Your Vegetarian Diet Is YOUR Business!

Frustrated College Girl

How to NOT debate vegetarianism with friends, family and others Question for Savvy Vegetarian: First of all, let me thank you for your website! I’m a vegetarian college student (veg for almost 4 years now) and I want to thank you for this enormous resource. I’ve learned how to cook quinoa, how to prepare shopping lists, what to [...]

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8 yr old goes vegetarian, Mom concerned about calories

Kid Vegetarian

It’s not easy to keep active growing lacto-ovo vegetarian children from being skinny. Parents need kid friendly recipes and children’s multivitamins Dear Savvy Vegetarian, My 8 year old daughter became a vegetarian two months ago. My husband and I who are not vegetarian are trying our best to support her choice. She is also an [...]

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Vegetarian Weight Loss & Anne Collins

Anne-Collins

Does Anne Collins need to be a Registered Dietition to provide advice on vegetarian weight loss, vegetarian nutrition and online weight loss support? Message for Savvy Vegetarian: I’m really bothered by the fact that you keep telling people to go to Anne Collins’ website. I had to search for quite a few minutes to find [...]

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Constipation Problems And Constipation Remedies

Constipation

New Vegetarian on a plant based diet has constipation problems. Savvy Vegetarian has constipation remedies including ayurvedic tips and natural laxatives. Dear Savvy Vegetarian: About 7 days ago, I begin a plant based diet, eating organic vegetables when they are available. I have always had constipation problems and I was hoping this diet would resolve [...]

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Mom Wants to Raise Twin Babies On Vegetarian Diet

Twin Babies

Mom with twin babies is introducing solid foods into their vegetarian diet. She is looking for advice on where to find baby food recipes and baby food mills. Question for Savvy Vegetarian: Hello, I have a set of six month old twin babies and have just started introducing solid foods. They have been on soy [...]

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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 [...]

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Vegetarian Cooking: How to Cook Tofu or Tempeh

Barbecue Tempeh Sandwich

Savvy Vegetarian tips on how to cook tofu and tempeh. There are many tasty tofu recipes and one tempeh recipe. Tempeh however can be used as a substitute for tofu. Question for Savvy Vegetarian: Hello. After a lot of back and forth, I have finally settled in to my vegetarian lifestyle. I am having trouble [...]

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Lose Weight on Vegetarian Diet: Cut the Cheese

Cheese

How To Lose Weight on a Vegetarian Diet: Cut the Cheese Calories in cheese and cheese in processed foods are reasons for unexplained weight gain in a vegetarian diet. Cut the cheese for vegetarian weight loss. A while back we received a letter from a reader who was asking about vegetarian weight loss. She had [...]

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Teen Troubles Going Vegan In Anti-Vegetarian Family

Becoming Vegan

Message for Savvy Vegetarian: Hello, I discovered this website researching about veganism, since I have recently decided to go vegan; formerly being an ovo-lacto-vegetarian for about a year, when I was 16. I’m now 17. I have a huge problem, and wanted to ask for advice: When I told my mother of my meaning to not [...]

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Sugar Free Desserts Using Stevia Sweetener

Stevia Sweetener

Sometimes it’s hard to find diabetic desserts. Convert dessert recipes into sugar free desserts with Stevia sweetener, a natural sugar substitute. Diabetics and hypoglycemics are always looking for sugar free desserts. And sometimes it’s hard to find diabetic dessert recipes, especially vegetarian, vegan or gluten free. But more and more people, especially vegetarians, are becoming [...]

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