#vegan in vancouver

[vibing-vegan]

Vegan food in BC

IG: vibing.vegan

[thiscitylife]

Making space for children

One of my vivid childhood memories is of mundane trips that my mom and I would make to Vancity, the local bank. While she did her banking, I remember always playing with a Fischer Price phone at a kids table full of toys located near the tellers. Back in the 1980s, these kids tables were often found in doctor and dentist offices. But, I rarely see them now that I have kids of my own.

That's why I was impressed when I walked into the new vegan bakery hotspot in my neighbourhood, To Live For, and found that the owner, Erin Ireland, had put a large kids table right in the centre of the bakery's seating area. The little table has crayons, colouring sheets, toys, and a collection of books about acceptance and kindness toward animals and humans.

Even though the bakery consistently has a lineup of vegan influencers out the door, eager to try Erin's vegan treats and sit in the small seating area, she has taken a large piece of real estate and designated it for little customers! I've been there several times with my kids and the table is always full of children colouring, reading and stacking blocks.

I know a lot of businesses are actively looking for ways to discourage children from being in their establishment. Erin has proven that you can welcome children and still have a lineup of hip influencers out your door. If businesses want to welcome families, all they have to do is set up a small table, some toys, and art supplies. It's low cost and may even be good for their bottom line.

[detox-blog]

Baking night 🐰✨

- Anti-inflammatory Bread

- Banana Bread, Gluten Free

[curryrotikitchen]

[yuveganlife]

A 20-Year Analysis of Vancouver's Vegan Restaurant Scene

[moltaqarestaurant]

Exploring the Abundant World of Vegan Restaurants in Vancouver BC

Apart from supporting the environment through their plant-based menus, many vegan restaurants in Vancouver BC, also prioritize health. They offer nutritious options, and many dishes are gluten-free, oil-free, and low in processed ingredients. This not only caters to vegans but also to health-conscious diners who want to enjoy a wholesome meal.

[nice-bright-colors]

Leaving tomorrow for a weekend in Portland.

Well, actually Vancouver, Washington that is.

Got us a hotel on the Waterfront and meeting up with old friends we haven’t seen since they left Chicagoland a year or so before we did.

I hear there’s a bookstore a city block long. Plus there’s a ton of brewpubs and vegan food.

Two weeks down time and hitting the reset button. Just what I needed this holiday season.

[jamiedryssnail]

First Date

Golden Au

Fraser knew he had to impress the bedard sister with the first date. Hence why he showed up to her door with a bouquet full of flowers. He did make the bouquet himself claiming the pre made one’s are to expensive.

As Fraser rung the doorbell the nerves started. The door was opened by the one and only Connor Bedard. I mean it was almost Christmas time was he expecting him to not be there he thought to himself.

What made it even awkward was that Connor had no idea about the date. “Bud I didn’t know you were coming over” Connor said not realising the situation he had on his hands.

“Oh yeah actually” he was cut off by Connor pulling him into the house. “Where did you come from a date or something, why so fancy”. With that Fraser froze not sure what to say next.

As if on queue Minnie walked down the stairs looking as stunning as ever, or so Fraser thought. She was wearing a black mini skirt, white baby tee, and burgundy leather jacket. All tied together with a pair of black cowboy boots.

“We’re ya going miss Amelia” Connor teased still unaware of the situation. “Oh my god you are so dumb” she said hiding a laugh. “I got these for you” Fraser explained to the girl giving her the flowers. That’s when Connor finally put two and two towards. “Oh shit that’s gross guys, and you couldn’t have waited til new year so I could win the bet”.

“Ok we’ll anyways by Connor” Minnie said as she grabbed Fraser’s hand. As they walked down the front steps of the house Fraser sped up a little to open the door for minnie.

“Thanks fras” she said quietly her cheeks turning rosy. As they drove to the restaurant they laughed and talked the whole way. Fraser always knew how to make Minnie laugh.

