(photo source) I’ve been running off at the mouth (fingers?) a bit this week about juice, and I wanted to distill some of the information down in a bite-sized portion. I wish I could create a “good/better/best” list for juice. I made a nice list for you – but unfortunately it’s “best/okay/bad…and worse from there.” [...]
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Free Printable: Juice Decoder
February 9th, 2012 · No Comments · Upgraded Nutrition
Tags: beverages·juice·school food
How One Woman Became “One of Them” {Guest Post}
July 6th, 2011 · 84 Comments · Upgraded Nutrition
This is a guest post from Heidi of Frantically Simple. Earlier this week, I had a friend over for brunch. Disclaimer: I am not as fancy as that might make me sound. I slept late, ended up having breakfast at 10:00, and decided to make it a party. I made a delicious, cake-like baked oatmeal [...]
Tags: Guest Posts
Can You Take Your Weird Real Food to a Party with Normal People?
June 15th, 2011 · 54 Comments · Do It Yourself, Frugality, Upgraded Nutrition
Eating with others – the normal people – is always difficult when you’re committed to staying away from the “Standard American Diet” and consuming traditional foods. There’s often a lot of talk about what to allow your kids to eat, how to explain to people that you don’t each such and such, and how much [...]
Tags: appetizers·cooking for a crowd·desserts·eggs·Frugality·fruit pizza·parties·party food·pasta salad·real food
Is Your Flour Wet? Get Your Goodies Ready for a Soaked Grain Recipe Round-Up!
February 11th, 2011 · 36 Comments · Upgraded Nutrition
I’m tossing around titles in my head, but “Is Your Flour Wet?” kind of cracks me up for an eBook filled with soaked grain recipes. It seems to me that the most common misconception when people first hear of the technique of ‘soaking’ their grains is that they have to drown their flour and somehow [...]
“Recipes” for Liver: How to Eat Beef Liver (Without Tasting It)
February 9th, 2011 · 50 Comments · Recipes, Super Foods, Upgraded Nutrition
If you’re not ready to look at raw liver, you might want to find something else to read today. Strap on your big girl pants today, folks, it’s time to get that package out of the freezer and feed it to your families! We’re going to talk about how to prepare and eat beef liver [...]
Tags: beef·beef jerky·grassfed beef·liver·organ meats·organic
Foods for Fertility (Guest Post)
January 26th, 2011 · 5 Comments · Science of Nutrition, Upgraded Nutrition
This is a guest post from my dear friend Donielle of Naturally Knocked Up, where she dishes out on foods for fertility all the time. (Did you see why we’re talking about babies?) Eating during pregnancy is a very common topic surrounding pregnant women; either they can’t keep it down, or they can’t get enough! [...]
Tags: fertility·fertility diet·foods for fertility·natural fertility
Test Your Grains: More Survey Results
January 7th, 2011 · 9 Comments · Upgraded Nutrition
Before the holiday break, I shared with you the first set of results from the Test Your Grains Challenge, in which participants committed to eating grains only prepared in a certain style for 7-10 days: all refined grains, all whole grains, soaked, sprouted, sourdough, gluten-free, or no grains were the choices. To recap: People observed [...]
Tags: grains·soaking grains·Test Your Grains Challenge·whole grains
















