Category: Tara’s Tuesday Tips

My Favorite Lentil Recipes

My Favorite Lentil Recipes

You are in luck! Here are my favorite lentil recipes all in one place! Chili, curry, hummus, burgers + more! Lentils are an awesome way to get lots of protein, fiber, leucine, and iron.  They are especially good for people looking to control blood sugar, [continue reading]

Why Lentils Are Awesome

Why Lentils Are Awesome

Could it be true that I have a new favorite legume? Yes, it is undoubtedly true.  I love lentils. Are they just a trend or are they legit? These little legumes have been around a long time and are a staple in plant-based kitchens everywhere!  [continue reading]

Time To Rethink Your Pandemic Habits

Time To Rethink Your Pandemic Habits

After two years of pandemic living, how many new habits have you picked up? Forced to change many of our behaviors + expected to adapt to new ways of life, we all picked up some new habits. So how long will these new behaviors stick [continue reading]

How To Improve Your Health With Fiber

How To Improve Your Health With Fiber

Eating more fiber isn’t expensive or difficult or disgusting! Fiber helps you feel full, protects you from lots of diseases, and can help you maintain your weight. Some of the health benefits of eating fiber might surprise you!!!   Once you learn How To Improve Your [continue reading]

Is Intermittent Fasting Right For You?

Is Intermittent Fasting Right For You?

Intermittent fasting continues to grow in popularity.  Curious if Intermittent Fasting is right for you? Is this just another fad diet or is intermittent fasting a lifestyle that you might want to try? Not all eating styles are right for all people.  Let’s dig a [continue reading]

How To Stop Meat Cravings As A Vegetarian

How To Stop Meat Cravings As A Vegetarian

Some people think cravings are a weakness or a lack of willpower. Nope! Cravings are very real! Some cravings are triggered by smell, some are caused by hormonal fluctuations, other times our bodies are telling us we need more of certain macro or micronutrients.  In [continue reading]

10 Things On My Grocery List Every Week

10 Things On My Grocery List Every Week

Looking to add more plants to your plate? Jumping in to plant-forward eating for health or your budget? Maybe making meatless Mondays a thing? You have come to the right place! This week I am sharing 10 things on my grocery list every week! This [continue reading]

Five Minute Tips For A Healthy Heart

Five Minute Tips For A Healthy Heart

Happy February! Did you know that February is American Heart Month? To celebrate, let’s have a heart- to-heart chat! Typically, you hear the same old heart-healthy tips. Don’t smoke, exercise more, lose weight, and eat less.  Sound familiar?  Yep.  So, what’s new? Over the last [continue reading]

The Vegetarian’s Guide to Silken Tofu

The Vegetarian’s Guide to Silken Tofu

Ready to explore the silkier side of tofu? Silken tofu is a hidden gem in the world of tofu! Never tried it before? You have come to the right place! The Vegetarian’s Guide to Silken Tofu is the perfect place to start for how to [continue reading]

Easy Ways To Eat More Beans

Easy Ways To Eat More Beans

Don’t feel like sitting down to a plate of rice + beans for dinner AGAIN? Me either!!! I call it a bean rut.  What else can we call it? Bean boredom, bean redundancy, bean fatigue.  Get the point? Yes, I know you do.  But wait! [continue reading]

The Vegetarian’s Guide to Sweet Potatoes

The Vegetarian’s Guide to Sweet Potatoes

Hearty, versatile, colorful, nutritious, and downright delicious. The sweet potato. Dinner, dessert, breakfast, or snack, this tuber is perfect any time of day! Not on team sweet potato yet? The Vegetarian’s Guide to Sweet Potatoes will help demystify the wonder of the sweet potato + [continue reading]

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Protein

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Protein

Let’s talk about protein! Getting enough protein is a common concern for plant-based eaters.  What are the best types of protein? How about recipes that pack in the protein? How much do we actually need? The Vegetarian’s Guide to Protein covers all this and more, [continue reading]

What Is Plant-Forward Eating?

