5 Lemons Healthy Gourmet Blog
Latest info, recipes, tools & gadgets to create a healthy diet
Living It Rather Than Studying It
Feb 2nd
When living a healthy lifestyle I’ve noticed that it is one thing to study it, another to actually live it. Living a truly healthy lifestyle is not easy. You find that you cannot make food the center of your celebrations, you cannot dine out as easily as before, you need to prepare some dishes you used to buy in boxes from scratch, etc.
If you look at people who are in the health profession, many of them are very unhealthy. They have studied health, but they have not lived it. A very wise person once said to me that you have More >
Cooking For A Crowd
Jan 31st
How do you feed a crowd healthy, nutritious, delicious food?
This past weekend I needed to cook two meals a day for eight people. I have to admit that I had a terrible time getting the proportions right. The first day I made way too many grains, the second not enough.
Also, because there was no kitchen where I had to serve I had to make all the food in crock pots. It was tasty, but the vegetables were more of a soup than a dish and the grains got overcooked and mushy.
Another problem I had was just how much salt, herbs, More >
Mom And Me And Our Bakery
Jan 30th
This guest post from Edgardo Rosa
Opening a bakery can be a lot of fun, but there are challenges in anything you do.
My mom and I decided to become business partners once I got really sick of staying home with the kids. I had always dreamed of opening a bakery and I finally had enough capital to do it so mom said she would come in and help and be my right-hand man which was a real relief because I didn’t want to have to do it on my own. Mom helped with all the logistical things like setting up a website for More >
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 >