Veggies

Ok, so this is just a quick entry for a nice, summer Friday (where I’d rather be outside than blogging!) for a quick, nice summer meal. It was one of those ‘fridge meals’ where we had to use up some veggies and is not super different from some of the other ‘fridge meals’ (often [...]

"Eat your fruits and vegetables." We've heard it all of our lives. If only it were so simple.Our bodies crave fruits and vegetables more than just about any other food because we tend to get far fewer of them than we need. We often think we'd survive just fine on 2-3 servings a day – or less. But the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the USDA both recommend at least 5 servings per d

This meal could have also been called 'Really Simple Food That Speaks For Itself'. I am always amazed at how good veggies are when roasted. They don't need anything, just a bit of salt. They have enough of their own flavor. I was looking for a simple, yet tasty and healthy dinner the other night, and I think I found the perfect meal! Brett and I raved about this and were also happy with how good s

Gypsie recently posted that she wanted to know why I became a vegetarian. I really don’t recall if I posted the WHY’S about this topic before, I only recall posting that this is what I am doing. This is going to be a long one people. I apologize. Back in October (2007) I weighed 207 pounds. I felt like total crap ALL THE TIME. I was suffering from panic attacks and had MAJOR issues with low

How to eat a variety of veggies for a healthier you!The new food guidelines issued by the United States government recommend that all Americans eat between five and nine servings of fruits and vegetables each and every day. When you first hear that number, it may seem like a lot, but it is actually much easier than you think to fit that many servings of fruits and vegetables into your daily diet.

By following some simple tips, you can add more fruits and vegetables to your healthy eating regimen, even when you dine in restaurants. Eating foods rich in fruits and vegetables may reduce the risk of cancer and other chronic diseases, as well as provide essential vitamins, minerals, and nutrients.As far as weight loss is concerned, most fruits and vegetables are naturally low in fat and calori

Say no to plain vegetables. One of the main reasons people don't like vegetables is because they try to eat them plain. If you're just starting out, this is one of the worst things you can do. Most people don't have the taste buds for a plate of steamed broccoli or spinach. And why should you have to suffer through that for the sake of your health? The thing I did most when I started eating health

Ribollita is a delicious low fat Italian soup, a bit similar to the famous minestrone, but instead of pasta, you cook it with beans.Ribollita is very filling, as you serve it on top of 2 bread slices and a cooking spoon of slightly fried spinach, and top all that with a tablespoon of low fat Parmesan cheese.You can add bacon bits if you want, but you don't really need it. This delicious Italian soup is full of flavour and goodness.Ribolita yields 3 WW points, but you may want to have a double ration and go for a sixer! You won't go for seconds or dessert after that! (and if you are... you shouldn't!).Ingredients:1 Tbsp olive oil2 onions, chopped2 carrots, chopped2 Tbsp crushed garlic2 celery sticks1 fennel bulb, trimmed and chopped2 large courgettes, thinly sliced1 X 425 g (14 oz) can chop

By : Karen Barrow Filling your plate with fruits and vegetables may not only be a good way to keep your body healthy, it can keep your brain going strong, too. In yet another study uncovering the benefits of fruits and vegetables, researchers from Utah State University have found that elderly men and women who consume high amounts of these foods have better memories than those who skimp on the

By : Karen Barrow Filling your plate with fruits and vegetables may not only be a good way to keep your body healthy, it can keep your brain going strong, too. In yet another study uncovering the benefits of fruits and vegetables, researchers from Utah State University have found that elderly men and women who consume high amounts of these foods have better memories than those who skimp on the

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Sorry I’ve not been too active lately. I’ve been revising like mad! Not to mention having a thousand tests run on me to find out why I’ve been feeling so ill. Least now that I’m not a teenager my mum can’t blame it on hormones! I have done some work on the site albeit in [...]

Dear Miley,   Howdy! How are ya? I’m fit as a fiddle.   I heard today that you are a vegetarian, but you don’t like vegetables. I hear tell you only eat pasta and weight only 95 pounds.   Kraft Easy Mac and Starbucks coffee is not a diet, girl — it’s a good way to get sick.  

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Fruit’s a good substitute, but not a perfect one. Both vegetables and fruit can give you the vitamins, fiber and cancer-fighting antioxidants you need to stay healthy. But fruit tends to be higher in natural sugars than vegetables—and therefore higher in calories, which can add up. It’s also difficult to get enough folate and calcium [...]

