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Recipe: Spring Garlic-Chive Sauce
What a wonderfully versatile sauce! Use it over baked potatoes; to top chicken, fish or pork; over pasta with vegetables; as a condiment to perk up soup; as a salad dressing; or as a sauce for cooked vegetables (like carrots.) Spring Garlic-Chive Sauce Combine in...
Meal Idea: Microwave Breakfast Quiche
Go one better than a breakfast burrito with this fast, breakfast quiche that is easily transportable for on-the-go eating.
Eating Well–Without Trying So Hard or Worrying So Much
How can limiting our choices actually make it easier to eat healthfully?
Eating Well–Without Trying So Hard or Worrying So Much (part 2)
Seasonal Eating = Good Eating, Automatically I've been transitioning to place-based eating for close to a decade (see the previous post). With each passing year, I discover more and more amazing benefits--a whole dozen now: Nutritional Depth Nutrition experts...
Eating Well–Without Trying So Hard or Worrying So Much (part 3)
Ready to make the joyful discovery that less is more: less in the way of selections actually brings more interesting variety and nutritional depth to mealtimes. Find out how to start.
The Mystery of Energy Bars and Drinks
It’s curious how marketers can claim the mantel of scientific sanctity for products that often list “corn syrup” as the first ingredient. What’s more, if we’re talking real “scientific research,” there are at least a few studies confirming the powerful benefits of food–numbering maybe in the thousands! Why don’t these studies carry much weight in fitness circles and gyms?
Even More About Getting More Beans into Your Diet
More tips on money-saving, cooking dried beans in a super accelerated fashion, classes and using bean juice.
More About Getting More Beans into Your Diet
Nutrition, Inspiration and Avoiding Troublesome Gaseous Issues Nutrition While beans are packed with nutrients and protein, I try not to focus unduly on nutrition facts, like how Food G has XYZ nutrients while Food S has ABC nutrients. This approach turns healthy...
Getting More Beans Into Your Diet
Granted, many view beans as “desert island” food, as in, something reserved for when they are stranded on a desert island. But those in the know see gold in a batch of colorful beans. In case you’ve yet to discover this treasure, here are two key tips for getting started.
Recipe: Using Beans in Green Salads
This salad features canned and frozen mix-ins. While these convenient foods are a good way to quickly perk up a salad, they’re also great for adding color, texture and heartiness to salads in the winter months, when tomatoes, cucumbers and other common salad standbys are out of season (and are therefore quite expensive and not very tasty.)
Dried Beans–More Cooking Tips
Two helpful tips for cooking dried beans.
Onion Googles–They’re for Real
Crying a lot over onions? Maybe onion goggles are for you.