SV Blog, Recipe Collections, Holiday Menus, Newsletter, New Look

Since last summer, Savvy Vegetarian has had a new look, an upgraded navigation system, and other technical improvements, to make the site prettier, more accessible, easier to read and faster to load. We’ve been performing SEO miracles on the vegetarian recipe pages to make it easier to find what you’re looking for, and we’ve been busy re-testing recipes, adding pictures (what a concept!), and lots of new recipes.

Now we have a largish elf doing SEO updates on the articles. Next the advice section gets a tune-up.

This incarnation of Savvy Vegetarian Blog is brand new. For longer than we’re willing to admit, we’ve wanted to join the 21st C. and switch the original antiquated Savvy Vegetarian Blog to an updated blogging platform with separate categories for advice, cooking, health and news, all integrated with the site.

Now we can quickly & EASILY post veg-related news, health info and cooking tips on the site. We’re still pulling in content from the old SV Blog, and our blogger.com advice blogs, working out the glitches - and we’re happy! Tossing back champagne and dancing in the streets kind of happy!

Vegetarian Recipe Collections: ^[1] We’re excited about this new direction at Savvy Vegetarian! So far we’ve put our most popular tofu and quinoa recipes into convenient downloadable collections, with more to come.

We love giving the recipe collections to our friends and family. They make special, much appreciated, and economical gifts - always a bonus! And it means they can make the recipes for themselves and have us over, instead of calling and inviting themselves to dinner all the time!

All Your Favorite Tofu Recipes ^[2]: It’s wonderful to have all our tofu recipes printed out in one attractive recipe booklet, to keep in a neatly labeled folder in the kitchen. Before we had the recipe collections, we were always running to the computer to look up and print out our own vegetarian recipes. Or trying to find recipes in haphazard stacks of stained, tattered and scribbled recipes. We feel so professional now!

Same goes for the quinoa recipe collection ^[3]. We’ve heard from lots of people that they’d like to eat more quinoa, but don’t know quite what to do with it, or they cooked some quinoa and it turned out badly. It seems that GOOD quinoa recipes aren’t that easy to find, which makes our collection of reliable and delicious quinoa recipes quite nice to have around!

10 Best Vegetarian Holiday Menus ^[4] is our BIG ebook, at 81 pages. That’s because it has over 50 recipes to go with 10 Menus covering special occasions throughout the year - Traditional Vegetarian and Vegan, Gluten Free, 4th of July, Holiday Lite, Birthdays, Game Days, Valentine’s Day, etc.

Savvy Veg visitors have asking us for some time about our newsletter. NOW you can subscribe ^[5]! PLUS get 2 free specials reports on Vit. B12 and Vegetarian Protein. You’ll also get our 10 part series on how to go vegetarian, and our free newsletter containing new recipes, advice posts, and tips for healthy vegetarian diet or vegan diet. Subscribe Now! ^[5]

We now have a ShopSavvy store ^[6], where you can buy all the great books ^[6]we recommend. We’ll be adding other cool veg-friendly stuff soon: cook ware, kitchen ware, t-shirts etc

Future Plans: Any day now we’ll have an RSS feed on the site, and a new site search from Lijit Search. Printable recipes are coming too. They are actally now printable - if you hit the print button on your browser tool bar, you’ll get nothing but the recipe.

But we’re planning to take that to the next level, with actual PRINT BUTTONS and nicely formatted ad-free pages. Nutritional info on the recipes is also in the works. Plus, we’re planning to have comment boxes on all the pages on the site. Cooking videos are also coming - sometime in the next year, as soon as our kitchen is set up for it, and we have a video camera!

All these plans involve much time and labors of love. Mostly by us since we work for food. Please be patient - it will all happen! Eventually.