Vegetarian Star

“Earth Balance butter is amazing! It’s a staple. Daiya cheese is too. You just have to find the right products and mix them all together, but it’s totally yummy. I’ve made food for my husband [Channing Tatum] who’s non-vegan and he’s like, ‘That’s really good!’”

–Jenna Dewan Tatum, on her favorite vegan staples to use during the Thanksgiving holiday. Find out how other celebrities spend the day meatless at AccessHollywood.

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Gardein Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is only a few weeks away, and it’s never too early to start planning your animal-friendly feast, whether you’re cooking for several family members or doing it solo so you won’t starve amid the family of hunters and carnivores.

Vegan chef Tal Ronnen, author of The Conscious Cook and chef who helped design Oprah‘s meal plans when she went on a 3-week vegan cleanse, has created a vegetarian Thanksgiving menu starring the plant-based meat substitutes free of dairy, cholesterol and animal ingredients he helped develop, Gardein.

Chef’s Ronnen’s Thanksgiving menu includes using Gardein faux chicken patties to create a Sage and Pumpkin Seed Encrusted patty with Cranberry Cabernet Sauce, Creamy Mashed Potatoes featuring Earth Balance vegan butter, Sweet Potato Biscuits created from scratch using soymilk, Green Beans With Fresh Cranberries, Beet and Orange Autumn Salad and for dessert, Oven Roasted Banana Rum Cheesecake.

Vegan Oven Roasted Banana Rum Cheesecake

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Earth Balance Soy Milk. Credit: Earthbalancenatural.com

Reasons to enter Vegetarian Star’s contest to win Earth Balance Soy Milk

10. You’re too old to be drinking milk that came from a nipple.

9.  You are a devoted Earth Balance consumer and why you’d love to put their vegan butters on your cornflakes, soy milk just sounds a little saner.

8. It’s vegan

7. It’s got Alicia Silverstone‘s pretty face on the carton.

6. It’s got Alicia Silverstone’s favorite recipes on the cartons, next to her pretty face.

5. You live near a Whole Foods, where the product was exclusively launched. It’s jokingly called “Whole Paycheck” because of the prices, but when you’ve got a coupon for 1 free carton, you can keep that check in your pocket and cash it next week.

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In the good ol’ days, fresh milk was delivered to your doorstep that came from a cow in someone’s backyard that roamed freely and wasn’t on any numerous “roids” designed to get her pumping faster.

Those days are gone, but Vegetarian Star is putting a twist on milk delivery in 2010.

Get soymilk delivered to your door. Enter the contest to win one of four coupons for a free carton of Earth Balance’s new vegan, organic, non-GMO Project Verified soymilk that comes in original, chocolate, vanilla and unsweetened.

The coupon doesn’t get any fresher, as it’s hand delivered by the mailman (or mailwoman). You still have to (hopefully, in the interest of being green) bike or walk to Whole Foods to redeem it though.

Yum.

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Earth Balance Soy Milk. Credit: Earthbalancenatural.com

Vegetarian Star has not one, two, but FOUR COUPONS FOR FREE SOY MILK from Earth Balance, the same fantastic folks who’ve brought us vegan butters. Coupons for free stuff burns a hole in your pocket faster than money, so we’re giving you a chance to win one.

Earth Balance has recently debuted these exclusively at Whole Foods Market, so it would be a good idea it you lived near one. Know someone else who does? Package it up and give it away for Christmas, Chanukah, Kwanzaa or any reason you want, cause they’re good through June of 2011!

Earth Balance soy milk is available in Original, Vanilla, Chocolate and Unsweetened. Here’s Veg Star’s take on the original. Ever drank your favorite vegan ice cream after it’s melted? Earth Balance’s soy milk fills your mouth with a smooth, sweet taste versus the chalky, bitter aftertaste some soy milks do. Not that’s it’s sugary sweet. And for those who are concerned with sugar, there’s always the unsweetened variety. Contest rules and more after the jump.

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Alicia Silverstone may be a vegan, but she may add some butter to her life soon.

The actress is rumored to be cast in the film starring Modern Family‘s Ty Burrell featuring a butter carving champion in a small town.

According to Access Hollywood, Production Weekly says Silverstone is currently in negotiation for the comedy that has already cast Jennifer Garner and Ashley Greene.

If Silverstone were competing in a butter carving contest herself, she’d pick her favorite vegan butter, Earth Balance, as she’s blogged about it on her website, The Kind Life.

Available in tubs and traditional butter sticks, Earth Balance comes in several varieties that include soy, no soy, canola oil or without, and contain all the buttery flavor minus the cholesterol and dairy farms.

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For those that choose the vegan path or with intolerance/sensitivity to dairy products, Alicia Silverstone recommends a cow-free butter on her Kind Life website to substitute on baked potatoes, cookies and more.

“Whenever I find a recipe that calls for a butter substitute, I always use Earth Balance! I’ve experimented with a lot of brands, and this one is my hands-down favorite! You can get it in tubs or sticks… just like real butter. It’s so versatile and you can get it at most supermarkets and health food stores.”

The guys (and gals) at Earth Balance really know their butters.

Besides tubs, Earth Balance vegan butters come in sticks as well and feature several blended varieties such as those with or without soy and olive oil.

Peanut and almond butters are also available.

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The Kind Diet

Alicia Silverstone will have her own session at the New York City Wine and Food Festival this weekend and she’ll be demonstrating cooking vegan recipes from her upcoming vegan diet book, The Kind Diet.

If baketivism is the way to people’s hearts, then Alicia should bring along some of the desserts from her cookbook, like the ones she described for expressnightout.com.

“The peanut butter cups and chocolate fudge brownies are insane,” Silverstone said. “Vegan food doesn’t have to compromise on taste. I challenge cheese to a duel! I think any of my amazing dishes are better than a cheese plate any day.”

Alicia’s is offering her guarantee.

“Even just replacing your butter with Earth Balance spread or mayonnaise with Vegenaise will make a difference. I promise they taste exactly the same. Mail it to me if you don’t think so! OK, don’t really mail it to me, but it’s just as good, and so much better for you.”

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