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A Dog’s Purpose - Did the PETA jump the gun this time?

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Thousands of dogs and cats killed at the Yulin dog meat festival 2016.

YULIN Time to see them, Time to help them, Time to make it stop Just remember your pet, Would you ever swap?

Throughout the year we will keep fighting against this festival. There are many ways to get involved please do something that suits you and stops the pain of these terrified creatures.

Is the PETA always doing what is best for animals?

Greetings canines everywhere.

Many of you will be aware of the row that arose because of the film, ‘A Dog’s Purpose’.

The PETA released a video that seemed to show a German Shepard being forced to do a stunt that he was not happy with.

Seeing the full footage, it becomes clear that the dog was fully protected at all times and that he just didnt feel comfortable doing the stunt of jumping in the pool from a new position which he was not use to. Then we have the voice off camera saying ‘just throw him in’.

It is extrememly unlikely that this was anything but a joke from a person on set who had nothing to do with the dog.

I find it strange that they waited so long before releasing any footage and obviously wanted to cause as much box office problems for tthe film as possible.

I have appeared in a film or two myself (not professionally) and I know that if I am asked to do something I dont want to, I just dont do it and its up to the humees to find something that I do want to do. The PETA does alot for animals and we support them in the magazine

3 whole heartedly, but should they be trying to get rid of dogs from film altogether?

If dog’s lose their voice in film and TV, if they lose their platform in the public eye, It makes it easier for bad things to happen to them on a global scale.

China has become a main player in the film and TV industry. They are not known for their great love of dogs, though they do have a lot of cooking recipes for them. They still allow horrible things in China, like the Yulin dog and cat meat festival. It seems to me that dogs are being displayed as expendable in motion pictures with Chinese money backing them.

Take for instance - ‘Free state of Jones’. The dogs in that were loyal to their masters and although they were hunting attack dogs, they still probably loved their nasty owners and would have died for them. Because the dogs were on the side of the baddies in this case, should it not matter that they are killed and eaten? The movie treated eating the dogs as very matter of fact. An oppinion that some of Asia would like to see the Western World adopt.

ing after a film that tries to show how much they make a difference to our lives.

There is no logic to the current attack on ‘A Dog’s Purpose’, I intend to investigate more and will be back next issue with a comment from the PETA. After all, they are one of the few organisations that most of us who care about the welfare of animals follow blindly - should we really do this without knowing all the facts or when the facts don’t quite add up? is there another agenda here, one that is part of a propaganda against dogs, that will see their support diminished? That will keep them out of films and out of mind allowing the increase in cruelty to continue around teh World/ I like Spielberg, my mistress interviewed him a few years back and he is not a man who would tolerate cruelty to dogs on his set.

A Dog’s Purpose is well worth watching for any dog lover. But if you dont like dogs, you may not understand it. People who dont have dogs miss out on so much - they dont get that what we dogs can offer is something so powIt makes more sense to me to make a fuss erful and beautiful that it can’t be found anyabout showing dogs as throw away commod- where else. People who say they don’t even ties that have no heart or soul, rather than go- like dogs - are not to be trusted.

A Dog’s Purpose is covered in the March issue of Movie Central.

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5 WAYS TO SHOW LOVE THAT YOUR DOG CAN UNDERSTAND Dogs are a man (and woman)'s best friend: loyal, lovely and enthusiast. We love them so much that we spoil them with treats, toys, fancy collars and comfy beds to show him how special he is to you. Sure he appreciates all that stuff, but in order to express love for your pup there are few ways that he'll make him understand how precious he is for you

3. Just Tell You Love him A recent study published in Science found that dogs understand some human speech. They experiment that dogs were happier when they heard not just a praising tone, but words of praise, as well. This suggests that they can listen to our tone of voice as interpret meaning from words. So sometimes just tell him how you feel and he'll get the message.

1. Ear Rubs Make Your Dog High On Love 4. Train Your Dog Scratching behind your dog’s ears is the best cuddle for them. That’s because dog’s ears are full of nerve endings that send impulses all through the body, inducing the release of endorphins. These hormones act as painkillers and are natural “drugs” that are also released when dogs feel love.

2. Feed Your Dog By Hand Feeding your dog by hand shows your dog that you are a food provider and reduces food aggression. It also creates an intimate experience and a strong bond between you and your dog. As your dog grows older, the need to feed by hand may decrease, but offering treats during training is still a great way to show your pup that you care.

