To Become Vegetarian: How Do I Stop My Meat Eating Ways?

Reluctant Vegetarian

Question for Savvy Vegetarian: How can a person become vegetarian and stop their meat eating ways when it’s so hard to get over meat cravings caused by simply loving the taste of meat? Dear Judith, I discovered your website quite a while ago, and have recently stumbled across it again. I love the recipes, and [...]

Read the rest »

How to Give Your Baby Complete Protein Without Meat

Baby

Advice on complete proteins and vegetarian nutrition for a mother who would like her nine month old baby to have a pesco lacto ovo vegetarian diet. Dear Savvy Vegetarian, I have been a pesco/ovo-vegetarian for several years. I had my first child  last summer, who is a healthy, thriving nine-month-old now.  It is my  intent [...]

Read the rest »

Quitting Meat: Process Of Change, Jonathan Safran Foer

Jonathan Safran Foer

Excerpt from article published 11.11.09 by Huffington Post …I wonder if more of the difficulty doesn’t come from the ways that we talk and think about change. When it comes to meat, change is almost always cast as an absolute. You are a vegetarian or you are not. It’s a strange formulation, and it’s distracting. [...]

Read the rest »

25 Year Vegetarian Agonizes Over Eating Meat

Agonizing

Question(s) For Savvy Vegetarian: OMG. This topic is so hot on my head right now. I so envy the people that have a black and white opinion on this topic. I was vegetarian for 25 years and I have eaten meat for two years. It was not an easy choice. I did it because I [...]

Read the rest »

Are Meat Cravings Normal? And What About Soy?

Meat Cravings

Message for Savvy Vegetarian: I just started my new vegan lifestyle about a week ago. I was searching the internet to see if my cravings for meat and dairy were normal and came across your website. I saw an advice letter of another vegetarian asking the same question. I found your responses enlightening and helpful. [...]

Read the rest »

Miss Vegetarian Asks For Help

Couple Crisis

Message for Savvy Vegetarian: When I was growing up, my family was extremely anti-veg. It was pretty much meat and dessert type thing. Now as I live on my own I realize my love for being a vegetarian. My boyfriend (soon to be fiance) of four years is the king of carnivores! And I completely [...]

Read the rest »

Vegetarian Diet For Celiac Disease

Anti Wheat

Topic: Vegetarian Diet, Celiac Disease – I would love some advice on a vegetarian diet for someone with Celiac Disease. So many great foods that other veggies enjoy (veggie burgers, soy crumbles, etc.) are off limits to me and it does get a bit discouraging at times. There is a great Veggie group where I [...]

Read the rest »

Vegetarian Cooking4Carnivores Answers Questions

Feeding Husband

J. M. wrote back and graciously answered all my nosy questions from the previous post, Vegetarian Blogs About Cooking For Carnivore Husband “First, when I say my hubby won’t eat anything green, that’s just an exaggeration. He does eat green beans, peas, and zucchini. He’ll also eat fried okra and the occasional sauteed green pepper. [...]

Read the rest »

No More ‘Taunt The Vegetarian’

Taunt You

As I keep saying, the world is going vegetarian! “My husband and I are friends with a couple who had fun playing “taunt the vegetarian”, an irritating game where the non-veg places emphasis on meat, rude elaborate descriptions of it, and tells you for the millionth time that they ‘couldn’t live without steak’…etc. Other than [...]

Read the rest »