TVA Food Fair

The 25th Annual Toronto Food Fair hosted by the TVA was an amazing event. Of course, I look forward to this event all year 'round, like most other vegheadz I know in Southern O, but this year was super special for me because it was LAVA's first year at the fair!! We grossly underestimated the amount of people that would be into our booth, here are a couple of photo's I took when I couldn't even fit in my own booth anymore (and that happened a lot, all weekend long.. so awesome)



Check out these cute photos from the TVA Food Fair Pool on Flicker:


We were displaying vegan condoms, tiffins, to-go ware, SSOV gear & a selection of books. We also had a couple of pairs of shoes on display, shout out to Left Feet who closed their doors in Kensington on the Food Fair weekend. The shoes we displayed created more conversation about Left Feet than anything, and I am totally ok with that... we missed Left Feet at the Fair this year.

Jason, from Vegan Porn fame, AngelA & Colleen from the TVA podcast have a great mid-show chat. You can listen to it here:

http://veg.ca/content/view/827/1/

Hi again!

Hey blog readers,

I feel like my head is spinning with all the amazing products I'm ordering.. I just want to share all these beautiful things with you! That's really my goal. Fill the store with wonderful, beautiful, heart-warming, fun-loving, things that make life as a vegan (or vegetarian, or kind & compassionate person) fun & easy. Right now I'm stocking up with tons of cool stuff for the Toronto Vegetarian Food Fair that is happening in 3 WEEKS! Eeek!

Probably my favourite thing to talk about lately is To-Go Ware. Awesome company, everything is made sustainably, fairly, with recycled products & they are so cute!! Check out this fun set of rePEaT utensils. The utensils are made from bamboo & the holder is made from recycled PET plastic bottles.


Who doesn't want to carry their lunch in a beautiful little stainless steel carrier? You can even accessorize with a beautiful bag meant just for your tiffen box, with a little pocket for your bamboo cutlery!



The next new awesome products available at www.veganslovelava.ca are vegan condoms! They come in 3 different sizes & a bunch of funky flavours including strawberry, vanilla, wildberry, blueberry & licorice. You don't have to be that "i'm vegan, well except for condoms, because vegan condoms are impossible to find" anymore. These condoms are PETA approved cruelty-free, contain no animal ingredients & are not tested on animals. LOVE them!


In other exciting news, LAVA has become THE PLACE to get SSOV gear in Canada. We are the official Canadian carrier, and my mission is to make sure that the most amount of people join the Secret Society of Vegans, without letting anyone know there is a Secret Society. Because there isn't. If you get that, then you need to let others know by proudly showing off your SSOV gear. Like a t-shirt, hat, or maybe an apron!




If you're wanting to read up on what veganism is all about, or maybe watch a dvd to better understand your vegan friend, kid, parent, LAVA can help you out! We have a growing collection of great books & dvds all about living a compassionate lifestyle. Here are a couple of my favourites:



Of course, if you're looking for something in particular, but can't find it, please let us know! Or if you're going to be at the Toronto Vegetarian Food Fair in September, and you really want to make sure that we bring that special product that you have your eye on, please let us know! We have so much great stuff, we can't possibly have it all at the food fair, so just let us know & we'll make sure we bring it.

love, kelly

23rd Annual Vegetarian Food Fair

I had a great weekend! On saturday, I had the opportunity to work on LAVA all day, which I don't get to do enough these days now that I'm working full time. On sunday though... Chris, Sarah and I attended the Vegetarian Food Fair in Toronto. What a blast! I really look forward to that fair every year, and I'm so glad I was able to attend after years of being out of the country. We all spent way too much money, but we got amazing deals - the best deal being on Vega protein
powder (thanks to the guys running that booth! They were so fun and friendly!) I learned so much from just 1.5 hours with Brendan Brazier. What a smart guy. I'm so glad that we got to see him speak. I was really hoping to see Sarah Kramer too, but sadly, she had to fly home for a family emergency. Ran into my friend AngelA and her husband Jason who run Taste Better (www.tastebetter.com). They had a bunch of incredible t-shirts and cooking dvds for sale... and the most indulgent, gluttonous part of our weekend happened at the Sweets from the Earth booth. Good lord do they have a ton of dangerously delicious deserts! Chris and I have absolutely no will power when it comes to sugary vegan stuff that's in no way healthy... so we bought a blueberry cheesecake and a carrot cake. YUM!!!!!!!!!!! We haven't broken them open yet... but just wait. When we do I'll be sure to post a photo of myself pigging out.