What Is Plant-Forward Eating?

Is one of your goals this year to eat less meat? How about to eat more plants or fiber or colorful +  nutritious foods? A goal that adds things into your life instead of subtracting things?!?! Now that is a goal I can get on [continue reading]

Dear New Year’s Resolutions

Dear New Year’s Resolutions

Dear New Year’s Resolutions, It was fun while it lasted. Sincerely, January 2nd   Let’s try that again …   Dear New Year’s Resolutions, As we emerge from yet another year plagued by a global pandemic, one can only hope for the new year to [continue reading]

Tips For A Merry Healthy Holiday

Tips For A Merry Healthy Holiday

There is a whole lot to love about the holiday season.  However, the holidays can come with certain special stressors that escalate this time of year.  These stressors can really impact our health.  When most of us think of holiday health, we think of our [continue reading]

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Oat Flour

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Oat Flour

Curious about oat flour? You have come to the right place! Vegetarian or not, The Vegetarian’s Guide to Oat Flour covers all things oat flour.  How to make it, how to store it, and how to use it in your sweet + savory creations.  PLUS! [continue reading]

How To Bake Without Eggs

How To Bake Without Eggs

No eggs? No problem! Wanting to make brownies but ran out of eggs? Allergic to eggs? Trying to avoid animal products? No matter what the reason, eggless baking can be easy AND tasty! My tips this week help you learn how to bake without eggs [continue reading]

What To Do After Overeating

What To Do After Overeating

Holidays are awesome! Family + football + fun + feasting! Often times, holidays are filled with so many yummy foods that we tend to overeat.  This is SO normal.  However, there can be the consequential guilt that follows. Why are so many of you filled [continue reading]

What To Eat On Thanksgiving If You Don’t Eat Turkey

What To Eat On Thanksgiving If You Don’t Eat Turkey

Thanksgiving turkey alternatives are not just for the vegans! There are lots of people out there that don’t like turkey, don’t want turkey, can’t cook turkey, maybe just don’t want to eat turkey on Thursday. This one is for you! I have lots of ideas [continue reading]

How To Use Spices To Boost Wellness

How To Use Spices To Boost Wellness

Spices are good for your taste buds AND your health, so spice it up! Dried spices can be found in just about every kitchen around the world, can liven up boring meals, and some people even use spices therapeutically. Everyone can and should know how [continue reading]

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Potatoes

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Potatoes

Russet, Yukon Gold, mashed, baked, diced, there is a potato for everyone! The Vegetarian’s Guide To Potatoes sorts through how to store potatoes, choosing which one to put in your recipe + nutrition information.  Yes, you can AND should be eating potatoes!

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Leafy Greens

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Leafy Greens

Do you eat greens simply because you have to? What compels you to eat greens? With so many different types of leafy greens available, it can get really confusing! Which ones are better raw versus cooked, how to wash them, store them, and prepare them.  [continue reading]

Eat, Move, Live, Repeat

Eat, Move, Live, Repeat

Most of you come to this blog for recipes. I have the best recipe for you today.  Eat, move, live, repeat. Tara’s 3-ingredient recipe for living your best life – healthier, happier, stronger, meeting the demands of your everyday life with more energy + less [continue reading]

Turn Up The Heat: Spicy Food IS Healthy

Turn Up The Heat: Spicy Food IS Healthy

For those of you out there like me who love a fiery kick to your food, today is your day. Is your spice cabinet stocked with an abundant variety of ground peppers? How about hot sauce bottles with warning labels? In my kitchen, there is [continue reading]

The Vegetarian’s Guide To A Healthy Halloween

The Vegetarian’s Guide To A Healthy Halloween

Halloween can be a scary time for even the most health conscious. Everywhere we turn there are decadent treats.  Not to mention, the ginormous oversized bags of candy lurking around every corner. The most frightful part? So many people view Halloween as the starting point [continue reading]

Dear Pumpkin Spice Season (A Letter From A Food Blogger)

