This week on the podcast we go through 8 vegetables and fruits that you can substitute for meat! Wanting to try to which to a more whole foods vegan diet, these substitutes will help you get there. Learn about the shapeshifting abilities of eggplant and mushrooms, the meaty texture of jackfruit and walnuts, or how seaweed can make banana blossoms taste like fish! In this episode I also mentioned some info on our previous episodes on minimalism and paring down your belongings, you can find the ep...
Jul 14, 2022•22 min•Season 3Ep. 9
I was luckily enough this week to interview Chris Huriwai from Aotearoa (so-called New Zealand) Chris is an activist, content creator, co-founder of the Aotearoa liberation league and three-time street unicycle world champion. Chris also works with the vegan society and he is the co-producer and main narrator of the recent documentary film MILKED that takes a targeted looked at the New Zealand dairy industry. It came out in November last year and has already taken out awards at the Germany inter...
Jun 30, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Welcome back soybeans! This week on the podcast I take you through my favourite vegan skincare products and the brands that make them! We discuss the difference between vegan brands and cruelty-free brands in the skincare and make up world, we touch on what happens with animal testing and how we can do our part to end this cruel practice. And I run you through my vegan skincare regimen. Peta's list of animal products in skincare - https://www.peta.org/living/food/animal-ingredients-list/ List of...
Jun 23, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 7
This week on the podcast I am joined by my favourite co-host Daniel Johnson and we review five different vegan chocolate brands, discussing the companies, the sustainability and the flavours. This episode was inspired by Lindt releasing their vegan chocolate brand, anti is one of the five we review. Daniel Johnson - His podcast - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/artist-to-fan/id1579977127 His Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/dancjohnson79/ Lindt vegan range - https://www.lindt.com.au/l...
Jun 16, 2022•31 min•Season 3Ep. 6
On this week's episode of the podcast we talk vegan cheese with Julie, head cheesemaker and founder of Artisa Cheese. Julie takes us through the process for creating this Tasmanian vegan cheese brand. Artisa Cheese opened in 2018 with a plan to create artisan vegan cheese board style cheese, working with local botanicals, complex cultures and traditional cheese making processes. I highly recommend Artisa Cheese, you can check them out here: https://artisa.com.au You can follow Artisa Cheese here...
Jun 09, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 6
This week on the podcast our host Rochelle and her occasional podcast co-host, and full-time life partner Daniel Johnson, discuss a hairy topic. Can a vegan support a zoo? Can zoos be ethical? What about the animals rights? What about conversation? They get into this heated topic and discuss the points with a glass of wine in hand. Resources; https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/nov/19/from-cage-to-conservation-the-reinvention-of-australian-zoos https://www.peta.org/features/real-animal...
Jun 02, 2022•33 min•Season 3Ep. 4
Join me for this week's episode where I delve into everything to do with slow sustainable fashion, how to thrift and op shop, my best tips for finding stuff in the thrift stores and my own process for choosing items, we also talk through the issues with fast fashion and the human right violations as well as the carbon footprint of fast fashion. Environmental impact of fast fashion: https://www.cleanup.org.au/fastfashion https://earth.org/data_visualization/the-9-biggest-fast-fashion-statistics/ ...
May 26, 2022•20 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Join us for this week's episode talking all about our recent trip to Hobart to check out the vegan food available. Our host Rochelle takes you through a range great vegan restaurants, cafes and market stalls available Hobart Tasmania. Travelling as a vegan can be difficult that's why it can be so helpful to access support through vegan Facebook groups, and local vegan pages before turning up. Rochelle and her partner also filmed a full vlog on the Hobart vegan trip you can check it out here: htt...
May 19, 2022•26 min•Season 3Ep. 3
Welcome back for season three Soybeans! We're diving right in with this one, it's a suggestion from one of our regular listens, Daniel and I review vegan milks, we have five on the roster today, almond milk, oat milk and three different soy milks. We rank them based on taste, consistency, mouth feel, sustainability and price. We also recorded this one for YouTube, so if you want to see our fabulous faces you can head over here and check out the episode. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZm8CNy5e...
May 05, 2022•47 min•Season 3Ep. 1
For this special episode our host Rochelle is joined by her partner and occasional podcast co-host Daniel Johnson. Daniel shares his experience doing Veganuary two years ago, including his favourite vegan finds, accidentally vegan treats and his tips for surviving your first month as a vegan. This episode is a must for anyone who is beginning their vegan journey this January or should we say Veganuary. Find out more about Veganuary here: https://veganuary.com Find Daniel on Twitter - https://twi...
