True Health Insurance
Did you know that: * 1/3 of our children are deficient in iron * Over 90% are deficient in magnesium * One in 6 kids lack enough vitamin A * Almost 1/2 are seriously deficient in vitamin C * Almost 1/2 lack enough zinc * One in 5 are deficient in folate * One in […]
Impatience in the Kitchen
Impatience is the kitchen is a true meal killer. It is the reason the chicken burns on the outside but is raw on the inside, the broccoli is overcooked and the table isn’t properly set. We’re an impatient lot and we want it NOW. I like to say we have a microwave mentality. We do—with […]
Eating Healthy Saves Money
I hear all the time that buying healthy food costs more money. The truth is, eating healthy, in the right amounts, costs less. It not only costs less in terms of dollars in the checkout line, it costs less in terms of dollars spent on your health care bill later. While there is some disagreement […]
Menu Planning
Buddy Hackett once said, “My mother’s menu consisted of two choices. Take it or leave it.” That’s what my mother’s menu consisted of, too. We had the choice of eating the dinner she prepared or leaving the table hungry. If we didn’t like what she prepared, we weren’t allowed to make ourselves a PB & […]
DIY Health Care Reform
Dear Friends, Like it or not, health care reform has passed into law in the United States. I don’t know about you, but the debate/fighting and demonizing really got on my last nerves. I found it stressful to even watch news reports on it anymore. But that isn’t what this Food for Thought is about. […]