Training the dog will increase your bond: positive reinforcement is an excellent way to communicate your love.

Whether that’s food, praise, or play, your dog will come to see you as a provider of the things he loves the most. He’ll see that when you both work to make each other happy, you’re both showing your love for each other.

5. Learn What Your Dog Is Saying Understanding your dog is very important: many dogs don’t feel comfortable to be hugged or meet other people. Dogs can express a lot through body language if you know how dogs communicate. Understanding him will reduce the number of times they feel stressed and work on making them feel at ease. He will feel understood and loved, increasing his trust for you.

5 But how do you know if is mutual love? Here some dogs ways to say “I love you”.

1 # Your dog tries to be always close to you In your lap, sleeping with you leaning against you or following you room to room, ... it’s clear your dog is attached to you.

2 # Your dog gazes into your eyes When you and your dog share a long look, your dog is “hugging you with his eyes,” according to Brian Hare, a professor at Duke University who studies canine cognition and nothing is better than a hug to show love.

3 # Your dog excitedly greets you

upset or not feeling well and respond with affection.

They might give you licks or rest their head or paws on some part of your body.

5 # Your dog yawns when you yawn

Have you ever yawned after witnessing another person’s yawn? This contagious yawning is unique to only a few species, and man’s best friend is one of them. If your dog yawns in response to your yawns, 4 # Your dog ‘reads’ you and reacts accordingly it means that his affection for you enables him to With a close bond, your dog will sense if you are empathise with you.

Does your pup jump up, wag his tail and barely seem able to contain himself when you arrive home? If so, that’s a sure sign of affection.

6 with the charity’s #BeCrueltyFree message in both English and simplified Chinese, the two most commonly used languages on social media, and will roll out globally from January.

More than one million people worldwide have signed #BeCrueltyFree petitions calling on their governments to ban cruel cosmetics. In conjunction with intensive political lobbying and public campaigning by HSI and others, this pressure has so far driven 36 countries or regions around the world to introduce animal testing or sales bans in their cosmetics laws – including the European Union, Israel, India, New Zealand, South Korea, Taiwan, and most recently

Lush with HSI

Switzerland.

for #BeCrueltyFree campaign

Hilary Jones, Lush ethics director, comments: “The horror

Cruelty-free beauty company Lush Fresh Handmade Cos-

whole world switches to more modern non-animal safe-

metics is re-launching its global best-selling New Sham-

ty testing methods. Only when this ugly practice is over

poo Bar to encourage consumers to get behind Humane

will our industry truly be the Beauty business. Until that

Society International’s global campaign to ban cosmetic

day we all need to keep spreading the message, so it is an

animal testing and trade by signing their petition at www.

honour to be able to help Humane Society International’s

endanimaltesting.org. The revamped bar is now adorned

global #BeCrueltyFree campaign.”

“Lush’s revamped New Shampoo Bar will spread our #BeCrueltyFree message to an ever greater number of consumers and help us end cosmetics cruelty around the world once and for all.”

Claire Mansfield HSI’s global #BeCrueltyFree campaigns director

of cosmetics testing will not be over for animals until the

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Two hundred dogs from South Korean

meat trade and let the world focus on the country’s prepa-

dog meat farm rescued and transported

cruelty of being raised on farms for a product few Kore-

to the US, UK and Canada for adoption

rations for a great sporting event, rather than on the terrible ans consume. These rescued dogs will soon experience the compassion and care of humans that is not afforded to them at these farms. They will serve as ambassadors for

Rescuers with Humane Society International transported 200 dogs saved from a South Korean dog meat farm in Wonju, South Korea, to the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. This is the sixth dog meat farm closure managed by HSI, with a total of 770 dogs rescued since January 2015 as part of the organization’s campaign to end the dog meat trade in South Korea and across Asia.

Adam Parascandola, director of animal protection and crisis response for HSI, who assisted in the dog rescue, said: “With the Winter Olympics just over a year away, now is the time for the Korean government to act to end the dog

the millions of others still suffering on dog meat farms in South Korea.”

TAKE ACTION If you believe that dogs shouldn’t suffer and die for the trade in their meat, act now to show your support.

