2012 Vegan Holiday Gift Guide

"Animal Impact" is a behind-the-scenes look at how some of today's most respected animal advocates are making a difference. The book includes tips, stories, and examples from all facets of animal activism, from farm animals and veg issues to companion animals and wildlife. Using "Animal Impact"’s how-to framework, veterans will find fresh ways of thinking, while newcomers can get a fast start to high-impact veg and animal advocacy.

An elegant alternative to a large handbag, the Peri messenger is the perfect size to just get up and go without all the extra bulk. The woven faux-snake embellishment, sand color and gold hardware along the strap adds an extra bit of class to this handbag. The interior is fully lined and includes one zippered pocket.

Sacha Vida Oil is the most unsaturated vegetable oil on the planet with a whopping 92% Omega 3, 6 and 9 and 120% naturally occurring Vitamin E. This nutritious combination of antioxidants and Omega 3 make this oil the perfect addition to your healthy lifestyle. Sacha Vida oil is ultra premium and extra virgin and is extracted by cold pressing the finest Sacha Inchi seeds obtained from eco-friendly harvests in the Peruvian Amazon. Sacha Vida oil has a fresh aroma, light nutty taste and a natural earthy finish. Use this delicious and light oil to boost the nutritional profile of your favorite salads, smoothies and cold dishes. This product is 100% raw, cholesterol free and it does not contain additives or preservatives.

Our unique mountain extracted spa quality brown clay, is known as a facial mask/cleanser and as an acne mask. It cleans and conditions the skin when used daily or it can be used weekly for detoxification. With its high level of trace minerals, LeMudd is appreciated for removing toxins, soothing dermatitis and softening skin.

Nosh + Nourish Online Cooking Classes is a weekly online class where you get to taste what you see on your computer screen. Taught by Shelley Chapman and created by you! Each class is infused with coaching and wellness principles so that you can feel good about what you eat.

Vegan Cuts is an online marketplace that brings together healthy snacks, cruelty-free fashions, and natural body care that anyone would love—even if they're not vegan. Sign up for their snack box and have vegan goodies delivered to your door for just $19/month. Or better yet, buy a gift subscription for that transitioning vegan or vegetarian in your life.

Four of our popular flavored organic nuts. Comes in gift box with card.

Reneu Shoes are vegan/eco-friendly memory foam ballerinas. Every style is made of sustainable materials such as hemp, recycled polyester and organic cotton. The footbeds have a well-cushioned memory foam insole and all the materials are 100% vegan.The Reneu line is created and designed by Neuaura founder Arti Upadhyay

Practically Raw is delightfully innovative—you can adapt each raw vegan recipe to your own taste, budget, and ingredient availability. Many of the recipes feature the options to cook or bake them. Whether you are exploring ways to improve your health and longevity, cope with a food allergy, or lose weight, Practically Raw has something for everybody. It’s ideal for beginners as well as seasoned raw foodists, with creative, satisfying, and delicious recipes. Full color throughout. Paperback, 264 pages, ISBN: 9780980013153, Retail: $18.95

Gourmet salted caramels. Six enticing flavors; Himalayan pink salt, pomegranate, raspberry, Rosemary,passion fruit, mango masala. Organic, fair trade ingredients. Soy, gluten and corn free.

Do you have a family member or friend who is exploring veganism or simply wants to follow a more plant-based diet? Give the gift of a 45-minute consultation with JL Fields, a certified vegan lifestyle coach and educator. JL provides nonjudgmental support and coaching during the session and develops a personalized "Get Started Program," delivered two days post-consultation. Go Vegan with JL!

Gourmet Prince for Vegans- This gift basket of sublime taste and sophistication is sure to please the most discriminating palate and includes creamy corn chowder soup, crunchy crackers, green tea, agave sweetened granola style trail mix, 2 hot cocoa, a rich dark chocolate bar, roasted chestnuts, sweet and salty kettle corn, savory cassava chips, tortilla chips, salsa, rice noodle soup, dark chocolate peanut butter cups, a tub of banana chips and delicious shortbread cookies, a box of ginger thins, pasta sauce mix, whole wheat pasta, roasted and salted pumpkin seeds and a 4 piece box of Belgium chocolates. $189.35 Medium 16x14x18

The New Fast Food; The Veggie Queen Pressure Cooks Whole Food Meals in Less than 30 Minutes teaches you a new way to cook great tasting food in 50 to 70 percent less time than traditional stove top cooking. The books contains 150 vegan recipes for dishes from breakfast through dessert. The pressure cooker is a vegan cook's best friend.This book is available as a PDF download and also as a paperback. The discount is for the ebook version only.

