Daytona Beach Vegetarian Society

6th Annual Vegan BBQ in the Park - October 8, 2016

5th Annual Vegan BBQ in the Park Recap

Today we had the 5th Annual Vegan BBQ in the Park to celebrate Vegetarian Awareness Month. We started this event five years ago as a way to celebrate vegetarianism, give people a chance to try lots of great vegan food, and bring people together in the community. It's been a success! Every year it's a fun event that is filled with great people, tasty food, and lots of prizes!

We had some wonderful sponsors there year, thank you to all of them for helping us to bring this to the community. Our sponsors included VegFund, Sunshine Burger, Artisan Kitchen, Thai Kitchen by Saowanee, Ethos Vegan Kitchen, Rudi's, gardein, and tofurky. 

We are all looking forward to the 6th one next year! You can see the album of pictures from this event our our Facebook page here.

 

5th Annual Vegan BBQ in the Park (015)

Funny Furry Friendly Fair Event Recap (2015)

This past Friday we had a booth at a vegan event that was put on by the Kind's Kids Club at Ivy Hawn Charter School in Lake Helen. I'm impressed that they put on such an event. We had a great time giving out a couple hundred vegan food samples, including ice cream sandwiches, gardein crispy tenders, cupcakes, and soymilk. We also gave out a lot of vegan literature.

Here are some pictures, you can see more on the Facebook page here. Below is also a video that was created by Fat Ass Vegan.

 

Funny Furry Friendly Fiar at Ivy Hawn Charter School in Lake Helen (2015)

We will have a booth at this event in Lake Helen. It is a vegan event for kids and is open to the public!

1st Annual Vegan BBQ Bash in the Park in 2011

We held our 1st Annual Vegan BBQ Bash on October 15, 2011. The event was a celebration for Vegetarian Awareness Month and the public was invited to come out and participate in a vegan BBQ.

The event was a great success! We had around 100 people from the community come out and participate. There were three picnic tables filled with vegan foods, including veggie burgers, veggie dogs/sausages, vegan macaroni salad, chips and salsa, vegan quesadillas, various bean dishes, fresh fruit platters, and so much more! We even had loads of vegan ice cream sandwiches for dessert!

A special thanks goes out to everyone who participated, attended, and helped make this event happen. We were pleased to bring it to the community and were even more pleased with the reception and participation. A special thanks also goes out to those who sponsored the event to help make it happen, including: VegFund, Sunshine Burgers, Tofurky, Tofutti, Edward & Sons, and Love Whole Foods. Front Porch Pickings also came out to provide information about their service, thank you!

Thanks to our sponsors we were able to give away quite a few prizes in a random drawing, including big bags of corn chips, coupons for free veggie burgers, a VegNews magazine subscription, and a $20 gift card to Love Whole Foods. We even had someone bring plants to give away to people! And the Hometown News photographer came out and took pictures for the paper (thank you!).

We also had an entire table of vegan literature and vegetarian start kits and by the end of the event there was just a small handful of brochures left. People took home lots of vegan information, asked many questions, and were overall so pleased that we held this type of event.

The event was held at Spruce Creek Park, located in Port Orange. It turned out to be a great place to have it, since they had a great pavilion, plenty of picnic tables, restrooms just steps away, and a playground for the kids that was within easy viewing from the pavilion. Two thumbs way up!

See the pictures from this event here.