages in school menus that is otherwise known as the Healthy School Meals Act.

The longtime vegetarians wrote, “As parents, we ask you to support HR 4870, the Healthy School Meals Act of 2010. We know from watching our own children grow up that eating habits children develop early on stick with them for life. All too often, young people are offered processed meats and cheese and other greasy, high-fat, high-cholesterol foods.”

“The Healthy School Meals Act will help children develop better eating habits, provide healthful plant-based options that naturally contain no cholesterol, are low in saturated fat and high in fibre, enabling schools to reach high nutrition standards easily. The legislation gives schools the incentive and ability to address the health problems that are harming our children and overburdening our health systems.”

The bill was introduced by representative Jared Polis, who lost a significant amount of weight after making changes to his diet and has expressed concern for the childhood obesity epidemic.

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