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How strong is the coffee flavor? I LOATHE coffee, but perversely prefer more coffee-ish chocolate to fruity chocolate, so if it's just a mild sort of background flavor, I could do it. Either way, I'm going to have to do this at least once, as my son has never had chocolate sprinkles, and you've given me a totally safe for him recipe. I now have zero excuse. And he LOVES coffee, so double bonus for him, lol!

I just wanted to clarify that my earlier facetiousness was not aimed at the author of the article, but the comment a couple above mine--@thesteveroller. I think it's a great, interesting article!

I'm going to have to try this. Wish I could do it today, but I have some shopping to do first...

Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope Romero of Post Punk Kitchen and Vegan With a Vengeance fame have done marvels with vegan cooking/baking. I use their Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World exclusively, and get nothing but rave reviews from everybody who tries them--even "normal" eaters. My family is gluten, soy, egg, and dairy free due to allergy/intolerance. I have converted the cupcake recipes even further to suit our dietary needs, and they are still that good. If you can bake with gluten, you don't need eggs or dairy at all! If you're ever looking for a recipe that you'd like to make vegan, just do a google search for "vegan ______", and you are nearly guaranteed to find a recipe that will turn out delicious. We aren't vegan, by any stretch, and I frequently re-convert recipes I find to include meat or meat broth, but I would have been lost without all the hard work of generations of vegans. Especially as I was just sort of dropped into this when my son was about a year old. I knew nothing at all about cooking, and now all of a sudden I had to do it with weird restrictions. I'm very, very grateful to the vegans. =D

A: That's why I make my kid's lunch.
B: It takes time for people to get used to change. Give them a couple of years, and there will start being a change in that. The little ones coming up will have never known different, and the older ones will have started getting used to it.

Whoa. This review is like the most intimate of love notes. Wish I could go there.

A: I feel SO vindicated about the Galaxy cheese. It pisses me off righteously that they put casein in some of their cheeses. I go around saying that bit about "If I wanted cow's milk, I'd eat the damn real thing!" on a nearly monthly basis! Grrrr.... My son and I can't eat dairy without getting very sick, and their packages are too much alike. I have to very carefully read their packaging to make sure I get the right one.

B: THANK YOU for the link to the wine/beer list. I don't drink either, and it's going to be a while before my kiddo can, but I was feeling the lack of resources for it, and as a non-drinker, I didn't really know where to start. =D

I don't care much one way or the other, but my kid LOVES free samples, and has several food allergies, so he usually can't eat them. It's great when the recipe is displayed alongside the sample, so it's easy for us to know if a sample is safe.

Wow! This sounds really good! We may end up having this for lunch today.

My favorite no-calorie drink is plain spearmint tea or plain rooibos tea. There's a new variant of the rooibos called honey bush, which is a little milder that is also tasty. My son got me hooked on the mint tea when he took an anthropology class on Morocco and asked if he could have some. It's absurdly cheap--less than $2 for a double-fist sized bag that will last me almost a year, I bet. It's excellent hot or cold, and I'm betting it will be amazing in the summer on ice.
I also like sparkly drinks, and like some previous posters, am a big fan of the carbonated juice drinks. Izze and Switch are favorites, as well as San Pelligrino's Oranciata (sp?). There's another brand that is new enough to me that I can't remember the name, but one of their flavors is Jamaican Lemonade, I think. It's lemon/ginger. It's really good. It reminds me of Schweppes Dry Lemon that I got in South Africa. That would top my list as a favorite drink, if I could get it here. =(

You know, for years, I said things like that too. Now, with all our food allergies, my family can no longer afford to even try to be vegetarian, but we do use a LOT of vegan recipes because we can't do dairy or egg. Because I'm used to thinking in terms of "vegan" meaning egg and dairy-free, I frequently find myself having to amend a description as "mostly vegan, except I used beef broth" or "it's almost vegan, except I used gelatin". It's really hard to remember all the little details when completely animal-free is not on your priority list. Especially when you have such a long list of priorities that so profoundly effect the quality of life for the whole family...

If you're taking email and phone interviews, why do your subjects have to be from New England?

What a delicious-sounding idea! I love grapefruit; I don't particularly like wine, but even so this sounds good. I may very well make this for our party tomorrow. :-D