{"id":710,"date":"2012-04-30T22:48:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-01T02:48:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=710"},"modified":"2012-05-03T10:23:29","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T14:23:29","slug":"guest-post-jc-and-vegan-swap-thanks-jill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/guest-post-jc-and-vegan-swap-thanks-jill\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest Post: JC and Vegan Swap &#8211; Thanks Jill!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the grand tradition of leaving things to the last minute, I just finished filing my taxes for last year. Something was nagging me that I also needed to do, and MeShell reminded me I hadn&#8217;t completed my other, much more important task before it&#8217;s midnight deadline &#8211; writing about my Vegan Swap experience!<\/p>\n<p>I send my goodies off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veganculinarycrusade.com\/\">The Vegan Lisa<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month, which I had a great time putting together. I hope she enjoyed receiving it as much as I did it putting it together and sending it. It gave me a chance to explore some unique elements of Vegan cuisine (marshmallows?!), as well as to reach back into my childhood for inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>I was lucky enough to get Jill, better known from the awesome <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.vegancuts.com\/\">Vegan Cuts<\/a>. If anyone knows her way around Vegan goodies, it&#8217;s Jill. She really out did herself with her package.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebigjc.org\/images\/veganswap\/2012-04-17%2020.14.55.jpg\" alt=\"The package!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I found this waiting for me when I came home from work. A little squish test and it was clearly filled to the brim. No padding here. Opening it and my\u00a0suspicions\u00a0were confirmed &#8211; veritable\u00a0cornucopia\u00a0of Vegan goodies were waiting for me.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebigjc.org\/images\/veganswap\/2012-04-17 20.15.26.jpg\" alt=\"Inside!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I started picking each item out one at a time, but after about 2 minutes, I realized if I did that I would be there forever, and there was eating to be had, so I spread it out over the table to take in all the loveliness. It even attracted <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/emmiecat\">EmmieCat<\/a> had to come by and check out commotion. (Note the Kobo in the background &#8211; MeShell was reading Fifty Shades of Grey. Maybe she&#8217;ll tell you about it if you ask her!)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thebigjc.org\/images\/veganswap\/2012-04-17 20.17.08.jpg\" alt=\"The whole package!\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Even thought this was my first swap, I quickly found out the best part &#8211; things you&#8217;ve never even THOUGHT about suddenly appear on your dining room table. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bettylousinc.com\/\">Chocolate Peanut Butter Smackers<\/a>, ExtraVEGANza Peanut Butter Bites, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goraw.com\/\">Go Raw Live<\/a> Granola Bar, OH MY! Needless to say, these were all amazingly delicious and didn&#8217;t last long. MeShell got her hands on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onioncrunch.com\/\">Onion Crunch<\/a>, but I was able to pry it free, and enjoy them the next day along with the Black Sesame Strips. My favourite was actually the <a href=\"http:\/\/kopali.net\/products\/fruits\/goldenberry\/\">Goldenberries<\/a> &#8211; something I&#8217;ve never even heard of, but which were a delightful mix of sweet and tart.<\/p>\n<p>I still have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edwardandsons.com\/reo_info.itml\">Chreese<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soygo.net\">SoyGo<\/a>, the Hemp Protein and the Salba &#8211; we&#8217;ll have to find a good home for those, but they all look great.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to Jill for a great introduction to Vegan swaps &#8211; it definitely won&#8217;t be my last!<\/p>\n<p>JC<\/p>\n<p>Sign up for the next one:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/veganfoodswap\/\" rel=\"nofollow nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/veganfoodswap\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>*** note from MeShell &#8211; I hope JC posts more often, he&#8217;s actually quite delightful don&#8217;t you think? ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the grand tradition of leaving things to the last minute, I just finished filing my taxes for last year. Something was nagging me that I also needed to do, and MeShell reminded me I hadn&#8217;t completed my other, much more important task before it&#8217;s midnight deadline &#8211; writing about&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,507],"tags":[509],"class_list":["post-710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-post","category-vegan-swap","tag-vegan-swap-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}