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- Becky Striepe
- November 6, 2012
- 5:05 pm
- 98 comments
All of those pretty leaves on the trees must mean that Thanksgiving is on its way! Even if you’re not having a totally vegan Thanksgiving feast, many of these dishes incorporate well into any Thanksgiving menu.
Cutting out (or cutting back) on the meat and dairy in your Thanksgiving menu is a great way to green up this holiday. Meat and dairy are very inefficient to produce compared to plant-based foods – they take many times more land and water to produce, both of which are ever-shrinking resources.
Related Reading: Is meat the most inefficient food?
If you’re used to the typical “meat and three” type meal, it makes perfect sense that cutting out or reducing the meat might seem unappetizing. If you take the meat off that type of plate, you’re left with an iceberg salad, some overcooked veggies, and maybe a starch. No, thank you! The trick to cutting the meat is to re-imagine your plate.
This menu features two options for a main course, and you can make one or both of them. One is a meat alternative: a rich, savory seitan roast. The other says, “meat, schmeat!” and lets seasonal produce shine as the star of the Thanksgiving meal. Whether you cook up this whole menu or just replace some meat- or dairy-based dishes with one or two of these items, give yourself a high five for reducing your impact this Thanksgiving!
Let’s start with the sides! On the next page, check out my favorite, easy way to cook up garlicky greens.
Image Credit: Vegan Thanksgiving photo via Thinkstock
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Becky Striepe
Becky Striepe is a freelance writer and vegan crafter living in Atlanta, Georgia. Her life’s mission is to make green crafting and vegan food accessible to everyone! Like this article? You can follow Becky on Twitter or find her on Facebook!
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So I’m big on Thanksgiving. Scratch that, I’m big on Thanksgiving turkey. This year I’m faced with the challenge of hosting a vegetarian feast. Not an easy task as it turns out. That being said I’m excited to give it a shot, and your post is actually making me look forward to it. Me being me, I do a lot of research, and on my way stumbled on a pretty cool cranberry sauce comparison. Handy if you’re pressed for time like I most likely will be. http://www.pressdisplay.com/pressdisplay/showlink.aspx?bookmarkid=IQ8N3FNFAXB5&preview=article&linkid=7ad9729b-065f-40fa-af87-599178787c9d&pdaffid=ZVFwBG5jk4Kvl9OaBJc5%2bg%3d%3d Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank you for providing this article. If it stops just one more turkey being slaughtered as a "celebration of kindness" table centrepiece, then it has been worthwhile.
For those thinking of having a dead bird on the table, please go to the link below. I sincerely hope you will then reconsider.
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/turkey-industry.aspx
HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!
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The ginger pear sauce and pumpkin pie look AMAZING
This is supposedly about "Vegan Thanksgiving" so why is the first page about meat ?
The pear sauce sounds wonderful! Could I can in like I do with apple butter, so it would last longer? Thanks
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Very good. Thanks.
The acorn squash, apple crisp are the only ones that sound any good at all, to me --- know if I served the other stuff, the people in my family would haul off to the nearest fast food and get what they want! Keep trying though, I am slowly incorporating healthy food into our diets and I really, truly, honestly appreciate you trying so hard! THANKS!!!
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