Big Batch Cooking for Quick Easy Vegetarian Meals

How to eat healthy satisfying vegetarian meals without spending all your spare time in the kitchen
 
Question for Savvy Vegetarian:
I was wondering if you have vegetarian recipes you can recommend that we can make a big batch of ahead of time and freeze or store to eat as quick meals when we’re rushed for time? I’m not a [...]

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Your Vegetarian Diet Is YOUR Business!

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 buy at [...]

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Kid Friendly Healthy Diet for Food Allergies

Question for Savvy Vegetarian: 

Let me start by saying I am not a vegetarian, however my 20 month old daughter is allergic to dairy, eggs, and all nuts. I am concerned that there are several key nutrients she may be either low on or not getting, among them protein.
Her doctor recently suggested I add tofu to [...]

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8 yr old goes vegetarian, Mom concerned about calories

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 avid dancer training two to three hours a day. This is HER choice, we are NOT pushing this on her. (I have 4 [...]

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Vegetarian Weight Loss & Anne Collins

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 her credentials and, to my surprise, she is not a Registered Dietitian.
I believe only a Registered Dietitian specialized in vegetarian diets should give advice [...]

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Mom Wants to Raise Twin Babies On Vegetarian Diet

Question for Savvy Vegetarian:
Hello, I have a set of six month old twins that are just beginning their transition to solid foods.
They have been on soy milk formula and breast milk to date and I would like to raise them on a vegetarian diet.
Do you have any advice, articles, recipes, or good web sites I [...]

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Going Veg: How To Get Over Liking The Taste of Meat

Question for Savvy Vegetarian:

Dear Judith, I discovered your website quite a while ago, and have recently stumbled across it again. I love the recipes, and this advice blog is great. I’ve been vegetarian at least twice before, and always fell back into the meat eating pattern. I now have cut meat out of my lifestyle [...]

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Vegetarian Cooking: How to Cook Tofu or Tempeh

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 finding things to eat, however. I fine myself constantly eating the same meals, and it gets a little bland and boring after a while.
Recently I went to a restaurant and tried [...]

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How to Give Your Baby Complete Protein Without Meat

Dear Savvy Vegetarian,
I have been a pesco/ovo-vegetarian for several years.  I had my first child  last summer, who is a healthy, thriving nine-month-old now.  It is my  intent to raise her as a pesco/lacto/ovo-vegetarian.
However,  at her nine-month check up, my pediatrician said that she needed to eat meat now, and that there was no exception.  He even [...]

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Teen Troubles Going Vegan In Anti-Vegetarian Family

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 eat meat, [...]

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