• Speak out against the cruelty • Petition against Yulin Dog Meat Festival • Donate

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Leona Lewis & Owain Yeoman: Bunnies are for Hugging, Not Hurting in Cosmetics Tests “The Mentalist” star Owain Yeoman and singer Leona Lewis are showing bunnies some love this International Rabbit Day. They are supporting Humane Society International’s Be Cruelty-Free campaign to put an end to animal testing for cosmetics around the world.

skin irritation tests for consumer products. Rabbits, guinea pigs, rats and mice all endure untold suffering for the

The stars feature in exclusive photos in which they can be

beauty industry. Developed in the 1940s, skin and eye ir-

seen cuddling up to rabbits, one of the most commonly

ritation tests involve holding rabbits in full body restraints

used animals in cosmetics testing. Owain’s photo shows

so that chemicals can be dripped in their eye or spread on

the actor sporting a Be Cruelty-Free t-shirt with rescued

their shaved skin. These tests are notoriously unreliable as

rabbit Nibbles. Leona donated a photo from her personal

well as extremely cruel, causing eye reddening, swelling,

collection for a day of global #BeCrueltyFree twitter ac-

ulceration, even blindness, or skin cracking and bleeding.

tion. The photo shows the singer with her own rescued

Unlike humans, rabbits have no tear ducts so they can’t cry

bunny, Melrose.

out the harmful substances.

Unlike in Europe, Israel and India where cosmetics ani-

Be Cruelty-Free is the largest campaign in the world to end

mal testing is banned, elsewhere around the world there

cosmetics animal testing. Globally, Humane Society Inter-

is no such legal ban preventing companies from testing

national and our Be Cruelty-Free partners are leading the

cosmetic products or ingredients on animals. But HSI’s Be

charge to end cosmetics cruelty in Australia, Brazil, China,

Cruelty-Free campaign aims to see an end to the practice.

Korea, New Zealand, Russia and beyond. Be Cruelty-Free USA is spearheaded by The Humane Society of the United

Around the world, rabbits are used in painful eye and

States and Humane Society Legislative Fund.

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Owain Yeoman is a Welsh actor best known for playing Agent Rigsby in The Mentalist. While violence is something that his character encounters, actor Owain Yeoman lives a much more peaceful existence in real life: He’s veg-

Leona Louise Lewis is a famous British singer, songwriter

etarian!

and animal welfare campaigner. She doesn’t eat animals or wear them in any form. In October 2008, The Times

After learning about the cruel treatment of animals who

reported that Lewis had turned down a £1 m to open a

are raised and killed for food, Owain says that he could

Harrods sale, because she didn’t approve the fur products

no longer support such a violent industry. “The fact that

they sell. She is against animal testing of cosmetics and all

the meat on my plate was once a living, breathing creature

kinds of animal cruelty, including using animals for enter-

became something I could no longer ignore or justify as

tainment and sport.

food.”

“Ending animal testing for cosmetics is close to my heart, He is a staunch opponent of the sale of Foie Gras, a type of

and so is my bunny Melrose. Melrose is so gentle and lov-

food made from the livers of ducks and geese. He supports

ing with such an amazing personality all her own, it breaks

PETA and Humane Society International’s Be Cruelty-

my heart to know that there are thousands of rabbits, just as

Free campaign.

special, suffering a terrible fate to test cosmetics. I would never dream of causing Melrose pain, but in laboratories

“It’s the saddest thing to know that rabbits can’t cry, which

around the world, rabbits and other helpless animals still

is one of the reasons these gentle creatures are used in

have chemicals dripped in their eyes or spread over their

painful eye tests for cosmetics. When I think of their un-

sensitive skin just to test new lip sticks or shampoo. I want

necessary suffering I could certainly shed a tear, so I’m

their suffering to stop. I’m proud to be a bunny-hugger for

backing the Be Cruelty-Free campaign to see an end to

Be Cruelty-Free on International Rabbit Day. Be a bunny-

animal testing in North America and globally. Show the

hugger too and let’s end cosmetics cruelty!”

bunnies some love and let’s end cosmetics cruelty.”

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Doggy events

K9atwalk celebrity fundraising event 10th February at 7.30 London

International Aid for the Protection & Welfare of Animals will be raising funds for existing shelters for dogs and cats rescued from meat markets and from other cruelty and to

Real Dog Yoga with Toni Shelbourne 24 March 2017 Bedfordshire Does your dog struggle to relax, do they need more mental stimulation without hyping them up further, or more body awareness and muscle control?Or are you simply looking for a new and exciting activity for you and your dog to enjoy together? Then this workshop is for you.