Shopping locally has been the new buzz in sustainable living. Environmentalists are touting the carbon emission that’s created by transporting goods all around the world to be detrimental to the environment. Ideal Bite claims in their daily tip that buying non-organic produce locally is more Eco-friendly and green than buying an Organic banana shipped from Peru. Of [...]

Parenting Tips - Are Organic Fruits and Veggies Healthier for Kids? - Did you know that there is a growing concern that fruits and vegetables grown with pesticides are dangerous? I did some research on this and found out that lab studies show pesticides can cause health problems. These problems range from birth defects to nerve damage, cancer, and other effects that might occur over a long period of time. More: continued here Other Review: Jenny Lind Changing Table by Delta Children's Products - Oak (Baby Product)

These four color coded polypropylene chopping boards are designed to help keep different kinds of foods separated and avoid cross-contamination. The red one os for meat, the white for already cooked food, the blue is for fish, and the green is of course for vegetables. They come in a plastic box with no-slip rubber feet. We particularly like the little tabs... From MoMA store at USD 85:-. Design by Damian Evans.

Back in October, I wrote an article favorably reviewing Jessica Seinfeld's new cookbook Deceptively Delicious. This is the "Results" post, so to speak. In the book, Jessica describes how to puree veggies and hide them in your kid's food. While many people criticized the book saying that she copied someone else's idea, and she gave Oprah 21 pairs of Manolos Blahniks for promoting it, I say "Who gives a shit!" It works. I found it to be brilliant and implemented her, or whoever's strategies. The only difference was that I went purely organic. Now this was at a time when my daughter was NOT consuming many (or any I should say) veggies at all. She was in and out of school almost ever other week with one ailment or another, and she would take a tremendously long time to recover. After several

Okay, it's hardly news that you should be eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, but the fact is that many people don't. If you're one of those people with the best of intentions, but you just don't eat what you should, you can use these tips for sneaking servings into your meals: Wake up to fruit. Make a habit of drinking juice or complementing cereal, yogurt or pancakes with sliced or dried fruit. Try these "grate" ideas. Add grated, shredded or chopped vegetables, such as zucchini, spinach and carrots, to lasagna, meatloaf, mashed potatoes or pasta dishes. "Sandwich" in fruits and vegetables. Add pizzazz to sandwiches with sliced pineapple, apple, pepper, cucumber and tomato as fillings. Get creative with pizza. Order pizza (or make it "deluxe") with vegetable toppings: br

Lately I have been doing a lot of thinking about my food and eating habits and debating where some change can be made. Sometimes it’s due to sticker shock at the grocer; mostly I blame my birthday. I shouldn’t really. I get a year older just like everyone else does and don’t wring my hands in [...]

Nutrition experts tell you that you need to eat five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables every day. You may already know that a lot of people don’t even get five servings every day, god knows I don’t!  In fact, if you ask most people, they don’t even come close!  Fruits and vegetables should make up a large portion of your diet. They are low in calories, which is good, and they are high in vitamins, minerals, phytochemicals and fiber, which is even better.  Eating the suggested amount of fruits and vegetables on a daily basis is difficult for many people. Busy schedules, eating on the run, and the temptation of junk foods are all barriers to getting enough fruits and vegetables into your diet. Do you need some help getting more fruits and vegetables into your

Will Betta Fish Eat Plants?Betta Fish Care common assumption is that bettas can live eating only plants? Wow, that is a dangerous myth for the betta. Bettas are carnivores. They aren't veggies! You see the bettas mouth is upturned, which is great for catching insects on the surface (or any other critters). Not so great for nibbling on plants. They will starve to death if you only give them a diet of veggies. Not good for the betta.I've seen sold in stores Betta ecosystems, which are vases with plants. This is not good because the instructions tell you the bettas will survive off the roots of the plants. The only thing that happens is the poor betta slowly deteriorates from lack of food.It is difficult to see how anyone could possibly refer to a betta tank as an ecosystem. The most evident

By Jimmy Cox Much of what we eat today has had all the beneficial vitamins taken from it. One can go on and on, through the whole gamut of dishes cooked with excessive heat, canned foods, toasted cereals, vitamin plied flour and milk, which have been robbed of all or almost all of the original [...]

