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What Message Is Your Weight Trying to Tell You? (Plus a Spring Garden Update)

Just yesterday I was inspired by a post I read by Marc from the Institute for the Psychology of Eating called A New Way to Lose Weight:  Listen to It.  I find the concept quite interesting and wanted to share … Continue reading

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Baby Spinach and Kiwi Salad with Strawberry-Lime Balsamic Dressing

  My garden is not exactly something that has been on my mind the past few months.  However, once the calendar changed over from February into March and the sun enticed me out into my backyard, thoughts of seeds, seedlings … Continue reading

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Weird Meal Wednesday: Salad with Healthy Protein and Healthy Fat

Somehow the title “Leftover Fish, Avocado, Tahini and Teff Salad” didn’t sound too appealing.  But that is what it is.  Usually my favorite meals come out of a concoction of random leftovers from the fridge.  This lovely lunch consisted of: … Continue reading

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Countdown to the New Year: Day 4 of 6

Good morning! Hopefully you got some fruit yesterday.  So far we have the possibility of creating 3 new healthy habits for the new year:  Food journaling, switching to whole grains and enjoying fresh fruit.  If you’re feeling motivated, continue with … Continue reading

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A Few of My Favorite Things

As passionately as I promote “real” “whole” “actual” foods (you know– oats, apples, butternut squash, walnuts, etc, etc)  and as much as I like Michael Pollan’s advice to not eat anything your great-grandmother would not recognize as food, there are … Continue reading

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A Typical (atypical?) Lunch

Or…How to Build Your Own Salad How often do you make a salad into a meal?  It’s a delicious and nutritious way to use up leftovers and incorporate variety into your lunches and dinners.  Make it right and it’s super … Continue reading

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The Dirty Dozen

Have you heard of the dirty dozen?   It is a list of the twelve produce items that contain the highest levels of pesticides.  Ideally we would buy all organic, locally grown food, right?  However, it is not always available so … Continue reading

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Raw Veggie-Almond Pate

I give all credit to Ani Phyo for this wonderful idea.  A slightly modified version of her Garden Pate is one of my favorite things to make out of her book Ani’s Raw Food Kitchen. You can top it on … Continue reading

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Swiss Chard and Sweet Potato Gratin

As many of you know, I am a big fan of Dr. Fuhrman.  If you haven’t read his book Eat to Live please do!  His new book called Super Immunity is equally as informative.  He discusses the failure of modern … Continue reading

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Got Kale?

Look at all that nutrition! Hopefully yours looks a little less wilted than this.  Mine is from a local farm….from Friday.  Sad; I don’t usually wait four days to eat my kale.  We all go through phases when we don’t … Continue reading

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