Vegan offerings at Souplantation (5/1/08 – 5/23/08)

Souplantation-Valencia will have a lot of great vegan dishes available from now till possibly the end of May. Coming up on Thursday, May 1st we will get a vegan tossed salad; the Strawberry Fields w/ Carmelized Walnuts. Three (vegan) prepared salads will also be available; Tabouli, the Baja Bean & Cilantro, and the Roasted Potato [...]

Zpizza – Valencia

Much controversy surrounds Zpizza within the vegan community. Before I go on, I want to make it clear that this is going to be a positive review. I recommend Zpizza to all my Vegan Claritans, but first I want to explain why there has been so much confusion and to make the truth official about [...]

Earth Day in the SCV

Tomorrow, April 22nd is Earth Day. While I’m waiting patiently for WorldFest to officially kickoff the real celebration in May, College of the Canyons will be hosting their own Earth Day event on campus. The event is sponsored by the Sustainable Development Committee and will feature vendor booths, student presentations, panel discussions on air quality [...]

Part 2: Vegan Breakfast in the SCV

I know I probably didn’t post this in time for my SCVegan readers but that was all the more reason for me to attend the Gibbon Conservation Center’s vegan breakfast-fundraiser. For those of you whom did not make it, you really missed out. The food was a continental-style buffet with stations all over the grounds. [...]

Vegan Breakfast in the SCV

Alan Mootnick @ the Gibbon Conservation Center. Photo from GCC website
I’m really late on this, but I just found out that the Gibbon Conservation Center in Santa Clarita is having a Vegan Breakfast to help raise money to move their facility away from the SCV’s construction, encroaching developments and hot summer temperatures. The fundraising event [...]

SCVegan Stickers

I had some stickers made to help promote this blog. You can grab some at Whole Foods-Valencia on the community bulletin board. When you enter through front doors, go to your right towards the restrooms and the bulletin board is on the wall; take as many as you like. If you can’t make it there [...]

For Takeout: Grand Panda – Saugus

I wanted to do a review from the dining-in perspective but I think being able to order takeout is important too. Grand Panda is a Chinese restaurant with two locations in the Santa Clarita Valley; one in Newhall and this one in Saugus. The restaurants are family owned and operated, though I have never been [...]

Vegan offerings at Souplantation (4/1/08 – 4/11/08)

I should have posted this earlier but I wanted some padding between entries or this would start to sound like the Souplantation blog. Anyway, Souplantation has some good vegan offerings on the current menu. As I noted in the previous post about my favorite soup & salad bar, they change their menu every two [...]

SCVegan Haiku

I was reading through some blog forums where someone mentioned writing haiku poems. Right there and then, one popped into my head and I wanted to write it out before I forgot it. Here it goes:
Santa Clarita
How many vegans live here?
Let’s have a pot luck!
Feel free to comment with your own “SCVegan” themed haiku.

Vegenaise sold to Kraft – Follow Your Heart gets paid!

According to a news article that went out today, Follow Your Heart (The makers of Vegenaise) and Kraft Foods have struck a deal that would give control of the Vegenaise brand to Kraft for the sum payment of $21,825,000 to Earth Island, the company that branched from the Follow Your Heart cafe and now handles [...]