The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Vegan Living, Second Edition, explains the many benefits and dispels the myths that stand between readers and a healthy vegan lifestyle, showing an easy way to adopt veganism as a lifestyle, including: Tips for transitioning your diet, body, and belongings to a vegan lifestyle in small steps. Easy ways to get the protein, calcium, and other nutrients the body needs without consuming meat or dairy. The benefits of raw foods and how to get more of them into the diet. Vegan nutrition for expectant mothers. How to peacefully coexist with non-vegan family members at mealtimes, holidays, and when dining out. How to stock a vegan pantry and substitute vegan ingredients in favorite recipes. How to be an informed, conscious vegan consumer of food, clothing, and personal care products. The book also includes more than 50 completely updated vegan recipes for every meal of the day.

Since former President Clinton made headlines by dumping his favorite burgers for a healthy vegan lifestyle, and tennis stars Venus and Serena Williams went vegan, mainstream America has become highly aware of the multiple benefits of vegan living and eating: vibrant health, dramatic weight loss, and a conscience clear of causing death and distress to animals. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Vegan Living dispels the myths that stand between readers and a healthy vegan lifestyle, showing an easy way to adopt veganism as a lifestyle, including: - Tips for transitioning your diet, body, and belongings to a vegan lifestyle in small steps. - Easy ways to get the protein, calcium, and other nutrients the body needs without consuming meat or dairy. - The benefits of raw foods and how to get more of them into the diet. - Vegan nutrition for expectant mothers. - How to peacefully coexist with non-vegan family members at mealtimes, holidays, and when dining out. - How to stock a vegan pantry and substitute vegan ingredients in favorite recipes. - How to be an informed, conscious vegan consumer of food, clothing, and personal care products. The book also includes more than 50 completely updated vegan recipes for every meal of the day.

This book offers a vegan food pyramid, fifty vegan recipes, tips on finding animal-free products and hints for reading ingredient lists and other labels to find "hidden" animal ingredients or byproducts.

The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Vegan Slow Cooking provides more than 200 slow-cook vegan, plant-based recipes for every meal of the day, and includes not only soups and stews, but sandwiches, sides, snacks, appetizers, sauces, and even breads. Although most recipes are prepared with a slow cooker, some are simply prepared by slow cooking. The opening chapters introduce the reader to the world of slow cooking with the hows and whys of slow cooking, as well as intructions for adapting favorite recipes to one's slow cooker.

Time to veg out! This updated and revised guide to the joys of vegetarianism features—for the first time—75 delicious recipes! You will learn how to prepare and savor main dishes and sides, smoothies, breakfasts, snacks, and more. A great introduction to the vegetarian lifestyle, this edition has tips on changing eating habits as painlessly as possible and covers the health and psychological aspects of going “veg.”

Time to veg out! This updated and revised guide to the joys of vegetarianism features - for the first time - 75 delicious recipes! You will learn how to prepare and savor main dishes and sides, smoothies, breakfasts, snacks, and more. A great introduction to the vegetarian lifestyle, this edition has tips on changing eating habits as painlessly as possible and covers the health and psychological aspects of going "veg".

Delicious recipes for the growing vegan lifestyle. There are so many reasons to go vegan—health and nutrition, weight loss, green and sustainable living, and prevention of cruelty to animals. With over 200 mouth-watering recipes and tips for converting meat- and dairy-based dishes into vegan ones, The Complete Idiot’s Guide® to Vegan Cooking will help readers enjoy a healthy vegan diet without sacrificing taste. In this Complete Idiot’s Guide®, you get: • Beginner-friendly tips for creating vegan versions of your favorite recipes. • Simple substitutions for replacing meat, dairy, eggs, gelatin, and honey in your vegan cooking and baking. • Straight talk on getting the calcium, protein, and other nutrition you need while eating vegan. • Easy-to-follow advice on planning healthful vegan meals your family will love.

An updated and revised guide to going vegetarian - with 75 delicious recipes to get you started! More and more people are going "veg" these days, for a variety of reasons; from health to ethical concerns. They'd like to try this vegetarian thing, but they have a feeling it might be difficult - and they aren't sure whether they'll have to give up their omelets and the occasional chicken Caesar salad as well. Do you have to go - ahem - cold turkey, or can you go meatless gradually? Will cutting down provide some of the health benefits of cutting out entirely? The Complete Idiot's Guide to Being Vegetarian, Second Edition, was a great introduction to both going meatless and the vegetarian lifestyle, focusing on ways to change eating habits as painlessly as possible and enjoying vegetarian foods without feeling cheated. It covered both health and psychological aspects, and it didn't bash meat eaters-great reading for someone who's considering all the options where eating is concerned. The only thing it didn't have was scrumptious recipes, and that's all taken care of now, with dozens of main dishes and sides, smoothies, breakfasts, snacks, and more!

Shows parents how to raise children on a vegan diet, describing the nutritional needs of children and what foods provide those nutrients, and features recipes for all daily meals that will appeal to children.

Vegan cooking is often associated with being healthy, but it's not always low in fat. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Low-Fat Vegan Cooking brings a fresh and delicious approach to the vegan kitchen, but minus so much of the fat that can often be added to make vegan dishes more flavorful. The vegan chef will open readers up to a universe of fantastic, 100% vegan recipes that offer the added benefit of being low in fat and lower in calories. Readers will be able to craft menus and discover recipes that go from variations on everyday comfort foods to delicious, nutrient-dense dishes that offer maximum nutritional benefit.