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The Vegan Baker: Lamingtons and vanilla cake

Blogger/baker Miyuki McGuffie veganises a familiar classic. More …

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The Vegan Baker: Spiced fruit muffins

These little treats are super easy and highly adaptable. Mix and match ingredients as you please! More …

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The Vegan Baker: Gluten free dark chocolate brownies

This week blogger/baker Miyuki McGuffie tries her hand at accommodating an increasingly common dietary restriction: gluten intolerance. More …

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The Vegan Baker: Slow-bake carrot loaf

Vegan baking can be intimidating when the only binder you know is egg and the easiest fat to reach for is butter. But baking without these items is super easy, and when done correctly, the results are no different from regular baking. More …

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The Vegan Baker: Coffee Cake

This week a little reminiscing inspires blogger-baker Miyuki McGuffie to recreate a delicious old favourite. More …

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The Vegan Baker: Alfajores (shortbread)

This week blogger-baker Miyuki McGuffie brings us a recipe for a South American cookie made of two sweet biscuits sandwiched together with dulce de leche (caramel sauce). Yumbo! More …

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The Vegan Baker: Chocolate Cake

This week blogger-baker Miyuki McGuffie brings us a recipe for the ubiquitous chocolate cake—made without butter and eggs. More …

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The Vegan Baker: Soft Cinnamon Cookies

This week blogger-baker Miyuki McGuffie tries her hand at an American classic and ends up with something else altogether! More …

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The Vegan Baker: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Re-introducing Good blogger Miyuki McGuffie, now turned US-based blogger-baker! This week, Miyuki tries out a classic baked good, modelled after a US franchise's version. More …

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Personal relations for greenies, part two

When it comes to your personal life, how far should you take your eco-sensibilities when other people are involved? Most of us know or are in the process of working out the limits and boundaries of our green lifestyles. But how often do we think about these in relation to the people around us? When is it appropriate to put up a fight? Is it okay to point out wasteful behaviour? At what point does encouragement become pushing and informing become preaching? More …

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Living with the unconscious

What do you do when you're sick of being nice? Miyuki McGuffie tries new ways to spread her beliefs when she's surrounded by people who don’t see the world through green-tinted glasses, and finds that vegan cupcakes work a treat. More …

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Kicking nits naturally

Parents know them only too well: headlice. They spread quickly through schools, but that doesn't mean adults don't get them either. Miyuki McGuffie found herself unfortunately afflicted—and determined to treat them naturally. Here's how she did it. More …

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An even more inconvenient truth

Did you know that what you eat may have as big an impact on the environment as how often you drive your car? Why isn’t a reduction in meat consumption being encouraged alongside energy efficiency promotions and pleas to use less petrol? More …

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What to do when you're doing all you can

I think I may have reached a dead-end in my environmental pursuits. Well, maybe not so much a dead-end but a brick wall, a kind of where-do-I-go-from-here predicament where I feel like I’m doing as much as I possibly can, but know that there is so much out there still to do. More …

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Take it easy, take the bus

I love public transport. A lot of people complain about it here in Wellington, where our buses almost always run late (occasionally early—even worse!), sometimes don’t appear, and often have less than pleasant drivers. Our trains have even made the news recently, with services being stalled during peak hours twice within a couple of weeks or so. But really it’s not that bad and I think people should cut public transport some slack. More …

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