In order to have more informations about this seminar and others, visit www.dog-and-bone.co.uk/seminars

Great British Dog Walk

19 March 2017 Holyrood Park, Edinburgh Old Town The Great British Dog Walk is an annual event in aid of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. This is a family and dog friendly event and everyone is welcome. There are two walk lengths to choose from; the short walk is 5km long and is on pavement and flat grass, with some slight inclines and declines as you circle around Holyrood Park.

On the day there will be : o Lots of fun activities for both adults and children o stalls with lots of great gifts, homemade crafts and refreshments o a free doggie bandana for every booking o working hearing dogs at the walks who you can meet o And by simply joining us on the day, you will help us to train more adorable puppies to change the lives of deaf people.

Adults £10 (£12 on the day). Children under 16 years free.

Registration from 10.00am and departure at 11am

continue the project to ban the dog meat trade following the IAPWA success in Borneo.Apart from the catwalk auction, video and slide show focusing on the IAPWA battle against the dog meat trade we are planning to include a short talk about the dog leather industry hidden behind the meat trade. We will reveal some of the the correspondence already exchanged with politicians and brands in reg to this issue.Leather goods produced from dogs and cats skin are widely spread over the global market including British high streets brands.We are asking Celebrities and fashion brands to support the project by donation of a fashion item for our fundraising auction or any other way of involvement in the event. We already received kind support from respected actor Peter Egan (Downton Abbey),TV presenter Anneka Swenska, renowned Hollywood actress Charlotte Lewis, and IAPWA patron TV Vet Marc Abraham.

Bring Your Dog to Yoga

23rd March – 27th April The Light Yoga Space, London ‘Bring Your Dog to Yoga’ is an exciting new experimental yoga course running for the first time ever at the Light Yoga Space. The yoga on this course is strictly for the humans, the pooches are just invited along because we love hanging out with them.

Anyone who practices yoga and has a dog knows that as soon as we get down on our mats our pooches get excited.

They love us practicing yoga as much as we do and we get lots of furry, sloppy kisses and ear nuzzles to prove it.

The level will accommodate both beginners as well as yoga practitioners with some experience. This course is for anyone who wants to learn and practice real yoga, in a beautiful space, with their furry friends to keep them company. There will be space for 6 humans with pooches (1 dog each) plus 6 more dog-loving humans who don’t have dogs themselves but want the doggy company.

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Farm dog saves a Canterbury man’s life from a bull attack Sunday 29th January - Bear, a 5-year-old German Shepherd, protected his owner, Dave Duthie, in an attack from a charging bull on a Canterbury farm. The farmer was checking the cattle’s water when one of his bulls attacked, ramming him into a nearby deer fence.

Bear immediately bounded in and attacked the crazed 500-kilogram bull, but the bull flung the dog aside and threw him into the fence.

Duthie was left trapped between the fence and a dense hedge. He desperately tried to escape, but the bull, which weighed about the same as a small car, charged again.

Despite the injuries the dog tried to attack again the bull.

As Bear did it, Duthie was able to scramble over the fence,

hectares property.

while the dog scurried out soon after.

Bear suffered only minor injuries and did not need medical

Duthie is recovering in Christchurch Hospital with inju-

attention. The farm dog had a special dinner of milk and

ries to his foot, ribs, hips and spine. He will be off his feet

eggs that day and was allowed to sleep inside for the first

for at least six weeks – a problem for a farmer with a 101

time as a reward for his bravery.

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7 most famous Edinburgh dogs Secret Edinburgh: An Unusual Guide’ author Hannah Robinson presents her pick of historic dogs which she believes could rival Edinburgh’s beloved Greyfriars Bobby for heroics and appeal.

1) GREYFRIARS BOBBY

James Clerk Maxwell, an eminent physicist, found in is Irish terrier, Toby, an unusual collegue. You can see Toby near Maxwell’s feet in Alexander Stoddart’s sculpture on George Street. Maxwell used to explain his theories to Toby, and examine his eyes with a homemade ophthalmoscope to try and understand colour blindness.

Look carefully and you will see, just above Toby’s head, some missing rivets in the chair upholstery: this demonstrates the second law of thermodynamics, which is, as Toby would have known, that things fall apart (especially when chewed).

3) BUM

To keep him company through the long winter nights John Gray, night watchman, took on a partner, a diminutive

Inside the King’s Stables Road entrance to Princes Street

Skye Terrier, his ‘watchdog’ called Bobby. Together John

Gardens hides a statue of a three-legged St Bernard-Span-

and Bobby became a familiar sight trudging through the

iel cross called Bum, who in the late 1800s wandered the

old cobbled streets of Edinburgh.

streets, not of Edinburgh, but of her twin city, San Diego.