Dec 30, 2021•26 min•Season 2Ep. 6
This week on the podcast Rochelle walks you through how to set your New Years Goals and actually keep them! She covers psychological tricks to help you keep your New Years goals. How to set achievable goals, how to measure goals, how to plan and actually accomplish your New Years goals. Check out our new YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiHba_rRuQ3ic8_G6nFHPVg?disable_polymer=true You can find us online here: https://maycontaintracesofsoy.com/ Follow us on Facebook here: ht...
Dec 29, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 5
It's that time of year again. We're getting into the Christmas spirit this week with tips on how to have a green Christmas. For this eco-friendly Christmas special we will be going through how to be more sustainable this silly season. We're covering real tress vs fake tress, second hand decorations, how to make some sustainable and consumable gifts, experience gifts, limiting your food waste and how to wrap with fabric! You can find The Podcast online here: https://maycontaintracesofsoy.com/ Fol...
Dec 11, 2021•31 min•Season 2Ep. 4
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Nov 27, 2021•24 min•Season 2Ep. 3
Join me this week on the podcast as I discuss all things fake meat with the Vegan Butcher aka Zacchary Bird. Zacchary Bird has worn many hats, he’s been the food editor of the Plant-based news, and a recipe developer for Unreal Co. The Melbourne-based vegan chef has by-lines in the Guardian, SBS food and Veg News. But Zacchary Bird is best known as an award winning cookbook author. Zacchary’s last cookbook - Vegan Junk food - was released in September 2020 to critical acclaim. His latest cookboo...
Nov 13, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Join your host Rochelle and her returning occasional co-host Daniel Johnson for the premiere of season two of May Contain Traces of Soy. We're opening out the season with a bang, giving you our top five restaurants with vegan options in the North-West of Tasmania. Listen in to hear all about the break we took, our move from a tiny apartment in the city to a sustainable living situation in rural Tasmania. Check out our new YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiHba_rRuQ3ic8_G6nF...
Oct 30, 2021•30 min•Season 2Ep. 1
In this final episode of season one of the podcast, we look back on this first year being vegan. We discuss what has surprised us, what we have missed and what we discovered on our plant-based journey. We talk about starting the podcast, putting your point of view out there and being a part of the online vegan activism community. We also do a shout out for all the listeners who have contacted us during this year. Thank you to everyone who has listened to the podcast, followed along on social med...
Nov 20, 2020•40 min•Season 1Ep. 35
This week on the podcast it’s all about vegan beauty, we get into the difference between vegan make up and cruelty free make up. Which common animal derived ingredients are hiding in your hair treatments and face masks and we give you 10 all vegan cruelty free beauty and make up brands that it is safe to buy from. You read up on some of the animal derived products here: https://www.onegreenplanet.org/animalsandnature/common-cosmetic-ingredients-derived-from-animal-products/ You can find some mor...
Nov 13, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 34
With the dumpster fire of year that 2020 has been many of us have developed an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, when you’re working from home you tend to start having that knock off drink earlier and earlier. And in a year where everything has been closed, we have not been able to leave our houses and the world has been bleak it’s understandable. But before the festive season hits and we begin the weekly or fortnightly ritual of break up parties, Christmas parties and end of year celebration...
Nov 06, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 33
In our fourth and final spooky special for Halloween we were lucky enough to chat with Fiona Horne, lead singer of Def FX, journalist, TV presenter, humanitarian aid pilot, author of multiple books on the occult and Australia’s most famous witch. We get into modern feminism and how this has empowered the pagan community and the effects of social media on a young witch’s life. Fiona tells us all about her new book The Art of Witch and how she has moved towards a more eco-friendly and minimalist a...
Oct 30, 2020•38 min•Season 1Ep. 32
In our third spooky special for Halloween month, we bring you the best tips and tricks to have an eco-friendly Halloween. Halloween is one of most waste heavy holidays with single use plastics in our costumes, on our trick or trick candy and in our decorations. But don’t worry we have got all the tips to help you have a Green Halloween this year including how to make a low waste Jack O’ lantern, how to pick some eco-friendly candy options and how to reuse your dryer lint for spooky decorations. ...
Oct 23, 2020•23 min•Season 1Ep. 31
In our second spooky special for Halloween month, this week we bring you the best tips and tricks for getting thrifty with your Halloween costume. Each year tons of Halloween costumes end up in land fill, but we have some suggestions for how to avoid contributing to waste stream this year and still have a kick arse costume. Halloween costumes going to landfill: https://www.edie.net/news/5/Halloween--The-living-nightmare-for-the-waste-management-industry/ Check out our new YouTube channel here: h...
