Tired of eating vegetables?? Well, let's 'play' some vegetables!
Like it or not, there is indeed a vegetable orchestra around for a while. Based in Vienna, Austria, The Vegetable Orchestra is known for its unique, wholesome and organic music. You can find diverse genres of music presented via both fresh and dried vegetables in the most curious ways!
This creative group comes up with awesome veggie musical instruments in the likes of pumpkin drum, celery guitar, pepper horn, carrot recorder & flute, eggplant clap, cucumberphone, leek violin...to name a few. Touring mainly in the Europe, the group has also released several albums. Their latter albums are the Onionoise and Remixed.
Previous albums include Gemise and Automate.
Their music remind us of the primitive rhythms & melodies back in the days - rich and soulful, at times squeaky!
Check them out! However, please remember to keep an open mind when listening in order to appreciate their ''vegetable style'' of music! =)
P.S. In case you are wondering, they are not vegetarian by the way... =P
Having difficulty putting forward your first step in attempting vegetarian diets or lifestyle? Try becoming a weekday vegetarian first!
TED Talks: Why I'm a weekday vegetarian by Graham Hill
Graham Hill is the founder of TreeHugger.com, a leading media outlet dedicated to driving sustainability mainstream. A great resource website for green lovers to discover up to date news, products and ideas. Weekday Veg program is one of them!
At least for one of us, before turning into a 'full-time' vegetarian, Barney vividly remembered how he used to struggle giving up his carnivorous instinct despite fully aware of the many benefits that vegetarianism would offer him and the world. Barney would appear ready to try out vegetarian diet, but only to be found peppering his diet with various meat products here and there in his meals. The prospect of meatless diets that would deprive his taste buds actually intimidated him (no more tasty cheeseburgers, juicy steak, tender fried chicken, etc.).
Lack of determination and perseverance, primarily driven by the incomplete understanding of vegetarianism and the reluctance to forgo an already established, familiar diets, initially prevented Barney's from attempting a vegetarian lifestyle. At this early stage, he had the 'all or none' mindset of being a full vegetarian or not.
But the flexible Barney eventually found a way to gradually materialize his ideal in reality by carrying out a stepwise adoption of vegetarian diet plan. He would start with being vegetarian for 1 day per week, before stepping it up daily to be a weekly, monthly and finally a committed vegetarian! Just like Graham Hill in this TED talk video, Barney initially embraced the weekday vegetarian concept and succeeded in becoming a full vegetarian.
Anyway, the gist of this post is:
Some vegetarian diet is better than no vegetarian diet!
Hope this article would encourage you to make your first step towards a healthier lifestyle! =D
Ever stuck by how to express yourselves that you are vegetarian in foreign languages or while traveling outside of English speaking countries?
Such scenario actually happened to us in the recent past. While traveling in Japan for vacation, we were stumped by the fact that we could not express our dietary preferences to the waitress, which ended up in a rather awkward but funny conversational exchange!!
But worry no more! Introducing the "IVU Veggie Phrases" app for the iPhone or Android-based phones!
Developed by vegetarian Ashley Burton based on the International Vegetarian Union's compilation of vegetarian phrases in world languages, this app is curiously fun & practical!
Look what I found from Mitsuwa Japanese market today! Golden fertile eggs from cage free vegetarian hens.
We normally buy "cage free" eggs, but was never aware of "vegetarian" hens. The color of the egg shell is dark brown and the size is fairly larger than the organic eggs you buy from farmer's markets.
Here is an interesting description shown on the back of the carton.
"GOLDEN EAGLE SERVICE
You have just chosen nature's best food. GOLDEN FERTILE EGGS are from hens living in open houses, laying their eggs in nests. They have freedom to scratch, fly, and run with their mates. They are provided a nutritious vegetarian diet that is unsurpassed. The eggs are hand gathered daily, washed, and packaged under a strict quality control program. YOU WILL OVE THE FLAVOR AND THE COOR OR OUR GOLDEN DARK YOLK EGGS, WHERE THE NUTRITIONAL BENEFITS ARE PASSED ON TO OUR CUSTOMERS. Golden Eagle Service thanks you for purchasing our eggs."
hmm... It does make us feel even better for purchasing such eggs. Can't wait to try them out soon! What do you think? :)
While browsing through youtube, DiDi came across a series of videos made by animal planet back in 2008. These videos made a series named "The Animals save the Planet". There are 11 videos in total, each video talks about different wats to help the planet. Here are a view of my favorite ones:
**Help save the planet. Eat a healthy balanced diet.**
This video talks about the large amount of methane that cow emits. Even though in the video they portray the cow's methane emission through flatulence, but in reality most of the methane emission comes from the cow's blech as well as their excrements. However never the less, this is a very cute video that encourages people to cut down on meat consumption. Go Veggie!
Accidentally found this lovely site when I was searching for ideas online for the dinner gathering this Friday.
This is a site that collects links and photos of beautiful foods from around the web. If you search for "vegetarian", you will find hundreds of magnificent photos/recipes including the ones above. They look super delicious don't they?
We were driving around in the Cupertino area today. Realizing that our fridge is starting to run low on food, we decided to stop by a nearby Japanese supermarket, Marukai. While shopping we came across a cute pink little box that caught our attention.
and Remixed
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