This unusual gluten-free 4" mini Fruit & Nut cake is naturally sweetened with fruits, veggies and grains, and makes the perfect holiday gift for a party hostess, co-worker, family or friend. Our holiday special offers 16 festively, individually wrapped mini cakes shipped for FREE (2 day ground) to your door (U.S.A. only) for $125/per case of 16 cakes.

Our biggest SALE of the year is here! Now through Dec 30th, SAVE 30% OFF SITE-WIDE on any of our luxury designer Vegan bags.

Get a signed copy of the best-selling book Wildly Affordable Organic, personalized if you like, with over 50 vegan recipes, plus two new Wildly Good Cook videos, a year's membership in the Cook for Good community with more ebooks and videos, and more! Help Linda Watson celebrate her first year as a vegan with this crazy healthy set of books, videos, ebooks, and more! It's an $82.85 value for only $39.39! Save $42! After Thanksgiving weekend, this bonus package will only be available to Vegan Mainstream supporters.

Custom vegan message pendant necklace that says "Vegan Since" and the year you went vegan. Made of metal with gold or silver finish. Pendant diameter: 1.44", Chain length: 18" with 2" extender. The necklace arrives in a special black felt bag that is perfect for gifting.

A brand new incredible, edible egg-free product has just hit the market, making vegan eating even easier and tastier than ever before. The Vegg is a versatile egg yolk replacer that can be used (instead of eggs) in a wide range of recipes, and you can even use it straight as a liquid “yolk” for dipping toast. In fact, it looks, smells, and even tastes like eggs – but without all the cruelty.

Healthy, balanced, sustainable & cruelty-free meat alternatives.

The HempBurger is a Vegan, Non-GMO, gluten-free veggie burger that is very delicious and a power house of nutritional value. Turns your burger into a health food! You can purchase it frozen in a four pack or by the case (60 patties).

A book that shows why Vegan a diet is so healthy. A new area of biology called epigenetics is the science of what turns a gene ON/OFF. Having a cancer gene is not bad, having it turned ON ios very bad. What turns our genes ON/OFF? Our environment turns them ON/OFF via the diet we eat, how we think, exercise, and what we believe. This book is available in hard cover, soft cover and eBook at both Amazon.com and Barnsandnoble.com. There is also a daily BLOG on this at www.georgefebish.wordpress.com

Cute and clever tee that boldly tells the world you don't eat anything that poops!

VegNews calls this book "the vegan Bible, New Testament." 40 delightful chapters on going (and staying) happily, healthfully vegan, each followed by an easy, yummy recipe; the extensive resource section make MAIN STREET VEGAN a lifetime reference and guide. The 11th book by Oprah-featured author and 30-year vegan, Victoria Moran, this is the perfect gift for the pre-vegan, the new-vegan, or the vegan who has (almost) everything. "...Offers practical advice and inspiration for anyone interested in going vegan, no matter what tax bracket you're in." - Ellen Degeneres

Raw Star Recipe book by Eco Chef Bryan Au WON The #1 Best Vegan Cookbook in the USA Award 2012 by The Gourmand World Cookbook Awards it is available on Amazon.com but there are also certified Raw Vegan Classes available and packaged vegan products too at http://www.RawStarRecipes.com

Handmade, 100% vegan eye shadow collection.

A beautiful sterling-silver charm necklace made from the Happy Herbivore logo.

The only all-vegan air-puffed marshmallow available. Dandies are the perfect vegan marshmallow whether you're making Rice Krispies Treats™, having a cup of hot chocolate, making s'mores, or just snacking!Made with no animal products (gelatin free), Dandies will give you and your family guilt-free satisfaction!

Each candle is hand-crafted, vegan, non-GMO & doubles as a massage oil & body moisturizer. Over 75 different scents to choose from, including a Certified Organic & Fair for Life Essential Oil line. Recyclable/vintage packaging & green shipping.

At the time it came out, "Eat Vegan on $4 a Day" went to a second printing faster than any other in its publisher's history. It continues to be a best seller with vegans and non-vegans alike. Every recipe has an estimated price rounded up to the nearest quarter, along with chapters on food financial planning, convenient how-to charts for bean and grain cooking and even how to get organic produce cheaply. Written by a former 2-Time Emmy-winning TV reporter and financial consultant turned certified personal trainer and running coach, author Ellen Jaffe Jones whose mom, aunt and both sisters had breast cancer continues to prove genes don't determine destiny. Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine's Dr. Neal Barnard says in the book's forward, "Ellen is the perfect person to write this book." Signed copies are available on Ellen's website, vegcoach.com or unsigned on Amazon. Be sure to include any special author signing dedication instructions for your gift. Ellen's second book, "Kitchen Divided" will be out next year, and a third in 2014. Her "rookie card" first book helps to save bottom lines as well as waist lines.

