Going Vegan

H. - You can make chocolate cake with a can of black beans in place of the oil and eggs. You just need to mash the beans, juice and all and then mix them with the cake mix. You cannot taste the beans at all, as long as the cake is completely cooled. If warm you can taste the beans! But cooled it is moist and wonderful!

H.,

I use www.allrecipes.com to find my recipes for every dinner. They have several recipe searches including an advanced search where you can put in ingredients you don't want.

I just checked and they have 837 recipes labeled "vegan" if you do a "collection" search.

You can also find other cooks and what they have submitted. I am sure if you found a few other vegan cooks on the site that could give you access to new recipes as they submit them.

Access is free. You can sign up for daily email recipes if you want, but they won't bombard you with junk if you don't.

Hope this helps,
S.

Hi H.,
I don't know of any websites but I do have a friend that wrote a book "What No Meat" by Debra Poneman. It's suppose to have some family friendly Vegan recipes.
Good luck being an art teacher. That's what I have a degree in. Currently I volunteer at the boys and girls club and homeschool my son.
Peace and Blessings,
S.
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helping families with health and wealth for almost 12 years

Check out recipezaar.com. Here's a link to their vegetarian section. http://www.recipezaar.com/recipes/vegetarian
There are thousands of recipes. Just click on "ingredients" and you can narrow it down quickly by removing the things you don't want, like eggs or milk, since it's vegetarian and not yet to vegan. I love it because no matter what I'm making I can click on "ingredients" and narrow it down to just the ingredients that I want or have.
Good luck,
J. - vegetarian

Hi H.,

Congrats on going vegan! My family just did the same about 5 months ago. We feel so much better and have no plans to ever eat dairy or meat products again! We are currently attending a CHIP class--have you heard of that? It's the Coronary Health Improvement Project with Dr. Hans Diehl. The website (www.chipusa.org) has lots of information that's great to know. I couldn't find any recipes posted there, but I did find some under our church's CHIP website (www.adventistchip.org then click on resources). My favorite cake recipe is the Germon Carob Cake. It really tastes great. It's not usually thought of as a kid's cake, but it might give you something to work with.

German Carob Cake

Prep. Time: 10 minutes
Bake Time: 40 minutes
One 9” cake, 12 Servings

CAKE:
1 c. white flour
½ c. whole wheat pastry flour
1 t. baking soda, non aluminum
¼ c. roasted carob powder OR cocoa
2 t. flax meal
½ t. salt

2 T. mild olive oil
1 c. sweet soymilk
½ c. maple syrup
½ c. soft dates, pressed down
1 t. vanilla
1 T. lemon juice
¼ t. almond flavoring

PREHEAT oven to 350º.
SIFT together dry ingredients.
COMBINE wet ingredients in blender.
BLEND until dates are smooth.
ADD to dry ingredients just until combined.
POUR into Pam-sprayed 9” cake pan.
BAKE at 350º for 35-40 minutes or until toothpick in center of cake comes out clean.

TOPPING:
½ c. unsweetened coconut
½ c. pecans, chopped
½ c. maple syrup
⅓ c. water
1 T. cornstarch
¼ t. salt

TOAST coconut for 8-10 minutes and pecans for 10-12 minutes at 350º.
DISSOLVE cornstarch in water.
COMBINE cornstarch water with syrup and salt.
BOIL and stir until bubbly and thickened.
COOL from hot to warm, add nuts and coconut.
SPREAD evenly over cooled cake.

Try www.101cookbooks.com the pictures with the recipes are awesome and the reciipes are fabulous! I loved the bulgar pomegranate salad. I am pretty sure you can sort recipes by vegan and vegetarian too.
Happy Cooking!

http://www.gfutah.org/gfcfrecipes/breads.htm
This is a website I had fould a while back. I don't know if it has what you are looking for, but you can check it out and see. Good luck !

Check out Vegetarian Resource Group's site vrg.org. I have been vegetarian since 1991 (vegan off an on during that period). I am also a Registered Dietitian and mother of a 2 and 4 yr old. I recommend VRG's website as it has practical info but is also very well researched. My favorite cookbook is called "Vegan Vittles" by the "Farm Sanctuary"...it may be out of print? Also there is a fun online store that sells all kinds of hard to find vegan products (cake mixes, marshmallows, men's dress shoes...) called pangeaveg.com.

I have many vegan friends and we were veg. for a while....
As for cakes/baking:
Just use "egg replacer" for the eggs (it's a powder you add water too- does not taste good just scrambled! but can't tell baking) and a vegan "butter" like earth balance. I just made cupcakes this way and it works great! If the cake calls for pudding- I found vegan instant pudding at Outpost (natural food/organic food co-op) and it tastes the same to me and worked great.

Food:
Again at Outpost are many many vegan options... we used tofu instead of meat- they have temphe etc... I googled "vegan recipes" etc.... or just look for a new recipe and sub. the dairy/meat... time to experiment!!!

Good Luck and congrats for your daughter!!
ALSO- check out kefir.....it is dairy but the probiotics (in the organic) are actually over time great boosters for intestinal issues...

Hi H.,

How about a tofu "ice cream" dessert?

L. :)

I'm a vegetarian and I love www.vegweb.com for recipes. They have a lot of vegan recipes. The recipes are rated by users, so I always just look for recipes with high ratings and haven't been disappointed yet! I checked and there are tons of vegan cake recipes on there. Good for you and your family for going vegan!