Tortilla Casserole Video

May 13, 2010 · Filed under Uncategorized

It has been asked for, and thanks to Lori, Marleah and the Hays Public Library,  we can now provide you with a cooking demonstration.  This is the first of hopefully many videos for cooking vegan.  In it was made the Tortilla Casserole which can be found in the on the Resources page of our site, or by clicking here.

I do want to mention that the Morningstar Farms soy crumbles used in the video has since changed their recipe.  The product now contains less that 2% skim milk making this actual recipe vegetarian, but non-vegan.  You can leave out the crumbles, yet still have a good well balanced main dish.  The black beans also put in the dish will provide some protein.  If wanted two cans of beans could be used.

We have written to the company to inform them of our disappointment.  If you would also like to send them a email, please feel free to do so from their website: http://www.morningstarfarms.com.  I hope you enjoy the recipe and video.

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Humane Society of the High Plains Soup’R Bowl

April 29, 2010 · Filed under Uncategorized

In January of this year we participated in the Humane Society of the High Plains Soup’R Bowl again. Again we served our Harvest Chili. It went over well and provided people with a great tasting vegan soup.

In case you have not heard of the event, the Soup’R Bowl is a competition among local cooks to provide the best tasting soup. It is then open to the public to decide. They can buy tickets and get to sample all of the soups to pick out the best one. All money raised then goes to the Humane Society of the High Plains.
Here are some pictures from the event.

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Western Kansas Vegetarian Society introduces people to the benefits of vegetarian living(西堪薩斯州素食協會向人們介紹素食生活的利益)

November 11, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized

Today we found a clip on the internet that talks about WKVS. This is amazing. SupremeMasterTV.com published this news artical out onto youtube. Here is what they have to say:

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New Schedule

April 24, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized

I have posted a new schedule for May and June. I wanted to point out some important changes though. Note that the May 20th and June 24 meeting are on Wednesdays from 5:30 P.M. – 6:30 P.M. Still have two Saturday meetings, but we have included some Wednesday meetings to try to help people make the meetings. With the activities that pile up on Saturdays, we want see if stepping out of the weekend loop can help people out.

So please stop by at our new and old times, and tell us what you think.

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Valentines Day 2009

February 14, 2009 · Filed under Meeting · Tagged , ,

Today was much of a turn out, but that is OK. The people that were there had some good talks about animal rights. The discussion was based around the “30 Days: Animal Rights” episode. This episode was used to spark discussion and thought on the animal rights issues. A great episode and is well worth watching.

Along with the episode we made our vegan chocolate mousse, and also had strawberries and bananas on the side.  This was a great little dessert/snack and is recommended to anyone who wants to make a great vegen dish.

Originally shown on the cable channel FX, we were able to watch it in high definition from hulu.com. Please feel free to watch it, but it is intended for mature audiences. Viewer discretion is advised.

We will be having our next meeting next Saturday, Feb. 21st at the Hays Public Library.  We will be discusing how how to use toffu as this has been requested by many who missed our previous dimistration on it (like we could really cover it all the first time anyway 🙂  We should also have a schedule for the next two months of our meetings at that meeting.  I will post it on the site as soon as I can.  I hope to see you next Saturday.

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HSHP

January 27, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized

Sunday Marleah and I made an appearance at the Humane Society of the High Plains at their yearly Souper Bowl. We join 14 other groups in a competition of soup cooking, with the Hays area public being the judges. All money raised at the event went to the HPHS. This was a great event that we were proud to be a part of.

The turnout was great. We saw many people, and many people saw us with our Harvest Chili. We don’t have the recipe for the soup on our site, but hopefully I can get it posted as some point.

Even though we didn’t come in first, we enjoyed every minute of it. Mark it on your calendar for next year and get more information about the HPHS at there website http://www.hshponline.org/

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Center for Life Experiences

January 10, 2009 · Filed under Events

Yesterday we got to have a special presentation that we gave to a group at the Center for Life Experiences. About 25-30 people attended, and it was great. We maid our vegan bar-b-q sandwiches as well as a chocolate mousse. Both foods went over real well.
Marleah put together a PowerPoint presentation and gave a general overview of vegetarianism and veganism. This PowerPoint can be found on our resources page for those who would like to see or get a copy of it. This was then followed by a question and answer session where we were asked some great questions that we tried to answer to the best of our abilities.
Again we got to meet some great new people, and we both had a good time talking and informing the people who attended the event at the center.

