Veggie Street Day 2008

I spent the entire past weekend trying to prevent stalls and leaflets from being blown around by the wind, and the consequence of that is that instead of seeing Conor Oberst live oder going to a demo in Dresden, I'm staying inside with a cold and probably will all weekend T_T

I hate petty sicknesses like this, especially it's an occasion for many people to point a finger at me and say "It's because your vegan.", oh how I loathe it!

Anyway, last Sunday I was at the theatre, no pictures from that (though they had awesome "flying cows" outside!), but Saturday was Veggie Street Day in Dortmund, one of the few vegan fairs in Germany.

Time flew by, meeting all kinds of people (when did I happen to meet them all?) and eating not quite as much as I would've liked to.

Anyway, I only spent 5 €... it was a cheap day that started with me finding a whole bunch of bananas on the street. I carefully looked around me and then decided to take them with me, freeganism made easy!

Then there was veganwondercakes (affiliated with the awesome www.veganwonderland.de) with those beauties that, alas, weren't up for sale until 4 pm:





























































So instead we decided to go for the regular bakes sale, which was also awesome, though not quite as pretty:



















In the afternoon, it got really crowded and there was a singer who looked like a blonde version of Chris de Burgh.

















There also was a tombola, and I won a baggy of vegan white chocolate chips (and a guy who won a small purse gave it to me)!

I can't post this without mentioning the hero of the day, sunflower guy... he showed up at some point and everyone thought he was part of the veggie thing... but it turned out that he was promoting some crazy event which includes teenagers having to climb up a tower and then sit in a tippee where Mr Sunflower would answer questions they have about sex.
(no, I'm not on crack and that's exactly what the leaftlet said!)

Anyway, after I had tried to sneak a proper picture of Mr Sunflower, he finally revealed his true self next to a vegan chili stand:

Praise the Keehse

Yes, the package of "Keehse" is Veganwonderland's answer to all those yukky vegan cheeses. To be honest, I've never been keen on cheese, so I'm not really dissapointed by processed vegan cheeses.
I like making tofu ricotta, my own nooch sauce and things like that, thoug- because they don't smell like cheese.

Another thing is that stores in Germany don't sell fake cheese any anyway, so if I need some, I have to order online.

And this I sometimes do, but only to get the handmade-stuff from veganwonderland. It's based on soy, yeast and almond and melts fantabalously :)
Plus, it's cheap compared to other cheeses ( 3 € for a substantially big roll).

See yourself:
and another boring, cheeseless one:

Post from Denmark!

Wednesday was quite an annoying day at work, so I was happy when I got a message that a parcel for me had arrived. I'm really astonished that the post only took three days-
I did a swap with Stine from Veganforum and she posted it on Monday.

Usually the German post ist awfully lame about all mail from abroad, but they try to convince me they're not anymore at the moment.

Look what I got:


There are soy cream, spinach noodles, instant mushroom miso soup, a lime wash lotion, 2 sorts of streich, chocolaty rice waffles, licorice and vegan caviar *gasp*

I've seen the caviar before in online shops but admit I was a bit scared to try it. It's seaweed-based, so I guess it can't be too bad. Never tasted real caviar, though.
Stine told me it's good with sushi. Any other suggestions?

Thank you so much, Stine!

Even before I got round to collecting Stine's package, the UPS man arrived at work and brought a gigantic parcel from my favourite online store.
They sell some crack, I can tell you! I always need an excuse to order there, so I decided to order my grains and pulses so I at least seem reasonable:

Here comes a wagonload of TVP crumbles, cubes, steaks and whatnot, two bags of vital wheat gluten (can't buy it in stores here), temphe, a marzipan chocolate bar, pudding mix, white and dark rice milk chocolate, tofu fish fingers, lime shower gel, chickpeas, red lentils, couscous, millet, and Einkorn (there's going to be a post about this sometime later).

And their homemade real crack, guess what it is!