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Many vegans already know and love Matt & Nat for their beautiful vegan handbags and wallets.  A year or so ago they decided to make their line more “upscale,” i.e. more expensive, which priced many of us out.  However, they also launched a new brand call Samsara, priced more closely to what Matt & Nat [...]

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Maybe you don’t think that tea is a legitimate holiday gift, but believe me, quality tea is something a person can never have too much of!  Regular readers know how much we love tea here at the Primate, and if you also buy a nice tea tin to give it in, it will be a [...]

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I know Sara and I have been major slackers on the recipe front lately, and I am sorry!  But here’s another installment of our Vegan Holiday Shopping Guide.  Regular readers of the Innocent Primate know how we feel about tea, i.e. that we drink it at every opportunity.  If you have a tea aficionado on [...]

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** apparently, just as I was writing this post, Truth was updated their website; so all my links were broken!  i’ve updated the post to reflect their new website**
Ah, vegan fashion has come a long way in the last few years.  We’ve got great vegan shoes and handbags, and now I’ve found a vegan belt [...]

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The next installment of your vegan holiday shopping guide is for Kailo Chic.  Kailo Chic is small company that hand makes purses and bags in boldly colored fabrics.  Sara and I both have one of their Hobo Bags ($62).  It has plenty of room to hold what you need, but it manages to not look [...]

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The holy grail of vegan shopping (for me at least) is a wool-free winter coat, but a very close second is a pair of stylish faux leather driving gloves.  Yeah, we all have some knit or fleece gloves, but sometimes you need to look chic and professional, and the fleece just doesn’t cut it.  Enter [...]

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Whether you are vegan, or shopping for a vegan, gift buying during the Holiday Season can be a little challenging.  Over the next few weeks, the Innocent Primates will try to give you some gift ideas that do not harm animals and are easy on the planet.  To get things started, let me introduce you [...]

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The vast majority of the time, whenever non-vegans ask me, “oh, don’t you miss eating X?” the answer is a resounding no. I don’t miss cheese, bacon or bar-b-qued carcasses.  Not even a little bit.  That said, there are a few items that it would be nice to have a vegan substitute for, even though I [...]

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I don’t know if anyone else remembers those pyramid shaped frozen fruit treats that came out in the 80’s, but Jo and I used to eat them for a ‘healthier’ treat since they were made from fruit. Hey, it beats feeding your kids candy as a treat. Though, I have no doubt the ones we [...]

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I didn’t think it could be done, but the geniuses at Liz Lovely have outdone themselves with the Gluten-free collection of cookies. I recently ordered the GF Snickerdoodles from the glorious Cosmo’s Vegan Shoppe. Since the Snickerdudes are my favorite – running neck and neck with the Ginger Snapdragons – I thought I’d give the [...]

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