“Sugar Mama” Bakers Swap Over 1,500 Vegan Cookies!

Coooooooookies!!! If some of you are still in a sugar-induced coma following the  Sugar Mama Vegan Cookie Swap we won’t blame you. We asked entrants to bake 6 dozen vegan cookies each. There were a few entrants with less than 6 dozen and a few with more than 6 dozen, but with 24 entries, the [...]

December 19, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Events, Food Love, Misc, Vegetarian Recipes  No Comments

Bake Sales Now Legal in the City of Worcester

I’m excited to announce a (small) victory for sanity. This morning the director of the City of Worcester’s Health Department gave me a copy of their new guidelines for bake sales in the city of Worcester. The take-away message: bake sales in Worcester require no permit and require no fees. See the guidelines below for [...]

May 11, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Food Love, Misc  6 Comments

Today: Free Coffee at Starbucks BYOMug

Bring your own mug to a Starbucks today and get a free coffee. This is a good time to mention that Starbucks offers soymilk at every one of their locations. And as of last year, the frappucinos are also vegan. There are two Starbucks in Worcester: 1 West Boylston Street (map) 11 East Central Street [...]

April 22, 2011  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Food Love, More Veg Options  No Comments

Vegan Bake Sale @ Moynihan’s Trivia Night

  VegWorcester is getting an early start on Worldwide Vegan Bake Sale week! We’ll be hosting a vegan bake sale table during weekly Trivia Night @ Moynihan’s Pub (877 Main St. Worcester, MA) this coming Wednesday night, April 6th from 9pm~12am. Proceeds from sales of vegan goodies will support the 2011 Worcester VegFest! We’ll have [...]

April 4, 2011  Tags: , , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Events, Food Love, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach, Worcester VegFest 2011  No Comments

Sweet Avenger – Vegan Reality TV Show Comes to Animal Planet

Whale Wars must have gone over well, because Animal Planet is now producing a 12 episode reality TV show about Vegan Treats. The show is called Sweet Avenger and it follows the work of Danielle Konya, the 36-year-old founder and owner of Vegan Treats bakery in Pennsylvania. Danielle said in the Hollywood Reporter: “I want to show [...]

April 3, 2011  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Misc, News  No Comments

Price Chopper in Worcester Offers Vegan Cookies

Apparently Price Chopper now offers vegan cookies. Do you know what the story is? I plan to call the manager on Monday to see if I can find out if this is a company-wide thing, or just at the Price Chopper near Webster Square. In any case, you should stop by and give them a [...]

November 15, 2009  Tags: ,   Posted in: Grocery Stores, Misc, More Veg Options  No Comments

Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar [New Cookbook]

Isa Chadra Moskowitz, the woman who brought you Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, Vegan with a Vengeance, the Veganomicon, Vegan Brunch, has just published a new cookbook. Vegan Cookies Invade Your Cookie Jar has 100 original animal-product-free cookie recipes. The book is all finished, but has not yet been release. However, it is available [...]

October 16, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Barely Legal Treats, Misc, Vegetarian Recipes  One Comment

Artichoke Coop Ups the Veegs [More Vegan Yummies]

Good news! The Artichoke Food Coop (800 Main Street, Worcester) has now restocked their vegan yummies. Back in July I announced on the VegWorcester blog that the Artichoke had begun stocking vegan cheese and marshmallows. Well, they sold out pretty quickly and have now refined their ordering a little bit. In addition to the standard [...]

September 17, 2009  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Artichoke Food Cooperative, Grocery Stores, More Veg Options  One Comment

Photos from Worcester’s 2nd Annual New Orleans Festival

This weekend had a ton of events. While Buddha Hut held the first ever buffet fundraiser for VegWorcester (photos coming soon), some VegWorcester members were down the street at the 2nd annual New Orleans festival. We had a booth and gave out free stickers, handed out copies of our 2009 vegetarian dining guide to Worcester, [...]

July 13, 2009  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: 2009 Vegetarian Dining Guide, Barely Legal Treats, Events, Leafleting, Tabling & Outreach, Misc, Veg Advocacy  No Comments

Who Wants to Represent Worcester for International Vegan Bake Sale Week?

photo cred: Greg Opperman Worldwide vegan bake sale week starts this Saturday. It runs June 20-28. Do you want to put together a vegan bake sale in Worcester? So far there are only three happening in Massachusetts: one in someplace called Byfield, one out in Northhampton and one down in Falmouth. So who is going [...]

June 18, 2009  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Misc  One Comment