Eating Well
Recipe Testing: Cookies!
Need a sugar fix? Sexy Vegan Mama s Amaretto Sugar Cookies and Kahlua Crinkle Cookies are sure to satisfy a craving for something sweet. These goodies are the latest test recipes Ive attempted from Christina-Marie Sexy Vegan Mama Wright and William Malteses forthco...
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Consumer Science
I can’t help but wonder if the US would be in much better shape, literally, if more schools had funding for Home Economics/Consumer Science courses. I took Home Ec in middle school, a low-brow production, where we learned basic cooking, sewing, and home repair skill...
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Sunflower Micro Greens
Growing your own micro mix is fun and easy! In about a weeks time you can have delicious healthy microgreens to add to salads or to garnish your favorite recipes. Heres what youll need: Sunflower Seeds Quart Mason Jar Water Small piece of screen or mesh ...
Read more...11 Foods That Speed Up Your Metabolism
It is believed that certain foods and spices can help you boost your metabolism which in turn makes you into a fat burning machine. These eleven foods may give you the extra edge in weight loss, says Edward Group. While there are no short-cuts to losing weight,...
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MSG Is Bad For You – Do Not Eat
We often encounter MSG or monosodium glutamate in places we’d never expect. It isn’t just a part of our Chinese take out meal. Instead, it is widely used in manufactured foods to provide flavor and other benefits. You can even buy it alone—as a flavor additive fo...
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Kid-Proof Meals
Feeding children healthy meals can be overwhelming at times. After all, what you place in front of them now is what will help their bodies and brains grow and develop into healthy adults. Nutritious and nourishing foods can ward off illness, provide energy, increase...
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Why Haven't I Shredded my own Cheese?
Okay seriously yesterday was by far the worst day of Phase 3 for me. Why? Because I discovered what real shredded cheese is!!!! OMG why havent I ever shredded my own block of cheese until yesterday? It is like heaven!!!! The shredded cheese that comes in bag...
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Taco Seasoning
I use taco seasoning on lean (97%) ground beef and chicken, but I recently found an old packet of El Paso Taco Seasoning when I was cleaning out the pantry and remembered the old days of buying things instead of home making them! I know that homemaking things takes m...
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The Ultimate Service – The Four Seasons
Last weekend I had the unique opportunity to hop on a plane with my husband for a four day trip with the Four Seasons. We arrived in Vancouver on a cold and rainy afternoon and were warmly welcomed by the Four Seasons Vancouver staff. Our room was gorgeous with a de...
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I’ll juice ya up
For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been a juicing fool in the morning. I’ve only waited this long to write about it because I wanted to make sure it was something that it wasn’t just a fad and was actually going to stick. It’s sticking, believe me. We’ve had th...
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French Green Beans, Moroccan Couscous
My dear readers, I am here to dispel the myth that eating “healthy” resigns you to a life of sprouts and lettuce. No, my friends, you can eat well, enjoy your meals, and have a fascinating variety of foods to choose from too! In upcoming posts, I will give you a sna...
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Blogger Foodie Exchange
I hope everyone had a lovely Valentines Day! My husband got me these beautiful flowers early in the morning. Seems as though he had been hiding them from me! Stealthy indeed. We decided that we were not going to cook but instead we were going to be bold a...
Read more...How to Benefit from Hemp Seed Nutrition
You may already know about the medicinal benefits of cannabis, but did you know that its legal cousin hemp is a highly nutritious food? Hemp seed is the basis to legal, non-drug hemp foods around the world. Hemp foods include non-dairy milk, snack bars, pasta, ...
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Working the Cupcake Magic
A year after my first taste of cookbook recipe testing, Im thrilled to be part of a new vegan cookbook project, and an especially sweet one at that; this time around, Im testing recipes for the forthcoming Sweet and Simple Vegan Desserts , a cookbook written by Chri...
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Sugar Free Chocolate Chips
Okay my love for sugar free chocolate chips got a little out of hand yesterday! LOL! I ended up having way to many calories for the day and most if it was due to these little morsels of heaven. Honestly, I cant get enough of them especially with a spoonful of almond...
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Diet and Arthritis
Arthritis comes in a variety of different forms and is a term used to cover over 100 different illnesses that are characterized by joint inflammation, pain and swelling. Most people think of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis as the only types of arthritic cond...
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Dark Chocolate Cake Truffles
I tried something new this year and decided to make a quick recipe for cake truffles. When I came across Jessicas post, from How Sweet It Is , for her Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Cake and Pink Velvet Cake Truffles , I knew I finally had to try making something f...
Read more...Neotame: A More Toxic Artificial Sweetener Than Aspartame?
Joseph Mercola reveals the dangerous science and politics behind Neotame. Since 2002 an artificial sweetener called neotame has been approved for use in food and drink products around the world, although so far its use appears to be very limited. Neot...
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Nibbles
It has been a particularly dynamic week, with the last few days involving almost no cooking for myself. In lieu of any visual representation of the amazing food Ive enjoyed during another brief, soon-to-end visit to the Bay area--although subdued by most standards, ...
Read more...Healthy Alternative to Sugar and Artificial Sweeteners?
Is there a healthy alternative to sugar and artificial sweeteners? Mark Sisson discusses stevia. After last weeks article many of you asked about a natural alternative to sugar and artificial sweeteners: stevia. It is widely used in the low carb community to sa...
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Mexican Black Bean Burgers Take Over the UNC Hospitals Kitchen!
