Nature's Path Cereal

Hello :D I have not updated in a long time. I'm terrible. School's a killer. Here's a list of all the vegan stuff for Nature's Path cold and hot cereal. If you haven't notice, they only list whether or not their food are vegetarian or not but not vegan. I'm a Nature's Path loving vegan and I hate idling in front of the cereal isle looking at all the ingredients on the cereal box. I've noticed that the only thing on the cereal that makes it not vegan is the honey. For Kashi it's both honey and dairy. They don't have any milk, whey or added vitamin D3. I've checked all the labels for the cereals. If you are uncertain you can look it up on their website Nature's Path and Kashi. I've provided this list of cereal because cereal is my breakfast staple, maybe it is your's too. You can just highlight the list, print it out and use it as a reference at your local supermarket.


VEGAN Nature's Path Cold Cereal

Flakes

• FlaxPlus Red Berry Crunch
• FlaxPlus Pumpkin Raisin Crunch
  
• FlaxPlus Raisin Bran (Not to be confused with the eco pack which contains honey)
• FlaxPlus Flakes
  
• Multigrain Flakes
• Millet Rice Flakes
  
• Mesa Sunrise Flakes
• Corn Flakes
  
• Synergy 8 Grain Flakes

Shaped

• EnviroKidz Panda Puffs
• EnviroKidz Orangutan O's
  
• EnviroKidzKoala Crisp
• EnviroKidz Gorilla Munch
• Crispy Rice
  
• SmartBran

Puffed (All)

• Corn Puffs
• Kamut Puffs
• Millet Puffs
• Rice Puffs

Shredded (All)

• Shredded Heritage Bites
• SHredded Oaty Bites

Optimum (All)

• Optimum Rebound
• Optimum Zen
• Optimum Slim
• Optimum Power

Granola

• Pomergran Plus Granola
  
• Peanut Butter Granola
  
• Acai Apple Granola
• GingerZing Granola
• Hemp Plus Granola
• Pumpkin FlaxPlus Granola

Eco-Pac

• EnviroKidz Koala Crisp
• EnviroKidz Gorilla Munch
• EnviroKidz Peanut Butter Panda Puff
• Corn Flakes
• Multigrain Oat Bran Flakes
• Millet Rice Flakes
• Mesa SunRise
• Kamut Krisp

VEGAN Nature's Path Hot Cereal (All)

• HempPlus Hot Oatmeal
• Multigrain Raisin Spice Hot Oatmeal
• Optimum Power Hot Oatmeal
• Optimum Zen Hot Oatmeal
• Variety Pack Hot Oatmeal
• Original Hot Oatmeal
• Apple Cinnamon Hot Oatmeal
• FlaxPlus Hot Oatmeal
• Maple Nut Hot Oatmeal
• Weil by Nature's Path Chocolada Almond Hot Oatmeal
• Weil by Nature's Path Veri Berry Hot Oatmeal

NOT VEGAN Nature's Path Cold Cereal

Flakes

• Spelt Flakes
• Honey'd Corn Flakes
• Heritage Flakes

Shaped

• Heritage O's

Granola

• Heritage Raspberry Granola
• Blueberry Muesli
• Heritage Muesli

Eco-Pac

• Honey'd Raisin Bran
• Honey'd Corn Flakes
• Heritage Flakes
• Heritage O's

VEGAN Kashi Cold and Hot Cereal

• Heart to Heart Oatmeal (All - Apple Cinnamon, Golden Brown Maple, Raisin Spice)
• Kashi Flakes 7 Whole Grain with Sesame
• Kashi Nuggets 7 Whole Grain
• Kashi Pilaf 7 Whole Grain
  
• Kashi Puff 7 Whole Grain
• Organic Promise (All - Autumn Wheat, Cinnamon Harvest, Strawberry Fields)
  

NOT VEGAN Kashi Hot and Cold Cereal

• GoLean Hot Cereal (All - Creamy Truely Vanilla, Hearty Honey Cinnamon)
  
• GoLean
• GoLean Crunch (All- Honey Almond Flax, Original)
• Good Friends Cereal (All - Cinna-Raisin Crunch, Original)
• Heart to Heart Cereal (All - Honey Toasted Oat, Oat Flakes & Wild Blueberry Clusters)
• Kashi Granola (All - Cocoa Beach, Mountain Medley, Orchard Spice, Summer Berry)
• Kashi Honey Puffs
• Mighty Bite Cereal
• Vive
  

NOTE :: All was checked on 03/13/2008 please check if the company have added new cereal or changed any ingredients. Please do inform me if any of these are wrong and need corrections. Thank you!

