Message for Savvy Vegetarian: I am on a fixed income and I want to know if two people can go vegan with only $299 a month. If so how. And where I live there are no specialty stores. I am dedicated to making the switch but I have to be able to afford it. J.B. [...]
Dear Savvy Vegetarian: I recently decided to go “vegan” after reading the book, “Skinny Bitch” and realizing the crap that is in the food I eat. However, I am between a rock and a hard place. I have 4 kids and a full time job. I come from a family that strongly resists vegetarians, to [...]
Excellent food safety tips for leftovers from Food24, Luscious Leftovers. The article goes on to give recipe suggestions using leftovers, most of them involving animal foods. BUT… following these food safety tips is important for vegetarians and vegans too. You too can get food poisoning if you’re not careful, and that’s some serious not-fun! Foods [...]
Tags: Food Blog, food poisoning, food safety tips, leftovers, reheat food, reheat leftovers, vegan, vegetarian, veggie foods
From the The Nation (This article appears in the June 1, 2009 edition of The Nation) Our planet produces enough food to feed its more than 960 million undernourished people. The basic cause of global hunger is not underproduction; it is a production and distribution system that treats food as a commodity rather than a [...]
Tags: agribusiness, commodity, Food Blog, global hunger, government subsidies, human right, local farmers, poverty
EU: City of Ghent Goes Veg One Day A Week To Lose Weight and Save The Planet Day of the Lentil Burgers: Ian Traynor, Guardian, UK, May 14 2009 On the eve of what is being touted as an unprecedented exercise, the biggest queue in the Flemish university town of 200,000 yesterday was for signatures [...]
Tags: cruelty to animals, Ghent, global warming, healthy living, meat-free eating, obesity, sustainable, vegetarian, veggie day
Message for Savvy Vegetarian: For the past 6 months I’ve been on tour in the Mid-West with a theater group. Having been a vegetarian since I was 7, I very much enjoy the vegetarian lifestyle and know a lot about it. What’s difficult is being on the road and finding healthy vegetarian options in tiny [...]
Tags: anti-vegetarian, vegan, vegan meals, vegetarian, vegetarian cooking, vegetarian travel
Restaurant Survival Skills: Before you get to the restaurant, understand what healthy food really is Jeff Novick, MS. RD. LD. LN,, is Director of Health Education for the National Health Association and nutritionist/dietitian for the prestigious McDougall Program in Santa Rosa, California. The following quotes are from his article, Restaurant Survival Skills “Healthy food is [...]
You’d think that anybody who’s paying attention couldn’t possibly miss what’s going on in the world, but sometimes we can’t see the deforestation for the trees. Yesterday I read three articles which helped me connect the dots: Capitalist greed, leading to planetary destruction and global suffering – pandemics, drought, extreme poverty, starvation, mass migrations, and [...]
Keep On Moving! Important Advice For All Sitting Workers & Couch Potatoes, from the May 3, 2009 issue of Dr. Gabe Mirkin’s Health and Fitness Ezine: The next time you are stuck sitting in one place for a very long time, get up and move. Sitting for extended periods markedly increases your chances of suffering [...]
Tags: blood sugar, couch potato, diabetes, Dr. Mirkin, exercise, exercising, Gabe Mirkin, healthy problems, heart attack, sedentary, sitting, sitting working