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"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."Orson Welles FUSION FOOD...Noodles with Stir-fried veggies & chickenThis is my attempt to recreate some really delicious Pan Asian food we had the other day. I ended up with a 'confusion' of sorts; not quite authentic, even by my own meagre standards...but delicious nevertheless. We loved it, so did our young lad. Sadly my daughter didn't enjoy it too much. But for me as a mother, even 50% is passing with flying colours!! With both the kids developing strangely similar tastes one day, and then being poles apart the next, uncertainty at the dinner table is part of the game! I heave a sigh of relief the day they concur, and do a little jig!!!! Served on a bed of noodles.......When I read blog posts about the farmer's markets in the US etc, I know exactly what the feeling is. In North India, at this time of the year, the local bazaars are overflowing with fresh produce. Every little corner stall will offer coloured

Just three servings a month of raw broccoli or cabbage can reduce the risk of bladder cancer by as much as 40 percent, researchers reported this week. Other studies show that dark-colored berries can reduce the risk of cancer too -- adding more evidence to a growing body of research that shows fruits and vegetables, especially richly colored varieties, can reduce the risk of cancer.

Anyone who read the papers over the summer knew the outcome of this Premier League season.Derby were to be relegated along with two of your choices out of Fulham, Middlesbrough, Wigan, Sunderland or Birmingham. Manchester United were to pip the title with Liverpool and Chelsea fighting for second.Dishearteningly to Arsenal fans, Tottenham were to take fourth, claiming England's final Champions League spot and relegating the Gunners to the UEFA Cup if they could beat off teams like Newcastle, Aston Villa, and Manchester City.That tells you how much the pundits know.After beating Wigan last weekend Arsenal are now three points clear at the top of the Premier League table with a game in hand against their nearest rivals, Manchester United. Chelsea and Liverpool are in fourth and fifth respectively, both behind Manchester City.And Tottenham?They've peaked at fourteenth. After spending much of the early season in the relegation zone, new boss Juande Ramos has brought them within one point

Reducipe Pronunciation: ri-doos-uh-pee Function: noun 1 : a recipe that can help lower your food costs in a variety of ways      a : by scaling back an expensive recipe to be less pricey but still just as tasty      b : by turning an already inexpensive meal into something special      c : by using leftovers in creative ways to stretch their use Since Thanksgiving is fast approaching I thought I’d put up a reducipe that would fit in nicely at the holiday dinner table. I started making this recipe a few years ago and now it has become a staple at our thanksgiving dinner. This is a great replacement for the traditional candied yams or sweet potato casserole and it’s better for you, too. They are sweet and salty; a combo I like very much. The slight caramelization of the honey adds a bit of complexity and richness. And unlike sweet potato casserole, this recipe gets requested throughout the year, not just at

I saw Jerry Seinfeld's wife Jessica on Oprah show talking about her book Deceptively Delicious. The premise of the book is that you can hide pureed veggies in your kid's favorite meals. Then the kids get the veggies they need and you feel better about what your kids are eating. I have to admit this got me thinking about my own kids and how much vegetables they eat or I should say how much vegetable they don't eat. Aside from potatoes and corn, they really don't eat too many vegetables. This has been weighing somewhat heavy on my mind. When I give them vegetables, they pick them off the plate. Contrary to many people's opinion, you really can't make kids eat anything nor would I want to. So the concept of pureeing vegetables and putting them in the kids' meal made perfect sense! It made sense. My kids eat garlic, onion and other vegetables but only if they are cooked into their food like tomato pasta sauce where they don't really notice all the vegetables. They e

For many, a daily Oprah episode signals the beginning of a session of pleasure, a desperate excitement that lasts for an hour and then melts into a lathered puddle of women lazily lounging around on the steps outside of her studio, grabbing cigarettes and moaning about how the sparks flew and lit up their eyes for the better part of an afternoon. To some it’s a satisfying event; for others, she leaves us ridden hard and hung up without a vigorous towelling-off. Not even the “O” word in magazine format can possibly wrench us from the idea that whatever just happened on that TV probably cost us a few tenths of our soul. A couple of days ago, I managed to gather that Jessica Seinfeld, wife of famed and funny Jerry, was on Her Majesty’s program to promote her new cookbook about how to hide vegetables within foods that children have naturally found easy to stuff down their maws in large quantities, thus avoiding a task that most parents have found to be unpleasant