Dear Pumpkin Spice Season (A Letter From A Food Blogger)

Dear Pumpkin Spice Season, As soon as summer ends, you are everywhere.  You pop up where I get coffee, gas, soap, candles, and even pet food.  We push aside the beloved jack-o-lantern and even apple pie for you. Every September, you come back into our [continue reading]

Healthy Easy Plant-Based Lunches

Healthy Easy Plant-Based Lunches

During the height of the pandemic, many of us wanted so badly to get back to ‘normal’.   This fall, as more and more ‘normal’ activities are resuming, we are slowly getting those familiar routines back.  Routines including in-person meetings, full work or school days, and [continue reading]

What To Do When Your Child Wants To Be A Vegetarian

What To Do When Your Child Wants To Be A Vegetarian

What you thought was a regular day in your house suddenly turned upside down by the announcement from one of your children, “I want to be a vegetarian”. Don’t panic! With a little planning + know-how, living with a little vegetarian can be easier than [continue reading]

BBQ Survival Guide For Vegetarians

BBQ Survival Guide For Vegetarians

Are you ready to say goodbye to summer? Ready or not, Labor Day is here! This weekend officially marks the end of summer.  Here in sunny Florida, I’m not sure that we ever say goodbye to summer. Regardless of where you live, backyard BBQ’s, beach [continue reading]

How To Find Happiness In The Kitchen

How To Find Happiness In The Kitchen

Some of my earliest + fondest memories are of meals from my childhood.  From the rows and rows of home-grown vegetables in our back yard garden on Long Island to the fine China + silverware that my uncle trusted me to eat with even as [continue reading]

Guide To Cooking Recipe-Free Meatless Meals

Guide To Cooking Recipe-Free Meatless Meals

It is easier than you think to improvise your way through answering the question, “what should I make for dinner?”.  Maybe you have committed to Meatless Mondays or are considering going completely meat-free.  Plant-based eating should be easy + quick + healthy + yummy! You [continue reading]

Your Health Goes Way Beyond Food

Your Health Goes Way Beyond Food

What is the phrase “you are what you eat” actually saying to us? Is your overall health exclusively dependent on what, when, and how you eat? Nope. I’m here to tell you that your health goes way beyond food. Your life matters more than how [continue reading]

Guide To Eating Seasonally In Summer

Guide To Eating Seasonally In Summer

If only every day could be a summer day! Longer days, warm sunshine, swimming, sandy feet, and summer foods!!! I think I was made just for sunny summer days.  My favorite thing about summer is absolutely the foods that grown abundantly in summer. Don’t miss [continue reading]

Are Nuts Good For You Or Not?

Are Nuts Good For You Or Not?

Nuts often get lumped into the “do not eat” category.  Before doing that, consider the possibility that nuts can be an incredible food to incorporate into your diet. BUT WAIT! Are nuts good for you or not?

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Beans

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Beans

Beans are such an exciting food! Versatile + inexpensive + a total nutritional powerhouse.  Yet somehow, still so underrated! Come on guys, give beans some love. I can turn a can of beans into a breakfast, lunch, dinner or even a dessert! The Vegetarian’s Guide [continue reading]

How To Choose A Cooking Oil

How To Choose A Cooking Oil

Curious about how to choose a cooking oil? Not sure what smoke point means? Refined or unrefined? Should you go oil-free?  Confused about the coconut oil controversy? I KNOW! My tips this week help guide you through choosing the right cooking oil for the right [continue reading]

Vegetarian Or Not, Let’s Talk About Breakfast

Vegetarian Or Not, Let’s Talk About Breakfast

What is your breakfast personality? We all have one.  Grab and go? Sit and enjoy? Skip all together? Does the drive-thru save the day for you? Vegetarian or not, let’s talk about breakfast!

