About Renée & Contact Details

photo 6 225x300 About Renée & Contact Details★ Renée MBM has been vegan since 2005, for ethical reasons.
★ Her partner David was diagnosed gluten intolerant in 2007.
★ Renée developed an interest (and a taste!) for raw food in 2008.
★ In 2009, they had their first child, Alice, who is being raised vegan.
★ She has grown like a weed, and been off-the-charts most of the time for height, weight, and head circumference since a few months after she was born.
★ Alice learnt to count to 20 by her 2nd birthday, and can read the alphabet.
★ Renée and David’s second child (it’s a boy!) is due mid-2011.
★ The family eats a high-raw, low-fat diet: mostly wholefoods, mostly fresh fruit, vegetables, and greens.

Let’s Get Creative!

I’m looking for people to collaborate with, as well as interview subjects: vegan parents, vegan health nuts, vegan ethicists, vegan gluten-free folks, vegan and gluten-free services and products, vegan geeks, vegan scientists, vegan bloggers, vegan… anything, anyone! I love thoughtful, inspiring projects. If you have something you want to share with me, please check out further submission info on the About page or drop me a line.

Other Factoids

photo 9 199x300 About Renée & Contact Details★ Renée is: a writer, atheist, Vipassana meditator, abolitionist-ish vegan, nutrition/ethics/literary/film/all-round academic geek, international traveller, and crazy cat lady.
★ David is: a software engineer, chef (trained in Chiang Mai), agnostic, Buddhist, utilitarian-ish vegan, rockclimber, FPS gamer, Ruby-on-Rails enthusiast, gardener, and astrophysicist.
★ Alice is: a Lego enthusiast who likes books, dancing, singing, and the outdoors.
★ n00b baby is: undecided, but sure likes kicking his Mummy in the ribs.

Meanwhile, in another part of the internets…

★ Interview with Sarah about Vegan Parenting on her ‘Stuff About Stuff’ blog

Contact!

 About Renée & Contact Details

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  • http://www.alive.com.au Angela De Palma

    Hi Renee
    It was great to meet you at the centre.

    Your receipes look excellent. As I try some I will let you know how it goes.

    Great photes as well.

    Thanks for your efforts.

    Angela

    PS hope serving went well

  • http://callycreates.blogspot.com cally

    This blog is the answer to my prayers! I’ve been searching for ages for a blog that fits my allergies etc. Books are good, but eventually my brain decides “I’ve read that” and it ends up on a shelf getting dusty”. with a blog I get weekly inspiration. Looking forward to delving your archives this week.

  • http://tuttysan.wordpress.com/ tuttysan

    I’m not vegan, but love cooking and like to have a good variety to offer my non meat eater friends, as well as for personal enjoyment when the mood strikes.

  • http://www.gggiraffe.blogspot.com Johanna

    I am vegetarian but not vegan but am not very keen on eggs or milk (but I love cheese) so I have been interested in vegan recipes for quite a while. More recently my niece has been diagnosed celiac and so I have become aware of gluten free issues.

    I have been making quite a few gluten free vegan dishes lately and am happy for you to check out my blog for recipes (pls acknowledge if you include them on your blog).

    I’ve had a look at some of your blog and enjoy the posts!

    thanks
    Johanna
    http://www.gggiraffe.blogspot.com

  • Kat S.

    Hi! Having been a vegan for 11 years by choice and gluten-free for 5 years by necessity, it was AWESOME to find your blog!!! Keep up the great work!!!!!!!!! — Kat in Canada

  • Sarah

    I’m gluten and dairy intolernant and vegetarian and am finding it incredibly difficult to stick to all these dietary restrictions so am very much in need of these blogs/sites. Thanks :)

  • SaraEllen

    Hi Renee,

    I love the pictures of your cats and your recipes look great. I’m not vegan, but allergic to eggs and gluten intolerant. I’m hoping to learn a lot here and share something of my own if it turns out to be edible.

  • http://www.IBSTreatmentCenter.com Dr. Wangen

    Renee,

    This is a great service that you are providing. Many of my patients are gluten intolerant or allergic to eggs or dairy, or other foods. They need all the help they can get understanding that they can still eat excellent, tasty food and not get sick with IBS symptoms.

