Vani Hari on homemade fast-food alternatives: recommends

After her 2014 Starbucks campaign over caramel coloring in the Pumpkin Spice Latte, Hari published homemade recipes — including a DIY version of the drink — so her followers could get the flavor without what she called risky additives, per Earth911.

Her stated reasoning is practical: rather than simply telling people to give up foods they enjoy, she offers recipes that recreate the taste at home with ingredients the follower controls. She presents this as the “vote with your wallet” strategy in kitchen form — keep the flavor, skip the ingredient list she objects to.

The homemade-recipe angle has been a recurring feature of her site since her earliest campaigns, pairing each ingredient fight with a DIY workaround.

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