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Free “Cooking By Feel Demo”
May 17th
Herbs and spices are what make an average meal extraordinary.
Just want to give you a heads up. I’m going to be offering a free demonstration of my “Cooking by Feel” method of food preparation on June 12th, from 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. It will be held at The Creative Center in Greensboro, NC. You can see the calendar listing. I discovered I have a knack for being able to just grab things out of the fridge, willy-nilly, and end up preparing a delicious dish or meal. My goal, through the demonstration and classes, is to get people eating more freshly More >
A Plug For Farmer’s Markets
May 10th
Buy locally grown food is tastier and fresher.
My schedule has been such that I haven’t been able to shop at local farmer’s markets for quite some time. Recently I decided I needed to change that schedule and get back to supporting local food production.
Just today, after I’d made that decision, my husband showed me a documentary that was really interesting, but also a little disturbing. In the PBS series “America Revealed” near the beginning of episode one – Food Machine – Yul Kwon visits the Shasta dam in northern California. He says that because of this one dam California is able More >
When Health Food Isn’t Healthy
May 3rd
How can something be a health food if seven ingredients are sugar?
I have to say I’m really tired of people trying to make their foods look healthy, when it’s really not. I’m not going to name names right now, because it is an industry-wide problem, and is especially bad when it’s foods that are being sold at natural and health food stores.
I’m sitting here looking at the ingredients in a snack bar that is supposed to be a healthier way to stave off hunger until your next meal. These are the unhealthy ingredients – brown sugar, invert sugar, oligofructose, vegetable More >
Know What You’re Eating
Apr 14th
Eating with awareness has a new meaning. You need to know if there are toxins lurking in your food.
I think most of you saw the write up about Coke and Pepsi having to change their formula to stop using a carmel color that was contaminated with a known carcinogen. How many other foods are compromised in some way? Many more than we would like to acknowledge.
I’ve talked some about GMOs and how if you eat anything with non-organic corn, soy, canola, or cottonseed oil you’re probably eating GMO food. Now they’ve started with sugar beets!
We all got a good scare More >
What’s In Your Food?
Mar 13th
Are we allowing the very basis of our diet to be turned into poison?
I’ve recently started up a coaching business for a healthy lifestyle. I’m doing a pilot program first, with people I know, to see how well the information is received and if they can actually use it.
Last night I presented information about toxins in our food. It sometimes surprises me how little most people know about what they’re eating. These people are pretty sharp too, more aware than most. However, I found that one of them didn’t even know what GMO foods were and the others didn’t know More >
Eating Healthy & Having Your Pizza, Too!
Feb 16th
Yum! Plunge into a delicious healthy pizza!
After writing about our awesome homemade pizza I got a request for the recipe, so here it is.
Once we made the commitment to eat a truly vegetarian diet we ran into one huge problem. No pizza! This was because some cheeses are processed with cheese cultures that are derived from cow stomach linings. We went for months without any pizza. Not life threatening, for sure, but we really enjoy an occasional pizza and wanted to find a way to enjoy it vegetarian style.
We thought the biggest problem was in preparing a crust. Knowing that More >
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 >
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 >
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 >