Getting Started
Cooking 101: Easy How-To Videos
Share| Eating Whole Foods Gives Us the Opportunity to Learn How to Prepare Whole Foods Here is a short list of my top go-to sites for easy to follow cooking techniques: The Classic: Cook’s Illustrated – How to Cook The Instructor (Cynthia Lair was one of my cooking instructors in graduate school): Cookus Interruptus – How to Cook Fresh Local Organic Whole Foods Despite Life’s Interruptions The Scientist (a bit more advanced – but so entertaining to watch and learn!): Alton Brown’s How-Tos Links to specific techniques useful in Perfectly Produce recipes: How to Make Home-made Beans How to Freeze Bulk Recipes How to Cut an Onion How...
Read MoreCustomer Questions: What Is Your Philosophy – Why Should I Buy In?
Share|Recently Asked Customer Questions | Perfectly Produce Meal Plans 1. What is your nutrition philosophy? Which models? My nutritional philosophy: maximize nutrient-density through intake of whole foods (all of them – in the right amounts). I combine this with using a modified carbohydrate counting system for blood sugar control. Perfectly Produce recipes reflect serving sizes for macronutrients equivalent to the diabetic exchange system (15 grams = 1 carbohydrate serving; 5 grams = 1 fat serving; 7 grams = 1 protein serving). I believe blood sugar regulation is essential for both primary and secondary prevention, as well as, effectiveness for weight loss. 2....
Read MoreGetting Started – Customer Q’s: New Meal Plan Each Month or Repeat, Are All Seasons Available Now
Share| New With Questions – Getting Started with the Meal Plan * I’m assuming the Winter menu is repeated each month or do you provide a different monthly packet each month? I’m trying to figure out if we will be doing this same ritual next month or if there will be new stuff to figure out. Each seasonal kit includes a suggested 4 week meal plan. At week 5, you can either repeat and start the 4 week plan over; or, what is more probable, is that you will create your own weekly plan which includes the recipes that worked best for you. By week 5, my hope is that you will have gone through the 4 guided bulk cooking sessions and then graduate to learning...
Read MoreWebMD Fat-Fighting Foods: 21 in Just 8 Perfectly Produce Meals
Share| Fat-Fighting Foods: The List Reads Like an Index of the Perfectly Produce Recipe Books: and They Come with Daily How-To Help January always starts with various food lists being published – what’s in and what’s out of the culinary and diet worlds. The best three that I’ve seen so far include two from Huffington Post; the first titled “7 of the Healthiest Foods You Should be Eating But Aren’t” and the second “12 Foods to Add to Your Diet in 2012″; and the recent WedMD slideshow titled “Fat-Fighting Foods”. I get so excited when I see these lists because they essentially read like the index...
Read MoreMeal Planning Kits – Getting Started: Shopping Week 1 – How Many, How Much
Share|Perfectly Produce Meal Planning Kit – Getting Started My first tip to getting started with meal planning is to bookmark this page and remember that this blog is your resource for asking questions as you go. Whole foods cooking does require planning and more prep than you might currently be used to – and this is the opportunity! But until you find how it will fit into your schedule, you need to remember that you have a community to help you navigate through the maze of trying to fit an additional thing into your schedule. Ask me for help when you need it – and even more importantly, ask each other. All comments and questions are helpful to...
Read MoreDefine Your Daily Distraction
Share|Is Your New Year’s Resolution List Complete?: Lose weight – check! Eat healthier (more produce + watch portion sizes) – check! Exercise 5 days a week – check! Daily distraction – Feel good enough to {fill in the blank} each day – check? Daily distraction – huh? A distraction should be just that, something that provides a positive distraction from a more challenging goal. It’s a mini-goal. A goal that’s obtainable – each day – while you achieve the big goal over several months. It’s what you would enjoy – each day – as you benefited from making positive health changes. Here are some real examples from my clients: “I...
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