Healthy Foods: Are You Drinking Liquid Clutter?
I am pretty much a stickler when it comes to deciding what to drink. The answer is always water and plenty of it. I get asked a lot about drinks—particularly, diet drinks, sodas, juices, etc. Everyone wants to drink something else besides water, especially now that summer is just around the corner! Well, I understand […]
Food For Thought: Dinner Diva Doles Out Advice
My alter ego, the Dinner Diva has a gig on the side that I JUST found out about. It seems the Dinner Diva decided she was fit to dole out advice in the same fashion as Dear Abby and has been helping the whiny and the lost with all their menu-planning woes. Let’s take a […]
Healthy Foods: Salad Spin
I get a lot of emails from readers (feel free to email your questions—I may include them in an upcoming article, Support at Saving Dinner dot com) and this one warrants an article. I hate to trouble you with a silly salad question, but I’ve never eaten salad on a regular basis before joining Flylady, […]
Dinner Diva: Simplify Your Meals
In our pursuit of saving money, we find ourselves scouring the world and the web for ways to cut corners and expenses. And nowhere is that more apparent than in our weekly quest to feed the family. We kill ourselves by searching high and low for coupons. We seek out the bargains, willingly investing our […]
Dinner Diva: Not Your Mother’s Tuna Casserole
All home cooks appreciate the ease of accomplishment of doing dinner the one-pot way. When your family is busy and going in a million different directions, being able to make dinner in one pot, plunk down a salad, and yell, “Dinner!” in the time it takes to boil pasta, is critical mass for any hectic […]
Food For Thought: Stick to Your Skillet
The skillet is one of the best inventions since (yeah, I’ll use that food metaphor), sliced bread. This wonder of precision-crafted metal can handle your dinner with ease and gives you the extra bonus of being easy on the clean-up, too. As simple and wonderful as the crockpot is for making stews and soups, the […]
Healthy Foods: How to Do Healthy and Low Carb
Say “low carb” and immediately visions of steak and eggs dance in your head. Folks somehow have this notion that your mouth will never again chomp into a sandwich or that your diet will be devoid of anything fiber-filled. Phooey, I say! It doesn’t have to be that way. You can have your low-carb and […]
Dinner Diva: Treat Your Body to Some Sprouted Grains
There’s a lot of talk these days about gluten sensitivity. Celiac disease, a digestive disease that damages the small intestine and interferes with the absorption of nutrients, has become more common in recent years. And while gluten sensitivity is one thing, celiac is quite another. Grains that are sprouted can often be tolerated by gluten-sensitive […]
Healthy Foods: More from Dear Dinner Diva
We get a lot of questions and we answer the good ones! 😉 If you have a good one, send it on to dinner diva at saving dinner dot com (altogether, use symbols) On to the questions– Dear Dinner Diva, Please make a “Printer Friendly” version of your daily emails. The recipes are great but […]