Vegetables add colour, taste, texture and bulk to our daily diet. There are dozens of different vegetables that can be prepared in literally hundreds of ways. So what's best? There is no best. The thing to do is to eat your vegetables, lots of them, everyday in a wide variety of ways and stop worrying about the preparation methods. Variety is the key... Raw Many vegetables taste fabulous just the way they are straight out of the garden. Lettuce, tomato, celery, cabbage, onion, radish, carrot are obvious choices here. But they are just as likely to find themselves next to chopped up broccoli, cauliflower, peas, beans and zucchini on a starter platter with dips. Wash 'em, chop 'em and eat 'em. Oh, yeah, you could also make a salad! Steamed Steaming heats the vegetable and softens it's texture. It's gentler than boiling and allows the vegetable to maintain it's colour if not o

This is dish number two of my husband's birthday dinner. We love this dish. A well balanced between meat and veggie. If you read my previous post, you would know what soup I made that day. Then you should noticed a repeated ingredient used here.It's great if you only have time to cook only one dish and you cannot decide if you want a meat or a veggie dish.Ingredients:60g Pork Fillet (腰肉), sliced8 Shitake Mushroom, cut into quarters10 Asparagus, half8 slice Lotus Root, skinned2 tablespoon OilMarinade:1 teaspoon Light Soy Sauce1 teaspoon Chinese Cooking Wine1 teaspoon CornflourSeasoning:300ml Bone or Chicken Broth1 tablespoon Chinese Cooking Wine1 teaspoon Light Soy SauceSalt to tasteHow to do it:Marinade pork and set aside for half an hour.Heat wok with oil.Add pork and stir fry till half cooked.Remove and set aside.Using the same wok, add the mushroom and stir fry for a minute.Add some more oil if oil has been absorbed by mushroom.Add in the lotus roots and asparagus.Stir fried b

The benefits of fruits and veggies consumption are all too well known. Fruit and vegetables are full of fiber, plus a whole range of vitamins and minerals. They also make an important and healthy part of any diet because they are quite low in calories. Many scientific studies have reported that people who eat a lot of fruit and veggies may have a lower risk of getting illnesses.By consequence, the specialists recommend an intake of at least five portions of fruit or vegetables per person per day. This is to help reduce the risk of prostate cancer and some other malignant conditions, heart disease and many other chronic disorders. By a portion they mean an amount of 80gr. A recent study based on data on more than 257,500 people from Europe, Japan and the US has concluded that consumption of more than the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables a day can cut risk of stroke as well. Very important is that study observations revealed that people who ate three to five portions cut

If you are like most moms, at some point you have been faced with the problem of your child not liking or wanting to eat vegetables. My son goes through stages. At one point, he loved broccoli. He would eat an entire plate of steamed broccoli for dinner. Now he won’t touch it. His new thing is tomatoes, which he hated a few weeks ago. Instead of arguing with him about this, I just keep offering different vegetables and he can choose whether or not he wants to eat them. However, I don’t want him to go without eating any , so I have to disguise them. One of the ways I do this is by making a vegetable quiche. Hopefully this recipe may help your child too. —————————- BROCCOLI QUICHE Ingredients: Prepared Pie Crust 4 eggs, beaten 2 Tablespoons finely chopped onions 1/2 teaspoon thyme leaves 3 ounces shredded cheddar cheese 1 cup half & half or milk 1/2 cup fresh broccoli or frozen broccoli 3 ounces shredded Monterey Jack

Here's some more recipes that I found on my old journal:---Avo GazpachoVeggies w/ Thai seed pasteFirst, what I did was grate some of the carrots(3) and a nice fat cucumber. I squeezed the juice out and put it aside.Avo GazpachoIn the food processor, I put together:A nice huge handful of parsleyAn avocadoRoughly a cup of soaked sun-dried tomatoes(with soak water, maybe two cups?)Five dried, soaked shiitake mushrooms, with soak water(probably altogether about 1 1/2 cup)3 green onionsJuice of half lemonSplash of Bragg's apple cider vinegarSquirt of Bragg'sThe strained water from the carrot/cucumberA nice healthy shake of kelp powder (about 1 heap Tb)once it's all smooth, I just put it into a bowl and added a bit more water to thin it out, and salt to taste.--Thai veggies!Took out the bowl wit

