What's New On Savvy Vegetarian?

New Vegetarian Recipes

Most SV recipes are vegan, or have a vegan version

Blueberry Muffins: Vegan blueberry muffins - best you'll ever eat! They keep well if you can manage to hide a few.

Dosas: Indian Pancakes Our new favorite food! Similar to crepes, high protein, no egg, dairy, gluten or yeast, easy to make for a quick meal

Double Green Cream Soup: Quick, simple delicious vegan soup, made with asparagus and spinach, a veggie cube and cashew cream.

Oatmeal Coconut Cookies (vegan): He who desired the perfect vegan cookie said these were the best cookies ever!

Pasta e Fagioli Soup (vegan): Veggie version of an easy, hearty Italian pasta and bean soup. Slow cooker or crockpot directions included.

Vegan Lemon Bars Of the recipes we tested from The Joy of Vegan Baking, these lemon bars scored highest on our food bliss index.

Walnut Veggie Burgers: Walnuts, brown rice, veggies, and herbs combine for a completely satisfying vegan veggie burger.

Winter Squash Enchiladas: An easy gourmet vegetarian or vegan recipe that will be appreciated by discriminating eaters of all ages.

New SV Articles

Environment and Vegetarian Diet: Eco-Writer Gretchen Primack connects the dots between vegetarian diet, global warming, the environment, and world hunger.

Healthy Eating Means No GMOs: 'You may have heard that genetically modified (GM) foods are safe, properly tested, and necessary to feed a hungry world. UNTRUE!'

Joy of Vegan Baking: Winner, Cookbook of the Year, VegNews, 'The Joy of Vegan Baking' is a wonderful introduction to vegan baking, useful for both experienced and beginner cooks.

The Vegetarian Solution: Stewart Rose's quietly persuasive masterpiece tells how to go veg and why it's the best choice for us, the animals and the planet.

Vegan Baking Substitutions: Make egg-free and dairy-free vegetarian and vegan desserts, with simple easy dairy and egg substitutes from Savvy Vegetarian.

Vegan Express Review: A very usable cookbook with a lot of great stuff - basic vegan nutrition, grocery shopping tips, & a wide variety of quick flavorful recipes.

New Vegetarian Advice

Veggie Advice Updated, Many New Letters, Easier to Find and Read

Avoid Vegetarian Constipation: "People say that constipation should never be an issue in a vegetarian diet. Of course I am writing because it is an issue... "

Cheap, Easy Vegetarian Diet, No Weight Gain: "It's fast & cheaper to order pizza - is there an easier, cheaper way to be vegetarian and not gain weight?"

Childbirth Weight Gain: "I have no control of my eating. I eat not because I am hungry. I eat whenever I have any problem or anxiety."

College Student Needs Easy Healthy Vegetarian Diet: "interested in healthy, practical (easy to prepare) vegetarian diet that won't leave me hungry and exhausted."

Friend Goes Vegetarian, Develops Acne: "A friend has been a total vegetarian for 6 months. For the first time in her life she has developed acne."

Good Vegetarian Food For Athletic Lifestyle: "I wanted tips on good vegetarian food to support my athletic life-style, since meat isn't a factor anymore."

Healthy Meat-Eater Goes Vegetarian: Healthy diet, robust health ... feeling tired for the first time in my life. What vitamins, minerals, etc. do I need?"

Hidden Calories Cause Weight Gain: "I have been a vegetarian who eats fish for many years...I am trying to lose weight...not eating any hidden calories"

How To Cook Non-Spicy Black Beans: Vegetarian loves black beans, due to dietary issues, can't eat spicy foods ... how to get started cooking non-spicy black beans.

Lunch for Eighty, Including Vegans, Needs Help: "...don't want to mess up ... last time I made meatless lasagna, cheese was a no no."

Mom Helps With Vegan Son's Nutrition Education: "Three weeks ago my 18 year old son announced he's a vegan -I need help educating him on proper nutrition"

Mom Says Teen Daughter's Diet Unhealthy: "She drinks mostly soy milk and eats some pasta ... any books or info to get her to eat a balanced diet?"

Mom's An Obstacle To Going Vegetarian: "I just want her to accept my decision and understand that vegetarianism is very healthy"

New Teen Vegetarian Needs More Protein: "I can tell I'm not getting enough protein... can't stand tofu! What else can I eat?"

Overweight Mom Wants To Lose Pregancy Weight: "My daughter is one and a half ... really want to lose weight ... 165 cm (5 ft 5 inches), weight 80 kgs (176 lb)"

Protein, Carbs, Calories, Vegetarian Marathon Training: "...how to not limit carbs for marathon training but still get vegetarian protein without extra calories?"

Student Going Veg for Health and Environment: "...coming from small-town, red-meat, fried everything family - is it best to start as an ovo-lacto vegetarian?"

Teen Needs A Diet Plan To Go Vegetarian: "13 years old, wants to go veg, step-dad says plan out her diet - is it worth all the work?"

Teen Vegetarian Sick, Tired, Wants Meat: "...the only thing that sounds good is meat ... Does this mean that I should stop being vegetarian?"

Tired, Weak, Overweight Vegetarian Transition: "Trying to transition to vegetarian diet, weak, no energy, overweight - anything you can recommend?"

Vegetarian Weight Gain Puzzling and Discouraging: "Can't figure out where weight gain is coming from ... I drink water, exercise ... so discouraged."

Vegetarian-Non-Vegetarian Family Conflict: "The problem is family meals. My husband wants us all to eat the same ... I feel torn. Please help."

Vegetarian-Non-Vegetarian Romance: "Serious romance with non-vegetarian, running out of ideas for combining meals - suggestions?"

New SV Blogs

Cold Weather Weight Loss:...if you're eating right & exercising, even though it's cold, and weight loss has stalled or reversed...here's why.

End Corporate Globalization: Ronnie Cummins...ending corporate globalization..."will require nothing short of a global grassroots rising."

Diet Detective: ...nutritional analysis of thousands of foods, including most everything that vegetarians & vegans eat

Food for Biofuels: "converting forests & grasslands into fields of biofuel plants offsets the benefit of using the fuel"

Locavore!: The New Oxford American Dictionary's 2007 Word of the Year is LOCAVORE, 'a person who seeks out locally produced food'

Recycle Anything: ...resources to help recycle everything from electronics to fluorescent light bulbs to disposable batteries.

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