This Year Focus on what to ADD not RESTRICT
Focus on foods to ADD and enjoy alongside traditional favorites: In-season fruits like pomegranate, clementines, apples and pears Frozen fruits, like berries and sweet cherries, slightly warmed, and drizzled with cream High-fiber flax crackers, bean dips and hummus, popcorn, and roasted chickpeas Big batches of veggie soups for quick meals or sides Here's the remarkable [...]
The Hidden Opportunity in Holidays
Don’t focus on results yet, just plant a couple of seeds. The holidays grant us a time of preparation before setting our goals for the next year… if we face this time with curiosity and healthy expectations versus guilt and wanting to put our heads in the sand until it’s all over. See if this […]
Wishlist: Essential Kitchen Gadgets
Your wishlist of essential kitchen gadgets for setting up any sized kitchen, on any budget. Many cooking frustrations in the kitchen can easily be solved with the right tools.
6 Tips for How to Nutritionally Survive the Holidays
Photo and cupcake decorating author: Make.Bake.Celebrate Top 6 Tips for How to Nutritionally Survive the Holidays This year can be different. The week of Thanksgiving: joyous anticipation fills the air as we all stand on the starting line of another holiday season! All social media posts and chatter with friends right now reflect this holiday [...]
Grilling Tips to Reduce Cancer-Causing HCA
Cancer-causing Heterocyclic Amines (HCA) form when meats and animal products (not fruits or vegetables) are heated at high temps that result in browning and charring (the “desired” crispiness of grilling). Animal proteins react with the naturally occurring sugar molecules in the meat to produce HCA compounds. Once ingested, your body’s enzymes activate HCA into compounds […]
Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants (sounds like) Do This. Shouldn’t Need Help. Mostly Easy.
How Pollan’s famous first line creates tension within the most earnest (and health informed) individuals trying to lose weight (and those trying to support them). Still Quoted, Still an Influence This post is not to critic or review the 2008 best-selling book “In Defense of Food” by Michael Pollan. I respect the awareness this book […]
