Eat Better, Eat Healthier Month: Easy Nutrition & Health Guidelines
Eat Better, Eat Healthier Month is here, and we’re going to cover easy guidelines to help you accomplish those two goals. Simple guidelines, when it comes to healthy eating, are essential to encourage people to apply them. If it is too complicated, people tend not to want to do them. 7 Easy Nutrition Guidelines: Restrict saturated fats and avoid trans fats. Rather, consume a greater amount of poly & monounsaturated fats....
Vegetarian Awareness Month: Different Types of Vegetarianism
Vegetarian Awareness Month is an opportunity to not only brush up on our knowledge about being a vegetarian, but to eat some great vegetarian dishes too! Worldwide, there are millions, maybe even billions of people, who adhere to a vegetarian diet and sometimes not through choice, but because meats aren’t available to them. Others choose vegetarian or partially vegetarian diets for health, religious or philosophical reasons....
How to Boil Eggs: Soft Boiled & Hard Boiled + Video
For those of you who are newbies to this whole cookin’ game, here’s a special post & show for you on How to Boil Eggs… Soft boiled eggs, hard boiled eggs, I like them and all of it in between. My favorite way to eat boiled eggs are soft and runny, so I can dip my toast into the goo. Man, that’s a tasty breakfast! Full of protein, these eggs are great on their own as a meal, or added to dishes like Niçoise...
National Pecan Cookie Day: Recipe of Nostalgia
Are you “nuts about baking” cookies, cakes and breads? Good news, we’re celebrating National Pecan Cookie Day! I love baking, and especially with nuts… Ah, yes…Pecans, like most nuts, are high in fats and protein. Their oils carry nutrients & flavor, and that’s why they are so very delicious. Sometimes recipes indicated that nuts are optional, meaning that the recipe will be okay if you...
School Lunches Do Not Have to Be a Challenge
It’s Back-to-School, and what a challenge to keep up with the nutrition, variety & tastes of your child when packing School Lunches… You want to try and keep it simple, easy to transport and handle, as well as being healthy, low in fat, and the list goes on. Sandwiches are still a great go-to for lunches, using last night’s leftover roast beef or roast chicken on a bagel or in a pita pocket. Keep it interesting...
Happy National Peanut Day
This is National Peanut Day! Peanuts are very healthy & delicious. As well, peanuts are incorporated in a plethora of food products, which we enjoy daily. When you see a peanut in its shell, it is just a plain looking, dry, little thing…but when you crack that shell, the most amazing aroma is emitted. Then comes the taste — Ohhh, the taste…so very good. And then, another one & another & another —...
Healthy Ideas for Packed Lunches this School Year
Wanna beat the Back-to-School Rush? As part of the Eat Well campaign, Zannat Reza (Registered Dietitian) and Christine Cushing (TV Chef and Author) answer a question from Lauralyn Chow of Calgary, Alberta: “Do you have any ideas for making packed lunches for those days when I’m in a rush, and I need something quick?” Zannat and Christine share healthy and delicious ideas with us to help us be organized and send healthy offerings for...
National Mushroom Month: A Luscious Occasion
National Mushroom Month brings to the forefront a misunderstood “vegetable”… It is amazing how delicious these fungi can be, especially when combined with butter, garlic & cream. The complexity of these flavors is intense, and the taste is unforgettable. Even though they are mostly water in composition, they contain more vitamin B & protein than many other plants. Mushrooms add earthiness and elegance to any...
How to Cook Grilled Cheese Chicken & Tomato Sandwiches
Well, I just got in from a hot, summer workout and I’m hungry! Not only am I going to tear up some of that Homemade Lemonade I showed you how to make earlier, but I’m going to make some Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Chicken & Tomato. This will provide me with more “substance” after my workout, as well as more protein in the chicken. Making grilled cheese sandwiches are mostly all the same in technique, but...
Why Rice is So Amazing
Rice is a staple food in much of the Eastern World, with the Western World shortly behind it. It’s difficult to find an American or Canadian table that doesn’t eat rice at least once per week, either as a side dish or as part of their main dish. Rice Recipes abound online, whether it’s Asian cuisines, Indian, Cajun or Creole, Italian, even Ukrainian. The world of rice is limitless as it is relatively inexpensive,...
How to Cook Breakfast: Black Currant Pancakes
Why not kick it up a few notches for breakfast at your house, instead of the old humdrum… This is a simple, quick, tasty and much more exciting version of plain, old pancakes. Not only do these babies have black currants, which can be in dried form and easy to find at your grocer, they also contain chia seeds, which are now easy to find as well. Chia seeds are a good source of protein, dietary fiber, as well as essential...
One Month Grocery Shopping Strike: Day 7
This is Day Seven of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike! I did a lot of writing today and “forgot” to eat breakfast… For lunch, I had a quick can of Chunky Soup – New England Clam Chowder and doctored it up with cayenne pepper & dill. For dinner, I am making Spicy Thai Ginger Coconut Chicken Soup – so amazing. I added some edamame for some protein, variety & color, as well as a can of bamboo...
How to Cook Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli
Today is Day 4 of our One Month Grocery Shopping Strike. For dinner tonight, I’m making Roasted Butternut Squash Ravioli with Tomato Sauce from scratch…except for the won-ton wrappers I’m using from our freezer as the ravioli pasta dough. This squash recipe is a little involved, but well worth the work – it is absolutely amazing, healthy & even vegetarian…Probably my family’s favorite meal of...
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