When John died of tuberculosis, Bobby refused to leave

He became so well known that San Diego adopted him as

his master’s grave for 14 years, even in the worst weather

their unofficial mascot and stamped his picture on their

conditions.

dog licences. Bum lived out his days giving children rides

2) TOBY

on his back and being fed by the top restaurants - signs in their windows proudly declared, ‘Bum eats here’.

4) CUILLIN

6) DOBBLER

Hidden away in a corner of Edinburgh Castle is the Cemetery for Soldiers’ Dogs. It’s a little walled garden just above where the One O’Clock gun is fired – although it can only be viewed from above, you can make out the headstones.

Faithful residents include Dobbler, who was buried here in 1893 after having trekked across half of Asia and Africa with the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.

7) BEAUTY Robert Louis Stevenson wrote, ‘You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.’ His own pet Skye Terrier, Cuillin, is commemorated in a bronze statue of Stevenson as a young boy outside Colinton Parish Church, where he used to visit his grandfather, a minister there.

5) MAIDA

Sir Walter Scott was another great literary lover of dogs, and they frequently appear in portraits of the writer. There is even a breed of dog, Dandie Dinmont Terriers, named after a character that appears in Scott’s novel, Guy Mannering. You can see Scott’s favourite dog - Maida, a wolf and Deerhound cross, named after the Napoleonic battle curling at the foot of the Scott Monument statue.

The Great Lafayette, in his time more famous than Houdini, loved his dog Beauty so much that he literally fed her to death. In a dramatic theatrical accident (of which more in the book) he died four days later and they are buried together beneath the same flamboyant monument in Piershill cemetery.

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6 animals’ romantic movies

inhabitants of Nottingham

This S. Valentine be free of human flings and flirtations

fight

and instead choose animals in (family-friendly) love. De-

against

they the

excessive taxation

spite these films are centered around a variety of animals

of Prince John, and

behaving like humans, there is anything cuter than crush-

Robin Hood wins

struck cats, doggy dalliances and forbidden courtships be-

the hand of Maid

tween foxes.

Marian.

101 Dalmatians (1961)

Lady and the Tramp (1955) Lady and the Tramp tells the story of a female American Cocker Spaniel named Lady who lives with a refined,

upper-middle-

class family, and a male stray mutt named Tramp. When the two dogs meet, they embark on many romantic adventures.

The Aristocats (1970)

as

It’s the story of a litter of dalmatian puppies who are kidnapped by the villainous Cruella de Vil, who wants to use their fur to make into coats. Their parents, Pongo and Perdita, set out to save their children from Cruella, all the while rescuing 84 additional puppies, bringing home 101 dalmatians.

Alpha & Omega (2010)

The Aristocats is a ro-

Alpha

&

Omega

mantic story about a

is the story of two

family of aristocratic

young wolves at op-

cats, and how an al-

posite ends of their

ley cat acquaintance

pack’s social order

helps them after a

are thrown together

butler has kidnapped

into a foreign land

them to gain his mis-

and need each other

tress’s fortune which

to return home, but

was intended to go to

love complicates eve-

them.

rything.

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Work out like a dog in London Monday 30 January to Friday 3 February at 7.30am Victoria Park, London Work Out Like A Dog is the world’s first exercise class in which humans exclusively perform exercises normally reserved for dogs.

Our slightly barking bootcamp is designed to raise awareness of just how important exercise is for dogs’ health and happiness. High numbers of dogs arrive at our rehoming centres with behavioural needs stemming from boredom, lack of stimulation, and because they simply haven’t been exercised properly.

All of the exercises in the 45-minute aerobic and conditioning workout for humans have either been adapted from

much the same way that regular exercise helps our four-

a dog’s favourite exercises or have been directly inspired

legged friends stay not just physically but mentally healthy

by man’s best friend by qualified PT and fitness instruc-

too.

tor Born Barikor. The routine combines full-body strength

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endurance and fill participants with positive energy – in

out-dog

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We Didn’t Domesticate Dogs.

They Domesticated Us. For the National Geographic in the story of how the dog came in from the cold and onto our sofas, we tend to give ourselves a little too much credit. The most common assumption is that humans kept Wolves around the campfire for their hunt capabilities until they evolved into dogs.

However when we look back at relationship between men and wolves throughout history, we can see that modern hu-

splotchy coats, floppy ears, wagging tails. These pro-

mans were not very tolerant of carnivorous competitors.

todogs evolved also the ability to read human gestures.

