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Drink This, Sweat Off That

Holiday weight gain is not just from cookies, treats, or eating too much! It’s also contributed to cocktails loaded up with extra sugars in the drink. If you’re mindful of what’s in the food and drinks you intake, you can prevent ingesting any extra - unneeded calories this season. You can have your booze and drink it too but with healthier options. This season, try making ‘healthier’ holiday cocktails that will keep you happy (cheers!) and focused on your health for the new year!

Healthy Holiday Appetizers

We all love parties but not necessarily the unhealthy food that goes along with them. So here are three healthy, fast, and tasty appetizers that are also handy to prepare days ahead of time or simple to pack up and take to someone else’s party. I hope that you enjoy and share these recipes with your friends and family!

Healthy Hacks, Side Dish Recipes for your Holiday Dinners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7kBlHuSh2c The holidays are always associated with lots of food!! And usually the food is unhealthy and fattening! My Thanksgiving dinner consisted of a lot of different dishes to choose from, and who can choose just one or two? I know I can’t... I have to try them all! That…

The Best In-Season Fruits & Vegetables to Eat This Fall

As Fall approaches, along with the crisp cool evenings and falling leaves, comes the abundance of fall colors and beautiful produce. Some of my favorite fruits and vegetables in season during fall include squash, pumpkins, root vegetables and apples. Not only are these pretty to decorate with, these seasonal fruits…

Celebrate National Homemade Cookie Day with these Healthy Hack Recipes

Who doesn’t love cookies, especially homemade ones. You can still eat healthy with these health hack recipes, so go ahead, make and batch and celebrate National Homemade Cookie Day. These double chocolate chip cookies are just what the doctor ordered when you have a craving for chocolate! You would…

Easy to Pack and Healthy Brown Bag Lunch Ideas

Saving time is just as important as eating healthy when it comes to packing lunches and snacks for the day. You can’t always find fast, convenient, or healthy options at a deli, or grocery store let alone a fast food restaurant. Plus it is expensive to buy lunch every day!…

Easy No Cook Dinner Recipe

We are all so busy these days, sometimes cooking dinner just seems too overwhelming to think about. You don’t have to cook to have an easy, but nutritious meal. Here is the basic recipe for my Bean salad. Everything is to taste and I never measure so there is no…

Eating a Rainbow, Why Color in Your Fruit & Vegetables Matters

You’ve probably heard that you should eat the colors of the rainbow, meaning you should eat a lot of colorful fruit and colorful vegetables. In fact, the USDA’s MyPlate guidelines (Myplate.org) specifically recommend this, as do the updated school nutrition guidelines. The benefits of colorful eating is that it provides…

The Best Summer Fruits and Vegetables to Buy Now

August 3, 2018
Tara Coleman
Health & Fitness / Healthy Eating / Recipes
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Eating seasonally is very en vogue in the nutrition world. However, as with most positive nutrition trends, it mirrors what both humans and nature have been doing for years. Quite simply, eating seasonally is building your meals around what is grown and naturally available to your local area throughout the…

Let’s Talk Tofu

July 31, 2018
Brittany Jaroudi
Health & Fitness / Healthy Eating / Recipes
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Let’s talk tofu? What exactly is it? Tofu, also known as bean curd, is a food cultivated by coagulating soy milk and then pressing the resulting curds into soft white blocks. Now is it healthy? Soy from tofu and soy milk may be protective against and used to treat chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Daily consumption…