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Post-Pandemic Eating

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Post-Pandemic Eating

Did the pandemic change the way you eat?  Stress eating, snacking, working from home, working out from home, more time at home with more access to the kitchen.  After a year of pandemic living, does your daily eating look different than it used to? Vegetarian [continue reading]

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Mindful Snacking

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Mindful Snacking

Do find yourself snacking mindlessly or are you an intentional snacker? Mindless snacking can easily derail your best healthy efforts.  There’s no denying that it’s really really hard to curb unnecessary snacking.  Sometimes, finding out why you are snacking is just as important as improving what [continue reading]

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Cancer Prevention

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Cancer Prevention

By now you already know that there are certain things we can do to decrease our risk of developing cancer. There are also certain things we can do to increase our risk of developing cancer. What you may not know is that when it comes [continue reading]

How To Build A Healthy Salad (That Still Tastes Good)

How To Build A Healthy Salad (That Still Tastes Good)

I love a good salad.  However, I have a strict set of demands when it comes to building a salad.  Vegetarian or not, a salad can be a wholesome meal packed with nutrients, color, protein, and fiber. But salad is SO CONFUSING!  I totally get that.  [continue reading]

My Daily Checklist Of Healthy Habits

My Daily Checklist Of Healthy Habits

My inspiration for starting this blog was you! Your curiosity of plant-based living, plant-powered running, maintaining healthy weight over the course of a lifetime, and cooking with clean + real foods.   Above all, my inspiration for starting MyVegetarianFamily.com was your curiosity for how we here [continue reading]

Picnic Survival Guide For Vegetarians

Picnic Survival Guide For Vegetarians

Are you ready for summer? I AM! Summer holidays, backyard BBQs, beach days, picnics, and pool parties, here we come! This Picnic Survival Guide For Vegetarians will get you ready for the perfect vegetarian or vegan friendly picnic. I am super excited to share with [continue reading]

10 Easy Food Substitutions For Plant-Based Eating

10 Easy Food Substitutions For Plant-Based Eating

Make your transition to plant-based eating easy with simple swaps! You won’t miss the meat if you have these substitutions on hand AND know how to use them. I know, it can be tricky to get started.  Trust me here, these 10 easy food substitutions [continue reading]

Signs That You Should Go Plant-Based

Signs That You Should Go Plant-Based

Sometimes our bodies give us warning signs that our diets are not serving us well.  Minor day to day ailments might be the result of what you eat (or don’t eat)! Don’t overlook the subtle clues that your body is dishing out. With the rise [continue reading]

10 Things To Do On Weekends To Make Weeknight Cooking Easier

10 Things To Do On Weekends To Make Weeknight Cooking Easier

The perfect button-down shirt, pair of jeans, black dress, maybe your uniform shirt or scrubs. We all have wardrobe basics.  You wouldn’t start your week out without your basic clothing essentials slightly ready for the week.  I’m talking basic wardrobe prepping here.  Uniform shirt actually [continue reading]

Guide To Eating Seasonally In Spring

Guide To Eating Seasonally In Spring

With spring in full swing, it is the perfect time for us to eat with the season! Summer is creeping up on us and before you know it, we will need to shift to watermelon + corn! Don’t miss out on all of the fresh, [continue reading]

How To Eat For Heart Health

How To Eat For Heart Health

Did you know that 80% of chronic disease is preventable? Diet is one of the biggest factors contributing to the development of these chronic diseases, especially heart disease. With half of all Americans suffering from some form of heart disease, we must start doing something [continue reading]

Is Dietary Variety Really That Important?

Is Dietary Variety Really That Important?

Dietary Diversity.  Do we need more or less of it? Is dietary variety really that important? Or is the need to find endless variety actually derailing our healthy eating efforts? My tips this week answer this question, and the answer might surprise you.    

