Cooking healthy meals and choosing nutritious snacks becomes much easier when there are healthy choices at your fingertips. There are a few staples that are usually available in my kitchen, making nutritious snacks and meals easier to prepare. As our family heads into a busy season of juggling work, school and kid’s activities it’s important…
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7 Foods to Help Boost Your Immune System
This is the time of year when our immune system is working in overdrive. It’s been a rough winter filled with stomach bugs, colds, and the flu making the rounds. With our homes sealed up tightly to keep the cold air out, germs end up hanging around longer than we would like. It turns out that viruses could…
5 Healthy Foods to Eat Before a Workout
My workouts generally happen first thing in the morning. If it doesn’t happen then it generally doesn’t happen at all. For many years I never ate anything before a workout. I would exercise hard and then need to eat large quantities of food. I was starving! Within the past year I started to experiment with…
Healthy Popsicle Recipe
Today was a Popsicle kind of day. The temperature hovered around 90 degrees for most of the day. Here in New England we have officially bypassed spring and jumped right into the heat of summer. I have a feeling it’s going to be a Popsicle kind of summer. Finding a Healthy Popsicle Mold Most Popsicle…
10 Reasons to Love Brussels Sprouts
Brussels sprouts are one of those vegetables that most people either love or hate. For many of us they’re no longer the food that our mother’s forced us to eat. Brussels sprouts have graduated onto my superfood list and with good reason. They’re not only full of flavor, but they also have a ton of…
Why Chia Seeds are All the Rage
Yesterday a bag of very expensive organic chia seeds made its way into my grocery cart. I’m not sure what compelled me to buy them right then and there since I’ve been walking right by them and ignoring them at least twice a week for a long time. I’m not talking about those ch-ch-ch-chia pets,…
Headed to BlogHer 2012 in New York City with Stonyfield
It’s hard to believe an entire year has flown by since I went to my very first BlogHer. It was just one year ago that I was celebrating my one year blogaversary in the fantastic city of San Diego. The conference was everything I had expected and then some. After 4 days away I stumbled…