Tofu Recipe Contest - Vote for Your Favorite!

tofu

The contest is over. Congratulations to Stephanie Littlefield for her winning recipe, Tofu ‘Fish’ Tacos Lemon Tofu Custard Cups : Alexa Krueger’s easy healthy vegan custard dessert recipe is light and refreshing, low fat, low sugar, although not low calorie - which is why it’s so blissfully satisfying. With the help of a food processor, […]

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Fat Free or Low Fat, How Much Does it Matter?

Fat Free

Many plant based diet gurus advocate fat free or low fat diets for health and weight loss Dr. McDougall - The McDougall Program, Joel Fuhrman M.D. - Eat to Live, Dr. Neil Bernard - 21-Day Weight Loss Kickstart, and Robert Pritikin - The Pritikin Principle, Dean Ornish, M.D. - Eat More, Weigh Less are all […]

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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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Win a Copy of Whole, by T. Colin Campbell

Win T. Colin Campbell’s Book ‘Whole, Rethinking the Science of Nutrition’! Giveaway Completed 8.26.13 An excellent book which could save your life! Read the Savvy Vegetarian review of Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition Enter the giveaway because you need this book, and also because we need your help to boost our Savvy Vegetarian FB […]

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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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Comfortably Unaware Refutes Savory TED Talk

livestock grazing in africa

Comfortably Unaware refutes Savory TED talk on reversing desertification and feeding the world through intensive livestock grazing Article Excerpt: Introduction to Saving the World With Livestock—The Savory Approach Examined by Dr. Richard Oppenlander, Comfortably Unaware I heard about the Allan Savory TED talk in February 2013. Many environmentalist meat eaters, such as OCA’s Ronnie Cummins, […]

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Why Savvy Veg Loves Beans (and so should you)

Love Beans

Beans & Lentils - Nutritious, Delicious, Versatile, Cheap, Vegan - What’s Not to Love? My bean adventures began in 1968 when I first went vegetarian. You’d have thought that I was eating food from another planet, beans & lentils (a.k.a. legumes) seemed so strange to me. The only legumes that I had ever eaten, were […]

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