Happy Healthy Veggie Love Bites for Valentine’s Day

Chocolate Valentine Cookies

For Valentines’ Day, boycott the commercialism, and treat yourself and your loved ones to happy, healthy (sort of) love bites all day long That is not to say there can’t be chocolate. What is Valentine’s Day without chocolate? A day or two before Valentines Day, make special chocolate treats for your loved ones, or people [...]

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Jackie’s Holiday Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Chips

Pumpkin Cake

Pumpkin Cake with Chocolate Chips: A Holiday Dessert Enjoyed by Pregnant Women Any Time This holiday dessert recipe is the very one that Zoe Keeland talks about in The Pregnant Vegetarian Episode 4: Food Addict, with the kind of passion experienced only by pregant women. The rest of us at Savvy Vegetarian haven’t been lucky [...]

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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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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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7 Yr Old Sugar Addict Reluctant to Go Vegan with Dad

Kid Won't Eat

Dad goes vegan for weight loss, tries to get son to give up sugar & eat his cooking Message for Savvy Vegetarian: First of all, thanks for creating the Savvy Vegetarian web site! A little story about myself: I have struggled with weight issues most of my adult life. Recently I decided (educated myself) that [...]

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Crockpot Cooking Problems: Overcooking, Food Spoilage

Crockpot

Leaving crockpots on warm for many hours overcooks food, increases risk of food spoilage Message for Savvy Vegetarian: Hi, I just purchased a programmable Crock-Pot and am looking for vegetarian slowcooker recipes which I see your website has. Thank you! I hope you can answer my question. It looks like slow-cooking vegetables does not take [...]

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How to Make Meat Based Meals Vegetarian

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Vegetarianising Meat Meals: Go With Familiar Flavors & Looks; Nobody Will Miss The Meat Guest post by Aussie Fiona Morgan, who is working on an art/veg cookbook of meatless meals. Check out her blog, Spaces Between the Gaps, and website, Where Fish Sing for beautiful art and meatless recipes. The sample recipes have been lifted [...]

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Healthy Brown Bag Lunch Ideas For Vegan Farmer

Picnic On A Tractor

Savvy Vegetarian Advice: Should You Drive a Tractor and Eat at the Same Time? Healthy brown bag lunch ideas for a vegan farmer. Main dish salad recipes, wraps and soups are three of Savvy Vegetarian’s lunch ideas

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Are Alkaline Tomatoes an Acid Forming Food?

Killer Tomato

Tomatoes and other nightshade vegetables are alkaline in chemical composition, but are acid forming foods. Try some of our tasty non-tomato sauce recipes with quinoa. Question: I cook quinoa often and love it however the last three times I made it my stomach got very upset. Do you think it is because I put tomato [...]

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Earth Talk: How to Freeze Food Safely & Ecologically

Freezer Containers

Reprinted with permission from Earth Talk, 8.21.11 edition, E – The Environmental Magazine Dear EarthTalk: I love to cook and when I have the time I make soups, stews and pasta meals in large batches and freeze them. I use leftover plastic containers, but I know this is not good. What kinds of containers are [...]

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