Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Pump in the nutrients by eating pumpkin!

Assorted pumpkins in crates at an outdoor market

It’s that time of year again! Pumpkins are popping up all over the place. You can hardly walk into a store of any kind without seeing one of these great orange orbs either used in the shop’s decor or being sold in some capacity. If you don’t go any farther in your consumption of pumpkins […]

Beans

Healthy Foods Beans By Leanne Ely, C.N.C If you wanna get down and dirty and really get cheap, you need to start thinking beans, legumes; the dried variety. Bean there, done that, got the t-shirt! (sorry, couldn’t help myself). Being the quintessential cheap eat and nutritional wunderkind that beans are, nothing beats a big batch […]

Tip, Trick & a Recipe: Beans

Did you know 1 pound dry packaged beans = 2 cups dry = 6 cups cooked beans. Buying dried beans and preparing them yourself is a great way to save money at the grocery store as well. Cooked beans will store nicely in your refrigerator for 4 days and you can freeze them for up […]