I've tried most of those online suggestions and they are all great.  Other good places for vegan items are amazon.com and iHerb.com!

As a college student, juggling 20 credits, how is it possible to stay vegan? The school claimed to have great vegan options and they consist of salad, hummus sandwich, bean taco salad/burrito/tacos. What can a college student do? The shipping costs to order online kill my spending money. And some veg recipes are amazing, but take FOREVER. I don't have a car, so it's whatever is at the market on campus. Help?

I live in a very small town- about 6,000 peeps, which makes it harder to find vegan items than my native metro DC area. I'm a member of a food coop- even though I live an hour out of the city, I visit maybe once or twice a month and stock up big on must haves like dried beans, grains, etc. Both the local mom and pop grocer as well as the larger chain grocery store got some vegan items in stock when asked. I've got a CSA share through great farmers from the local county market- this couple does everything organic- but aren't certified organic- which means they are very reasonably priced.

But hands down the coolest thing I've come across lately is The Vegetarian Resource Group: www.vrg.org/links/ which has more vegan references/links than I've EVER seen in one place. From topics like activism to youth and educator resources, this is my go-to guide of late. It's even led me to vegan.meetup.com through which I found a local vegetarian social group just 30 miles away- well worth the drive to socialize with some like minds. Meetup.com also helped me find a local mom's group in my little town- pretty cool stuff. Hope this helps some other rural/small town bitches!

I always find interesting uncommon ingredients at my local Wegmans and Whole Foods.  I absolutely love these stores as they stock unusual ingredients that other stores do not carry.

You can request your local grocery store stock the items you like! They don't know you'll buy them if you don't ask.

I happened across this amazing soft, spreadable vegan cheese called Sheese the other day- it is so very good. Sheese is non-hydrogenated, GMO-free, gluten-free and reminds me of the dairy cheese that I used to serve at parties back in the day. Best of all, my non-vegan guests couldn't get enough of this stuff and no, they couldn't tell it was vegan. Oh, and my very picky 2 year old son loved Sheese.

Thank you Kim, you are a life saver.  My daughter and I are both big fans!  She is off to college, these online sources will be great for her as well!  <3 

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Hi Kim! 

Kim I absolutely love Skinny bitch and you ARE the reason I went vegan! I have one little problem...

As I was cooking the black bean and tomato soup in your newest cookbook "ultimate everyday cookbook" I noticed a problem. I calls in the ingredient list for 3 cups of veg broth, but no where in the actual recipe directions am I told at what point to add the broth. I guessed and assumed you add a needed to thin out the soup if its too thick?? Thought I should pass this on.

Thanks so much for being an inspiration for great vegan cooking!