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At the Store – Spring Week 2: Pre-Peeled Garlic | Cheaper Beans
Share| Peeled Garlic – Save Yourself Significant Prep Time I use over 4 bulbs of garlic each time I do bulk cooking. 2-3 are used in the soups and casseroles and 1 is diced and kept in the fridge for last minute adds to items like Cilantro Pesto and Greek Garlic topping from the Spring recipes. I timed how long it takes to crush, peel, and dice 4 bulbs – 40 minutes (this was even using my tip to first crush the garlic). The solution: Christopher Ranch Peeled Garlic. Vacuum sealed in 8-9 individual bags each containing 9-10 cloves of garlic. I still crush them before dicing to activate the allium, but now I can prep the same amount of garlic for under 10...
Read MoreAt the Store – Spring Week 1: Mango & Potato | Neither Are Forbidden From a Healthy Diet
Share|Mangoes Make Everything Feel Like it’s 5:00 on a Friday Afternoon on an Island At least this is what I hope you feel like while you eat your Mango, Apricot, and Apple Tuna Salad from the Spring recipe book – even if you are still at work. Mango is often restricted on diets villainized for its sugar content. It is sweet (amen) but what is more important than avoiding it, is simply to know what a proper portion size is: 1/2 cup. This provides ~15 grams of carbohydrate; the same amount in 1 cup of strawberries. And it’s not just carbohydrate you get… Nutrients in mango: Vitamin A and Beta-carotene (mangoes have 50% more beta-carotene...
Read MoreFresh Farmers Cheese: A Cultured Alternative to Cream Cheese | Heat & Probiotics Don’t Mix
Share|Fresh Farmers Cheese – Easier to Digest, A Source of Probiotics I include fresh farmers cheese in each seasonal meal planning kit, and it continually draws a lot of questions. Farmers cheese is a ‘fresh’ cheese and can be found near the cottage cheese or cream cheeses. There are hard varieties now available (looks very similar to white cheddar cheese), but I recommend the fresh, soft varieties. Fresh varieties can be easier to digest and contain probiotics (the good bacteria in our intestines that help strengthen our digestion and increase our immunity). Ask Your Store to Carry It Ask your local grocery store to order fresh farmers cheese...
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Share|Please Bookmark & Share this Page: Perfectly Produce Supplement & Whey Recommendations On this page, I will list the brand of supplement products that I recommend to my clients. In addition to being a nutritional pick, I also check to see if the product has been reviewed by ConsumberLabs.com; no product that has had a bad review will be listed. I will also try to post promo codes for additional savings and free shipping offers. Healthy products don’t have to cost you a fortune. A Win-Win-Win You receive high-quality supplements, grocery staples (even kitchen gadgets) for significantly discounted prices You receive a list of nutritionist reviewed...
Read MoreBenefits of Using Frozen Produce: Nutrition, Cost, Convenience
Share|Benefits of Using Frozen Produce In the age of local and raw, most healthy cooks are either confused about whether they can still use frozen fruits and vegetables or they’ve been overlooking it since the days when only sliced carrots and peas (or of course the mix of both) were available. But today, there is significantly increased variety, many organic and even local frozen winter CSA options, and a health crisis demanding we eat more produce. This makes frozen fruits and vegetables an attractive option. Nutrition Comparable to fresh and potentially higher: Depending on storage conditions of fresh (including how long and at what temp you stored it at...
Read MoreShopping – Winter Week 4: Varieties of Sweet Potato, Purpose of Kudzu Root, Benefits of Crimini Mushrooms
Share|Which Variety of Sweet Potato Works Best I prefer the lighter skinned variety (pictured in the center above) of sweet potato. It has a meatier, mild tasting flesh that withstands cooking in soups well. The darker skin variety which have the very rich orange flesh, often sold as ‘yams’, work well for fries or whipped (this could be used as a home-made puree used as a substitute to pumpkin in the Pumpkin Lasagna). My bottom line: the varieties are largely interchangeable, but play with different ones. Often when people think they don’t like sweet potatoes, they just haven’t found a variety yet that they do like. If you associate sweet...
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