Humans have a long history of eradicating wolves, rather

Some dogs are so attuned to their owners that they can

than trying to adopt them. Wolves also eat a lot of meat and

read a gesture as subtle as a change in eye direction. With

wolves don’t like to share. Humans were already success-

this new ability, people who had dogs during a hunt would

ful hunters without wolves, more successful than every

likely have had an advantage over those who didn’t. Even

other large carnivore.

today, tribes in Nicaragua depend on dogs to detect prey.

Probably, it was wolves that approached us, not the other

Moose hunters in alpine regions bring home 56 percent

way around, probably while they were scavenging around

more prey when they are accompanied by dogs.

garbage dumps on the edge of human settlements. The

As the advantages of dog ownership became clear, we

wolves that were bold but aggressive would have been

were as strongly affected by our relationship with them as

killed by humans, and so only the ones that were bold and

they have been by their relationship with us.

friendly would have been tolerated.

It’s possible than dogs have been the catalyst for our civili-

Friendlinessinfluenced wolves’s behavior, modifing also

zation. It is more likely that a population of wolves adopt-

their fisical characteristics. Domestication gave them

ed us, than a benign human adopting a wolf puppy.

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Vegan, healthy and delicious...

This Valentine’s Day, Love is Vegan

Grilled Zucchini Rolls

Being healthy is hot, so this Valentine’s Day, treat your sweetie to a romantic dinner packed full of animal-friendly aphrodisiacs. There’s a scientific reason that meat-free fare is the recipe for romance. The cholesterol and fat in animal foods slow the flow of blood to all a man’s vital organs— not just his heart—but healthy vegan foods will leave lovers full of energy and vitality.

credits: menumusings.blogspot.co.uk

Spicy Carrot Penne Pasta with Mustard-Parsnip Sauce

Grilled zucchini with goat cheese and roasted red peppers are low carb but definitely not low flavor!

Ingredients: 2 zucchinis (about 10-12 slices) house Italian “lite” dressing jarred roasted red peppers, finely diced Herbed goat cheese

credits: gourmandelle.com

An healthy, low fat, vegan recipe you’ll love, plus you can easily make it gluten-free too.

Prep time: 10 mins Cook time: 20 mins Serves: 4 servings Ingredients 4 cups whole wheat penne pasta (or GF pasta) 4 carrots, sliced 4 parsnips, sliced olive oil salt and pepper, to taste 1 tsp dry oregano 2-3 garlic cloves, mashed 3 tsps good quality mustard 5 tsps tomato paste fresh chopped basil grated parmesan Instructions • Boil pasta for about 10 minutes.

For carrot sauce: • Put sliced carrots in the food processor and blend until they turn into a paste.

• Heat some olive oil in a medium pan. Add carrot paste, mashed garlic cloves, tomato paste, oregano, salt and pepper. Cook for about 10 minutes then remove from heat.

• Mix with pasta and add fresh chopped basil and grated parmesan on top.

For parsnip sauce: • Put sliced parsnips in the food processor. Add mustard and blend until smooth.

• Heat a little bit of olive oil in a small pan and add the parsnip sauce.

• Heat it just for a couple of minutes.

• That’s it! Mix pasta with the carrot sauce and place the parsnip sauce aside.

Instructions • Wash the zucchinis and slice them very thinly • Brush both sides of the slices with Italian dressing.

• Grill zucchinis for about 3 minutes per side.

• Put them on a cooling rack placed over a bowl in order to cool.

• Once cool, smear a thin layer (less than a teaspoon) of goat cheese along the length of the zucchini slice.

• Dice the jarred roasted red peppers into small pieces, drying off all the extra liquid that they give off.

• Add about 1/2-1 tsp of diced roasted red peppers along one end and roll up from that side. Ready to eat!

Cherry Heart Cutout Cupcakes

credits: foodfamilyfinds.com

Simple, healthy and beautiful. hese cherry heart cutout chocolate cupcakes will be an amazing dessert.

Ingredients Cupcake Mix powdered sugar cherry pie filling Instructions • Bake and completely cool your favorite cake mix cupcakes.

• Use a Wilton heart shaped fondant cutter to press into the center of the cupcake. If the cake doesn’t come out, just use a fork to gently pull the heart out from the edge.

• Dust the cupcake with powdered sugar.

• Spoon a dollop of cherry pie filling into the center.

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