Dinner Diva: Craving sleep? Eat these foods!
If you find yourself tossing and turning at night, you’re not alone. It’s estimated that more than 60 million Americans struggle to sleep at night. So why not add some sleep-inducing foods to your diet? What you eat for dinner really can affect how you sleep. Some foods will help your brain calm down, while […]
Food For Thought: Shop like a European!
A while back, I wrote about the issue of food waste in this country. It really is astonishing to think about how much perfectly good food is tossed in the trash in this day and age. We have access to more food than our mothers and their mothers had before us, and yet we’ve become […]
Healthy Foods: Eat your Edamame!
“Eh-dah-MAH-may.” That’s how you pronounce it, by the way, in case y’all were wondering! What is it? Well, it’s what those of us who don’t speak Japanese call soybeans. But not just any soybeans. Edamame refers to vegetable soybeans that are harvested while they’re young and the plant is still green. I am not a […]
Dinner Diva: We can only do what we can do!
Over the past couple of months, I’ve warned you of arsenic in your rice, pesticides on your apples, BPA in your plastic, and human hair as a bread preservative (among other shocking topics). It’s recently been brought to my attention that some folks are starting to feel discouraged after reading my blog posts containing this […]
Food For Thought: Is there BPA on your dinner plate?
BPA. We all know it’s bad for us, but urine samples from studies show that roughly 90% of us have this chemical flowing through our systems. We take it in when we eat foods from containers made from BPA. That’s not acceptable, folks. What is BPA? At its most basic definition, BPA is a chemical […]
Food For Thought: The bitter truth about sweeteners
It seems like folks are spending a lot of energy trying to find the best sweeteners on the go. The additive for our drinks and baked goods that will sweeten things up without negatively affecting our health. There’s so much information and misinformation out there that you’re likely having a tough time figuring out which […]
Healthy Foods: Gingerly approaching the topic of…ginger!
Okay, so there’s no need to cautiously approach ginger as a topic. It’s not like arsenic in rice or eggs causing strokes, but it does make for a cute title, dontcha think? According to folklore, ginger comes straight from the Garden of Eden. I’m not sure about that, but ginger is one of those warm […]
Dinner Diva: Thinking outside the lunchbox
Today’s Dinner Diva article isn’t about our evening meal, but it’s an important topic to cover just the same – I hope you’ll agree! I’m talking lunch today, and specifically, lunch boxes. My kids are beyond the “but Mawwwmmmm, everyone else has [insert your child’s most desired petroleum-by-product-based poison of choice here] why can’t I?” […]
Food For Thought: “Supplement” your knowledge with this dose of vitamin info!
If you have a perfect diet, never eat out, and eat organically 100% you don’t have to worry about taking vitamins or supplements. The problem is, most of us don’t eat a perfect diet and since our bodies can’t produce all of the vitamins we need for our systems to function properly, we have to […]