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Imserba Webstore - Vegetarian Times (1-year)
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List Price: $44.91
Our Price: $12.00
Your Save: $ 32.91 ( 73% )
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 months
Manufacturer: Active Interest Media
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Binding: Magazine
First Issue Lead Time: 6-10
Format: Magazine Subscription
Issues Per Year: 9
Label: Active Interest Media
Magazine Type: Consumer magazine
Manufacturer: Active Interest Media
Number Of Issues: 9
Publisher: Active Interest Media
Studio: Active Interest Media
Subscription Length: 365
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Editorial Reviews:
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Vegetarian Times is the magazine of great food, good health, and smart living. Each issue is packed with mouth-watering recipes that taste great-and are good for you too. You'll find new tastes, old favorites, and tips on how to cook with fewer calories and less fat.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good stuff, lots of ads
Comment: We look forward to every issue. As some of the other reviewers have stated, the recipes are not always perfect. However, we find enough good recipes and ideas in every issue to make it worthwhile. Also, I tend to modify the recipes to suit my own preferences and fit with the ingredients I have on hand. So, if they "forget" to add salt or seasoning I like, I just put it in. That's the great thing about making your own food, you can make it how you like it.
Some of the recipes are quick and easy to prepare and turn out very tasty. Others take longer and have too many ingredients. After you've been cooking awhile, you can usually look at a recipe and get a good idea whether or not you'll like it. We treat this magazine like a buffet, we use what we want to and leave the rest.
We also have gotten a lot of good ideas on how to prepare food over the years. My mom, who is not a vegetarian loves using the recipes as side dishes.
It does have a lot of ads. That I really don't mind, it keeps the cost of publication down and many of them are either informative or amusing.
If you are really hardcore vegan, you'll probably enjoy publications such as VegNews a little more. If you are a vegatarian or like to eat like one sometimes, this magazine has many good recipes and articles.
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Summary: Not for the busy vegetarian!
Comment: I'm a vegetarian and I LOVE to cook meals at home. But I do not have the time or patience to spend lots of time, or the budget to spend lots of money.
The recipes in vegetarian times are not only time consuming, but require SO MANY (sometimes unique) ingredients, that by the time you've paid your grocery bill, you might as well have gone out to eat! In the latest issue, there were only 3 recipes that took "30 mins" or less, but upon review, they probably took a little longer, and they were all side dishes. A full meal would take you all day using this magazine!
The pictures are great, and everything looks very pretty, but the articles are lacking... they're usually not very interesting or substantial.
Lastly, there are about a million ads... in fact, it seemed like the whole second half of the magazine was ads, in addition to the ones smattered about among the recipes!
I'll give them props for a good idea, and some tasty recipes, but it's just not worth the time and money they take to prepare.
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Summary: For Vegetarian Wanna-be's
Comment: I am 'practicing' to be a vegetarian. This is all new to me. I love reading through the recipes each month. I tear out pages with recipes that I want to try. I keep the winners. I think there is enough variety to satisfy many tastes. I look forward to each issue and have read it cover to cover before the next issue arrives. I bought a subscription for my daughter also. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Temperamental and Unpredictable
Comment: Before ordering a subscription to "Vegetarian Times," it is important that you understand the publisher's definition of vegetarian. At least every couple months, there is an outcry in the editorial section that they "Don't have enough vegan recipes!" and that they should be more inclusive to all forms of vegetarians. There was even a time I recall reading an editorial along the lines of not providing enough raw food recipes! Before ordering the magazine, make sure you understand that this is a magazine that caters mainly to lacto-ovo vegetarians. I don't feel like the magazine does a well enough job addressing this when marketing the magazine.
Each month, the magazine is expected to contain a cosmetic section, a recipe section and some sort of Question/Answer section with an expert. This aside, some issues of vegetarian times are considerably more disappointing than others. For example, some issues have a well-constructed activism section called "Carrot and Stick," while other issues have articles completely unrelated to the realm of vegetarianism. Take a 3-4 page article that addressed the possible dangers of artificial sweeteners as one example. As pressing as the issue may be, I really don't have any desire to read about it in "Vegetarian Times."
In conclusion, when you remove all of the fluff and unnecessary articles that one generally wouldn't expect to read in a vegetarian-orientated magazine, you are left with less than half of the magazine you started with that you can actually utilize. You are just as well off, if not better, surfing the web and downloading classy vegetarian articles off the internet.
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Summary: Really like this magazine
Comment: Just received my first copy and have already made four of the meals and really liked them.
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