Texas VegFest

Go Meatless

Did Texas VegFest leave you curious about cutting down on your meat consumption or wanting to go vegan? Check out these sources for information about plant-based diets and cruelty-free lifestyles.

 

Cooking

• The Post Punk Kitchen
• VegWeb.com
• Greenling offers vegan recipe kits and Engine 2 Diet recipe kits
• Find a few good cookbooks. We recommend Blissful Bites by Christy Morgan, Simple Vegan by the editors of Good Housekeeping, Veganomicon by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero, The 30-Minute Vegan by Mark Reinfeild and Jennifer Murray, or Appetite for Reduction by Isa Chandra Moskowitz.
• Or visit your local library for many vegan cookbooks to browse and check out.

 

Eating Out

• Happy Cow
• Lazy Smurf’s Guide to Eating Vegan in Austin
• Lone Star Plate: Restaurant Guides by Texas City
• Vegans Rock Austin Restaurant Guide

 

General How To

• ChooseVeg.com
• Order a vegetarian starter guide from Compassion Over Killing
• PBJ Campaign
• Zen Habits Guide to Eating a Plant-Based Diet

 

Health

• NutritionFacts.org
• Vegan Health
• The Vegetarian Resource Group
• Dr. Baxter Montgomery’s online nutritional boot camp
• Or look for these books: Vegan for Life by Jack Norris and Ginny Messina or
  The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Plant-Based Nutrition by Julieanna Hever

 

Lifestyle

• Leaping Bunny cruelty-free shopping guide
• Lone Star Plate: Texas Vegan and Vegetarian Groups
• Veganic Gardening: Gardening without animal products or synthetic substance
• Find a vegan mentor at the Vegan Society