Creating a Vegan Seder Plate

   Passover is just around the corner.  Here is how you can create a vegan seder plate.  The seder plate consists of the following.    

• A bitter herb, most commonly horseradish either in the raw form or from a jar sometimes mixed with beets. Good news: Already vegan!
• Charoset, which is a mixture of apples, nuts, and wine (or grape juice) which these days is usually made in a food processor. Make sure the wine you are using is vegan or use grape juice.  
• Karpas, which is a green vegetable, most often parsley. Already vegan!
• Z’roa which is a roasted goat or lamb bone.  Here is where it gets more challening.  Vegans can substitute a roasted beet or mushroom.  In fact, the Talmud actually mentions the roasted beet. 
• Beitzah-A hardboiled egg.  The egg is just a symbol of new life.  So vegans can substitute a fake egg, flower or seed.  Basically anything that symbolizes new life.  
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