Goodbye Root Veggies, Hello Green Spring Veggies!

Spring Peas

Peas, Spinach & Asparagus are delicious to eat and packed with nutrition. Spring means tulips, little league, and fresh, tasty green vegetables. This week Savvy Vegetarian and the letter “D” (for delicious) bring you three of our favorite spring vegetables: Peas, spinach, and asparagus. In addition to being delicious, peas, spinach, and asparagus are brimming [...]

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Pregnancy as a medical event?

Dumb Doctor

Pregnant Vegetarian: 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, [...]

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Pregnant Veg: Close Encounters of the Medical Kind

Gestational Diabetes

Pregnant Vegetarian objects to all the 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 [...]

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Sprouting & Nutrition: Does Sprouting Increase Protein?

Sprouts

High intensity exerciser asks: does sprouting seeds increase their protein count? Message for Savvy Vegetarian: I have googled protein count when sprouting and there doesn’t seem to be much difference whether sprouting or not? You say sprouting increases protein availability by 30% and carbs decrease by 15%. If this is the case that would be [...]

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Top-Five Colleges for Vegetarian College Students

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A few schools are not only making good food…they’re making great vegetarian food With budget cuts and alternative college programs such as the adoption of online universities monopolizing the higher education debate, the discussion of college diets has been put on the back burner. Dorm food has never promised delicious options. In general, college barely [...]

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The Pregnant Vegetarian: Crazy Pregnancy Hormones

Pregnant Bliss

From all the crazy pregnant lady stories, Zoë thought she’d 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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The Pregnant Vegetarian is a Mad Gardener!

Garden Goddess

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 belly? Some of this new life is quite exciting [...]

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New Teen Vegetarian Terrified to Tell His Family

Scared To Tell

Message For Savvy Vegetarian: Hey, I am a newly declared, sixteen year old vegetarian, and my parents simply do not know. . . . yet. They are super conservative and I have kept my vegetarianism a secret so far. Often times we’re not at the dinner table together, that’s how I’ve kept it a secret. [...]

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What?! Vegetarians Have to Eat Healthy AND Exercise?

Shocked Face

News Flash: A healthy vegetarian diet does not make you physically fit. SavvyVeg is living proof that you can be a long-time vegetarian or vegan and still be physically unfit. Until my mid-forties, I never thought about exercise because I was hyper-active at least 12 hours a day – raising children, doing housework, gardening, cooking, [...]

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Pregnant Veg worries: Has this pregnancy been too easy?

Pregnant zoe

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 me STORIES. You know the ones – the stories they don’t [...]

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