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The perfect drink for fall and how to make it perfectly
Now that the weather has turned chilly, the hot drink of the moment is, indeed, a hot drink: Tea!
And I’m going to tell you everything you need to know to brew the perfect cup.Coffee, Tea, or . . . ?First, you need to understand the five types of tea, one of which isn’t a traditional [...]
Is the healthy brand always best? Is the supermarket brand always worst?
I am going to bust some myths here. And, along the way, I am going to talk about some brands in a way I did not originally intend. Brands I think you should know about.
All I can say is you flip over enough packages and read enough ingredient lists and sometimes, just sometimes, you get [...]
The lowest calorie zucchini recipe in the world – and it is DELICIOUS!
I tripped across this recipe ages ago and never got around to trying it. Until today, that is. And let me tell you, this is a vegetarian’s dream.
First, this recipe is vegetarian (of course)! Second, it is incredibly low in calories. Third, it is incredibly delicious. And, fourth, it is stupidly easy to make (stupidly [...]
Fast food vegetarian – or – when is processed food okay?
So here I am, with a counter full of Annie Chun products, hoping against hope I have some luck with these because the husband is, alas, a processed food junkie.
So let’s try some Annie Chun and see which items are keepers and which are not.In one corner: Annie ChunAnnie Chun makes a wide range of [...]
How to buy organic foods in a recession plus a Whole Foods coupon you can use on anything
So I am in Whole Foods (see below for a Whole Foods coupon) the other day, and I am torn between the organic vegetables on one hand and the non-organic on the other.
See, the organic is not just more expensive. It is way, way more expensive. Which is a real problem when we are pinching [...]
Protein for vegetarian athletes and for the rest of us, too!
Every so often I get contacted by a vegetarian athlete asking how to get enough protein into their vegetarian diet. No problem. I pass on a few suggestions and life goes on.
Then, weeks later, I get contacted by another vegetarian athlete also looking for protein.
I’ve been contacted by enough vegetarian athletes about protein for athletes [...]
Seven critical rules for kitchen safety
“More than six million people in the UK had a cooking accident or caused damage to their kitchen as a result of copying the professional cooking techniques of TV chefs.”
Seriously.
And you would not believe what some of the accidents are.According to research commissioned by esure home insurance, in an effort to emulate celebrity chefs, home [...]
The Flexitarian Diet: Buy or burn?
The Flexitarian Diet sounds like it would be a book right up the alley of every almost vegetarian.
Well, it might be. But then, it might not. After all, the author, Dawn Jackson Blatner, RD, LDN, says “I was a closet meat eater, a vegetarian trying not to get caught with a pork chop, beef patty, [...]
To celebrate Vegetarian Day I have a little green porno
Yep! Pornography vegetarian style. Or, well, at least green. Sort of. Or kind of. Well, it definitely is porno and it definitely is about sex.
It is just not porno as we typically understand porno.
Let me explain.Pornography for vegetariansI tripped across this Sundance series written, starring, and co-directed by Isabella Rossellini. Called Green Porno, it is [...]