Understanding the molecular structures of compounds that give certain fruits and vegetables their rich colors may help researchers find even more powerful cancer fighters, a new study suggests.Evidence from laboratory experiments on rats and on human colon cancer cells also suggests that anthocyanins, the compounds that give color to most red, purple and blue fruits and vegetables appreciably slow the growth of colon cancer cells.The findings also bring scientists a step closer to figuring out what exactly gives fruits and vegetables their cancer-fighting properties.Read more......permalink Technorati121550fce609bcdf

The New York Times says, “The Sneaky Chef is a brilliant and timely concept.” This is one of the best selling books on their list and I can see why. If you have the same trouble that I used to face each and every night that involves getting your child or children to [...]

Coconutty - Asian Grilled Veggies! Delicious - Recipe/Vegan/Side Dish by Lisa La Barre Beverly Hills Nutritionist Makes 3 - 4 servings 1C broccoli - fresh, chopped into small “trees” 1C carrots - chopped 1/4C onion - chopped 1C mushrooms (baby bella, button, portabella, shitake is best) 1 tsp coconut oil ———-warm grill to med. w/ 1 tsp coconut oil, add [...]

We have all been accustomed towards eating meat which is really good for our body. But considering the fact that the world is slowly shifting towards a green and healthy outlook, it may be high time we start eating vegetables more over the meat from livestock and mammals that need to sacrifice themselves for our sake. Meat will be meat, but green vegetables still hold the necessary nutrients we all look for today. We have a choice, sacrifice in the way that animals have sacrificed for our cause. It is not such a hard thing if we are truly inclined for our health. Download latest version of Flash to view video! . Click Here to View in Full Screen Mode All Natural, animals, earth friendly, eating meat, Eco Friendly, Food, green vegetables, health, Health and Well being, mammals, necessary nutrients, Organic, vegetarian, Video Clips

The only vegetables six-year-old Heather eats are French fries and ketchup--and that's using the term "vegetable" loosely. What's alarming is that she's not alone. Today over 60 percent of children ages two to nine don't consume the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables per day.Children require proper nourishment to be healthy--including eating vegetables. Unfortunately, faux food (fast food and junk food) have replaced whole food. Public health officials warn that unless there is a change in the way our children eat, health problems are sure to plague them. Increasing at alarming rates are heart disease, cancer, and Type 2 diabetes. In addition, childhood obesity has more than tippled over the last forty years.Even the most resistant child can learn to love healthy foods. Kids discover that whole foods (including veggies) are yummy when you engage all their senses. By making a few simple changes, you can teach your child to love veggies!1. Stock Healthful Foods It'll

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I’m a vegetarian, and so I eat a lot of vegetables. But to tell you the truth, I’m tired of vegetables. I like pasta and bread and popcorn, too, but I try to stay away from them. There’s a new product out and I can get My Daily Veggies Free Sample to test it out. This looks like an interesting way to incorporate veggies into my diet without having to eat so many of the darn things. Veggies are packed with vitamins and minerals and are very healthy. Not only that, they are usually low calorie so you can eat a lot of them and fill up, without getting all those unwanted calories. Vegetarians are not necessarily healthy. Most desserts are vegetarian. I try to stay healthy, even while I’m camping, and this product can even be taken with camping to make eating veggies easy (I eat too much junk camping). I am actually quite healthy, but sometimes I do slip. I can incorporate My Daily Veggies into recipes I already make, to make healthier meals. And it’s m

Remember when you were a kid and your parents would tell you to “eat your vegetables”? I know that they are healthy and I know that they have many vitamins and nutrients for a healthy lifestyle, however, I could never get past the taste. Did you ever notice that the better something is for you the worse it tastes? Luckily, there is a new product out that puts all natural whole dried vegetable sand vegetable extracts into one convenient package. The product is called My Daily Veggies. If you have trouble getting your recommended daily allowance of vegetables, there is no easier way thanMy Daily Veggies. Now you can Drink My Daily Veggies by simply adding the product to water or your favorite juice, or you can eat My Daily Veggies by putting it in your favorite foods. The best part about this product is that they are giving away one thousand (1000) free sample packages! The website includes this free trial offer, great My Daily Veggies recipes, and all the information you need

