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Our RSS feed bring you Vegetarian News from around the world. Vegetarianism is the practice of following a plant-based diet including fruits, vegetables, cereal grains, nuts, and seeds, mushrooms, with or without dairy products and eggs. A vegetarian does not eat meat, including red meat, game, poultry, fish, Crustaceans, and shellfish, and may also abstain from by-products of animal slaughter such as animal-derived rennet, found in some cheeses, and gelatine. Vegetarians may unknowingly consume animal-derived rennet, gelatine, or other unfamiliar animal ingredients, however.

The diet is adopted for various reasons: ethical, health, environmental, religious, political, cultural, aesthetic, economic, or other reasons, and there are a number of vegetarian diets. A lacto-vegetarian diet includes dairy products but not eggs, an ovo-vegetarian diet includes eggs but not dairy products, and an ovo-lacto vegetarian diet includes both eggs and dairy products. A vegan diet excludes all animal products, such as dairy products, eggs, and usually honey.

Semi-vegetarian diets consist largely of vegetarian foods, but may include fish or poultry, or other meats on an infrequent basis. Those with diets containing fish or poultry may define “meat” only as mammalian flesh and may identify with vegetarianism. A pescetarian diet, for example, includes “fish but no meat”. The common use association between such diets and vegetarianism has led vegetarian groups such as the Vegetarian Society to state diets containing these ingredients are not vegetarian, because fish and birds are animals.

The Vegetarian Society, founded in 1847, writes that it created the word “vegetarian” from the Latin “vegetus” meaning “lively”. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and other standard dictionaries state that the word was formed from the term “vegetable” and the suffix “-arian”. The OED writes that the word came into general use after the formation of the Vegetarian Society at Ramsgate in 1847, though it offers two examples of usage from 1839 and 1842.





The Best Vegetarian Website in Scotland

If you are vegetarian or vegan, and you haven’t already been there, I suggest you pay a visit to Anita’s Easy Vegetarian Recipes.com right now.

We found Anita’s site about six months ago, and we were so impressed with the site that we made contact with Anita. Since then we have started working closely with her to enable us both to publish the best articles we could write about vegetarianism or to seek out the best articles from all around the web and post them of our websites. Many of the vegetarian articles on spanishchef. net have been written by Anita herself. The recipes she has given us are all tried and tested by James and Anita.

Anita, and her husband James are based in Dunfermline, on the eastern side of southern Scotland. As you can imagine, this part of the world is often subject to many different extremes of weather, so they adapt their fruit and vegetable production schedules to match the seasonal changes. In this way, they always have fresh supplies of ‘raw’ materials to work with.

Anita says, “Our vegetarian recipes are all based on simple techniques – you can incorporate them into any meal plan and be confident they will please even the most fervent vegetarian sceptics among your guests!”

Anita’s site is currently riding high in the top ½% off the world’s websites. The site is rated in the top 1% of sites in the UK, and in Edinburgh, enjoys being rated as number 468 in the most viewed websites (data supplied by Alexa.com)

Last week, I asked Anita what she thought was the secret of the site’s popularity, “This website is a celebration of vegetarian recipes, but it goes further than that, celebrating the past, and embracing the present when life has become so busy, and many of us have little time to do as much home cooking as our mothers and grandmothers did – still we long for their simple approach to feeding their families with nutritious tasty food. Our easy vegetarian recipes will tick all the boxes and can be used on their own, or to accompany other foods if meat-eaters abound in your family!”

The site is packed with all the latest news on major food issues, like food safety, raw foodism, vegan, gluten-free food, as well as a look at wine, cider and of course Scottish whisky! The site explores home baking, bread-making, cooking with herbs (and growing them!) and using spices. “We highlight some award-winning recipes, and present them for you to try, as well as looking at healthy lunch, breakfast and main meal ideas!”

Anita and James know what they are talking about. For the last 27 years, they have been very active in the catering trade, travelling around the many Highland games and events supplying healthy food options to the visitors of these events. Now, in retirement, Anita devotes all of her time to growing fruit and vegetables and designing new and exciting vegetarian based recipes.

“We are always looking for new and different ways to grow our vegetables,” says Anita.

“If you need some new vegetable garden tips, head out to your local communal vegetable plots – in Britain these are called allotment gardens, and the local authorities are duty-bound to provide them if there is enough interest! Well, the interest in them is soaring and some of the waiting lists are several years long!”

“When we retired from the catering trade, and decided to concentrate on growing our own food and designing new ways to use it, we decided to have a walk round our local allotments to see if we could pick up some vegetable garden tips from the local growers, and it was brilliant!”

“When I asked them for their vegetable garden tips they had this to say – We always dig a runner bean trench – you dig a trench about 18 inches deep and 12 inches wide – save all your vegetable waste from the house and gradually add them to the trench, adding a little soil to cover each time – by the time the runner beans go in at the end of May, they will really benefit from all the great nutrition you have provided – we always have many more runner beans than we can handle!”
It’s worth listening to Steven’s advice – just look at the size of his onions, which he grew from seed in one season!

But don’t let me tell you all about Anita’s site – go see it for yourself. If you are a vegetarian or a vegan, or even if you just enjoy eating healthy freshly grown food, you can’t fail to appreciate the site.

Anita has developed a unique way of writing and presenting her articles. She uses RSS feeds directly into her subject pages, which gives the visitor a choice of ten different articles to read – as well as her own description or recipes regarding each particular subject. She is also looking for back links to the site, so if you have your own vegetarian site, then contact Anita and share your experiences on vegetarianism.

Anita’s Easy Vegetarian Recipes

Vegetarian, Raw and Vegan with Bill & Sheila

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