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Even though the days are not really as warm as it should be for this time of the year, they definitely are getting a lot longer and slightly warmer than even just a few weeks back.  With longer and warmer days, inevitably my thoughts turn to spring. I am looking forward to this spring with an eagerness I do not remember having in the past, a result, I think, of having a more cold and bitter winter than usual.

And spring time in my book definitely translates to salad time. With warmer weather I find the need for hearty soups being replaced by an enthusiasm for salads. Salads can play such a vital role in maintaining a healthy diet and are a great way to incorporate a variety of veggies and fruits in our diet all at once. The recommended five to eight servings of vegetables and fruits a day is a lot easier to achieve if we include more salads in our diet. So I would like to choose Salads as the topic for the second edition of the Healthy Inspirations Event.

I would like to invite all my readers, both bloggers and non-bloggers to participate and send in their entries to this event. I am hoping to see a lot of healthy salads that will help all of us achieve and maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Here are some guidelines for this event

If you are a blogger and would like to participate

Then make any kind of healthy vegetarian or vegan salad  post it on your site and link back to this announcement page.

Feel free to use the logo as it will help to spread the word.

If you have posts in your archives that fit this theme then please re-post them with a link back to the announcement page.

Email your submissions to events@veginspirations.com with the subject Healthy Inspirations Event-Salads

In your email please include your name, your blog name,your location,  your recipe name, recipe URL and a picture of the dish.

The last date for entries is April 16, 2010

If you are a non blogger and wish to participate,

Please send in your name, recipe, location and a picture of the salad to events@veginspirations.com with the subject Healthy Inspirations Event- Salads

Looking forward to a lot of healthy salads from all of you . If you have any further questions please feel free to leave a comment below or send me an email at the above email address with subject line Question and I will get back to you asap.

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With the start of the new year comes the time most people start setting goals for in a lot of areas, most especially health. Most health goals I have heard of almost always involve losing weight and becoming fit or staying fit. I have rarely come across any one whose new year goals involved gaining weight :-) From personal experience what I have learned is that the easiest way to lose weight is a combination of healthy diet and regular exercise. Healthy diet means inclusion of right amount of protein, grains,healthy fiber, vegetables and fruits in one's diet. This is not really very difficult, it just involves a lifestyle change, in the sense one has to learn to incorporate better eating habits,make healthier substitutions where possible, reduce the consumption of processed flours, sugars etc, include more grains like oats and wheat etc etc. Most of you might have heard these points several times so I will not go into it at length here.

But making lifestyle changes is easier said than done, knowing what to eat and knowing how to use the above mentioned healthy ingredients in our day to day cooking in a way that is appealing not only to us but to our entire family can present a challenge at times. I have often found that eating healthy is so much easier when you are inspired to make healthy dishes. And what can be more inspiring than a collection of healthy recipes in one place. That is the thought behind my first event on this site called " Healthy Inspirations"



For this edition of the Healthy Inspirations event, I chose the topic of soups.Healthy soups are very diet friendly and can be a great tool in aiding weight loss or in maintaining good health. Soups are simple to make, even those just learning to cook can make them easily. They are also a great way to include healthy vegetables, protein, grains or all of the three into our diet.

I invite all my readers, both bloggers and non- bloggers, to participate in this event and am hoping to see a lot of healthy and inspired soup recipes here which can help all of us to achieve our health goals.


Looking forward to your inspired recipes.Here are some of the guidelines of participation...

If you are a blogger and want to participate

Cook any kind of healthy vegetarian or vegan soup. Post it on your site and link back to this announcement page.

Please feel free to use the logo, this will help in spreading the word.

Email you submission to events@veginspirations.com with the subject " Healthy Inspirations Event-Soups"

In your email please include your name, your blog name, your recipe name, the recipe URL and a picture of the dish.

Entries should be submitted no later than Feb 21st ,2010 for this event

Update: Unfortunately I have had to disable the right click on my site, so if you want to use the image, please click on the image and copy it from the image page. Or  please email me using the contact form above or leave a comment and I will email the image to you. Sorry for the inconvenience...

If you are a non blogger and want to participate, please send your email to events@veginspirations.com with the subject "Healthy Inspirations Event-Soups"

In your email, please include your name, your location, the recipe name,complete recipe of the dish and a picture of the dish.

If you have any further questions about this event, please leave a comment below or send an email to the above address with subject " Questions on event" and I will respond asap.

The first part of the roundup for this event is here 

The second part of the roundup for this event is here 

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