Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to start putting butter on your toast. And your potatoes, vegetables, in your baked goods…and anywhere else you might use margarine or a “spread” that makes some health claim or another. Impact Ratings: Level of Commitment: Making Strides This might be incredibly difficult for some of you, [...]
Entries from October 5th, 2009
Monday Mission: Switch to Butter
October 5th, 2009 · 29 Comments · Fat Full Fall, Upgraded Nutrition, What to Buy
Food for Thought: The Evils (?) of Saturated Fats
October 5th, 2009 · 37 Comments · Fat Full Fall, Science of Nutrition
Quick quiz: Where have you heard this phrase before? “…as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol…” If you ever catch a TV commercial for food or drugs – um, pretty much all of them that are low-fat or cholesterol related – you’ve heard the voiceover say this. Our culture is pretty [...]
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Cultures for Health Freebie Reminder
October 1st, 2009 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
Through October 9th, if you try water kefir from Cultures for Health, you’ll get a muslin bag to hold your grains thrown in free! This makes the whole process a bunch easier – no colander to clean, no kefir grains sneaking through and down the drain. Just lift the bag out, rinse, and put in [...]
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Giveaway: Soap Nuts Laundry Detergent
October 1st, 2009 · 70 Comments · Uncategorized
I love working with real people. I chatted one morning with Donna at NaturOli, the company that makes (grows?) soap nuts, a natural laundry detergent. She told me all the ways I could use soap nuts and the 18X extreme liquid in my kitchen, since I write a kitchen blog. She even sent along a [...]
