We interviewed blogger and soon-to-be cookbook author Cara Eisenpress about her website Big Girls Small Kitchen and what inspires her to make Mondays meatless.
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For the past 30 years, Bloomingfoods Market & Deli has been feeding Southern Indiana. Aside from the co-op’s isles of fresh, whole food, Bloomingfoods nourishes the community by purchasing from local sources and offering cooking, gardening and health classes. In May the market added another component to their health outreach by committing to a Meatless Monday. 
Japan has become the latest country to embrace the growing Meatless Monday movement! Students at four of Japan’s Ivy League colleges are hosting monthly ‘Veggie Monday’ parties to encourage the country to try more plant-based options.
No stranger to boar sausage, or to a finely braised veal shank, Mario Batali isn’t the first person that comes to mind when you think about vegetables. And that’s what’s so interesting about Batali’s decision to embrace Meatless Monday in all of his 14 restaurants across the country. With this simple gesture, Mario sends the message that we can start the week right by eating our veggies.
Decor-it Yourself, a video blog from sustainable fashion site Thread Banger, recommends that we improve our health with a Meatless Monday and offers a budget-friendly chili to get us started!
This past week, The Huffington Post launched its newest section. HuffPost Food investigates everything edible, and we were delighted that they included Meatless Monday! 
The Flexitarian Cookbook is more than a pile of recipes. Most of the dishes in the collection do double duty, working just as well with or without meat. Not only is The Flexitarian Cookbook a wonderful way to add some dishes to your Meatless Monday repertoire, it’s also a simple way to help a good cause.
In his award winning series Food Revolution, Jamie Oliver enters Huntington, West Virginia intent on curbing the city’s disease risk by improving health habits. His efforts illustrate that we need nutrition education in our schools– and more kitchen time with our kids at home!
With its focus on inexpensive yet delectable cuisine, Fab Frugal Food shows us just how delectable plant based meals can be as it goes meatless every Monday.
Cook This, Not That empowers consumers in the kitchen by providing recipes for healthier versions of chain restaurant staples. Whip up these low-fat versions of your favorite comfort foods this Monday.
Chicago NOW, the high-profile community hub about all things Chicago, has taken up the Meatless Monday mantle. Persuaded by the many health reasons to go meatless, Chicago NOW has joined the movement.
Actress, activist, rock-star wife and mother of two, Gwyneth Paltrow announces on her website GOOP that she’s joining the Meatless Monday movement!
Social networking sites serve as bridges in the vast sea of cyberspace. Our Facebook and Twitter pages have blossomed in recent months, providing a constant stream of news, resources and discussion.
Take one part CSA menu, one part carpool transportation, throw in a screening of The Real Dirt on Farmer John and a gourd for table decoration, and what do you have? The Sustainable Dinner Party Kit!
Acclaimed author and food activist Michael Pollan invited us to simplify our diet when he coined the phrase “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants”. In his newest book, Food Rules, Pollan turns this advice into 64 bite-sized tips that encourage us to embrace traditional attitudes towards diet and dining.
In Cooking With Wholefoods, award winning author Nicola Graimes shows readers how to savor the flavors and health benefits of unrefined produce, seeds, beans and grains. Create your own whole food dishes this Monday and boost the nutritional value of your family meals!
“Saving lives millions at a time” is the slogan the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University adopted during Dr. Al Sommer’s years as Dean there. Now, his new thought-provoking book says we can also save billions of dollars through preventive medicine.
Many of us associate the holiday season with our favorite sweets. In her newest book, Dr. Nancy Appleton argues this may be a deadly connection.
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat is a simple eating guide for those who love food! Dr. Michelle May takes an honest look at the relationship between eating and mindset. She offers straightforward answers to start your week with a positive mindset.
The editor-in-chief of Nutrition Alert Newsletter, Elizabeth Somer, has written a new book, Eat Your Way to Happiness. She offers simple, powerful tips helping you to live brightly and be more energetic – try them this Monday!
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In an ever-changing world of new cooking techniques, cuisines and gadgets, how’s a foodie to keep up with it all? Constantly evolving and user-fueled, 
As Sid Lerner, Chairman of The Monday Campaigns, says, "if you think chili needs meat, you don’t know beans! Meatless chili comes in a variety of flavors and is a great source of protein. The Vegetarian Chili Cookbook by Robin Robertson offers 80 unique, hearty recipes that are both nutritious and satisfying.
When your mom’s a doctor and your dad’s a spa chef, what’s a meatless tween to do? In the case of 12-year old Elyse May, she packaged her knowledge and wrote an award-winning teens meatless cookbook and launched a popular nutrition blog!
