2019 Goals - Cutting Sugar, Adding CURCUMIN, Feeling Great!

This is a sponsored post with Drink Zyn and BraVoMark. 

2018 was another good year on the books. A kitten joined our family, we spent the summer with our RV on the beaches of Southern California, we visited Seattle, Los Angeles, and we participated in an animal rights march in San Diego with the kids.

I also got involved in street activism in 2018, influenced people to live a healthier lifestyle in alignment with their beliefs, as well as working on my own and my family's health and wellness, sustainability, and connection to our community. Want to know what one of my biggest goals for 2019 is when I really feel like we are already in a great place? I want to cut back on refined sugar!

San Diego Vegan Food Guide - Our Top 5 All Vegan Places

We just finished up our vegan food guide for North County San Diego but we also spent a lot of time down in San Diego too! I thought I'd wrap the year up with our Must Eat Places in San Diego. Every place on this list is completely vegan including an all vegan market. Hope you like our list and you aren't too far away if it makes you hungry. SD is becoming a vegan paradise and is a great place to visit if you want some good, weather and good eats.

North County San Diego Vegan Food Guide - Oceanside, Encinitas, Carlsbad, Vista

Loving Lasagna from Peace Pies in Encinitas

When I moved to Oceanside from LA in 2004, there really wasn't much of any vegan food around. Now you can find a vegan option in nearly every restaurant up and down the coast! This gives me hope that the future is indeed vegan.

I'd thought I'd wrap up the year with a vegan food post of what we ate out this year near our home in North County San Diego including Oceanside, Vista, Encinitas, and Carlsbad as well as the kid-friendly-ness factor of each. Some of the places are all vegan and some are vegan-friendly, we will note that as well. Hope you enjoy our North County vegan food and restaurant list. Let us know your thoughts in the comments below!

Pressman Toys Games Giveaway

We just reviewed both of these Pressman toys and we are giving both of them away to one lucky winner! Check out or reviews for Mastermind and Hydro Strike and enter the giveaway below!

Hydro Strike Game Review

Pressman sent us Hydro Strike to try out and we had some fun trying to squirt each other in this pinball-like game. You use the flippers to shoot the ball into your opponent’s goal. Score and your opponent gets sprayed in the face with water! First player to score 5 times wins. For 2 players, ages 7 and up.

Mastermind Game Review

Pressman Toys sent us their classic Mastermind game and we are going to be giving one away. In this game, a Codemaker creates a secret code and the Codebreaker attempts to crack the code in 10 moves or less using logic, deduction and a bit of luck while the Codemaker gives clues on each turn.

Kiss or Cook Vegan Children's Book Review and Giveaway

We love books with a vegan theme and we were so happy to receive this very cute and beautiful book called Kiss or Cook by Lulu Lotus. This is cute, fun, and educational vegan children's book which begs the question, "Kiss or cook?" The answer is easy if you are a kid but it is spelled out on every page. There are illustrations of each animal on the left side of ever page and you can count the kiss marks on every one. On the opposite side is plant based food! 

Ravensburger Toy Giveaway - Gravitrax Set and Volkswagen 3D Puzzle

*This giveaway is sponsored by Ravensburger

We just recently reviewed two Ravensburger toys and we are giving away both to one lucky winner! The Gravitrax was one of our favorite holiday toys this year. You can check out the full review of that one and also the really cute Volkswagen puzzle and enter for your chance to win down below!

Ravensburger Volkswagen T1 Campervan 162 Piece 3D Jigsaw Puzzle

Ravensburger is known for its games and puzzles and they sent us this one, the 3D Volkswagen Campervan. It is made of small plastic pieces which are numbered and you fit them together in order. They are held together by the base and roof pieces. The tires actually roll but it is meant for display as it is still a bit fragile.