They pulled up to the restaurant and Minnie could not believe her eyes. “Your joking, your joking I have been trying to get into this place for months”! She squealed with excitement.

Minnie was vegan and let’s just say Vancouver did not have a lot of options restaurant wise. Fraser did a ton of research for hours on end to find the best of the best for her. He did have to pay extra but he got in he had to for her.

There date went fantastic they talked for hours on end. He may have not liked the food but she absolutely loved it. It became one of there usuals after that. They drove home in peace, finally reaching the Bedard house. Fraser got out and opened Minnie’s door for her, walking her to the front door.

Already freezing from the cold evening temperature, Minnie was eager to get back inside and Fras to his car. But before that Fraser knew he had to go in for a kiss. Obviously he had to so he leaned in and they shared a magical first kiss. They knew there were many more of those coming.

[gaycavilltheorists-blog]

I know people who were acquainted to Charlie and Heather, when they lived in Calgary. Charlie, so I was told, is actually very down to earth and a genuinely nice guy. Unless Heather is around. Then he is King Shithead. Heather has a bit of an ego and is a total pick me girl. She is always wanting more and wanting to be somebody and isn't afraid to use her last name.

They would take their kids to visit a local farm and the two youngest boys were always very well behaved for their ages at the time. The older two were typical teenagers but always polite at least.

Charlie would never talk about Henry. If he did it would be while discussing all of his brothers. Heather would try to use it like it was an access code to impress people which never seemed to work in the circle that my people knew them through.

And want does Charlie do? He was working in IT at one point. Now that they are in Vancouver who knows what they are up to or why.

And their candles are okay. They burn really clean, but not my favourite because they do not hold scent beyond a few days after burning. I had one gifted to me when they first came out, through another entirely unrelated friend. They saw the candles at a market and knew that I really enjoy candles.

Didn't they meet on Facebook?lol

Shug I wonder who slipped into who's dm's? 😂

Also isn't 2 of her children belonging to another man? I've seen pictures of the other man and he's hot asf. She definitely went down levels take Charlie 😂

Not to mean she's still friends vwith one of Henry's exes who a Transphobic, homophobic Trump Supporter... That definitely speaks volumes about the kind of people they keep in company

Also theirs supposed to be vegan and cruelty free products they sell, yet she uses Perfumers alcohol in her Perfumers. Yah shug I wouldn't spend my money on their products, she definitely started that business to put the name Cavill on it like it's big $hit 😂 She's as fame thirsty as covidcuso 😂

Nutty birds of a feather, will go clout chasing together 😂

[doublelp]

here's my assessment of hardcore scenes up here in canada:

BC - almost exclusively in Victoria and Vancouver. Outside of Chain Whip and Bootlicker most of the scene seems to lean grind/PV and screamo. Check out the BC Thrash Demolition comp and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Prairies - Not much. Alberta has some real solid metalcore like World Of Pleasure and Serration. Meanwhile Manitoba reps some youth crew-syle hardcore with Meantime and the incredibly raw Nuclear Man. Saskatchewan is dire, I won't lie.

Ontario - Basically southern Ontario. Kind of a mix of subgenres but mostly leans metalcore/beatdown. Reality Denied and Rust are tight, but definitely check Street Justice for that fast as fuck vegan straight edge shit. Some stuff up in Ottawa too like Skull Gate and Zeal, but not much else.

Quebec - Montreal basically got it all. Beatdown, crust, PV, Oi!, crossover thrash, stenchcore, shit is crazy over there. There's a pretty good compilation that you can check out, but I also recommend Jetsam and Warkrusher.

Atlantic Canada - Absolutely nothing in New Brunswick. It's actually sad. PEI at least got Cell Deth, but nothing else. Nova Scotia is doing the best of the maritimes, with raw d-beat shit from Black Dog and metalcore from Pale Ache. Newfoundland punches above it's weight with some incredible PV from Knarl and hardcore from Tunnel Vision.