Day in Manhattan

Wow many things to say and talk about well I'm going to talk about first is my day to Manhattan since that is the title after all. xD

I went with two of my friends, whom I have not seen since high school to Union Square to explore the world or organic produce, green markets and veganism and the whole shindig.

We went to the union square green market and browsed around. There's so many produces and there was this vendor there selling vegan baked goods...well only two...There were the apple cranberry cake and the carrot raisin cookie!! I have not tried it yet though since I was eating alllll day today haha.


I also bought some berry hot garlic jam. No berries only garlic and hot peppers. It was expensive though, $4 for a 2.5 oz. It's minuscules!!! When I went to the poconos I bought my 10.5 oz mayhaw jame for $3.50 at the local green market. There were so many items ranging from herbs to vegetables to flowers to baked goods to ice cream to cheese to goat hide....WTF?! goat hide. I got so pissed I was standing in front of the standing screaming OMFG they killed the poor goats. GOAT KILLERS. Cursing like crazy. It was so upsetting to see. It ruined the whole excitement of being at the green market so we quickly left.


We went to Galaxy Global Eatery a "new age" cafe with a full menu and a lot of vegetarian/vegan choices. There weren't that many vegan choices for the weekend brunch though. We didnt get to see the whole menu since they only gave us the weekend brunch menu. I took the paper menu for a souvenir and that was when I learned that they have the most scariest non veg food in the world!! They served rabbits, ostrich, bison and buffalo. NO FUCKING KIDDING about the new age theme!! As for the vegetarian/vegan food items, they did serve seitan and tempeh and a lot of tofu. I was surprised a non veg restaurant would have even heard of seitan and tempeh. For vegans, there were the choices of all the salads, rosemary tofu skewers, vegan breakfast and bbq buffalo seitan with out the japanese eggplant since it was breaded. As for the vegetarians, there were many choices like the whole wheat blueberry flaxseed pancakes and many of the other dishes as the turkey bacon can be substituted with the tempeh bacon. I got myself the Vegan Breakfast.


The tofu scramble was a bit bland but it had a nice parsley aroma. The potato and tempeh was delicious but the salad was a bit too salty. Maybe the chef mistakenly seasoned the salad a second time instead of the tofu scramble. Don't understand as to how the chef can get that incorrect though...

Archer Farms Fruit Bars (Vegan)
Here's what I've found at Target...FRUIT BARS!! It's like fruit preserve...but they had boxes of fruit preserve next to them so I guess they're not as similar as I think it is. I've bought the pomegranate and the Tropical fruit bars. According to the ingredients of the Pomegranate one, it says apple, natural pomegranate flavor, fruit juice concentrates (pomegranate, blueberry and lemon), elderberry juice, absorbic acid (vitamin c). Here's the ingredients to the Tropical fruit bars:



Vegetable Crackers (Vegan)


Free gift from the Asian grocery store!! My mom got it for free for spending over a certain amount of money in Hong Kong Supermarket. Yayy it's vegan! Here's what the ingredients have to say wheat flour, starch, vegetable oil, celery, scallion, onion, salt, leavening agent (it says in Chinese: leavening powder for food usage) , edible color yellow no.4



Concoctions muahah...

Green Tea Jasmin Cupcake~Muffins
I was intending to make some green tea jasmin muffin but they turned out to be more like cupcakes :[ I must experiment more!! I think I over seeped the green tea because the mufifn had a bitter after taste.


Lara Bars Copy Cats
I love lara bars but I don't think I can afford to buy a bar ranging from $1.29 to $1.79 everytime I go to the supermarket. It super duper good!! I must make my own I shall experiment and see how close I can get to the real deal.


