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Posted on Dec 8, 2010

How To Not Miss Meat

Even if your reasons for turning toward a vegetarian lifestyle are moral, ethical or religious, it is common to miss the taste of meat especially when you first start your walk as a vegetarian. The first rule to enforce is not to feel guilty about that. Just loving meat doesn’t make you a bad thing....
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Posted on Nov 21, 2010

It’s A Diet And A Community

Becoming a vegetarian is about a lot more than just changing what you eat. That said, there is no question that making the transition to vegetarian eating is one of the most positive things you can do for your body from a diet perspective. It will take some adjustments to make sure your vegetarian diet...
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Posted on Nov 4, 2010

But What If Your Sweetheart Loves Meat

The vegetarian culture is one that fosters a certain “snootiness” because of our insistence on pure foods. It is also easy to get a superior attitude because vegetarian living is clearly a superior way to live from a health perspective and because so often our reasons for becoming a vegetarian is...
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Posted on Oct 25, 2010

The Social Vegetarian

Whenever you make a major change in your lifestyle, having a strong support group around you is crucial. And the decision to become a vegetarian is definitely a major change of lifestyle. So one of the best ways you can ensure your success in making this transition is to build a strong support structure...
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Posted on Oct 8, 2010

Is It Time For An Intervention

“Guess what mom and dad, I’m a vegetarian!” If those words would strike terror in your heart if it came from your child, this article is for you. While we all are aware that vegetarians walk amongst us, when someone we love becomes a vegetarian, its easy to fear they have fallen in with...
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Posted on Aug 14, 2010

Life Without Meat

Becoming a vegetarian is about a lot more than just a change to your diet. It is a lifestyle choice that influences many aspects of your life separate from just what you put into your body for food. This is why the path from when you first considered taking on the life of a vegetarian to when you are finally...
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Posted on Jul 22, 2010

Your Vegetarian Baby

Most of us have to make a transition from a meat eating diet to a vegetarian one. And while the outcome is one you are happy about, that transition is sometimes difficult. And once you have made the conversion, its easy to regret the years you were a meat eater. So if you were able to maintain a good...
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Posted on Jul 5, 2010

Vegetarians Are Not Crazy

One of the things that often holds up a lot of people from considering a lifestyle of vegetarianism is a negative stereotype of vegetarians that is really not at all accurate. Of course there are extremists in any discipline and the same is true of vegetarians or vegans. Its good to dig a bit deeper and put...
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Posted on Jun 11, 2010

The Lifestyle Of A Vegetarian

One of the biggest injustices that the vegetarian movement has endured is that in popular culture, the image of a vegetarian is that of a fanatic hippy or cult member who is “off the deep end” and cannot think about anything else besides “saving a cow” and pushing vegetarianism on...
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Posted on May 8, 2010

Low Fuss Vegetarian Cooking

“I can’t become a vegetarian because I don’t have the time to work up complicated vegetarian meals.” That is a common misconception about what it means to life the lifestyle of a vegetarian. Oh yes, it is possible to become a fanatic about exotic vegetarian meals or to become so...
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Posted on Apr 19, 2010

Vegetarianism The Easy Way

“Make it easy on yourself.” I like that phrase. And it’s a good motto for learning a new skill or going through a big life transition. When you decide to explore becoming a vegetarian, it is very easy to get scared off by what appears to be a difficult road ahead. But the truth is, there is...
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Posted on Apr 10, 2010

The Good Of Vegetarianism

Sometimes the only thing really holding you back from making the big step of becoming a vegetarian is to come to a firm grasp of what good you will get from it. Too often we see eating right and cutting meat from our diet as a drudgery and something we “should do” but we don’t want to. But...
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Posted on Dec 3, 2009

Getting Restaurants In On The Act

Its one thing to move into a vegetarian discipline when it comes to preparing your meals at home. But things get more complicated when you go out to eat because you must be prepared to order appropriately at a restaurant so you get good foods but foods that are in line with your vegetarian way of life. The...
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Posted on Nov 1, 2009

Will Vegetarianism Change The World

We all fear change. And when we see a “movement” start to get momentum in society, its easy to fear it is being imposed on us by some sinister force out to ruin our way of life. That instinct to fear change at a social level goes way back. But the truth is that society does change and evolve and...
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Posted on Aug 25, 2009

The Rules Of Being A Vegetarian

Becoming a vegetarian is not like joining a club or enlisting in an army. There is a lot of freedom and leverage to how “deep” you go into the vegetarian lifestyle and how intense and limiting you make your diet. So while there really are no “rules” for becoming a vegetarian, there...
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