Meal planning for weight loss is not much different from regular meal planning—whether you’re counting calories, fat, points, or something else entirely, it’s just one more small thing to keep in mind. You might change where you look for your recipes or which recipes you choose, but otherwise, the process is much the same....
How to Meal Plan to Use Up Leftovers
A couple of weeks ago, I posted the latest in my meal planning series of budget-friendly organic meal plans, and a lot of the comments I received had to do with the fact that people LOVED that you used up what you bought for meal No. 1 in meals No. 2, 3, 4, etc....
Eating Healthy vs. Food Fads
As you probably know if you’ve signed up for my newsletter, as soon as you are confirmed, I ask you a couple of questions about where you are at with food. I got this great response the other day: I am so new to this healthy food thing but after watching a few documentaries...
How Often Do You Have Family Dinner? (And How Often Should You?)
I got an email from a friend and reader recently. She’d seen a blog post on another site that asked “How many nights a week do your kids eat the same things as you do?” All of the comments were along the lines of “7 days a week”, “I’m not a short-order cook.” She...
Some Facts About GMOs
Image source: www.nursedegree.net How do you feel about GMOs? Do you think they should be labeled on foods we buy?
Food Heroes: The NRDC’s Growing Green Award Winners
You want to know who my new foodie heroes are? These people: Just amazing! Of course, we can’t all be food heroes on this kind of scale, but I believe we make a huge difference simply by showing up and THINKING about what we buy and consume. So I ask you this: What...
Healthy Eating Strategies for Families: Part 1
Today, I’ve got part one of my Healthy Eating for Families talk video! I gave this talk for the Rocky Mountain Parents As Teachers group, and it was a ton of fun. I covered three simple strategies for getting your families to eat healthier, and this video covers the first strategy: eat real food....
Is Buying Organic Worth the Cost? {Discuss}
Over at ProBlogger they’ve been putting up some group writing projects recently (prompts and the like) and this week’s suggestion was to write a discussion post. So I though I’d open it up here and see what you think: Is buying organic worth the cost? If your family’s budget were drastically cut, would you...
Food Fight! Music Video Compares Diet to Drugs
Remember back in school when the teacher would show you some sort of educational video—maybe it was even a music video—supposed to teach you some lesson, but you and all your friends were too busy laughing at how LAME the video was to even pay attention to what it was about? Yeah, this is...
7 Foods You Should NEVER Eat
It’s a sad truth that sometimes even foods that seem healthy can be bad for our health and our planet. Here are seven foods you should never eat—and easy ways to swap them out and get them out of your life.