Happy February! We will have a chance to kick off 2013 with a bang (remember those things called New Year’s Resolutions?) For those interested in going the full monty, vegan-style, check out these two articles:

Going Vegan? Serious Eats Has Good Advice for Beginners

To be honest, I eat neither a vegan or vegetarian diet, but I found this post to be a great resource of recipes and advice for eating healthier. Like TreeHugger’sWeekday Vegetarian approach to an environmentally-friendlier diet, cutting back on meat intake is still good for the environment and one can get the health benefits by adding some vegan dishes to his or her cooking repertoire. So vegan or not, this Serious Eats link is definitely worth a bookmark. FULL ARTICLE.

10 Recipes for Eating Local and Vegan in February

It can be hard to be a vegetarian in February, particularly if you cook local food. Kelly Rossiter has been eating (mostly) local in Toronto, Canada for a number of years, digging kale out of the snow and yams out of the bottom of her pantry. Here are some February recipes, with her very personal take on cooking. FULL ARTICLE.