Great book to help me start my vegan journey and help me start leading a healthy life with a plant-based diet. Lots of nutritional information and tweaks to make meals more nutritious to help you not resort to the vegan ready foods available which aren’t as healthy as they first seem. Has lots of heart-lifting quotes as well which I enjoyed.

This was a compelling and thoroughly enjoyable read from start to finish with plenty of insight into a fascinating topic written in an accessible and eminently readable fashion. Not only it insightful and educational but it's also entertaining to read; the best of both worlds. What more could you ask for?

Vegan Savvy is a well laid out book focusing on the nutritional side of a Vegan diet. The illustrations are lovely, and I really appreciated that it was written by a nutritionist, so focused more on practicalities than ethics, which I’m already sold on!

I would recommend this book to those looking to lower their meat and dairy intake as well as Vegans wanting to check they’re eating a balanced diet.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for providing me with an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book is such a useful guide to being vegan, including tips on nutrition. As a vegetarian who is considering making the switch to veganism, I believe this book will be a useful guide should I choose to change my diet.

I have to be honest, I didn't get past the introduction. That was already when I was feeling offended. I have been vegan for a while out of moral reasons (read: for the animals) and I like reading new vegan books that come out, seeing if I have everything covered nutrition wise, etc.

I don't mind reading a book by a non-vegan. I do think that it would be better for these books to be written by vegans for vegans, because they understand. And because there are a lot of amazing vegan experts out there. But the fact that Mrs. Govindji isn't vegan didn't bother me. Until I had the impression that she is irritated by veganism. The whole storyline of her having to research it because her daughter became vegan and she was worried (which btw read as the worst thing that could've happened to her), didn't sit right with me at all. There is a line about how her daughter restricted herself and following that up with her statement that she isn't vegan herself did it for me. It read ignorant. I am sure that she changed her mind, otherwise she wouldn't have written this book. But I felt looked down on in my belief and if I fancy a good dose of belitteling, I'll just go to a family dinner, I don't need it in a book about vitamins and nutrition.

I am sure that not everyone will be as offended as I have been, maybe someone has read further and discovered that she changes her mind quite quickly. But I simply couldn't be bothered to find out.

First of all, I loved the graphic in this book so much. That's why I picked this book. And the second is the content itself. I'm flexitarian, I avoid meat and dairy on a daily basis, this book is well explained, especially with the awesome graphics.

I'm a 95% vegetarian, in that I was fully veggie for 9 years, was never a big meat eater before that, and have never been since, but I do eat the occasional bit of meat or fish now. When it comes to cooking though, I am in the habit of cooking vegetarian meals or even vegan, as I prefer it, find it healthier and I feel a lot of guilt around meat!
So I'm always looking for new ideas, especially as my partner is not veggie but he likes eating plant-based meals, and we like to vary our plates.
This book was an excellent addition to my shelf, and there is a conscious attitude to the choices made - being more ecological, healthy and mindful about what we eat can only be a good thing. Veganism is not only about the animals, but there is a whole politic around farming, economy, environment, climate change, social class... it's a huge area. I learnt a lot from this book.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for letting me access an advance digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Vegan Savvy is such an interesting guide to being vegan, and much more in depth than previous books I've read on the topic. I've been vegan for around 18 months now and still feel like there's so much to learn.

Thank you to NetGalley and Pavilion Books for the advance reader copy in exchange for an honest review.

This book just didn't keep my interest. I think I found it a bit repetitive and didn't really contain any new information.

I really liked this book! Like the author, I have a child who has decided to follow a vegan diet and, while I have no problem with their choices, I have a huge concern that their nutrition will suffer. This book picks up on all the areas that can be problematic, for example, calcium, zinc, iodine and selenium are important elements of a healthy diet and can easily be missed in a vegan diet. While the book is a somewhat heavy read, it is full of important advice. I think the chart at the back is a brilliant reference and illustrates very clearly where to find the nutrients required to stay healthy. Thank you to Azmina Govindji, Net Galley and Pavilion Publishing for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Such a good, no-nonsense book about leading a healthy life with a plant-based diet. I most definitely recommend this book to people going plant-based, are thinking about it, or have just adopted the new diet. I have been vegan for years and I wish there would have been such a comprehensive resource available when I started out.

The book covers everything from fats to protein to carbohydrates, as well as all the essentials like vitamin D, B12, iron, and calcium, which are important to all of us, and it’s vital to eat enough of them for our bodies to function properly.

If you live on the northern hemisphere in a western country and you eat plant-based food, but might not know everything about the essentials, you should read it! The author has researched the subject profoundly, as well as adopted the diet for several weeks to be able to fully understand it. I enjoyed the tips, facts, and research study boxes found throughout the book.

This book is an extremely comprehensive guide to making sure you are "vegan savvy". That means making sure that you are able to meet all of your nutrients needs and also not to fall into the trap of buying and eating "vegan" foods which aren't as healthy as they seem. The author is a well qualified, respected and experienced Dietitian who knows her stuff. The content is honest, well researched and referenced.

What I love about this book is that the author is quite "up front" about the fact that she wasn't a vegan but had to start from scratch when her daughter decided to choose this way of life and eating. This makes the book even more valuable as she has had to go through combining her knowledge with putting it into practice , the hard way. It's so great that someone has done all of the ground work for people wanting to eat a healthy, balanced vegan diet. There is a lot of content so the book may be best taken in bit by bit.

I was initially drawn to this book because I, like many others these days, am trying to move towards a more plant-based diet, for environmental and ethical reasons, as well as pure preference. At the moment, I follow a mostly vegetarian diet, so I was hoping that this book would give me some useful tips and guidance not only for eating meat-free, but also to make more plant-based swaps. I also thought that, more generally, the book would be an interesting read for someone who is interested in not only veganism but also food and cooking in general. I guess my mistake was going into this book with those expectations because it certainly wasn't what I was expecting.

I feel like I should start off with probably the most important point, which is that if you have any triggers relating to food, weight, or dieting, it's probably best you avoid this book. The book is pretty much entirely about the nutritional content in certain foods and how much of which type of food is recommended. I'm not usually triggered by things like that, though I do try to avoid things to do with dieting (of any kind) and tracking nutritional content, but there were parts where I skipped over paragraphs of text as they became too uncomfortable to read (for example, there's a lot of talk about "good foods" and "eating well", at a couple of points there are tips that suggest you distract yourself if you're craving an "unhealthy food", and yep, unsurprisingly, the author does comment on "the obesity epidemic"). In fact, I'll admit that I ended up skim reading a lot of this book, not only because I don't like to read about or engage in texts that talk about food and weight in this way, but also because I honestly didn't find it interesting at all. There are just pages and pages of nutritional facts and statistics, to the point where it felt kind of overwhelming – despite the fact that it definitely felt like the author repeated themself numerous times.

The reason why I've rated this 2 stars rather than 1 (although a more accurate rating would be 1.5 for me) is that I can see some people genuinely finding this book really useful (and if this is you, that's great!). If you're interested in the nutritional breakdown of different foods, or perhaps you're interested in pursuing a plant-based diet and you're keen to know about which types of foods will give you the most balanced nutritional diet, then you may find this a useful read. Personally, though, I think there are other sources that present the information in a more interesting and useful way that doesn't strip food and cooking down to almost an almost clinical level.

I'd also like to note, before ending this review, that as well as possibly being trigging in the areas of weight, dieting, and nutrition-tracking, the author also talks in a very binary way about "men and women" throughout, so please keep this in mind too if you think this could be something that might trigger you.

I received this book free from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.