Once a month will be VEGAN at Frugal Foodies-Berkeley

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Maybe have more vegan nights in South Bay too.

 

I've been told I should live in a co-housing. Unless it's a vegan

co-housing (rare), I will not join, cause why should I pay for community

food: which is mostly meat, cheese and dairy products? And costs the most

$$$!!

 

Anyway, co-housing sounds good but dealing and sharing money and work with a

bunch of people is easier said than done....

 

But it's bettet than not having a community.

 

 

, " sunny_outdoors " <sunny_outdoors wrote:

 

Moses, the organizer, wrote he'll try to be more vegan!

 

Wow, we did it. I've been asking and waiting for this for 4 years.

YIPPIEE

 

He wrote:

 

Tuesday, August 11th-Vegan Alert! Vegan Alert! We've always had lots of

demand for vegan nights at Frugal Foodies so it's now going to become a

monthly thing. In future months, I'm hoping that the menu will be

guest-driven, or at least gues-submitted. I'd love to be more of a vegan,

but it's a struggle, so I'm hoping doing this once a month will be the way

to fall in love with my inner veganitude.

 

Posted by winnie

 

 

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Friday, July 31, 2009 6:04 PM

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[frugalfoodies] August at Frugal Foodies

 

Here's what's coming up at Frugal Foodies in August, a month that promises

to be very popular and full of sold-out nights (and the first Tuesday of the

month is already sold out, and has been for a little while). But before

telling you about what might be coming up in your culinary future, here are

a few other announcements:

 

.... The Frugal Foodies blog is finally started. It's nothing special

but

people have been asking me about it for years and years. You can access it

through www.frugalfoodies.org, or directly at

www.meeteatandbefrugal.blogspot.com.

 

.... Our WebFood night, which each month featured recipes from a

different

food website, was a total flop, and so it's being canceled. I think that we

had 4-5 canceled nights for the one that had enough registrants. So, the

people have spoken and that idea is going into the dumpster, at least until

there's some demand for it. In it's place, we're going to try doing a

monthly vegan night. I hope that this pushes me to love vegan cooking,

because I've long been a skeptic, and I hope that each month this night can

be built on recipes and menus submitted by real life vegans.

 

.... If you're on this list and you'd like off of it, you may do so at

http://npogroups.org/lists/sigrequest/frugalfoodies, or put yourself on it

at http://npogroups.org/lists//frugalfoodies.

 

.... This calendar has no information about the amazing things happening

in

San Jose, but Frugal Foodies in the South Bay is alive and well. You can

see what they're up to at http://frugalfoodies.oddren.com/ and contact them

about getting on their email list.

 

As for Frugal Foodies in Berkeley, Here's what's on the calendar:

 

Tuesday, August 4th-I'm pre-promoting this night because I'm very excited

about this first-ever event. For our August theme night, we're going to do

a

Fresh-from-the-Garden night at Frugal Foodies. Several Frugal Foodies folks

have offered lots of fresh fruit and veggies from their garden, and we're

going to build an entire menu around the summer bounty. Can't tell you

exactly what will be on the menu, but it's guaranteed to be fresh and ripe.

It's also going to be a benefit night for the Zion Project

(http://www.zionproject.org/), a group that I photographed with in East

Africa, and which is doing amazing work with sexually vulnerable women.

Please take a look at www.frugalfoodies.org/benefit to learn more about how

such nights work.

This promises to be quite a night at FF, as I know you'll love the food and

the work of the Zion Project.

 

Tuesday, August 11th-Vegan Alert! Vegan Alert! We've always had lots of

demand for vegan nights at Frugal Foodies so it's now going to become a

monthly thing. In future months, I'm hoping that the menu will be

guest-driven, or at least gues-submitted. I'd love to be more of a vegan,

but it's a struggle, so I'm hoping doing this once a month will be the way

to fall in love with my inner veganitude.

 

Tuesday, August 18th-this will be a great Guest Chef night with crowd

favorite, Jennie Chuang, at the helm. Jennie was the first-ever guest chef

at Frugal Foodies, way back in June, 2005, and she's always creative,

inspirational, loving, and supportive, even of the most fumbling of cooks.

She's not yet told me what she'll be doing for her 2009 night but if her

past nights are any indication, it's going to be wonderful, so sign up early

and often. This night will also be a benefit night for DiversityWorks, and

you can learn more about this great nonprofit at www.diversityworks.org.

Please be sure to read www.frugalfoodies.org/benefit to learn how these

nights work.

 

Tuesday, August 25th-we've had some nice success the last couple of months

with our Special Guest Ingredient Night, and August should be no exception.

In August, we'll feature the lovely tomato as our special ingredient,

meaning that every dish, appetizer to dessert will be tomatolicious. I'm

not sure what a tomato dessert looks like, but we'll come up with something,

along with a very diverse menu which honors but does not exhaust the tomato,

and all of us who will be making and eating it.

 

 

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