Healthy-Foods Tips
Here are some relatively easy, little Healthy-Foods tips to help you implement healthier eating with an extra dose of weight watching as well. My favorite is the liquid calorie tip. Did you know that you can save yourself over 30 pounds a year if you just give up your soda a day habit? But in […]
Home Cooking
Home cooking—those two words alone evoke memories of mom’s delicious dinners, learning to keep your elbows off the table, and trying to figure out how to hide the broccoli on your plate. We all have distinctive food memories that are uniquely ours. Do you remember how your mother’s home cooking smelled and how you couldn’t […]
Is it your Thyroid?
There is nothing more frustrating than eating a healthy diet, exercising and not losing weight. Doctors look at you suspiciously when you air your complaint (as if you have a 2 pound bag of M & M’s hiding in your purse) and your girlfriends think you’re living in denial. What’s really going on? Could be […]
Dinner Diva – Eat Me… Drink Me…
Alice in Wonderland is making a big entrance in movie theaters across America, reminding us of how far our imagination can get us. A reoccurring theme throughout the movie (and the books) is Alice’s size – either as big as a house or shrinking into the size of a mouse. I know several people who […]
Dinner Diva – Frozen Foods
If it’s March, it must be National Frozen Food month, queue the merry music! That means that we should all be running out and celebrating by buying up frozen food left, right and center. Or should we? The deal is, it all depends on what you plan to place in your cart. Yes, there’s always […]
Dinner Diva – Sodium
You will notice in a lot of my recipes, I say “salt and pepper to taste” There is a reason for this–not because I’m trying to frustrate you! Salt should be added slowly and, depending on the recipes, in steps. That’s how the pros do it and it makes sense–this is how to get the […]
Sugar Junkies
Have you noticed that your good intentions to eat better are derailed because of a socially acceptable addiction: we’re sugar junkies. It’s easy to brush this one off. It’s not nearly as unacceptable as alcoholism; there are no 12 step programs dedicated to getting you off sugar. Its addictive traits are pictured beautifully in magazines, […]
Dejunking Junk Food
If you thought there was a way to make that Twinkie you’re snarfing a little less dangerous, I have a short answer for you–no. If this is a little too close for comfort, how about pizza? You like pizza, don’t you? I don’t think I’ve met anyone who doesn’t love pizza (if you’re the one […]
Dinner Diva – Plasticware
One of the most frustrating things in the kitchen is dealing with the plastic stuff. You know what I’m talking about—Tupperware, Rubbermaid containers, whatever brand or style you use, we all have it. And boy do we have it! We have it to overflowing. It is as if the giant plasticware beast threw up in […]