Posts Tagged ‘ cook ’

Booklist: Delicious for Life: Your Everyday Guide to Making Quick & Healthy Meals

May 4, 2011
Booklist: Delicious for Life: Your Everyday Guide to Making Quick & Healthy Meals

By Randy Rabney Buy now at Lulu $12.00 – paperback $9.00 – download In Delicious for Life, Randy Rabney of The Conscious Plate speaks to all of us regular people who want to cook real food from real ingredients, but aren’t quite sure where to start. She takes this complex subject matter and breaks it…

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Buy This Not That: Waffles

March 11, 2011

MY KIDS LOVE WAFFLES. If they could, they would eat waffles for every meal. I was buying Van’s frozen waffles at 6 to a box and my kids were eating 2 at a sitting, so the box lasted three meals. Conventional frozen waffles come 10 to a box, which would have given us a couple…

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Four Things To Cook, Not Buy

January 11, 2011

I’M SURE SOME PEOPLE HAVE NATURAL COOKING ABILITIES. I’M NOT ONE OF THEM. But these four things can be made at home by anyone, no special cooking abilities needed. Homemade tastes better, is better for our bodies, and costs less. A triple win! Food makers want – no NEED – us to buy their products.…

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Three Simple Ways to Healthier Eating Part 3: Reallocate Your Budget

December 14, 2010

One question I hear over and over again when talking to people about eating fewer processed foods is “How do I start?” It got me thinking back to how I started changing my families eating habits, how overwhelming it seemed, and what small first steps I took. The result is this three-part series of posts…

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Three Simple Ways to Healthier Eating Part 2: Redefine Snacks

December 6, 2010

One question I hear over and over again when talking to people about eating fewer processed foods is “How do I start?” It got me thinking back to how I started changing my families eating habits, how overwhelming it seemed, and what small first steps I took. The result is this three-part series of posts…

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Notes on Food Culture: Or, How I Learned to Love Thanksgiving

November 24, 2010

I NEVER LIKED THANKSGIVING WHEN I WAS A KID. I didn’t speak to me in the way that Christmas, Easter, or my birthday did, you know, with endless treats or piles of gifts. Thanksgiving, although it did always end with my Aunt Cindy’s scrumptious homemade pumpkin pie, was just a day of traveling, football, and…

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