Description of Restriction Categories

You can restrict the recipe search to recipes of a specific type. The categories are:

Vegan: This will limit the recipe search only to those recipes that do NOT contain milk or milk products, eggs or liquid egg substitutes, or honey. If a recipe lists one of these ingredients but indicates that it is optional or lists an *explicit* vegan substitute, it will still qualify as vegan. A recipe listing "honey or other sweetener" will not be considered vegan, while one listing "honey or maple syrup" or "honey (optional)" will be. All recipes listing "soy cheese" are considered lactovegetarian, since all of the low fat soy cheeses contain casein, a milk protein. Recipes listing "egg substitutes" are considered ovovegetarian unless an explicit vegan option is named (such as EnerG powder or "powdered egg replacer"). Other than honey, all sugars are considered vegan for the purposes of this archive. As are all wines, beers, and liquors.
Nearly Vegan: This will limit recipes to all vegan recipes (as defined above) as well as recipes that contain honey but not milk or egg products.
OvoVegetarian: This will limit recipes to all vegan and nearly vegan recipes as well as recipes that contain egg products but not milk products.
LactoVegetarian: This will limit recipes to all vegan and nearly vegan recipes as well as recipes that contain milk products but not egg products.
Any Vegetarian: This will place no limits on the recipes -- all vegan, nearly vegan, ovovegetarian, lactovegetarian, and recipes containing both egg and milk products will be included. All recipes in the archive are vegetarian.

Listing all recipes of a category

To list all vegan (or other category) recipes, leave the searchword line blank ("*" will not work) and check the box of the category you wish. Note that nearly 3/4 of the recipes are vegan, so the listing will be long. You can do this for any restriction category except "Any Vegetarian".

If you wish a listing of *all* recipes in the archive, you should use the main recipe listing on the FATFREE home page rather than the search function. If you feel you really must have a listing via the search function of all the recipes, you can enter a dummy search such as "not bkhweriswer". Not searches don't usually work, but for nonsense words not found in any recipe, they do work.

How the restriction works:

All recipes contain one and only one of the following keywords: kwvegan, kwhoney, kwovo, kwlacto, or kwovolacto. When you specify a restriction category other than "Any vegetarian", the following search string is added to your word search:

Vegan: "and kwvegan"
Nearly vegan: "and (kwvegan or kwhoney)"
Ovovegetarian: "and (kwvegan or kwhoney or kwovo)"
Lactovegetarian: "and (kwvegan or kwhoney or kwlacto)"

If you happen to find it useful, you can use these keywords in the word search line. For instance, searching for the word "kwovolacto" and checking the "Any vegetarian" box will bring up all recipes that use both eggs and milk products.