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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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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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 [...]
Vegetarians & vegans benefit from Cook’s Illustrated’s recipes, reviews, videos, taste tests, science tidbits, kitchen tips & cooking techniques Review by Judith Kingsbury, Savvy Vegetarian: I love Cook’s Illustrated! There’s so much fascinating and useful information in every issue. Every serious cook, veg or non-veg, needs and deserves a subscription to Cook’s Illustrated. I read [...]
Is there such a thing as a homemade, shelf stable, vegan mayonnaise that won’t separate? Dear Savvy Vegetarian: Your recipes are awesome! I am looking for a homemade vegan mayonnaise that won’t separate and is shelf stable. Can you help me? Thanks, Patti P. Savvy Vegetarian Advice Thank you, Patti :-) I don’t know if [...]
Question for Savvy Vegetarian I have a lot of a lot of allergies; however, since my husband is a diabetic and needs to watch his weight I want to change to a vegetarian diet. However, the biggest problem I am encountering concern my allergies to HOT & SPICY foods. I am allergic to the following: [...]
NutsOnline – An Excellent Source for Vegetarian Foods You Can’t Find Locally I often hear from people who can’t find vegetarian foods they want at their local markets. If you live in a veg friendly place with a natural food store, you can find most of what you need. Others who aren’t so lucky get [...]
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Budget Veg Travel: Plan ahead, eat sandwiches, cook in motel rooms, avoid expensive restaurants, carry emergency rations We manage to eat well and economically on the road, without compromising our veg diets TOO much. And, I’ve learned to keep it simple. which is harder than it sounds. The last time I travelled across country by [...]
I have been vegan for almost two years. I eat a mostly raw vegetable and fruit diet with my main protein source being beans and tofu. I eat about three cups of beans a day(red kidney, black, romano and chick peas). I soak and cook them myself in a slow cooker. I have LOTS of [...]
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Guest post by artist and long time vegetarian Fiona Morgan, WhereFishSing, on umami, the essence of taste satisfaction, in vegetarian food I agree whole heartedly with the idea of umami as the missing element in so many vegetarian foods. However, I tend to think more in Ayurvedic terms. Ayurveda names 6 tastes: sweet, sour, salty, [...]
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