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Angela Simmons Everything Girls Love

Angela Simmons, reality TV actress, niece of Russell Simmons and the daughter of Rev Run, is featured on a recent cover of Everything Girls Love magazine.

Inside, Simmons’ interview reveals her favorite charities, love for animals and the vegetarian secret that plays a major role in her physique.

“Lately I’ve been working with an organization called NYClass, to get the horses off the streets of New York,” Simmosn told EGL.  “The horses that ride us around on carriages are treated so horribly and horses have no business being in the city.”

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Food Network Cookbook 1,000 Recipes Include Vegetarian Night

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, July 26th, 2012 in Books, Food & Drink, Recipes.

Food Network Magazine 1,000 Easy Recipes: Super Fun Food for Every Day

Look past the burger on the cover. Look past the bacon also. Think of your favorite faux meat substitute for these items. Now, open up the book and head for the vegetarian section. Breathe.

The Food Network editors have compiled a cookbook, Food Network Magazine 1,000 Easy Recipes: Super Fun Food for Every Day, that looks awfully carnivorous on the outside, but surprisingly plant-friendly on the inside, especially if you consider how easy it is to swap some ingredients here and there.

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Olympic Athletes Following Plant-Based Diets

Written by Vegetarian Star on Thursday, July 26th, 2012 in Athletes-Games-Sports, Food & Drink.

Garrett Weber-Gale

Fox News simply puts one of them in the category of “9 Athletes on Weird Diets,” but you may be pleasantly surprised to hear there are several potential Olympian champions who follow a vegetarian or mostly plant-based diet.

Gulf News profiles several Olympic athletes and their food regimes. Those who power up with plants include USA Swimmer Garrett Weber-Gale and USA Marathon Runner Michael Arstein.

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Carrie Underwoood spoke to Self Magazine about her vegetarian diet and fitness routine. Definitely, not a three cheese sandwich a day vegetarian, Underwood has a pretty good idea of what to put into her body. However, Self readers got an extra lesson in nutrition when a dietitian weighed in on the country singer’s breakfast, lunch and dinner.

So what’s on Carrie’s menu for breakfast?

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Target To House Pret A Manger Natural Foods Restaurant

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 in Business, Food & Drink, Restaurants.

Pret A Manger

Target’s newest opening in downtown Chicago will feature a Pret A Manger, a small chain of nationally recognize restaurants that serve natural foods.

More prominent in the UK, Pret A Manger stores feature an in-house kitchen and bakery and a fresh selection of daily soups, salads, sandwiches and more.

A few of the vegetarian items listed on Chicago’s menu include Falafel, Avocado and Pine Nut Wrap and several fruit salads.

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Jennifer Esposito Puts Gluten-Free, Vegan On Same Beat

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 in Actresses, Food & Drink, Nutrition-Health-Fitness.

Jennifer Esposito

Jennifer Esposito, who plays a detective in the CBS series Blue Bloods, did some investigation in real life after suffering from bouts of headache, fatigue, exhaustion and nausea.

Her diet police work led her to diagnosis of Celiac disease, a condition, according to one source, an estimated 1 in 250 people suffer from.

After solving that mystery, Esposito cracked another case–that some of the best gluten-free foods are also vegan.

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Kellie Pickler “Maxim” Cover Salutes Military

Written by Vegetarian Star on Wednesday, July 25th, 2012 in Female Singers, Food & Drink.

Kellie Pickler  Maxim

Kellie Pickler is posing on the latest cover of Maxim magazine for its salute to the military edition.

Her outfit is obviously very different from traditional combat wear, but we bet if every female solider copied her style, it’d make peace talks a lot more easier!

Pickler gets her fabulous American body from a steady diet of vegetarian food, even while on the road.

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Michelle Obama Vegetarian Winners Of Healthy Lunch Contest

Written by Vegetarian Star on Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 in Children, Food & Drink, Recipes.

Michelle Obama

Michelle Obama has announced the winners in the White House’s Healthy Lunch Contest. The champion chefs will be invited to a kids’ “state dinner” where some of the lnches will be served.

The winning list is very vegetarian friendly, with some vegan options, such as the Vegan Sloppy Joes and Kale Salad. There’s even a winning tofu recipe.

Here’s a list of some veg-friendly kid-approved recipes that won Mrs. Obama’s taste buds.

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