Feel free to add other stuff that you fw. This is mostly a broad overview and I hope more people check out stuff from up here.

[smaeemo]

How my life has changed since becoming an atheist:

A paper by Leenya Green

Started Praying to Jared Polis instead of the allmighty

Bought 16 golden calves

Became vegan 😜😜😜😜😜

Wrote 18 books on the importance of menstruation in dogs 😘😝

Became a fig farmer 😊😊😊

Resorted back to my old ways

Became a devout christan

Got into a relationship with a man named “Dale”. We met at the greeley flea market when we were both fighting over the biblically accurate but super racist 9/11 never forget jesus charm with real blood. And he looked at me in a way I had never seen before, and if it weren’t for my passion for Christ I may have let him have the charm. But of course, Christ comes first. Eventually we came to an agreement, I get the Charm every other month. I asked him for his phone number, but instead he gave me his address and told me he only communicated via carrier pigeon. I fell in love right there and then, but it was still too early to make any big decisions. So I went home that night with my no, our Jesus and looked to the ceiling and Prayed to the lord. I asked the Lord if he was truly the one, and the Lord told me… nothing. So I then went on to my regular prayer, I talked to God about my Yeast infection and prayed that maybe he could make sure that Bitch Colleen in HR would stop making me take down my Jesus photos because of “Inappropriate amounts of Nudity”. ITS JESUS COLLEEN. After I finished praying, I dreampt of Dale, and his moist pony tail and flaky birkenstocks. When the next month rolled around, I didn’t know exaclty where to find a carrier pigeon, and according to my “Christian Women of reformed Jared Polis” Facebook group it was very uncommon for there to be a large amount around my neighborhood. Something about “bird glue,” so I went to downtown and looked around to see if there were any pigeons I could ask, and realized I definitely should have done this before the end of the month. So, I just went to the library and printed out a bunch of help wanted fliers with my address on them. Eventually a couple men came to my door asking for me, but in a house with 8 roomates it was easy to scare off those weirdos. And by the time the 7th man left dejected and sad, I thought all hope was lost. So, I was about to start walking to Dale’s address myself, which would be around a 3 day walk because he’s canadian. But something in my fate had been on my side, my horascope was right. At the very moment I was reading my favorite passage of the bible, at pigeon flew right into the window. Unfortunately the pigeon died, and I had to have a funeral for it in my backyard. The next day I went back downtown and put up fliers and invitations for the pigeon’s funeral. The service was beautiful, and the Pigeons all showed up. I cried, the euglogies were genuisly emotional and had me sobbing and dry heaving by the end. At the after party I met the dead Pigeon’s uncle Marty and learned Marty is a carrier pigeon. I offered to pay him extra, but he said that the Pigeon who died (Horace) was like a son to him, and it meant so much to him that I organized a funeral for him and put up window awareness about bird safety, that Marty said he would do it for free. I was so extactic, so I got to writing the letter to dale, where I told him all about the bird funeral and how kind Marty was. And then talked about my homoerotic fanfiction I write about twilight, then sealed with a kiss. Then that night I prayed again hoping Marty got there ok, and talked to God again about my now RAGING yeast infection. A month later I got a pigeon in the mail from Dale saying that he got my letter and that he also met his carrier pigeon at a pigeon funeral! Small world. And that he and the Jesus charm went all the way to Vancouver for Orgy-Fest! This eventually blossomed into a regualar thing, and around the 3rd exchange he revealed to me that he ALSO wrote homoerotic fanfiction about Twilight. And our first argument was over how he was a EDWARD GUY!!!! Ew!! But we got over it. By the time the flea market was rolling around, I finally got the coursge to ask him on a date, and he was just as excited. We went