When Eating Organic Really Matters

When Eating Organic Really Matters

Tara’s Tuesday Tips: First Tuesday Quick Tips Fruits + vegetables are an essential and critical part of a healthy diet.  Conventional or organic. My tips today help you navigate when eating organic really matters.  Sometimes, the investment isn’t necessary. Remember, pesticides are a toxic substance [continue reading]

How I Got Here

How I Got Here

Hi! My name is Tara.  I’m so glad you are here because that means you have an interest in some form of meatless eating! Whether you are brand new to cutting out meat, or are a plant-based veteran, we are all here with one common [continue reading]

Reasons to Eat Tempeh

Reasons to Eat Tempeh

If you are new to plant-based eating, there is a good chance you have never even heard of tempeh! My tips this week will introduce you to this versatile + plant-based food.  Get ready to get hooked on tempeh. Protein-packed, easy to prepare, super high [continue reading]

Why You Should Be Eating Green

Why You Should Be Eating Green

We all know we should eat vegetables.  “Eat your greens”, “eat the rainbow”, “finish your vegetables” have been around forever.  But what makes green foods so spectacular? With St. Patrick’s Day upon us, let’s start thinking (and eating) green! With my help, you will quickly [continue reading]

What’s In My Pantry

What’s In My Pantry

You asked for it, you got it! What’s In My Pantry? I’m going to tell you! Stocking a plant-based pantry is easier than you think it is.  Whether you are struggling with setting up your pantry for healthy eating success or you are a total [continue reading]

How To Choose To Be Healthy

How To Choose To Be Healthy

Tara’s Tuesday Tips: First Tuesday Quick Tips What you are not changing, you are choosing. Sometimes, sticking with the status quo is ok.  Other times, this complacency can have negative consequences. Do you need a little help figuring out how to choose to be healthy [continue reading]

Easy Ways To Eat More Plants

Easy Ways To Eat More Plants

Are you looking for easy ways to eat more plants? Maybe you want to eat a little healthier, try out vegetarian, pescatarian, flexitarian, or plant-based diet? Trying to eat a more plant-centric diet to improve your heart health, decrease risk of disease, lose weight, or [continue reading]

Crazy For Cauliflower? Me Too!

Crazy For Cauliflower? Me Too!

Are you crazy for cauliflower? I am AND I know I’m not the only one. Cauliflower has been rising to popularity over the last few years. With good reason! This nutrient-rich vegetable is so versatile + full of potential. Don’t pass this one up as [continue reading]

Learn To Love Tofu

Learn To Love Tofu

Have you ever met someone who HATES tofu? I have. What comes to mind when I say the word tofu? hippie? tree hugger? bland? tasteless? vegan? tof-ewwww? Tofu is seriously misunderstood. As a vegetarian, plant-based eater, it was easy for me to learn to love [continue reading]

Meat-Free Super Bowl Recipes

Meat-Free Super Bowl Recipes

Planning your game day menu? For the football fans that prefer a meatless menu, I’ve got you covered! 🧐 Are there really any of those? You bet there are! And they need to eat! Party or no party, food is an integral part of any [continue reading]

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Mood Boosting Foods

The Vegetarian’s Guide To Mood Boosting Foods

More and more research is showing us that food is directly linked to our moods and our mental health.  Some significant mental health issues including depression, anxiety, and even post-partum depression can be related to diet.  Indeed there are other factors involved in the development [continue reading]

How To Reset Your Healthy Eating Habits

How To Reset Your Healthy Eating Habits

With interrupted routines, constant access to refrigerators, and using unhealthy comfort foods to deal with emotions, it is no wonder the Corona-19 is becoming just as familiar as the Freshman-15.  That being said, as 2021 rang in, so did New Year’s Resolutions.  Many people resolved [continue reading]

Guide To Vegetarian Mexican Cooking

Guide To Vegetarian Mexican Cooking

Mexican cuisine is the ideal cuisine for vegans, vegetarians, and plant-based eaters.  With the dishes being centered around robust spices, grains, beans, and fresh vegetables, this is an obvious choice for meatless eaters.  Vegetarian Mexican Cooking allows for endless ways to put your own twist [continue reading]

