7 ways meal-planning can improve your life
Let’s be honest. Not knowing what’s for dinner is one of the most stressful things that can happen in your day. Especially at 4 PM when someone inevitably calls wanting to know what’s for dinner! Being the Dinner Diva that I am, I’m a sucker for some great tips and I have a few here […]
7 Time-Saving Dinner Shortcuts
Regardless of how you feel about cooking, nobody wants to be a slave to the kitchen. We are all so busy these days that we need as many shortcuts as we can possibly find for getting a good home-cooked meal on the table with the minimum amount of stress! It’s no good to find yourself […]
Teach your kids to make a smoothie
There are few skills more important for your children to learn than those that will empower them to feed themselves for the rest of their lives. Think about it. Over the course of your life, what will you spend more time doing than planning for, shopping for, preparing, and eating food? The only thing I […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: What cancer-fighting veggie is related to melons & squash (but tastes like neither)?
Today we’re talking about one of the coolest residents of the produce aisle—the cucumber! Today I’m going to give you a trick, a tip and a recipe featuring this familiar green veggie. Cucumbers are related to both melons and squashes, but curiously they don’t taste like other members of either family! In fact, cucumbers don’t […]
Which phenol-packed fruit is related to the almond
You probably already know that plums are related to peaches and nectarines but did you know they are also a relative of the almond? It’s true! Plums are small-stone fruits with a tart, sweet taste. This family of fruits is considered “drupes,” and they all have one thing in common: they have hard stone pits […]
How to relieve bloat and fight cancer while freshening your breath
The cardamom plant has been made famous by its pungent little pods. Inside the thin papery coating of the cardamom pod is the plant’s small black seeds, which have a very spicy flavor, common in Indian cuisine. Besides being a tasty way to season your curry dishes, cardamom seeds have many medicinal properties. Digestion. Cardamom […]
Can vegetarians and Paleoistas co-exist in one cave?
When you make the decision to go Paleo, it could get complicated, especially if you have a vegetarian in your cave to feed. Speaking of caves–unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve probably heard of Paleo. Apparently eating the way humans have been eating for a bazillion years is now hot, LOL. (I think […]
Tip, Trick & a Recipe: How to pump collagen into your body without plastic surgery
Sourced from the bones and marrow of cows, gelatin is a form of collagen that does absolute wonders in the body. (I am hooked on the stuff!) Gelatin is a good source of protein and it’s packed with amino acids. Gelatin will make your hair shiny, your skin smooth, your skin tight and your joints […]
Poisonous & good for you at the same time?
Those beautiful rosy pink stalks of rhubarb have shot up out of their usual spot in my garden and I am enjoying this wonderful spring fruit immensely! Rhubarb is one of the first perennial plants to poke through the earth in the spring and I absolutely adore it. Rhubarb grows in stalks and it looks […]