Most weekends I like to prepare batches of food I can mix & match for a variety of meals and snacks. I call them my Fundamental Foods. They’re the building blocks of many of my week’s meals. On any given day, here’s what you’ll find in my refrigerator: Cooked Beans Roasted or Grilled Vegetables Cooked Whole Grains Hard-boiled Eggs Iced Tea Sautéed ...Read More...
May's Just One Change is cleaning out your kitchen contents. It's a great way to make sure you're eating healthier at home. And it makes it so much easier to want to cook when things are well-organized and stocked. Last week, we looked at how I clean out my pantry and what I stock it with ...Read More...
We enjoyed a lovely dinner with friends this past weekend. Before we left, they loaded us up with salad greens, fresh from their garden. I've been inspired to have salad all week, including: Salad Suppers Salad suppers can be one of the healthiest meals you can eat. Fight disease, thwart your hunger and look your best with ...Read More...
How are you doing with the Just One Changes? Remember - we're making a single change each month because slow & steady is the way to create new healthy habits. May's change is: Spring Clean Your Kitchen Contents. Cleaning out your pantry, refrigerator and freezer is one of the best ways to make sure you eat ...Read More...
The CDC has issued some pretty scary statistics when it comes to kids in the U.S. and health: Childhood obesity has more than doubled in children and tripled in adolescents in the past 30 years. The percentage of children aged 6–11 years who are obese increased from 7% in 1980 to nearly 18% in 2010. The percentage of adolescents ...Read More...
This cartoon is funny because it's true: we claim to be too busy to take care of our health, but the alternative is being dead (earlier than we would like) 24 hours a day. It's so easy to put off what we know we need to do to take care of ourselves. Here's the key: find a ...Read More...
April's Just One Change is to drink more water every day (click here to see why you should). For some, that can be challenging. The most common reasons/excuses for not drinking enough water include: I don't like the taste. It's boring. I don't remember to. It makes me go to the bathroom a lot. I can't help with that last ...Read More...
A recent nutrition headline popped out at me: "Going on a diet will make you irritable and angry." This is news? According to researchers, having to exert the self-control needed to skip favorite foods is more likely to make people easily irritated and gravitate to angry messages in the media instead of milder ones. If you've ever ...Read More...
