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Diet Hopes Day 15, Barrier #5: Using Up Leftover Almond Meal: Banana Muffins and Healthy Brownies
Tasty Waste Not-Want Not Strategies + Where Is This Story Going? Two weeks into my almond milk experiment I came to an uncomfortable realization: Making my own nut milk was producing a lot of food waste! I want to tell you more about why this is a problem and how...
Recipe: Healthy Chocolate Almond Brownies (Gluten Free)
Note: This recipe is part of a series on making your good eating resolutions come true. A few months ago, I resolved to make my own almond milk so I didn’t have to drink the additives in store-bought almond milk. While you can learn a lot about how to make almond...
Recipe: Gluten Free, Almost Paleo Banana Bread
Note: This recipe is part of a series on making your good eating resolutions come true. A few months ago, I resolved to make my own almond milk so I didn't have to drink the additives in store-bought almond milk. While you can learn a lot about how to make almond...
Diet Hopes Day 10, Barrier #4: What If I Don’t Like My Healthier Almond Milk?
Hopeful news and tips for dealing with uncooperative taste buds The last two posts described how I successfully battled Recipe Frustration and Cooking Tedium. As I did so and, bit by bit, improved my milk-making process, I became ever more confident and comfortable...
Diet Hopes Day 8, Barrier #3: Dealing with Tedium
Smoothing Out the Aggravation Bumps on the Road to Good Eating Success The last post explained that key to making our diet dreams come true is planning so success if inevitable. In turn, the most critical part of inevitability planning is slowing down and adjusting...
Diet Hopes Day 2, Barrier #2: Recipe Frustration #)*+^#$%#!!
And the Solution: "Inevitability Planning" Feel stuck in a "5-Recipe Rut," making the same few things night after night? If so, it's not hard to understand why. Just think about the times you've been inspired to try a new recipe. Its picture looked great and you're...
Diet Hopes Day 1, Barrier #1: Getting Out of the Starting Gate: Do I Really Want to Bother?
Step 1--Getting My Head Behind My Actions Ever made a good eating intention and then, not too long afterwards, come to the sudden realization that you've forgotten all about it?! For example, let’s say it's lunchtime, you're on the road going from here to there, and...
Why Your Diet Resolutions Never Happen
How Are Those September Resolutions Going? If you haven't settled on any, don't worry. As explained in a post last month, nature's seed planting goes on all autumn, so there's still time to use the season’s momentum to your advantage and "plant" some seeds for food...
New Year’s Resolutions Gone by the Wayside? Don’t Worry . . . .
September Is the Best Month to "Plant" Good Eating Resolutions It's nine months since New Year's. How are those resolutions going? Can you even remember them? Statistically, there's a good chance they've slipped your mind. Maybe being reminded of them even feels a...
Recipe: Smoked Clam Linguine–Dairy and Gluten Free
In a world of melted cheese, adjusting to a dairy-free diet is not only tough, but stressful. The previous post shared tricks and strategies to make it less so. One of those is demonstrated here: reforming your meal ideas by finding new ways to flavor your food. ...
Taking the Stress from Dairy-Free Meal Making
Continuing the last post's discussion about mealtime stress, several readers found that working around food restrictions really compounded mealtime stress levels. For instance, Pamela wrote: I have a terrible time getting motivated to eat and create yummy dishes...
Mealtime Transformation: Reducing Stress
5 Tips and Tricks + 1 Fundamental Mindshift This article is the third in our Mealtime Transformation series. We started a couple months ago with an invitation to tell us how you'd like to see your mealtimes transformed. The answers to that survey were helpful and...