Quinoa – Are We Bad for Loving It?

Quinoa Farmers

Quinoa is Highly Nutritious and Delicious and We Love It, But Should We Eat It? I, along with hundreds of thousands of other discerning souls, discovered quinoa several years ago, and it was love at first bite. Quinoa is a non-grain, gluten free, high fiber, high protein, alkaline, high in healthy fat. Quinoa seemed like [...]

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Unrepentant Eating of Dessert!

Tempting Desserts

Cure the winter blahs by eating divinely delicious vegan desserts Will winter ever end!? Spring is only a few weeks away, but what a long three weeks those are turning out to be. After getting hit with one snow storm after another (at the end of February), is it any wonder that all we want [...]

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Nut Butter – A True Kitchen Chameleon

Robin Robertson

How to Cook with Nut Butters, nut butter recipe for Asian Spring Rolls & Peanut Dipping Sauce Guest post by Robin Robertson, author of the Nut Butter Universe vegan cookbook. Nut butters can be true kitchen chameleons. They can be incorporated into a zesty salad dressing, a stack of fluffy pancakes, a creamy pasta sauce, [...]

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Fun, Healthy Kid Snacks

Kids Snacks

Healthy snack foods, tasty alternatives to sugary, processed snacks When you’re a kid the time between lunch and dinner can seem endless. Kids want something yummy to tide them over between meals. But parents want kids to eat healthy nutritious snacks that won’t leave them too full for dinner. Three Keys to Fun Healthy Kid [...]

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How to Eat A Good Veg or Vegan Breakfast

Breakfast Rush

Mom Was Right – A Healthy High Protein Breakfast is the Most Important Meal of the Day Excerpt from our popular eBook, Get Enough Protein in Your Veg Diet. Skipping breakfast is a popular sport! It’s hard to know exactly how many kids go to school without breakfast in the morning, or adults rush off [...]

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Savvy Veg Adventures in Gluten Free Baking

Hold The Gluten

Gluten free cooking is easy, gluten free baking is another story altogether! It has been a year and four months since my husband and I went gluten free, and I went gluten free vegan. From my experiences, vegan gluten free cooking is easy – if you only eat rice or quinoa, and never eat anything [...]

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Cheap Easy Healthy Vegetarian Meals

Budget Cooking

For cheap easy healthy meals, shop with a meal plan, a budget and a list If you have more condiments than ingredients in the fridge, healthy weekly meal planning might be daunting. Trust me, it’s worth it. Healthy food is good for your health AND your budget. Grocery stores are full of healthy food choices [...]

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Is Soy Bad for Low Thyroid & Belly Fat?

Belly Fat

Connecting Beans & Gas, Low Thyroid & Soy Protein, Lose Weight, Belly Fat I love beans, but I hate the gas as does my household. I am cooking beans as I read your beans without gas report and found it extremely interesting. I will add some herbs to my beans as they cook and see [...]

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Get Enough Protein in Your Veg Diet

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Free Protein Teleclass with Savvy Vegetarian This Tuesday evening, I’ll be giving a free talk through Global Teleclass. My free teleclass, How to Get Enough Protein in Your Vegetarian or Vegan Diet, takes place on Tuesday Nov 27th at 8:00 P.M. EST. Please join me! The protein teleclass is based on my new protein ebook. [...]

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From Sour Apples to Sweet Apple Desserts

Red Rome Apple

Apples have come a long long way since the days of Johnny Appleseed! Johnny Appleseed was a travelling apple nursery man, land speculator, missionary and all-round saint, according to legend. Johnny’s apple trees were grown from seed, the apples were small & sour, and used for hard apple cider, which pioneers drank in abundance. Sweet [...]

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