Vegetarian Cooking While Camping: How to Do It Right

Glamping Table

Good response to my post on veggie camp cookery (forget it & live on sandwiches) – many great ideas on how to do veg camp cooking right Some of the responders felt my pain, but most comments revealed my ignorance and lack of creativity on the subject. Some hinted that I might need an attitude [...]

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The Pregnant Vegetarian #3: Blood Sugar Vampire

Pregnant Zoe Keeland

I have a confession to make. Some of you are going to hate me for this. At least a little. I have not puked once since I got pregnant. I don’t feel queasy in the mornings, and lately I don’t feel queasy at all. In fact, the worst I have felt since getting pregnant is [...]

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‘Real’ Cheese is Addictive, Vegan Cheese is an Oxymoron

Vegan Cheese

I’ve heard that ‘real’ cheese is addictive, and I believe it. I think it’s the casein. One of the hardest things for me to give up when I went vegan was parmesan cheese. I was used to eating it on just about everything. Eventually, long after the parmesan addiction had lost its grip, I found [...]

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Forget About Vegetarian Cooking While Camping

Camp Kitchen

I’m not a veteran camper and far from an expert on campsite cookery. I’ve been camping maybe 10 times in my 65 years, for a total of about 3 months. However, most of my camping involved vegetarian cooking. So naturally I feel qualified to talk about it. My camping experiences have ranged from extremely primitive: [...]

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The Pregnant Vegetarian: Episode two

Deadly Farts

There are Things They Don’t Warn You About Before You Get Pregnant, Probably For the Good of the Species. I thought pregnancy would have a couple of upsides. Besides, of course, a tiny precious baby at the end. I figured it would be the one time in my life I’d finally have a decent set [...]

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How to Get Enough Healthy Veg Calories to Avoid Weight Loss

Maintain A Healthy Weight

Enthusiastic convert to healthy plant based diet unintentionally loses weight along with the meat, and wants to know how to keep his weight up and eat healthy too. Hello Savvy Vegetarian, I recently started changing my diet. I am juicing fruits and veggies and cutting out meat. I feel GREAT! I am very excited about [...]

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The Pregnant Vegetarian: Episode 1

Positive Pregnancy Test

This vegetarian pregnancy series is written by ZoĆ« Keeland, the youngest and most pregnant daughter of Savvy Vegetarian. She’ll continue to produce new episodes until her brain completely dissolves into mush. Veg gets pregnant Having been married for almost six years, and casually trying to get pregnant for most of the time, I had mostly [...]

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Dr. McDougall on Steve Jobs Cancer and Vegan Diet

Steve Jobs

Dr. John McDougall has written an article to set the record straight about Steve Job’s pancreatic cancer in relation to his long time vegan diet. In this long and informative article, Dr. McDougall uses cancer statistics and research to show that Steve Jobs most likely would have had pancreatic cancer since he was in his [...]

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Have a Stress Free Vegetarian or Vegan Thanksgiving

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Major Source of Vegetarian|Vegan Stress: Thanksgiving Dinners with Non-Veg Family I can’t believe that Thanksgiving is next week! It sneaks up on me like that every year! But it’s OK. Thanksgiving is not such a big deal – anymore. Back in my turkey days, I used to stress over Thanksgiving dinner: Get the bird cooked [...]

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The Economic Advantages of a Vegetarian Diet

Plateful of Money

Eat Better and Improve Your Health For Less Money, by Katherine Manning Families are trimming their budgets, and two areas of spending that create a drain on finances are food and health care. The two fields seem unrelated, but could not be more connected. One easy way to eat better, improve health and lower the [...]

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