Naturally Sweet & Gluten Free Giveaway

Win This Allergy Friendly GF Vegan Cookbook Giveaway Open to U.S. & Canada Only - Sorry Everybody Else! You’re going to LOVE Naturally Sweet and Gluten Free, Allergy Friendly Vegan Desserts, Ricki Heller’s long awaited new cookbook. This is the kind of cookbook that you tell all your friends about, and even give copies to […]

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Tofu Recipe Contest at Savvy Vegetarian

9.26.13: Contest is Now closed to Entries We had 36 awesome entries!! Many thanks to everyone who entered their favorite tofu recipe. This last weekend in Sept., I’ll be going over all of the entries and picking 3 semi-finalists - and it’s going to be really really hard!! Then I’ll test and photograph my three […]

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10 Best Vegan Sandwich Recipes

Tempeh Bacon Sandwich

Savvy Vegetarian’s Bestest, Most Favorite & Most Popular All Vegan Sandwich Recipes My feelings about sandwiches are expressed perfectly in the song I Like Sandwiches, written by Bob King and performed by Canadian children’s singer Fred Penner. My kids and I knew Fred Penner’s sandwich song by heart and sang it daily. When they’d ask […]

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Celebrating the Last of the Fresh Peaches

fresh peaches

Peach season is winding down and with pangs of regret, I celebrate the Last of the Fresh Peaches I’m crazy about peaches, especially fresh ripe tree-ripened local organic peaches, but any peaches will do. And peaches are happening now in Iowa! For the past 6 weeks, we’ve had a steady, relatively cheap abundance of Georgia […]

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Grills Gone Vegan Cookbook Giveaway (completed)

This giveaway was completed on 8.21.13: Win a free copy of a great cookbook, Grills Gone Vegan by Tamasin Noyes! Open to U.S. & Canada I know you’ll love this cookbook as much as I do. But I’m also doing this giveaway because I need your help to boost Savvy Vegetarian’s FB page. To enter […]

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Spinach Cooking, Recipes, Nutrition, Health

Spinach Does a Body Good

We love spinach! It’s so nutritious, healthy, versatile, easy to cook, fun to grow, delicious… And you can add spinach to everything. Well maybe not quite EVERYTHING, but there’s spinach dip, pie, quiche, lasagna, salad, soup, pizza, pasta, ravioli, bread, frittata, even creamed and pickled spinach - with endless variations. The versatility of spinach alone […]

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How to Start a Vegan Support Group

Dee Davis

The Vegan Support Group of Las Cruces, New Mexico began unexpectedly during an appointment at an urologist’s office. Guest post by Dee Davis, a long time Savvy Veg recipe contributor and friend of our FB page. As far as I can tell from Dee’s post, the way to start a vegan support group is - […]

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How to Cook Black Beans to Remove Toxins

Black Beans

Will we get sick if I don’t boil black beans for 20 minutes? I was wondering if you could shed some light on cooking dried black (turtle) beans? I have read up on your site about them, and they seem the same as the other beans I’ve cooked. But the ones I bought came with […]

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Quinoa - Are We Bad for Loving It?

Quinoa Farmers

Quinoa is Highly Nutritious and Delicious and We Love It, But Should We Eat It? I, along with hundreds of thousands of other discerning souls, discovered quinoa several years ago, and it was love at first bite. Quinoa is a non-grain, gluten free, high fiber, high protein, alkaline, high in healthy fat. Quinoa seemed like […]

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Unrepentant Eating of Dessert!

Tempting Desserts

Cure the winter blahs by eating divinely delicious vegan desserts Will winter ever end!? Spring is only a few weeks away, but what a long three weeks those are turning out to be. After getting hit with one snow storm after another (at the end of February), is it any wonder that all we want […]

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