As we opened the October 2009 issue of Gourmet magazine, an impossibly good coupon fell in our lap. Sadly, it wasn’t an epicurean deal of a lifetime, but a plea from a luxury-oriented print mag. struggling in a market saturated with free online cooking resources.
Despite his love of steak, renowned chef Tal Ronnen switched to a plant-based diet. But he quickly realized he craved the meat-like consistencies he enjoyed as a carnivore. Ronnen uses this tension as the inspiration for his new cookbook, The Conscious Cook
Josh Tickell is the driver of “The Veggie Van”, which travels the nation using little more than vegetable oil for fuel. Recently, Josh made his way of life the basis for the feature film Fuel.
Catherine is a New York City foodie, entrepreneur and parent. Her kids have inspired her to create Tribeca Yummy Mummy; a blog full of recipes that are sure to please adults and children alike.
In Just Food: Where Locavores Get It Wrong And How We Can Truly Eat Responsibly, author James McWilliams argues that we must make sustainable food choices. He also insists that buying local is simply not enough.
People are using digital resources to discuss greener living and join the Meatless Monday movement! Check out some of our favorite microbloggers for weekly tips on making more sustainable choices.
No Impact Man goes meatless in making that rarest of things: a funny, feel-good environmental documentary.
Dawn Jackson Blanter’s book, The Flexitarian Diet, encourages healthier, meatless meals without asking us to sacrifice our favorite foods. 
Julia Child set the stage for a revolution in home cooking with her groundbreaking show The French Chef. But it’s the Internet and not television that is transforming cooking instruction!
Dr. David Kessler — a Harvard educated pediatrician and former head of the FDA — found himself incapable of controlling his longing for chocolate chip cookies. His struggle served as the inspiration for the best-selling book, 
Writers of all stripes are using blogging to spread the word about Meatless Monday. One of our favorites is 
American teenagers live a fast paced life surrounded by modern technology. The 
New York Times best-selling author Kathy Freston has a new book, The Quantum Wellness Cleanse, outlining her 21-day cleansing routine. But it’s her earlier work, Quantum Wellness, that gets to the heart of why we should all go meatless on Monday.
Once the work week gets underway, it seems that sitting down to a civilized meal becomes all but impossible for most of us. 
The findings in Hank Cardello’s new book 
Vitamin-enriched Diet Coke, bread infused with Omega-3 fatty acids- you’d think we were getting our fair share of vital nutrients. But Michael Pollan in his best-selling book "In Defense of Food†– out now in paperback – offers a very different perspective.
The producers of the new film "Food, Inc.†opening this week have chosen 10 things we can all do to change our food system. #5 is: Meatless Mondays…Go without meat one day a week.
Sometimes you come across a website name that says it all: simple, direct, powerful. Conde Nast’s NutritionData does just that: providing you the info you need to make informed nutrition choices.
Eating good food and listening to great music are two of life’s simple pleasures. The blog diary Macca’s Meatless Monday hosted on powerhouse Daily Kos combines the two in ways as clever as they are uplifting!-
Healthy News May 21, 2013
- Healthy Meatless Monday Grilling Tips [The Foodie Journal]
- Medical Journal: Docs Should Push Plant-Based Diets [Kaiser Permanente Journal]
- City of Vancouver Officially Endorses Meatless Monday [The Vancouver Courier]
- 5 Foods forFast Weight Loss [Forbes]
- Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center [Johns Hopkins]
- Vegetarian Diet Slashes Heart Disease Risk, Says Study [Nurse.com]
- Eating Greens May Make You More Optimistic [The Daily Mail]
- Western Diet May Cause Brain Impairment [Food Navigator]
- The Healthiest Cooking Methods Explained [TIME]
- USDA Proposes New Standards for School Snacks [The Washington Post]
Meatless Monday Morsels
Chef & Restaurant News Want to make Meatless Monday even more epic? Every Epic Burger in Chicago celebrates Mushroom Mondays each week by offering customers 20% off their Portobello sandwich combo.
Father-daughter duo, Tony and Marisa May launch Meatless Monday specials at NYC’s contemporary Italian fine dining destination SD26. Chef Matteo Bergamini serves up the best of spring’s bounty in meatless dishes like Spaghetti alla Chitarra and Vignarola.
Chow down the veggie curries at The Dhaba in Tempe, Arizona every Monday. From Vegetable Biryani to Mushroom Korma, there are tons of meatless Indian delicacies to explore each week.
Spenard Roadhouse in Anchorage, Alaska celebrates its third year in the Meatless Monday movement. Every Monday patrons have been dining on specials highlighting the best seasonal veggies The City of Lights has to offer.
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