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These recipes are Healthy, Vegan & Vegetarian, but please read carefully if you are lactose intolerant, have food allergies or are on a salt-restricted, high-blood-pressure, Diabetic or Crohn's Disease diet, to make sure the recipe meets your needs.

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Braised red cabbage with Craisins **** 1/2
Serve with turkey, lamb or pork. [More]

Canada's Most Veg-Friendly Cities: *
The word is that majestic Vancouver is Canada's most vegetarian-friendly city. [More]

Cooking with Stephanie: Coquitlam Farmers’ Market -- Lettuce Wrap ****
This is a vegetarian dish, using fresh produce picked out from the farmers in the market. [More]

Crudités ****
A fancy name for a simple dish. Also suitable for guests. [More]

Garber Gastronomic: Rose Reisman (Garber interview) *
Rose Reisman is Canada's pre-eminent cookbook author, with more than 750,000 books in print, and she is also a newspaper columnist, product spokesperson, owner of her self-named cooking school, caterer, television personality and mother of four. [More]

Grape Leaves Stuffed with Rice, Pine Nuts, and Currants ****
This is a popular summer asppetizer along the Aegean Coast and the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. These stuffed grape leaves are very good served with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice. [More]

Info on Quinoa *
Pronounced "KEEN-wha," quinoa is considered a super-grain because it contains all of the essential amino acids -- making it a complete protein. [More]

Karen's Yummy Granola ****
a healthy breakfast option. . . [More]

Pea Shoots (Stir-Fried Pea Shoots -- Ching Chow Dau Miu) *
Author: Recipe by Nathan Fong
Sautéed young tender shoots of the snow pea plant are probably my favourite vegetables. The flavour is similar to young baby spinach but are much more delicate in flavour. [More]

Uncle Ray's Marinated Beets ****
Says Ray: "Great with rind cheese and bread!" [More]

When meat is not murder *
Would you eat steak if it had been grown in a petri dish? It is the ultimate conundrum for vegetarians who think that meat is murder: a revolution in processed food that will see fresh meat grown from animal cells without a single cow, sheep or pig being killed. [More]

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Bleu Cheese-Walnut Dip **** 1/2
Decadent, elegant and impressive, this is a good dip to take to a potluck dinner. Excellent with chilled icewine. [More]

Canadians believe they are serving up the right recipe for a healthy diet, poll reveals *
According to a new poll, healthy meals and vitamins are more popular choices than the fast food take-out window. [More]

Companies struggle to end growing threat of trans fats *
Voortman Cookies Ltd. may be one of the first companies to eliminate trans fats from its products, but others are also scrambling to tackle the issue, which one leading public-health expert has called the "biggest food-processing disaster in history." [More]

Cookie maker crumbles on fat ... *
For more than half a century, the Voortman family has made its cookies in the same blends of flour, sugars and oils, building a loyal following and carving out a place as one of North America's biggest cookie makers along the way. [More]

Dangerous fats lurk in seemingly healthy snacks *
Granola bars, microwave popcorn among foods found loaded with trans fatty acids. [More]

Earthsave Canada presents Taste of Health 2007 *
The "Taste of Health 2007" is Vancouver's earth-friendly vegetarian food & lifestyle festival that takes place Saturday, September 29 and Sunday, September 30, 2007 in Vancouver, BC. [More]

Harrelson: 'I make films for subcultures' *
From his childhood boycott of processed cheese slices to his new film documenting Woody Harrelson's crusade for organic living, Ron Mann has always been the master of the marginal, SARAH HAMPSON writes [More]

Sugar use too high globally, experts report *
Soft drinks, juice targets in study that found changes in diet over 40 years. [More]

The gospel according to Woody *
'My god is nature,' says actor, vegan and committed eco-activist Woody Harrelson, whose message of organic living is on full display in the documentary Go Further [More]

Vancouver's 7th Annual Vegetarian Friendly Food and Lifestyle Show *
October 1 - 2, 2005, Vancouver, BC [More]