Helpful Tips For Vegetarians Who Travel A Lot The Savvy Vegetarian is a master of road food. The woman carries a kitchen in a suitcase, complete with hot plate, crock pot, grains, spices…etc. With her restricted diet, and my father’s even more restricted diet, I can see the sense in her approach. When I think […]
Kid Friendly Lunch Box Ideas & Healthy Recipes School is starting and kids need all kinds of stuff! Clothes, school supplies, and lunches. I don’t know if you’ve checked out school lunch menus, but last time I looked, they weren’t very veg friendly. In fact, my stepdaughter says, even if you aren’t a vegetarian they […]
Making Veggie Burgers: Important Stuff to Know Homemade veggie burgers are easy and nutritious, but they can be either The Ideal Meal or a waste of time and ingredients. Lately I’ve noticed hundreds of new veggie burger recipes. Every day at least one new variation pops up on Pinterest. It’s fantastic that more and more […]
I wish I had a doctor who knew at least as much about nutrition as I do. Since I got the diagnosis of gestational diabetes, I have been in a brooding mood. Frankly, I feel very skeptical about the diagnosis. I have not gained weight excessively, had mood swings, strange lack of energy, any of […]
The pregnant vegetarian objects to medical torture. “I’m not sick, I’m pregnant!” Well, the other shoe has dropped. I knew this was going too well. It seems that if you spend enough time in Doctors’ offices, they will find something wrong with you. I failed the one hour diabetes test. So they made me do […]
From all the crazy pregnant lady stories, I expected to be much more mental! So far, making a baby has been much easier than I expected. Aside from my lack of physical symptoms, which I talked about a couple posts ago , I expected to be much more mental. The crazy pregnant lady stories are […]
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Everything is green & growing, there’s new life everywhere Spring has come early this year, and with great gusto! No nasty late frosts have come along to spoil things, so everything is green and growing. It seems like an appropriate time of year to be pregnant. There’s new life everywhere - why not in my […]
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I’ve had it awfully easy, and I’m starting to get suspicious. When you get pregnant, it seems, you join the secret society of Women Who Have Given Birth. Now that I am nice and round, and it is too late for me to run to the condom aisle and prevent my fate, they are telling […]
Tags: birth and labor stories, birth stories, easy pregnancy, pregnancy stories, pregnant vegetarian, swollen ankles
Zoe used to be a picky eater. Then she became the pregnant vegetarian My Mom (a.k.a Savvy Veg) has been visiting us, and oh boy, she’s been feeding me! I used to be a horribly picky eater. Then I left home and had to cook for myself. Down went my standards. Suddenly, my favorite meal […]
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Zoe Gets Off Her Soapbox And Back In The Produce Section Well, I had to get a new Obgyn. Thanks a lot Corporate America. My employer changed insurance companies and now my former doctor is out of network. So, off to the new doctor, and a rehash of the I’m-a-vegetarian conversation. Sigh. Apparently, Obgyns do […]
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