My personal opinion is that this may be a good ‘pick me up’ for busy people who fail to consume enough whole fruits and veggies in the busy and hectic schedule though I do believe that you should continue to include these the whole foods in your diet. In other words, it serves well as a ’supplement’ but not a food replacement.The company is running a promotion of - order 2 boxes of My Daily veggies in the next 60 days and you get the third box absolutely FREE. Alternative, go to the website and request for your My Daily Veggies Free Sample for the next 7 days, value at $10 with another $1 for shipping. So now, you have no excuse not to take enough veggies and fruits

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I’d like to get more traffic for this blog, more information about collies, more feedback, and to do so we are joining up with this link chain. So…. UCR is gonna say, carrots! They are great training treats, too! —————Copy and paste below this line—————— There are all kinds of fruits and veggies that are good for us dogs, right? Well, let’s make a list! And get some link love in the process. Instructions: 1.) Copy and paste the matrix of “Fruits/Veggies LinkLove” below, courtesy of Johann The Dog! 2.) Substitute the Host Tag and one of the “Fruits/Veggies” in the matrix with the name of the fruit or veggie and URL of your blog. 3.) Be sure that the fruit or veggie that you list is REALLY safe for dogs. Do your research, K? 4.) When you get a ping back from someone that has your link in one of their “Fruits/Veggies”, practice good paw by copying his/her Host Tag&rsq

The USDA recently increased its recommendations for fruit and vegetable consumption to 2 to 6.5 cups daily, offering greater specifics for people according to age and gender. Unfortunately, Americans do not seem to be keeping pace with the government’s recommendations: the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 1999-2000 shows that only 40% of Americans eat five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. More: continued here

Did you know that kids, toddler’s especially, are more likely to actual eat more veggies if they are home grown in their own backyard? Apparently being involved in the growing process, helping mom weed, or helping water, etc., can lead to healthier veggie eater along the way. Personally, Alex is just going to have to learn to deal with the store bought variety, since I can, quite quickly and proficiently, kill any living plant that comes within a ten mile radius. What can I say? It’s a talent I’ve had all my life. You should have seen MY terrariums in school. They were easy to pick out, they were usually solid brown and mushy. But if you’re not blessed with the oh so desirable black thumb that I have, you may want to consider starting your own little backyard garden. It just might get your toddler eating veggies, and can always make for fun upkeep along the way!

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Wal Mart’s back at it with the freebies, this time with some free Knorr Sides Plus Veggies. I’ve never actually heard of this brand before, but giving away free samples of your product is one heck of a way to start building up loyal customers! Plus, I think the last vegetable I’ve eaten was a carrot back in 2004, so this can only be a good thing for my diet and health! [via the forums]Technorati Tags: knorr, freebies, vegetables

The other day I was reading about someone who was tired of their winter vegetables. She was saying something about San Diego’s winter vegetables being tired and pale. I can’t think of anything that is further from the truth. Just last week I got crisp cauliflower, yukon gold potatoes, and the greenest sugar snap peas I’ve seen all winter. With all these delicious winter vegetables, I thought I’d put together my version of the Indian classic, Aloo Gobi. This recipe is pretty straight-forward, no fancy techniques, no fancy ingredients. You may even have all these boring ingredients in your pantry already. Maia, thanks for the inspiration Aloo Gobi 1 head cauliflower cut into small florets 2 cups sugar snap peas cut in half 5 potatoes 1 onion chopped 1/2 cup curry powder 1/2 cup oil 2 tablespoons butter red pepper salt and pepper Boil potatoes, skin on, until fork-tender. Remove potatoes and rinse under cold water while peeling the skin off. Chop potatoes and r

Feeding Your Family: Organic Veggies on a Budget"Anybody who's shopped for organically-grown produce has probably experienced the sticker-shock that goes along with it. It's a fact that in most cases organically-grown supermarket produce is more expensive than its non-organic counterpart, but I think a larger number of parents would likely grab the organic stuff if the two were closer in price..."Read More...I'm really lucky to live in the Pacific Northwest, where we have superb access to organic, locally grown foods without expending much effort. But, with the current trend of 'going green' being set by places of such ill-repute as Fred Myer and Wal_Mart hopefully everyone will soon be informed as to the benefits, politics, pitfalls and corporate scams revolving around the food we eat.I would add to this nice little snippet from Strollerderby a few things: Food Co-Ops are a great way to save money, support local agriculture and dine on organic foods without signing on to a year