Oct 16, 2020•19 min•Season 1Ep. 30
It’s October and that means for the next month it’ll all be horror movies, witches, ghosts and ghouls. I love Halloween and on this week’s episode I tell you some of the ingredients that keep your favourite candies from being vegan and I am bringing you all the accidentally vegan candies, sweets and lollies that you can give to treat or treaters. Non-vegan ingredients to look out for: https://www.thespruceeats.com/sneaky-non-vegan-ingredients-3371739#:~:text=%207%20Sneaky%20Non-Vegan%20Ingredien...
Oct 09, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 29
Have you ever wondered do Vegans eat, how do you cook vegan meals? If you have this episode is for you! Vegan’s diets are complex and varied as omnivores diets, you can be a high carb low fat vegan, a whole foods vegan, keto vegan, raw vegan or junk food vegan. There are so many ways to cook vegan. We talk about some of our favourite vegan cookbooks and the best vegan bloggers and youtubers to check out for great recipes! I can cook vegan: https://www.angusrobertson.com.au/books/i-can-cook-vegan...
Oct 02, 2020•21 min•Season 1Ep. 28
In this week’s special episode, we are talking carbon footprints, we are talking gaslighting and eco anxiety. Did you know the term ‘personal carbon footprint’ actually came from one of the largest producers of C02 emissions in the world, number 11 on the guardian’s list of the top 100 producers of carbon emissions and this term has worked it’s way in our vocabulary and made countless eco warriors feel guilty about forgetting their keep cup. In one of the most blatant instances of gaslighting ev...
Sep 25, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 27
This week's episode is all about kicking back, grabbing a bowl of popcorn and getting entertained and vegucated with these five amazing vegan or plant-based documentaries. We cover some animal rights docos, some health docos and one sustainability documentary. Find out why you should take the time to watch these docos and do some research on the animal agricultural industry, the plant-based whole foods diet and the effects on our environment. Earthlings: http://www.nationearth.com/ Dominion http...
Sep 18, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 26
On this week's episode we give you our top five vegan breakfast ideas! Breakfast foods are traditionally heavy on the animal products bacon and eggs, sausage, omelettes, even muffins and pancakes would usually have milk and eggs in them so in this week's episode we breakdown our five favourite vegan breakfast ideas. Read about the carbon footprint of the bacon egg and sausage sandwich here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352550917300635?via%3Dihub Try this tasty vegan pancak...
Sep 11, 2020•26 min•Season 1Ep. 25
It's springtime in Australia and with the change of seasons comes the opportunity to tweak our lives, leave bad habits behind and find new healthier ones. In this week's episode we talk about how to spring clean your life and your home, different methods for reducing your belongings and how you can apply these methods to other areas of your li. We discuss the konmari method, does it bring you joy? And the minimalist approach as well the four box method for decluttering. Check out our new YouTube...
Sep 04, 2020•25 min•Season 1Ep. 24
Join us for this week's educational episode on how to read labels as a vegan. We get into all the strange names under which animal derived products are listed. Why may contain traces of something doesn't make it a non vegan product and the weird ways in which animal derived products are used in various goods. You can read a full list of the animal products mentioned on the website here: https://maycontaintracesofsoy.com/2020/08/28/25-sneaky-names-for-animal-products/ Barnivore to check your alco...
Aug 28, 2020•27 min•Season 1Ep. 23
In this week's episode we are joined by Cara Westworth. Cara and her Husband Ben are part owners of Brisbane vegan arcade game bar Netherworld, Cara also runs Kawaii Klaws a nail art business that offers cruelty free nail treatments and the podcast Cruisin' for a Reviewsin'. Cara shares her experience as a part owner of one of the most popular vegan bars in Brisbane, the difficulty of finding cruelty free nail products and her strange obsession with Tom Cruise. You can check out Cara's nail busi...
Aug 21, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 22
In this week's episode we breakdown how to meal prep as a vegan. All the best tips and tricks for keeping your work week lunches stress free and getting the most of out of versatile meal prepping. We go over vegan snacks and breakfast ideas, our favourite smoothie recipe, bean mixes and freezer friendly meal ideas. check out our new YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiHba_rRuQ3ic8_G6nFHPVg?disable_polymer=true You can find us online here: https://maycontaintracesofsoy.com/ F...
Aug 14, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 21
