Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Ready for Rhubarb?
It is rhubarb season and these cool-season perennial plants are standing about 5 inches tall in gardens throughout Canada and the Northern US now. Though it quite resembles celery, this red stalky fruit is…well…actually a fruit. An extremely tart fruit, but fruit nonetheless. Also important to note is that rhubarb leaves are toxic. Do not […]
Healthy Foods: All about sprouted lentils
A couple of weeks ago, I had many of you talking after I posted a note on my Facebook page about enjoying a salad of sprouted lentils. Many of you hadn’t heard of sprouted lentils before and I received many questions about them. I also had people confused, because I do eat a Paleo diet […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Add nutritional yeast for a mineral feast!
Every kitchen should be stocked with nutritional yeast and if you have never heard of this amazing food you would not be alone! I am not sure how such a healthy food has managed to stay under the radar for so long, but it has. I hope after reading this post you’ll pick some up […]
Healthy Foods: I’m gonna tell ya to get some Chlorella!
A week ago I told you all about one of my favorite superfoods — spirulina. Today I’m talking about another form of algae that is every bit as good for you as spirulina is. Chlorella is most well known as being a superfood that will detoxify your body from heavy metals. If you’ve ever had […]
Dinner Diva: Healthy grilling tips
It’s barbeque season! And while we all love the thrill of the grill, it’s a known fact that cooking meat over charcoal can be harmful to our health because of the carcinogens that come from cooking over chemically charged lava rocks and from eating charred meat. Rather than giving up the grill on those hot […]
Food For Thought: 40 healthy snacks for kids
I can’t tell you how much I detest those 100-calorie snack packs you find in grocery stores nowadays. Those packages are full of highly processed foods—heavy on sugar and chemicals. I know you would rather feed your child something nutritious, so I’m going to give you a list of easy snack ideas! Every one of […]
Healthy Foods: Amazing Spirulina
There are so many superfoods out there that it can make your head spin when you start researching them! I wrote about one of those superfoods not too long ago (aloe vera), and today I want to tell you about another one — spirulina. What is Spirulina? This popular dietary supplement is a blue-green alga […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Lobster love
Once upon a time in the mid-nineteenth century, lobsters were dirt cheap. These tasty crustaceans were fed to prison inmates and children in orphanages. Lobster was also used as a fertilizer! Today, lobsters are seen as a rich person’s food in many places, but back then they were eaten by only the very poor. To […]
Food For Thought: Paleo Shmaleo – what is it all about?
If you have any interest in food and health at all (which you obviously do or you wouldn’t have found yourself here at Saving Dinner), then you’ve been hearing the word “Paleo” being tossed around a lot. You may even associate the term with an extreme way of eating, much like the low-carb Atkins diet. […]