Learn to cook delicious and healthy vegan dishes in the comfort of your own kitchen. Chef Jenné of The Nourishing Vegan, is a top NYC vegan chef who creates magic in the kitchen with colorful and flavorful meals. Choose a class from her exciting menus, she'll do all the shopping and come to your home to teach you her vegan secrets. Great for couples, families and parties!

Give the gift of health! The Perfect Formula Diet describes a simple, enjoyable whole foods, plant-based eating plan. This book, based on over 1,000 scientific studies, gives many tips for successful transition to a plant-based diet and shows how this eating plan ends the chronic inflammation that underlies so many chronic illnesses.

This book is a beautiful comfort for those grieving the loss of a beloved animal. It also carries a powerful message of compassion and a convincing validation of the rights of animals. The author’s strong vegan conviction has converted many a reader to a more compassionate lifestyle over the years.

This 100% cotton dark pink terry dish towel features an adorable embroidered white bunny holding a carrot with the text: Be Kind Go Vegan in silver. Be proud of your animal-free kitchen with this sweet towel. $12.50 each.Towel measures 16″ x 26″ and is made of terry cloth cotton fabric. 100% polyester thread is used for the embroidery which should keep its bright color. Great way to show your kindness through your kitchen decor.

Expert and Endorsed by the PCRM (Neil Barnard, MD and Susan Levin, RD), John Robbins, John McDougall MD, Rory Freedman, Rich Roll, Brendan Brazier, Julieanna Hever, and more. With a fitness title, this book is a trojan horse for the essential 3 pillars of healthy weight loss and fitness success: Simple exercise and activity, plant-based diet, and mastery of mindset. Written by Vegan Mainstream's Health and Fitness Expert Lani Muelrath, MA, Certified in Plant-Based Nutrition and Fitness Nutrition Specialist.Shipping Feb. 5, 2013, this book has been doing brisk sales in pre-order and promises to deliver just in time for spring fitness and health. A must have on the shelf of the vegan aspiring to health, or just getting started.

Another fabulous plant powered book by the incredible Dreena Burton!!!! Can't go wring with this well priced book!

Two books for the Price of One! In Book I, the Novel, Rowan Faine compulsively overeats to compensate for the big changes that have taken place in her life. Forced to cope with the death of her parents in a car accident, inheriting her rebellious younger sister to rear, and the constant bombardment of junk food at Knight & Daye, the Downtown Dallas law firm where she's a secretary, Rowan gains 35 pounds. Her beautiful and skinny best friend, Madelyn Morrison, shares the secret of her success: "Diary of a Dieting Madhouse. " Rowan goes on the Madhouse Diet, loses weight, and finds love, happiness and fulfillment.Book II gives the reader the details of Rowan's diet, and takes you on a journey of a lifetime with author Paige Singleton and her friends. They use a plant-based, whole foods diet to change their lives forever, and so can you.

Vegan Bite By Bite is the only in-depth book about "how to" transition to a plant-based diet, with over 100 super-delicious recipes, ingredient shopping lists and tours, 6 weeks. menu plans and interviews from medical doctors. Amazon selected "Best books for 2011 - Editor's Pick"

Pearl, a temptress vampire, discovers that the blood of her next would-be victim, Salaam, lacks that certain something she craves – necromantic energy that comes from eating meat. Yet he may offer her something that she needs even more… Through fast-paced prose peppered with surprises, The Vampire and The Vegan explores the complex relationship between a carnivore and her food. Paperback. 180 pages. 8.5″ x 5.5″ x 0.4″ (Kindle ebook also available.)

This beautiful follow-up to Anupy Singla's widely praised first cookbook, The Indian Slow Cooker, is a unique guide to preparing favorite recipes from the Indian tradition using entirely vegan ingredients. The book features more than 140 recipes which are all prepared in healthful versions that use vegan alternatives to rich cream, butter, and meats. In addition, gorgeous color photographs interspersed throughout provide mouth-watering accompaniments to many of the recipes. This book is a must-have for any cook interested in either vegan or Indian cuisine.