Survival Guide to Vegetarian Intermittent Fasting

Survival Guide to Vegetarian Intermittent Fasting

Tara’s Tuesday Tips this week is something very different for us here at MVF.  As you know, we are vegetarian 💚.  What you may not know is that this week marks the one year anniversary of our journey with Intermittent Fasting.  So, I thought it [continue reading]

Calorie Density 101: How to Lose Weight Eating More Food

Calorie Density 101: How to Lose Weight Eating More Food

Have you ever thrown in the towel on your weight loss efforts because you are tired of feeling deprived + hungry? You are not alone. The vicious cycle of eating less, cutting calories, banishing your favorite foods, letting yourself get so hungry that you overeat [continue reading]

What Happens To Your Body When You Eat Pumpkin

What Happens To Your Body When You Eat Pumpkin

We all go pumpkin crazy sometime during the month of September.  Every.  Single.  Year.  I will be the first to admit, I get the pumpkin fever very early in the season.  Every. Single. Year. The list of nutritional benefits of pumpkin goes on + on.  [continue reading]

What I Eat In A Day WFPB

What I Eat In A Day WFPB

I love that My Vegetarian Family members + readers + followers + fans are curious about what I eat in a day! I am living proof that a whole food, plant-based (WFPB) life is possible.  Above all, it is possible with great tasting food that [continue reading]

Food Swaps For Weight Loss

Food Swaps For Weight Loss

There is no magic formula for weight loss.  Not the first time you have heard that, I know. However, it does take a little knowledge + effort.  In a world full of weight loss gimmicks, magic diet pills, intense diet + exercise regimens, it becomes [continue reading]

How To Eat To Prevent Diabetes

How To Eat To Prevent Diabetes

Tara’s Super Quick Lesson On Diabetes Simply put, diabetes is chronically elevated blood glucose.  In Type 1 diabetics, there is a chronic glucose elevation as a result of the pancreas not making insulin.  With Type 2 diabetes, the pancreas makes insulin but the insulin has [continue reading]

How To Enjoy Cooking At Home

How To Enjoy Cooking At Home

I love cooking.  I am the kind of girl that gets super excited when I am gifted a new kitchen gadget, I LOVE experimenting with new recipes at home, new flavors, and ingredients.  The entire process I am obsessed with.  From growing my own food [continue reading]

Guide to Oil-Free Cooking

Guide to Oil-Free Cooking

When I initially began learning about a whole food, plant-based diet, I was most intrigued by oil-free cooking. I thought the idea of it was completely crazy. How does one cook without oil? I assumed when cooking without oil, everything would stick to the pan, [continue reading]

Quinoa for Beginners

Quinoa for Beginners

Time to dust off that bag of quinoa sitting in your pantry collecting dust.  If you are a quinoa newbie or a quinoa expert, Quinoa for Beginners is for you! Vegans, vegetarians + yes, even meat-eaters can and should be eating quinoa. Let’s start by [continue reading]

Chipotle Copycat Recipes

Chipotle Copycat Recipes

YES! You can make all of your favorites from the Chipotle Mexican Grill Menu right in your own kitchen! Learn the secrets to mild, medium, hot + corn salsa, cilantro lime rice, guacamole, black beans + sofritas! These chipotle copycat recipes are EXACTLY like the [continue reading]

Guide To Frozen Vegetables (Myths + Methods!)

Guide To Frozen Vegetables (Myths + Methods!)

Tara’s Tuesday Tips: Guide to Frozen Vegetables (Myths + Methods!) What do you do when you don’t have access to fresh vegetables? Not eat vegetables? Nope! Go for frozen! Let’s sort through the myths in this guide to frozen vegetables and most importantly, correct any [continue reading]

How To Feel More In Control During The Pandemic

How To Feel More In Control During The Pandemic

These strange times are starting to feel normal. Anyone else feeling like that? Are you wondering how to feel more in control during the pandemic? I AM! It is amazing how something that once felt so uncomfortable can surprisingly start feeling so routine. As I [continue reading]

My Favorite Kitchen Hacks (Pandemic Edition)

