5 Lemons Healthy Gourmet Blog
Latest info, recipes, tools & gadgets to create a healthy diet
More Bad News On The Food Front
Jan 24th
One of the things I like to keep my readers up to date on is what diet research is showing. Well, this past week I was perusing Dr. Oz’s site and he had an article on the four most addictive foods. I figured sugar would be there, but the other three surprised me. The dastardly four are sugar (no surprise), chocolate (a little surprise), meat (big surprise), and cheese (the biggest surprise).
Was shocked to find that cheese is one of the most addictive foods.
What research is showing is that these four foods either directly have dopamine in them or they More >
All Around Baking Mix
Jan 20th
When I became a vegetarian there weren’t a lot of good vegetarian cookbooks, plus most of them were for ovo-lacto vegetarians and I don’t eat eggs. For years I pined away, wishing I could make good muffins, cakes, pancakes, and the like. I tried all the egg replacers and found them to really be lacking. I did manage some decent treat using things like applesauce and yogurt, but sometimes I didn’t want their distinct flavors in what I was preparing.
Finally I began to play around with it myself and found that it is incredibly easy to make everything from cookies More >
Fantastic “Healthy” Cookies
Jan 17th
Of course all cookies are a treat, but if you make them as healthy as possible you can give them out more freely. Whole sugars, such as Sucanat, have all the nutrients and minerals still intact. It’s still a sugar, but it is used by the body differently and doesn’t cause a loss of nutrients and minerals to process it, like white sugar does.
I developed this cookie recipe after becoming vegetarian and dropping eating eggs, as well. I don’t miss them, as this is a really nice soft cookie. I’ve made awesome double carob cookies (with both powder and chips), More >
Building Your Resource Library
Jan 13th
Tired of dehydrating food. Try your hand at an apple head doll.
In this day and age you can find information about just about anything on the Internet. Unfortunately you’re at the will of the site owner as to whether the information on the site is truthful or not. One thing I’ve found really helpful is when a site that sells products has customer reviews. Also, bloggers often have good reviews about products that they themselves use. However, if it is a blog you need to check and see if they have paid entries. Take a minute to read their disclosure. More >
Can’t Sleep, Munch On These Foods
Jan 10th
Did you know that many foods can help you fall asleep!?
When I was in college I had a point in my life that was very traumatic; my parent’s were in the middle of a divorce; my senior recital was coming up; finals were coming up soon, etc. I had a very wonderful professor, Dr. Martin Behnke, who saw that I was really struggling to keep things together. He talked to me about seeing his wife, because she was a counselor.
One thing I wasn’t doing was sleeping well. I had to move into a school owned apartment with three other people More >
A New Healthy Lifestyle
Jan 3rd
A good healthy diet is just one of the keys to permanent weight loss and better overall health.
Every year tens of thousands of people resolve to lose weight, but do they? Not many lose anything significant and keep it off. I saw a poll on CNN this morning asking people if they planned to lose weight in 2012. Wow, I just went back to check the figure and it is already down, however, it was either 73 or 76% of people replied in the affirmative. That means that approximately 75% of the public should lose weight this year. But will More >
Gadget Repair Expert
Dec 30th
Thanks for the guest post by Jo Levy
My husband is definitely the technology guru of our house. He is great with gadgets and computers, and can really repair anything. It’s awesome to have someone like him around since we increasingly use technology to get though our everyday lives. We use a ton of electronic appliances in our kitchen, so whenever one of those starts acting up, it gets fixed immediately. Last time my phone was acting weird, it was my husband who fixed it. Then when our computer started going crazy, he came to the rescue again. Sometimes I just More >
Expanding Offerings
Dec 27th
In the past I’ve only focused on healthy food. I’ve decided to expand the focus of this blog to include all aspects of healthy living. So, now there’ll be great information on diet, still with lots of good original healthy recipes, but I’ll also cover other things that influence your overall wellbeing like emotional and mental patterns; household products; and personal care products.
Over time I’ll start offering healthy lifestyle coaching in small groups and individually. There’ll be free videos, as well as DVDs with lots of great information on them for you to purchase. I may even start to carry More >
Holiday Blessings
Dec 23rd
Let's look at our common desires like love, peace, sustainability, health, prosperity for all.
We’re just a couple days away from celebrating Christmas. It is amazing to me to realize that almost every tradition on the planet has a special holiday during these bleak winter months. The exact days and traditions vary, but the same ideas are behind all of them, at least as far as I can tell.
It is a time to celebrate the return of the light. We go through the shortest day in the year. In some traditions this also means the renewing of your own internal light. More >
Focus Food: Winter Squash Part 2
Dec 20th
Kabocha squash works well for this recipe, but you can use acorn or hubbard, as well.
Last time I gave you a winter squash recipe that was for a sweeter squash. Here’s one for a more earthy flavored squash. However, I used it yesterday on a Kabocha squash, which is pretty sweet, and it was very tasty.
Rice Stuffed SquashOven Temp: 350˚F
Cooking Time: 40-50 min
Serves: 2-4
Ingredients:
1 winter squash, cut in halve with seeds removed
1 ½ cups rice
3 cups water
1-2 med tomatoes
1 tsp chaat masala spice mix
1 tsp dry rosemary
2 tsp dry basil
1 tsp salt
Sour cream (optional)
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350˚F. Put 1” of More >