FRUITS FRUITS FRUITS
We only had a tub of kiwi and one banana left so I went to buy some fruits after work and my mom also saw that there were no more fruit so she decided to buy some fruits while she was at work and guess what we ended up with? A LOT OF FRUITS. We have 12 different varieties!!

A bunch of Banana
3 Pears
8 Pluots
11 Plums
A bag of Logan
1 Cantaloupe
3 Nectarines
10 Oranges
A bag of Grapes
9 Mango
9 Kiwi
3 Dragon Fruits (Not in the Photo)

DURIAN!!
I love durians, the king of all fruits!! I had 6 nuggets and mommy bought another durian!!! It's 99 cent per lb!! DURIAN SEASON IS HERE!!!

Homemade Rice Milk

I'm going to try and post smaller and more frequent post. It's hard to browse because you would have to keep scrolling down the the bottom of nothing just to get to your destination. :3 I've said that before but apparently I haven't improved yet.

Rice Milk Have you ever tried Rice Dream or Whole's Food 365 Rice Milk? If you haven't you should! My initial reaction was damn this is good. I personally prefer rice milk over soy milk because it's so light, crisp and tasty but, soy milk provides more protein. I'm so upset by the price of these alternative milk since it cost around 3 dollars for a quart of UHT milk. I can finish that in two days!!! I've tried making my own rice milk using the recipes acquire from nomilk. I've tried two of the recipe and they do not come close to any of the commercial rice milk. Here's my review for them.

Rice Milk Recipe #1
1 Cup of Warm Cooked Rice
4 Cups of Warm Water
1/2 Tsp Vanilla

• Cook some rice or you can use left over and put it in a blend.
• Pour in the warm water and blend it on high until there are no more rice particles.

The Recipe ask you to let it sit for half and hour and pour off the water but my rice milk has been sitting in my refrigerator for a couple of days and never separated. The liquid was very thick and pudding looking. It did not taste like rice milk but rather like rice. If you have ever tried congee, it's like a pureed form of it. It's not the best drink beverage but I think it would work great as a thickener in cakes and it goes well with coffee.

Rice Milk Recipe #2


1 Cup Rice, Raw
4 Cup Warm Water
1 Tbsp Sugar
1 Tsp Vanilla Extract (optional)

• Wash the rice until the water becomes clear to get rid of all the starch.
• Soak the rice in water overnight or for at least 4 hours.
  
• Rinse the rice out with clean water and wash the rice until the water is clear.
  
• Put the rice into the blender and pour in the warm water and blend for about 3 minutes.
  
• Let the rice particles separate from the liquid and blend it again for another 1 minute. *(I found that if you just pour the layer of water off as the rice milk, it taste jsut like water)
  
• Pour the rice water into a fine muslin cheesecloth and catch the liquid with a bowl or a bottle to filter out the remaining rice particles.
  

I think this recipe taste the most like the commercial rice milk BUT unlike the manufacturing companies, we do not have a nice fancy filtration device to filter out the liquid from the solid resulting in gritty rice milk!! Another problem is that when you let the rice milk sit in your refrigerator, the liquid will separate and it must be shaken before you use it. It is also not wise to warm or cook the rice milk because it will turn into a thicker form the previous rice milk. It's going to turn into paste!

BUNS BUNS BUNS!!!!


I'm in love with buns! Steamed buns to be exact. This has to be my favorite brand of steam buns. They're in such an adorable size and they come in several different flavor!! Red bean paste, lotus paste, sesame paste and butter cream. I don't the brand name in English but I just call it the Flower Head Man Buns!!! My mom bought the sesame paste one and the butter cream one. The butter cream is not vegan because it contains butter, cream and cheese powder. I'm not exactly sure if that is vegetarian since I'm not really going to call international to China. I've never heard of cheese powder but I'm assuming it's custard powder since many of the other companies uses custard powder to make the custard fillings. My mom love these buns too so she'll be eating the butter cream one. I believe the other fillings are all vegan but I don't have them stocked in my freezer. I'll edit this post when I purchase the other fillings.

Flower Head Man Buns
Sesame Paste Buns - Vegan
Butter Cream Buns - Not Vegan and ?? if it's vegetarian
Red Bean Buns - ?? for now
Lotus Bean Bun - ?? for now