My sister was asking the other day about quick, easy and healthy recipes. This sister is a competent but largely uninterested cook who has a growing enthusiasm for eating healthful and and healthfully produced food.
About three months of the year, including now, she is the chief cook at her household. The current bee in her [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Healthy eating'
Can quick + easy = healthy in winter?
February 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Food preparation, Healthy eating, recipes
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Soup’s on—again
January 8th, 2008 · 3 Comments · Food preparation, Healthy eating, recipes
Soup of this week: Vegetable-heavy lentil soup. It’s a warming, tasty soup to counter some of that luscious toffee.
I made this soup from memory, as I couldn’t find the recipe I had in mind. I don’t have a nutritional analysis, but I can promise nevertheless that it’s low cal and high fiber.
Lentil soup
1 cup brown [...]
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Forget healthy eating—there’s toffee
January 6th, 2008 · No Comments · Healthy eating
Just when I thought the holiday excess was behind me (no, that isn’t a pun; my excess goes to my midsection), my ex-stepmother gave me a box of Enstrom’s milk chocolate almond toffee.
Inside the box is a pound of the most wonderful toffee ever. Top and bottom covered with a thin layer of chocolate into [...]
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Food rating sytems unnecessary
December 10th, 2007 · No Comments · Food selection, Healthy eating
Did you see the one about various food-rating systems vying for dominance? The ratings are intended to help people distinguish the healthier food items from the less-healthy ones.
I don’t get it. It’s just not that hard. To help those who struggle with it, however, I offer these rating systems:
Whole-food selection method
You won’t even need to [...]
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‘Report’ examines the way people eat
December 7th, 2007 · No Comments · Food selection, General, Healthy eating
A friend sent me a link today to a slide show on the Time magazine website, and that link led me to discover a whole “special report” on The Way We Eat. It’s worth reading, and the slide show of families’ food around the world is worth watching. (It’s from Peter Menzel’s book Hungry Planet: [...]
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Cedar Valley Farms eggs
November 23rd, 2007 · 6 Comments · Healthy eating, local food
What: Eggs from Cedar Valley Farms
Why I like them: These eggs are scrupulously fresh, healthfully and humanely produced, and they taste good.
Where to get them: You can get them at their farm and at the Community Mercantile.
I used to think eggs were eggs. When I joined the local foods bandwagon, though, I learned different.
I did [...]
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