In theory it sounds pretty easy. You eat more fruits and vegetables by "sneaking" them into your daily diet without being obvious. But it takes work. One idea is to buy more veggies than usual and leave them out on the kitchen counter so you'll be more likely to include them in your cooking (or snacking).A better idea is to combine them with other foods. Cauliflower can be pureed in a blender and mixed into your mashed potatoes without a noticeable change in texture or taste. Grated carrots and/or chopped spinach can also be added to your spaghetti sauce (in the skillet) with much the same effect. A registered dietician wrote a book last year called, Stealth Health to guide people in this process. It should still be available on amazon.com.

Shannon of Rocks In My Dryer, our gracious hostess, has deemed the theme for this week’s Works-For-Me-Wednesday “The Kitchen Edition.” She wants us to share any tip we might have pertaining to the room of the house in which I feel like I spend half of my day . Do we have a clever way to store recipes? An organized way to plan meals? A shortcut on prepping food? Without further ado, here is my contribution. In our house we love eating fresh fruits and vegetables, but I am also lazy because I don’t like to run to the store every other day to buy fresh produce. Not only does doing this take up too much time and energy and create the arena for more potential battles to be fought with two year olds, but it also ends up costing more money. It’s part of the Law of Saving Money. If you can decrease the amount of times you have to frequent a store, you will find there is more money left in your budget. Therefore I tend to buy a lot of fresh produce in bulk

I was on the phone the other day with a friend, and she could hear my son Alex babbling in the background. “What’s Alex up to?” she asked. “Eating lunch. He’s talking to his carrots at the moment.” My response was met with a stunned silence before she squeaked out … “He eats CARROTS???” On the disbelief register it ranked right up there with me saying, “I just won the swimsuit competition for the Miss America pageant.” Well of course Alex eats carrots. Why wouldn’t he? He also eats peas, ham, turkey, pasta, fruits, and occasionally a bite of dog food if I’m not quick enough, but what’s so shocking about that? “My son won’t eat anything except yogurt and mac and cheese.” She confessed this is a stage style whisper, as if we were two CIA agents passing on the street and vital information on the TFO (Toddler Food Operation) needed to be exchanged in a hurry. As a mother to a child

The distrubing story appeared in Svenska Dagbladet (Swedish only), my daily morning read. It was about the fruit and the vegetables we buy in the belief they are good for us, and about how these fruits and veggies, colorful as they may be, are so diluted and abused they are hardly worth the effort of chewing and eating them anymore. Many are so low in nutrients and vitamins they would not pass international norms, like the FAO requirements. The paper used a refractometer (Wiki) to measure the sucrose level, Brix, (Wiki) in different fruits and vegetables. A high Brix level means, among other things, that the fruit or vegetables tastes sweeter, contain more vitamins and minerals, won't be as suceptible to spoiling, and will be hardier and thus require less pesticides. A low Brix level may be caused by harvesting the fruit or vegetables before they have ripened, that they have not had enough sunshine, been grown in bad soil, and been reared too quickly. Check the Brix standards and FAO

I work nights. I’m working while the rest of the normal world is having fun, going out, or just sleeping. These late hours aren’t very conducive to gourmet foods or even take-out, so sometimes I’m guilty of bringing something frozen to work (gasp! The horror!). Yes, even the foodie will partake in frozen, microwaved dinner. Thursday night I brought a pot pie to work. I didn’t completely sell out, it was an Amy’s Kitchen country veggie pot pie. They’re pretty good, organic, and they keep me from the fast food evils of working nights. While I was eating this, I realized I could easily make my own, better version. Friday night, I concocted my own organic veggie pot pie. It only took a few things: fresh, local veggies from the CSA, some leftover homemade quick puff pastry, and a bechamel sauce. The eater ranked it as ‘yumyumyum’. Jef’s Kitchen SD County Vegetable Pie This is my take on Amy’s Kitchen Country Veggie Pie. I used up

Many kids (and adults!) fall short on eating recommended amounts of fruits and vegetables. This module’s Quick Start Ideas and selection of activities in the Activity Action Plan will help you: Explain to kids why fruits and vegetables are not only good for them, but help them feel good and look good, ...