Below are some web sites on which you can find some helpful information about cooking in general, vegetarianism, and buying hard-to-find foods. Most of these sites are not Adventist and may contain information not in harmony with the health message of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Should you find something offensive, please notify me by email. Thank you.
These are vegetarian sites with information and recipes.
http://www.vegsource.com/
homepage for Vegesource, with all things dedicated to being a vegetarian
http://www.veg.org/veg/
Vegetarian Pages
http://www.vegweb.com/
Veggies Unite! Your on-line vegetarian resource guide
Sites where you can buy vegetarian and bulk food items on-line
http://www.soyfoods.com/SoyfoodsOnline.html
US Soy Foods Directory
this is a page of links to soy food sites
http://www.lumenfds.com/
Lumen Foods, makers of meat analogs (substitutes) which contain no animal products.
http://www.somethingbetternaturalfoods.com/
Something Better Natural Foods
Something Better supplies the Country Life Vegetarian Restaurants and has a large choice of bulk and hard-to-find foods: grains, dried fruits, nuts, soy milks, some-hard-to-find-items. You can order by mail or on-line.
http://www.lundberg.com/
They grow and sell all kinds of rice and rice products. They also state that they do not use genetically engineered seed. Can't yet order on-line, but you can see a list of their products and print out an order form to mail in.
http://www.organicfruitsandnuts.com/default.asp
Jaffe Brothers Organic and Natural foods. Another source for buy bulk and organic foods.
http://www.ethnicgrocer.com/eg/hm/eg.html
EthnicGrocer.com sell foods and ingredients for various ethnic cuisines. A source for some hard-to-find items.
Adventist nutrition sites
http://www.andrews.edu/NUFS/index.html
Andrews University nutritional resources
http://www.llu.edu/llu/nutrition/vegguide.html
Loma Linda Vegetarian Food Guide
Government, Association, and Educational sites
http://www.fda.gov/
The Federal Food and Drug Administration homepage
http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/list.html
Center for Food Safety & Applied Nutrition
http://www.eatright.org/
The American Dietetic Association homepage
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/nutritio.htm
Nutrition information links page from Vanderbilt University. Contains information from research.
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~kb250191/index.htm
The Nutrition Homepage for Educators.
Geared to teachers in the school system, still has some good information.
http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OA/news/xrecalls.htm
This is the site to check if you want to know the latest meat recalls due to contamination or other problems.
http://www.cspinet.org/
Center for Science in the Public Interest
There is a lot of food research done by this group and you can find the results here.
Finally
http://www.kitchenlink.com
The Kitchen Link
Your Guide to What's Cooking on the Net
recipes, links, guides, nutrition, news, anything and everything to do with food, lots of good, but not vegetarian. This is a good site to find international and ethnic recipes.
http://www.oldwayspt.org/html/p_veg.htm
A great vegetarian food guide pyramid is at the top of the page. Please overlook the blurb to the side about alcohol use, as we believe in total abstainence from alcoholic beverages.
Linda
[This message has been edited by Linda Sutton (edited August 06, 2000).]
Two new sites added today
[This message has been edited by Linda Sutton (edited December 19, 2000).]