Vegetarian in High School & College
School cafeterias, dining halls and dorm rooms come with their own challenges for vegetarians. These guides cover building a balanced plate in the dining hall, packing brown-bag lunches, stocking a dorm room, eating veg on a student budget and celebrating your favorite vegetarian graduate.
- October 1, 2026
Eating Vegetarian in the College Dining Hall: A Practical Guide
How to eat well as a vegetarian or vegan in the college dining hall: questions to ask, building a balanced plate, key nutrients and dorm staples.
- June 22, 2016
SmartGradVeg! Six Great Gifts For Your Favorite Vegetarian High School Graduate
It’s finally graduation season! If your favorite teenage vegetarian is headed to college to live in the dorms and experience what it's like to live on her own for the first time, she (or he) may be…
- October 9, 2015
How to Go Veg AND Save $$$
What would you do with an extra $15 a week? Get a manicure? Save up for some concert tickets? If you’re already eating meat free, you might want to go ahead and splurge—you’re saving money, it seems…
- April 27, 2015
School Spotlight: NYC's The Peck Slip School, P.S. 343—The Second Plant-Powered Public School Cafeteria!
SmartGirlVeg spent a lunch period at The Peck Slip School—one of the only public schools with a vegetarian cafeteria in the country. Will elementary school kids choose chickpeas in place of chicken…
- February 19, 2015
Do You Do Nondairy Milk?
Coconut, almond, hemp, cashew, soy. The nondairy milk options seem to keep multiplying, and are available more widely now than ever. Soymilk has long been a fixture in many coffee shops; last week…
- September 9, 2014
Eight Great Brown Bag Ideas for Veggie Teens
The school year is in full swing, and by now you’ve probably remembered that school lunches aren't always so good to the vegetarian teenagers out there. Here are eight toss-in-your-bag meals that…
- September 5, 2014
[#LinkLove!] This week in veggies
Maybe it was the back-to-school rush, or the fact that it was a short week thanks to the Labor Day holiday. Whatever the reason, this week flew by! But it was not without some great veg news and…