Good morning! am SO glad this week is over. Two tests on one day yesterday = not awesome. But, our afternoon following the tests was fun! My Food Service Management class group and I met up with the UNC hospitals Executive Chef yesterday to make our Mexican Bl...
Read more...Celebrity Foodies and Wannabes
I dont usually discuss breakfast because I typically enjoy the same thing every. single. day. Egg white scramble with Laughing Cow wedge melted in, garlic, red onion, spinach and creamy garlic dressing Theres nothing wrong with knowing what you like! Ho...
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Review: Organic Bistro Chicken Citron
Lemon chicken. Spinach. Quinoa. Edamame. It’s not often you hear those words when describing a frozen meal. I’ve never even seen quinoa in a frozen meal before and you can bet that it piqued my interest enough to try this meal! I definitely w...
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Fresh Food From Small Spaces
The Square Inch Gardener’s Guide to Year-Round Growing, Fermenting, and Sprouting R.J. Ruppenthal I just got done reviewing this book from Chelsea Green Publishing Company. It spoke of container gardening and tiered gardening, so my tomatoes could reach fo...
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Who to trust on “real” food
Mark Bittman wrote an interesting Op/Ed piece for the New York Times yesterday on issues surrounding American’s ability to “eat real food.” He starts by putting into perspective all of the media attention food has been receiving lately. The US government, cele...
Read more...Ask Umbra Book Club: Did Paleolithic hunter-gatherers eat healthier than we do today?
by Umbra Fisk.Dearest readers,Welcome to the second day of our conversation of At Home: A Short History of Private Life by Bill Bryson. You can catch up on yesterday’s chat here .If you have yet to get a copy of the book, jump in anyway.Growing plants for f...
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Asian Crockpot Beef
Sundays are the perfect day for crockpot meals in our house. A lot of people find them really handy during the week, but between work and the commute, we are usually gone 10-11 hours during the day which is a pretty long cooking time for anything. Plus I rea...
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Growing Tomatoes
I love growing tomatoes and they are so versatile that I thought I’d give them a page all to themselves. Heritage seeds are the best, then you can save the seeds for next year. Tomatoes are a food we like to have all year round. They are one of the N...
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Don't Buy Girl Scout Cookies, Just Donate Money
If you have a sweet tooth and are trying to break bad eating habits, you dont have to buy those Girl Scout cookies! Just donate the money instead. They will happily take it. That way, you wont feel guilty saying no to the cute little girl at her table. I have d...
Read more...Super Endurance and Blueberry Cream Muffins
The title is a bit misleading in that I make no claims that the recipe herein will give you super endurance. Although, the blueberry IS one of nature’s recovery fruits …along with: kiwi, cranberries, blackberries, prunes, raspberries, strawberries, apples, sweet cher...
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So Delicious Coconut Milk Giveaway [5 winners]
As you know, I am a big fan of So Delicious Coconut Milk. Before they came on the scene, I was not really wild about rice milk, but I really enjoyed almond milk. I had removed soy milk because it seemed to exacerbate my migraines, so I was left with few options. ...
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Simply Sardines
Once upon a time, when he was a young boy, my dad did not want to eat his dinner. He didn’t like it. It was a casserole. His mother found this quite vexing, so the story goes, since, according to her estimation, he liked everything that was in the casserole. She we...
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Staying Heart Healthy: Nine Cholesterol-Lowering Foods
If you’re like many who have been diagnosed with elevated cholesterol, you would like to control the condition with diet before turning to medicines. This is a prudent approach. There are, as a matter of fact, quite a few foods that can help in this respect. ...
Read more...Energy Boosts Quinoa Tropical Fruit Salad
This time of year it’s easy to feel drained and lacking energy. You can fight this. Here’s some tips and tricks I found… well, I don’t know where I originally found them because it was a reference I sent to Ted back in 2007 by Kim Brown, MS, RD. I happened to come...
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Mini Pomegranate Coconut Cupcakes with Pomegranate Frosting
Hi folks. I know it has been pretty quiet around here when it comes to posting. I have been a little sick since last Wednesday adn really trying to get over it. I have not gotten sick over a year so I was suprised when this lower respiratory mess came upon me. Sou...
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Health Through Nutrition: Amazing Grains
Despite the low-carb craze, whole grains continue to be a critical component of a healthful diet. When you hear the term “whole grains,” do you think instantly of whole wheat? While whole wheat is a healthful and tasteful grain, it’s not by a long sight the only one. ...
Read more...Diabetes Can Be Reversed by Diet
Alternative health practitioners have long maintained that Type 2 diabetes was a reversible condition. Now the mainstream media is beginning to catch on. The mainstream media is just now catching on to what NaturalNews and other natural health advocates have be...
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The Raw Food REVOLUTION Diet
The Raw Food Revolution Diet by Cherie Soria, Brenda Davis, RD and Vesanto Melina, MS, RD published by Book Publishing Company. Feast Lose Weight Gain Energy Feel Younger Introduction: Our success stories Chapter 1 Take the First Step Towards V...
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Fight Child Obesity! Nutrition Basics
U.S. Food and Drug Administration nutrition expert Shirley Blakely, a registered dietitian, says eating healthy at home and school begins at the grocery store. With child obesity on the rise, parents, schools, and communities are joining together in a movement to help young p...
Read more...Vitamin D: The Sunshine Vitamin
As the weather is warming up just a bit and the sun it staying up a little later, it is beginning to feel like spring here in Northern California. It has finally been warm enough to spend a few minutes outside in the sunshine. Sunlight and fresh air are nourishing in so many w...
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