Paul England, Cookies Etc. - As a child growing up, I enjoyed reading The Little House On The Prairie books. I was amazed at what they did to survive. A child of the Seventies, all I knew were supermarkets. Sure, my parents and grandparents told me stories about how it was when they were growing up but stories about the someone getting the first car or TV in the neighborhood didn’t compare to the seemingly outlandish concept of having to hunt and grow everything you were going to eat for the next year.

Congratulations to Michele of Louisville Kentucky, she was the winner of the Go Dairy Free Newsletter Giveaway for the month of August.  Michele will receive a gift package from Matisse & Jack's, including several boxes of their TrailBlaze Bake-at-Home Energy Bar Mix.  Every month there is a new prize and  a new winner, so stay tuned as the September prize will be announced in the week ahead!  Also, don't forget to check out the August Newsletter, filled with back to school highlights.  All of the Go Dairy Free Newsletters are available to view online.

By Hannah Kaminsky, My Sweet Vegan - Feeling for all the world as if I had just swallowed a ton of bricks, the dread of leaving for school grew only more powerful as the hours passed, my days in a comfortable home numbered and quickly slipping away. There wasn’t a thing I could say to express my jumbled emotions, no matter how I tried to talk through it, ignore it, or try to keep my mind off it; I’m simply no good at keeping anxiety at bay. Laying awake in bed, pondering what on earth might make my mind at ease, there was only one answer that kept coming back, echoing through the depths of that tired brain, but I was desperate enough to try anything.

Non-Dairy "ice cream" is gaining so much popularity, that even the San Francisco Chronicle couldn't resist a taste-testing.  While I don't whole-heartedly agree with their less than stellar views of the overall Non-Dairy Frozen Dessert category, I was pleased to see a few worthy products getting some long overdue recognition.  The five taste-testers rated ten vanilla flavored brands of frozen dessert on a scale of 1 to 100 (100 as best).  Below is their rankings, along with some of our personal tasting notes...