My Favorite Kitchen Hacks (Pandemic Edition)

Using my Tuesday Tips this week to bring you My Favorite Kitchen Hacks. Even during a pandemic, My Vegetarian Family is still here 💚 helping my friends and followers survive this crazy time.  We are all still cooking and eating! Still managing grocery deliveries, and [continue reading]

Oil-Free Salad Dressings

Oil-Free Salad Dressings

Oil-Free Salad Dressings? Is it even possible?!?! YES! Today I bring you 10 of my favorite oil-free salad dressings. They are all plant-based + easy! The best part? You can use them on greens, veggies, as a dip, on pasta or noodles, or as a [continue reading]

Nutritional Yeast 101

Nutritional Yeast 101

Are you new to nutritional yeast? Can you believe this? I was until a short time ago! If you are a vegan or vegetarian or just looking for that extra something to up your kitchen game, its time to learn how to use nutritional yeast! [continue reading]

Immunity Boosting Foods

Immunity Boosting Foods

Can something as simple as what we eat help prevent us from getting sick? More importantly, can what we eat make us more likely to catch a virus or a bacteria? The short answer is YES and YES! Make it easy + healthy. Words I [continue reading]

How To Choose A Dairy-Free Milk Alternative

How To Choose A Dairy-Free Milk Alternative

Gone is the day where milk alternatives are sought after by only the lactose intolerant, milk-protein allergic, or the animal rights activists.  Welcome to the era where milk alternatives are part of our everyday culture.  From Starbucks to Dunkin Donuts, kids lunchboxes to dairy-free milk [continue reading]

Can You Be Vegetarian and Still Work Out?

Can You Be Vegetarian and Still Work Out?

True or False? Can You Be Vegetarian and Still Work Out? Tara’s Tuesday Tips this week busts through all of the myths surrounding this question! There are so many things to think about if you are considering going meat-free. Let’s sort through the facts so [continue reading]

Air Fryer 101

Air Fryer 101

Finally! All of your questions answered about your air fryer. Whether you are new to cooking in your air fryer or you love it just as much as I do, Air Fryer 101 is a Tara’s Tuesday Tips best and a MUST READ! There is [continue reading]

Is Your Oatmeal Boring?

Is Your Oatmeal Boring?

Oats are fabulous! You don’t have to be great cook, you don’t need a complicated recipe, you don’t even need fancy kitchen gadgets. Oatmeal can be a blank canvas for any creation you dream up. On the flip side, they can get redundant and boring.  [continue reading]

Should You Be Eating Chia Seeds?

Should You Be Eating Chia Seeds?

Chia seeds are tiny little seeds packed with enormous health benefits.  My favorite thing about chia seeds is the way they soak up water. Every time I put chia seeds in a recipe I feel as though I am doing a science experiment watching those [continue reading]

The Truth About Carbs

The Truth About Carbs

Are there truly good carbs and bad carbs? Should you avoid all carbs? What are carbs anyway? Can diabetics eat carbs? Do carbs cause obesity? Are low-carb fad diets healthy? Read on to find out the truth about carbs.  

What Is A Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet?

What Is A Whole Food, Plant-Based Diet?

 A whole food plant-based diet doesn’t have to be confusing or overwhelming. The data, the research, and the science heavily support eating more whole, natural, minimally processed foods to meet your nutritional needs.  By doing so, yes, you might lose weight, but at the same [continue reading]

How to Lower Your Cholesterol

How to Lower Your Cholesterol

Figuring out how to lower your cholesterol or simply keeping your cholesterol in good range can be overwhelming! Follow these easy, helpful tips to get started. Small changes add up and a little knowledge goes a long way. This is a must read!

How to Stay Healthy During The Holidays

How to Stay Healthy During The Holidays

So glad you are here! The holiday season can be a VERY stressful time of the year.  My tips this week can help you stay healthy during the holidays and every day!  

