{"id":71,"date":"2017-02-10T21:05:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-10T21:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/?p=71"},"modified":"2019-07-31T20:21:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-31T20:21:50","slug":"fall-flashback-introducing-vegan-desserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/2017\/02\/10\/fall-flashback-introducing-vegan-desserts\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Flashback: Introducing Vegan Desserts"},"content":{"rendered":"
 Jolee Keplinger, Co-President of Sustainability Club, Principia Food Blogger<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n
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Last October, the Sustainability Club partnered with Dining Services to offer vegan desserts for Sustainability Weekend. <\/p>\n

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Since most everyone loves a sweet treat now and then, I figured offering free vegan desserts in the Scramble Room would be a way to raise awareness, since food choice is such a large component of living sustainably.  <\/p>\n

You may be wondering how dessert and sustainability relate. It’s actually quite simple. <\/p>\n

Most traditional desserts contain ingredients such as eggs, butter, milk, or cream. Unfortunately, these ingredients take far more resources to produce compared to their plant-based counterparts.<\/p>\n

 By making a few simple substitutions, any dessert can become 100% plant-based!<\/p>\n

On behalf of the Sustainability Club, I proposed the idea to our wonderful Executive Chef (Trey McCartt) and he put the vision into action. I provided recipes sourced online, and our cooks created three delicious vegan desserts! Working with Sustainability Director Karen Eckert, Caia Gillet and I designed outreach posters to inform our peers.<\/p>\n

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Because at that time I worked in our pastry department Saturday mornings, I had the opportunity to help create our delicious vegan Cookie Dough Bites \u2013 which joined Cherry Turnovers and Pumpkin Parfaits on the weekend\u2019s dessert bar. <\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Theses desserts were not only more sustainable than their dairy-laced counterparts, but incredibly delicious! This shows that living sustainably isn’t a chore, or even very complicated, it just takes a few small changes that will ultimately make a huge difference. <\/p>\n

 At Principia College, you can still find vegan desserts in the Scramble Room and C-Store \u2013 check out Dining Services\u2019 app for details. Here’s a list of the current offerings.<\/p>\n

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Scramble Room:<\/strong> Apple turnovers, cherry turnovers, and any slice of fruit pie (no egg wash)<\/p>\n

 C-Store:<\/strong> Green & Black’s Organic Dark Chocolate bar, Oreo cookies, and Dairy-free Ben & Jerry’s<\/p>\n

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Here’s video of students taste testing a few vegan alternatives: <\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/PrinMuseVideo\/videos\/vb.186293775189013\/187674758384248\/?type=2&theater&notif_t=like&notif_id=1487199940719340<\/a><\/p>\n

Want to learn more?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Visit http:\/\/www.onegreenplanet.org\/environment\/future-of-sustainable-food-is-plant-based\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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 Jolee Keplinger, Co-President of Sustainability Club, Principia Food Blogger   Last October, the Sustainability Club partnered with Dining Services to offer vegan desserts for Sustainability Weekend.  Since most everyone loves a sweet treat now and then, I figured offering free vegan desserts in the Scramble Room would be a way to raise awareness, since food choice is such … Continue reading Fall Flashback: Introducing Vegan Desserts<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4,3,5],"class_list":["post-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-principia-college","tag-c-store","tag-plant-based","tag-scramble-room"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/content.principia.edu\/sites\/sustainablefood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}