A Beginner’s Guide on Baking With Olive Oil + 3 Recipe Ideas
Baking with olive oil brings benefits, but many home bakers don’t know how to use…
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fats and oils
How to Add Healthy Fat to School Lunches
Fat. What a controversial subject! If you were a child of the eighties like me, you were told from a young age that fat is…
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Should You Be Cooking With Olive Oil?
Is cooking with olive oil harmful to your health? I used to think so but updated research has shed new light on the topic. Keep…
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The Truth About Coconut Oil: Is Coconut Oil Good For You?
How do you use coconut oil? Refined or unrefined? Substitute with coconut oil for baking and cooking? Coconut oil is used for personal care like…
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Which Fats Are the Healthiest to Start Your Day With?
If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, what’s the most important part of a healthy breakfast? Making sure what you eat is…
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Monday Mission: Refocus on Healthy Fats
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to check your pantry for industrial oils or trans fats and root out any remaining stragglers. Today…
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A Fat Full Fall: Baseline Fats Chart
Want to know what to do with coconut oil? How to substitute one kind of fat for another? Wish you always knew what to do…
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Lazy French Fries in Beef Tallow or Coconut Oil Recipe
I’ve got a touch of obsessive-compulsive disorder at times. For example: as a child, every week during the 45-minute drive on the way back from…
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Food for Thought: Canola Oil, a Unique Omega-3…Thumbs up or Thumbs Down???
I used to use Canola oil almost exclusively as my liquid fat for baking. The popular press said it was the healthy oil. I felt…
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Food for Thought: Are Polyunsaturated Oils Healthy?
Anyone want to disagree with me? Question my research? Please, do. Really. This may sound confrontational at first, but I truly appreciate and welcome those…
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Food for Thought: Fat and Your Body
Does the very word, “fat” make you squirm and think of exercise and cellulite? Today I’m practically begging you to release your fear of fat.…
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A Fat Full Fall: Introduction
Does it ever drive you nuts that candy companies will slap a “Fat Free!” label on their packages, tempting sorry dieters to indulge in a…
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How to Use and Store Flax Seeds and Flax Oil
We know flax has heart-healthy omega-3 fats, and even though they’re not as power-packed as salmon (and have some side effects), it’s still not a…
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Food for Thought: Power-Packed Omega-3 Fats in Salmon and Flax
Last week we focused on Super Foods with monounsaturated fat, and this week we’re going to learn about two Super Foods that are stars in…
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Monday Mission: Search Out Trans Fats
The FDA actually FINALLY made a final call regarding trans fat in Sept 2017: FDA update from 9/29/17 FDA update from 2015 – “trans fat” has officially been…
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