References and resources
- Nutrition information:
- Position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics: Vegetarian Diets
- UK Plant Based Health Professionals: excellent collection of factsheets
- Dr. Shireen Kassam’s Substack (Review of plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine news)
- NutritionFacts.org and Dr. Michael Greger’s work
- The Brain Docs (Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, MDs)
- Dr. Alan Desmond, gastroenterologist
- Vancouver registered dietitian Vesanto Melina and her many books with Brenda Davis
- Matthew Nagra, naturopathic doctor
- Environmental considerations: Plant-Based Data
- IMPORTANT! Vitamin B12 supplementation
- Other nutrition summaries: protein, iron, calcium.
Discounts
- Sign up for 100 Days of Flow in the Kitchen (email mini-course) for $5 (this weekend only)
- Vegan Supply coupons (handed out at the event)
- Kula Foods: use coupon code PBL15 for 15% off all protein products until April 30th on their website.
Vancouver plant-based establishments
Groceries
- Eternal Abundance
- Vegan Supply Chinatown
- Choices Markets has many options
Food service
- Meet restaurants: on Main, in Gastown, in Yaletown, on Blanshard (Victoria)
- Chickpea Restaurant (Middle Eastern)
- AM Cafe (2528 Guelph St in Mount Pleasant)
- Vegan Shoku (sushi) on 41st avenue in Kerrisdale
- COFU Pressed Sushi (1833 Anderson St. near Granville Island)
- Virtuous Pie (pizza, on Main near Keefer)
- Hestia Veggie (Vietnamese, 1161 Davie Street)
- Khoe,1370A Georgia St.
- MILA (185 Keefer St.)
- Naam (vegetarian with many vegan options, West 4th near Trafalgar)
- Vietnamese
- Viet Family (1414 Commercial Dr.)
- Do Chay (Vietnamese, on Kingway near Knight)
- Chi (1935 West 4th)
- Chinese (vegetarian with lots of vegan options)
- Po Kong (on Kingsway near Knight)
- Sun Bo Kong (on Kingsway near Knight… across the street from Po Kong)
- 4 Stones Vegetarian (in Richmond)
- Kokomo (Vine Street and Commercial Dr)
- Odd Burger (Main St at 12th Avenue)
- Tera V Burgers (W Broadway near Vine?)
- Sweet Cherubim
- Pizza Castle and Indian Curry (1110 Commercial Dr)
- The Burrow (vegetarian with many vegan options, Commercial Drive just North of 12th)
- Budgies Burrito (vegetarian with many vegan options, Kingsway near Main)
- The Cider House (1602 Yew)
- Tatta Chulha (Indian, Broadway near Main)
- Fine dining
- Folke (West Broadway near Trafalgar)
- The Acorn (includes some dishes that have dairy, 3995 Main St)
- Cafes and bakeries:
- To Live For (Nanaimo just North of 1st)
- Zimt Chocolates (18 East Pender)
- Level V / Matcha Whisk Cafe (Mount Pleasant Community Centre building on Kingsway near Main)
- Juice Truck (multiple locations including Main at 27th)
- Feast & Fallow (41st Avenue near Yukon)
- Bonus Bakery (cookies! 401 Burrard St)
- Vegan Pudding & Co
- Ice cream:
- Earnest Ice Cream has an amazing selection of vegan flavors
- Rain or Shine has at least 2 vegan flavors at all times
- Juice Truck has soft serve
- Plant-based meal delivery
- Kula
- CHOMP Eatery
- Non-plant-based establishments with solid vegan options:
- Nuba (multiple locations)
- TUrF
- Many (most?) Vancouver restaurants!
Local plant-based food makers
- Mindful Fud
- Spread’Em
- TMRW Food
- Konscious Foods