to a soy bean church retreat together and had an amazing time finding Christ in the disintegrating soy bean farms of Carson City Nevada. I couldn’t think of anything more romantic. This year he even invited me to Orgy-fest with him! And that’s where I met his whole family, and where I really got to know him. 2 years later we moved into a nudist colonly in Augusta, Maine. It was lovely, we all piled together in the winter in what we like to call “Cuddle Pit”. I was perfect, all up until Dale said we had to leave because “The power of Christ had informed him of an oncoming presensce”. We moved then, to the beautiful city of Boise Idaho. Where we consumated our marriage through the government and through the beautiful act of love-making to his Christian blue grass collegant accapella group “My dad is God” and all of their Marvin Gaye covers. We learned that I was unfortunately infertile, and that was devastating. Eventually we got over it when Marty came to us and told us we needed to adopt his godson Matthew. We were extremely grateful, and adopted him. We raised him as our own, and he even got to visit his first orgyfest with us. One day I got the sense that Dale was hiding something from me. And immediately my mind jumped to yhe worst assumption, that he was actually a Rabbi. Which was closer to the truth than I wanted it to be. It was a cold winter’s night, when I heard our dog door open, dale forgot his keys again. When we sat down and had a conversation Dale finally told the truth. “I am Jesus Christ” he told me. I didn’t believe him at first, but then he flooded our house to show me that he could truly walk on water. It was great until he accidentally drenched our new white carpets in wine. I felt ethereal hearing this news. And now, 12 years later. Dale is leaving me. He sat me down at the same table and admitted he met someone new. Something about a “Adam Driver.” He said he wanted to “experience newthings” at the BYU, and he was leaving me. I was devastated when he filed for divorce, so I ended up in a depressive spiral where I got severely addicted to helium. And now after 2 years of rehab and NO MORE BALLOONS. I am finally able to re enter the real world. I am going to change myself. And pursue my dream job: assistant manager at a tinfoil company. Merry Chr***mas everyone. And to all a good night.

Best,

L.G.

[celestialcass]

Just ordered from my favorite vegan fried chicken place at 2am after seeing a midnight drag show, living in a big city like Vancouver is so nice 🔥

[saintmeghanmarkle]

Reality check: Is their security a bit over the top or no? by u/Von_und_zu_

Reality check: Is their security a bit over the top or no? Vij said he received a mysterious request Thursday afternoon asking if the security detail for some high-profile guests could visit the restaurant in advance to scope out the space."I was like, 'OK, can you tell me who they are?'" Vij said.The answer was no.From article in Vancouver News: Prince Harry and Meghan enjoy meal, visit kitchen staff at renowned Vancouver restaurant. https://ift.tt/LVNMcP1 this tweet: https://twitter.com/Crayon78848049/status/1758867171315179960https://preview.redd.it/jvsfi4gy56jc1.png?width=859&format=png&auto=webp&s=f4642f474dc9b70373ee07eda38f170bbd268cf4We also learn in this little puff piece (that mentions Invictus only in passing at the end of article) that Madame - the vegan or whatever she sometimes is - likes her goat spicy!"I think for him, the food was a little spicier," the owner told CTV News. "He actually himself said, 'Do you know I'm a ginger? Which means when I eat spicy food, I get red?'"Meghan, on the other hand, asked the restaurant to turn up the heat. Vij said he personally delivered some green chilies to add to her meal."And she had the goat meat, which is the spiciest dish on the menu," he added. "She loved it."****Prince Harry and Meghan have been taking part in training camps this week to promote next year's Invictus Games(opens in a new tab), which are being hosted in B.C. post link: https://ift.tt/cEOZ8BM author: Von_und_zu_ submitted: February 17, 2024 at 05:18PM via SaintMeghanMarkle on Reddit

[marlo-noni]

I'm back in Vancouver! On my last day in Shanghai, I drank good tea at 哈茶福 (that place rules, fully recommend), ate a fancy vegan meal at VegeGood, and then wandered around Xintiandi. Wish I could have stayed longer, and my jet lag is pretty brutal, but it's nice to be home with my cat and my bed, and close to all my family and friends again (and with access to proper internet, lol).