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viva la vegan.net

promoting healing through compassionate life style choices

About Me

VIVA LA VEGAN! is Leigh-Chantelle ND vivalavegan.net - winner of the Best Australian veg website or blog in the 2008 Aduki awards!!
See viva la vegan! website for these recipes, forum, blogs and MORE!
Viva la Vegan! is the creation of Leigh-Chantelle ND whose passion in life is to educate and be educated.
vivalavegan.net focuses on creating and continuing a vegan and vegetarian community with a particular focus on allergy and intolerance sufferers.
Viva la Vegan! aims to educate people towards alternative food and lifestyle choices, and encourages people to take control over their own health
Viva la Vegan! specialises in the sharing of recipes and information for vegan and vegetarian lifestyles with a particular focus on allergy and intolerance sufferers. provides education and awareness for lifestyle and food alternatives, specialising in:
* lactose and dairy-free
* meat-free
* egg-free
* nut-free
* wheat and gluten-free cooking
Viva la Vegan! encourages more involvement in food preparation and health, inspiring learning, creativity and versatility whilst encouraging informed, educated and compassionate choices.
HAVE YOU JOINED THE ONLINE VEGAN REVOLUTION? Create a profile, add your favourite recipes, start a blog and join the forum! plus so much more to come ;)
See vivalavegan.net for more details
Leigh-Chantelle and Jessica (from the Cruelty Free Shop)'s Edgar's Mission adventures:
see Edgar's Mission for more information or to visit

Leigh-Chantelle's songs, clothing or photo gallery: leigh-chantelle.com
Leigh-Chantelle's other myspace pages:
leigh-chantelle MUSIC
leigh-chantelle.com CLOTHING

CONTACT: [email protected]

I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 /
NEW B&W photos by the legendary documentary photographer Hamish J Cairns featured in the 2008 Viva la Vegan! calendar as well as on Leigh-Chantelle's music myspace page!

My Interests

creating, creativity, being creative. also: vegan and vegetarian health, educating and being educated, horror movies, reality television, astrology and the zodiac, tarot, reading; and surrounding myself with positive people, situation and thoughts ;)

I'd like to meet:

walkers NOT (just) talkers

BANDS please see my music page
BANDS please do not request to be added unless your music is animal rights and/or vegan related, or at the very least members are vegetarian

Music:

see my music page

Movies:

many... hedwig and the angry inch! horror movies, serial killer movies, arthouse, foreign and obscure; judy and marilyn movies, classics, movies to do with music, movies that don't have happy endings, documentaries

Television:

carnivale!!, six feet under, law and order (all), bbc mini series, spicks and specks, the glasshouse, the chaser's war..., the office, kath and kim, and reality shows eg big brother, idol, rock star, next supermodel, laguna beach, ashlee simpson show, 'til death do us part etc

Books:

many... astrology books, tarot books, psychoanalysis (esp bruno bettelheim) books, horror books, classic literature, nutrition and natural therapies, music books, biographies on people who are beautifully tragic and who inspire me at the same time eg judy garland, poetry etc

Heroes:

people who respect themselves and others; and live their truths

My Blog

winner of the Aduki awards for the best Aust veg website/blog!!

vivalavegan.net has just been announced the winner of the Best Australian veg website or blog in the Aduki awards!!This was the first time the Aduki awards were held and there were a lot of voters. V...
Posted by viva la vegan.net on Sun, 04 May 2008 11:43:00 PST

vivalavegan.net updates

Happy Chinese & Vietnamese New Year! It's the year of the rat (similar to Aries in Western astrology, and the Fool in Tarot) so it's a time of new beginnings and getting rid of the old to make way fo...
Posted by viva la vegan.net on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:56:00 PST

NEW Viva la Vegan! 2008 Recipe Calendar OUT NOW!!

NEW Viva la Vegan! 2008 Recipe Calendar from Leigh-Chantellesee vivalavegan.net Viva La Vegan!2008 Viva la Vegan calendar Vegan Recipe Calendar NEW! By Leigh-Chantelle NDAU$12 each plus postage Posta...
Posted by viva la vegan.net on Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:30:00 PST

Nectarine and tofu pie

i made this for my sister's birthday when we were all on a detox. a lot more healty than the chocolate cake!! Nectarine and tofu pieIngredients:3/4 cup millet3/4 cup brown rice powder1/2 cup brown ...
Posted by viva la vegan.net on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:51:00 PST

Discordia double chocolate vegan cake

to celebrate my birthday tomorrow (4th dec) i'm posting the recipe for my decadent double chocolate cake. i've been on a detox the past 20 days and this is not the most healthy of dessert recipes, bu...
Posted by viva la vegan.net on Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:44:00 PST

the s(p)eed of war - poetry

here's one for the 9/11 anniversary... it's an oldie, but timeless really.THE S(P)EED OF WARThe truth silent,Shall I wear this mask?If only you wouldAttempt to doSomething moreThan pretend to ignoreA...
Posted by viva la vegan.net on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:57:00 PST

piece by piece - poetry

brace yourselves for this one, not easy reading.i try to focus on all the positive aspects of most things in life, including veganism; though there are truths that need to be voiced and emotions that ...
Posted by viva la vegan.net on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:51:00 PST

poetry - graveyard

i've all these lyrics for songs and poetry for books, so i thought i'd put some on here so that you can have a look:GRAVEYARDYou dont see the real story on the packet,The pretty packaging hides the tr...
Posted by viva la vegan.net on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 09:31:00 PST

New Vegetarian & Natural Health article

just thought i would post the article that New Vegetarian and Natural Health ran of me in the Autumn 2006 edition. if you would like to purchase a copy please see veg society Can you tell us about ho...
Posted by viva la vegan.net on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 11:15:00 PST

desiderata - "those things most needed or to be desired"

this is a poem by Max Ehrmann that was made popular in song quite a few years back by Les Crane. it's beautiful and i think it's great for my first blog.DESIDERATAgo placidly amid the noise and haste...
Posted by viva la vegan.net on Sat, 05 Aug 2006 04:19:00 PST