Here is the third installment of the Super Foods Break Down: Just in case you missed the first two: Super Foods: Nutrients and How They Help Super Foods: Preventing Disease, part one Scan the list below for the health issues you’re most interested in. The link for each food will take you to its Food [...]
Entries from October 14th, 2009
Super Foods Break Down part three: More Battling Disease
October 14th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Science of Nutrition, Super Foods
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Super Foods Break Down part two: Eat Them to Prevent Disease
October 14th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Science of Nutrition, Super Foods
I’m big on simple things: simple foods that I can pronounce, find in the store, and use in regular old recipes. Simple fun with my family. Simply enjoying dinner. Most of the time I complicate things unnecessarily, but I do appreciate the simple. I appreciate having a simple list of foods that are able to [...]
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Book Review: Who Am I? Preschool Workbook
October 13th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Here’s something totally random, more fitting for a Mommy blogger than a kitchen/food blogger. I feel sometimes that I sort of straddle those worlds anyway, and I was in a “yes” mode when I first got started with all this blogging stuff. I’m a Tiber River (Catholic books) reviewer. Enjoy this review if it pertains [...]
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Recipe Connection: One-Bowl Pumpkin Bread/Muffins
October 13th, 2009 · 108 Comments · Recipes, Upgraded Nutrition
Pumpkin has got to be one of my favorite fall flavors, especially in a healthy whole wheat bread or muffin. Add a generous dose of cloves, cinnamon, and nutmeg, and I’m in love. You can’t find an easier pumpkin muffin recipe than this one, and – a bonus! – it can be made super healthy, [...]
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Super Foods Break Down part one: What’s in There?
October 13th, 2009 · 6 Comments · Special Situations, Super Foods
Just in case you were missing posts about Super Foods, I’m coming back with a few more. I’ve had a few honest people (best friend and pediatrician) tell me that they tuned out of the Food for Thoughts on the Super Foods. I get that. There was so much information, and really, who cares why [...]
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Kitchen Tip: Leftover Pumpkin System
October 13th, 2009 · 36 Comments · Avoiding Waste
We’ve all been there: a recipe only calls for a portion of a can of something, maybe pumpkin or tomato paste, and the remainder gets put into a container, tossed in the fridge, and promptly forgotten until it’s green and fuzzy and you’re pretty sure you know what food it started out as. I hate [...]
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A Fat Full Fall: Dairy fats – What’s the Moo?
October 13th, 2009 · 44 Comments · Fat Full Fall, Science of Nutrition, What to Buy
Ah, the French know their fats. When my husband worked with a Frenchman, he reminisced about this time of year in France: “Fall is the best time of year because the food is so wonderful: the fish are fatter, the cream is plentiful, and the vegetables being harvested are some of my favorites.” Yep, he [...]
Tags: dairy·Fat Full Fall·fats·homogenization·oxidized cholesterol·saturated fats