    The Innate Health Foundation is a public charity supporting the food allergy and intolerance community with a Wiki (IHFWiki) that includes restaurant information, food products info, and recipes. Maybe you would be willing to share a few recipes there? http://www.InnateHealthFoundation.org/wiki/ is the link.

    I hope you won’t mind if we add a link to your site on the IHFWiki.

  • http://www.IBSTreatmentCenter.com Dr. Wangen

    Renee,

    This is a great service you are providing. Thanks so much for sharing your recipes. Many of my patients are gluten intolerant and/or allergic to eggs and/or dairy products. It is great to have resources like this.

    The Innate Health Foundation is a public charity that provides the IHFWiki – a wiki website that allows users to share info about restaurants, food products, recipes etc. that are useful to the food allergy/intolerance community. Maybe you would share some of your recipes there at http://www.InnateHealthFoundation.org/wiki/ ?

    I hope you won’t mind if the IHFWiki provides a link to your site.

  • http://glutenfreevegan.wordpress.com Renee

    Thanks, Dr Wangen. I’ll donate some recipes to your wiki soon. I don’t mind at all if you add a link, thanks!

  • Kate

    Hi there!
    I’ve been vegie for a few years but I’m going vegan gluten free cos I have psoriatic arthritis. Thanks for this site- it’s brilliant. Do you know if amaranth is gluten free? (I’m guessing not) but I was planning on growing some this year.
    Best wishes

  • http://glutenfreevegan.wordpress.com Renee

    Hi, Kate!

    Amaranth is gluten-free, indeed. A very tasty, healthy grain, too. :)

  • http://greenthumbr.com june

    I love your story! I decided to give up wheat and dairy this past January after dealing with some serious ear congestion that resulted in vertigo. I’ve had serious sinus congestion for years now and have noticed great improvement in my ability to breathe and smell things.

    Fortunately I live in a town that makes eating out easy. Some of the hipper places label all the items on their menu that are wheat and or dairy free….so you don’t even have to ask.

    I’m excited to have found your blog!

  • http://www.flvegan.wordpress.com Erin

    Hey Renee,

    I’m a GF vegan as well (and also have a nut allergy). What is the brand of GF flour that you prefer? I’ve tried Bob’s Red Mill All-Purpose GF flour a few times, but it had sort of an after-taste.

    Thanks for the input, as well as for the excellent site!

    –Erin @ “Vegan & the City”

  • http://glutenfreevegan.wordpress.com Renee

    We don’t have Bob’s Red Mill in Australia. I prefer F.G. Robert’s gluten-free flour, which is organic soy flour based, otherwise I just mix up a combination of potato starch, brown rice, chickpea, and tapioca starch flours. Sometimes instead of chickpea (strongish flavour) I use maize or buckwheat flour.

  • Daisy

    I am so happy to have found your blog!!! I was a vegetarian for 10 years. 2 years ago I found I had to go gluten/dairy free. I felt lost in the food world. I went back to eating meat because I didn’t think there was anyway to remain a vegetarian and gluten/dairy free… all the substitutes were wheat based.

    Now I have a wonderful place to start.
    THANK YOU!!

  • Marci – New York

    Hey There!
    Just wanted to thank you for your efforts in putting together this lovely website. Recently found, I have wheat-gluten, corn, soy, dairy, egg digestive allergies. I had been a junky to those foods and was looking for help to ween me off those foods. I can’t thank you enough for posting your recipes. All the best!

  • http://glutenfreevegan.blogspot.com Glutenfreevegan

    Wow…stumbled across you blog in my search for vegan sites and am glad to have found a fellow gluten free vegan! LOVE your recipes and have many friends to share you blog with….keep up the fabulous postings!!!

  • http://mydarlinglemonthyme.wordpress.com/ Emm

    great blog :-) I’m glad I stumbled across it today.

  • Maryellen

    Hello Veganza, We have a best selling book called Eat Vegan on $4 a Day.  Can we get this book listed on your site?  You already have many Book Publishing Company titles included in your site and I thought you
    wouldn’t want to miss this one.  Thank you, maryellen@bookpubco.com, 931-964-3571

  • Maryellen

    Hi again, As I see you are talking about gluten intolerance, a newer title from the Book Publishing Company is The Allergy-Free Cook Bakes Bread.  Our books are available for review and are all on Amazon for convenience as well.  Mary Ellen