Tara’s Rules of Eating

Tara’s Rules of Eating

Diet research and advice emerges every day. What we once believed, we are now told not to do. Diet culture, wellness influencers, social media, fad diets. We have seen plenty of nutrition advice change over the last few decades. Regardless of the diet of the [continue reading]

Healthy Alternatives to Refined Sugar

Healthy Alternatives to Refined Sugar

Vegetarian or not,  if you are diabetic, interested in lowering your sugar intake, suffering with fatty liver disease or another health condition, and you want to lower your sugar intake, you need to understand refined sugars and the alternatives you can enjoy! My tips this [continue reading]

Intermittent Fasting for Vegetarians

Intermittent Fasting for Vegetarians

Intermittent Fasting sure is having a moment in the world right now. What is this style of eating? Are there health benefits? What are the best foods to break a fast? Are there special considerations for vegetarians? Today, my tips answer 10 common questions regarding [continue reading]

We Are Back!

We Are Back!

Hi There! We Are Back! 🙌🏻 MyVegetarianFamily.com took some much-needed time off, but we are back! Over the last year we were blessed to venture out on many travel adventures, met family from around the country and around the world! We learned lots and lots [continue reading]

The Fake Meat Guide

The Fake Meat Guide

Fake meat.  Meat substitute.  Meat alternatives. Mock meats. Call it what you want but be wary.  Not all of the fake meats are created equal. This Fake Meat Guide can help you navigate everything from tofu to the exotic look-alikes.

10 Things You Should Know Before Going Gluten Free

10 Things You Should Know Before Going Gluten Free

Are you considering cutting out gluten in your diet? Not sure if it is right for you? My tips this week help! 10 Things You Should Know Before Going Gluten Free. What to eat, what to avoid, plus GF recipes + tips!

10 Tips To Help You Stick To Your New Year’s Resolution

10 Tips To Help You Stick To Your New Year’s Resolution

Every year when the first of January comes rolling in, the buzz word everywhere is ‘resolutions’. New year, new you, time for a change, you’ve heard them all, I’m sure! Goals are a great thing! With the new year comes the hope of new beginnings, [continue reading]

How To Stay Healthy During The Holidays

How To Stay Healthy During The Holidays

The holiday season inspires a sense of excitement, the warmth of tradition, the welcoming of cooler weather.  For some, these are wonderful emotions that can be motivating. For others, these emotions entice anxiety, stress, and sadness. Whether you are filled with joy or anxiety this [continue reading]

Thanksgiving Survival Guide For Vegetarians

Thanksgiving Survival Guide For Vegetarians

Oh what a wonderful time of year! Autumn! In America, that means Thanksgiving is coming! Some call it turkey day. What if you don’t eat turkey? Thanksgiving can be a difficult day for vegetarians. We want to experience all of the magic of the holiday, [continue reading]

Nutrition Myths You Need To Stop Believing

Nutrition Myths You Need To Stop Believing

Not sure if what you are reading or hearing is myth or fact? Tired of all of the nutrition misinformation? You have come to the right place! Read on to find out the nutrition myths you need to stop believing immediately (and the facts!) and [continue reading]

Should I Be Eating Eggs?

Should I Be Eating Eggs?

To egg or not to egg.  That is the question. Should I be eating eggs? Should you be eating eggs? My tips this week help you answer the question, “Should I Be Eating Eggs?”. There are lots of reasons people choose not to eat eggs.  [continue reading]

How To Be Vegetarian When Your Family Is Not

How To Be Vegetarian When Your Family Is Not

Making the decision to change is never easy.  Change is good, right? Well, yes, except when you are ready to change and the people around you are not.  In that case, change can be awkward. Figuring out how to be a vegetarian when your family [continue reading]

Travel Tips For Vegetarians

Travel Tips For Vegetarians

Heading out on vacation? You have come to the right place! These travel tips for vegetarians will come in handy. Being a vegetarian while traveling can sometimes get tricky. However, it is entirely possible to eat completely plant-based when you are out on the road [continue reading]