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HSUS – Grassroots

November 8, 2008 · Filed under Meeting

Today’s meeting went well considering we were rushed for time.  A band needed to get setup to play in the gallery at 2:00, and they were looking to do just that at noon.  Needless to say we finished our talking at 12:30.  But that is cool because we had a special guest that came from Lowrance Kansas.  Mary Prewit, HSUS State director of Kansas traveled out and talked to our group.

It was a good gathering.  Once again over half of the group had never been to one of our meetings.  I believe some came from Stockton.  I wish I would of had time to talk to them before they left, but considering the rush we had to get out of the gallery, I just didn’t have time.  I hope to see them again so we can talk more with them.

Enough though about that, and back to our speaker.  She did well.  It is hard to provide an overview of the HSUS in just an hour, but I think she used the hour well.  She provided a brief look at all parts of the HSUS and what she is looking to do in Kansas.  Right now she is working on a project to promote the use of only cage free eggs at campuses across the state.  More information from HSUS about this issue can be found on there website http://www.hsus.org or directly by going to their ‘No Battery Eggs’ Campaign.

Other issues focused on by some of the people at the meeting was puppy mills, and how do handle them.  HSUS has some information on there site as well about puppy mills.  I found this information on their site. (Puppy Mill Truths).  Another site that is supported by HSUS, they at least linked to, is stoppuppymills.org.  You may also wonder what local office you can contact to report a mill.  If it is inside city limits always start with you city police.  If it is in the country or your city police is run by the county sheriff, contact the sheriff with your concerns.  If your concerns are still not addressed, you can contact the HSUS and they can direct you to your regional or state organization that can help address your concerns.

One last think I want to talk about, because I am real excited about it, is the HSUS’s emergency response teams.  They are looking to have teams in each county in Kansas to help animals in an emergency situation.  This may be to help start and handle animals in a natural or man made disaster until more help can make it, or it may be the only help the animals will be able to receive.  If you are interested in such a program, contact your local emergency response coordinator for you county.  If one has not been setup, and you are looking to start one, contact the Kansas HSUS office and they can work with your local government to get the emergency system in place.

Thank you for you time, and I hope to post again in the future.  As always, comment away, and I will always try to respond to you.

Ryan Augustine

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Hays Daily News

August 7, 2008 · Filed under Meeting · Tagged ,

After only two meetings, word has been getting out about our group. Currently we have only been having our meetings in the Hays Kansas Public Library and have not expanded to other western Kansas cities.

Our first meeting, July 12th, consisted of group discussion covering nutrition and other questions commonly asked of vegetarians and vegans. We also got to gather some of the local vegetarians and vegans for a first meeting. This meeting lasted about an hour and was very exciting for my wife and I to meet and talk to people.

This feeling poured over to our second meeting on July 26th. This meeting we put together a vegan cooking demo. We were lucky to not only have new and returning faces, be we also had some staff from the Hays Daily News. The Hays Daily then put us in the Sunday edition with our article getting a photo and page info on the front page contents. On top of that, members of the library videotaped the demo to post on their web site. We are very excited for this use of technology to help us reach other people who may not be able to make the meetings. We want to be a resource for as many people as we can, and with the use of technology, we can hopefully reach many in the rural areas.

Our next meeting will be held on Saturday August 9th. We will be showing Chicken Run and will follow it by a short discussion . Please come and join us for any of our meetings for information and social friendship.

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Starting Up

April 18, 2008 · Filed under Meeting · Tagged

Currently we are in the process of starting up the Western Kansas Vegetarian Society (WKVS).  We are looking into a location to have bi-weekly meetings in Hays, KS.  We are in the process of contacting the Hays Public Library to see if we could meet at that location.   We are hoping to meet the 1st and 3rd (or the 2nd and 4th) Saturday of every month.

Once we have worked worked out a location and time, we will post and advertise the meeting place, times, and dates.  We are looking to start meeting in May of 2008, so we hope to have this information available soon.  If you have any question or suggestions, please feel free to contact us, and we can get meetings running.

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