It's about a week until Halloween, and kids around the country are rejoicing. Parents, on the other hand, are dreading the next week. Between school parties, friends' parties, and trick-or-treating, most kids will probably eat their weight in sugary, unhealthy candy and snacks. But short of locking your kids in their rooms until November 1st, how do you keep them from becoming sugar...
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It's September, and for most of us in the Northern Hemisphere, that means one thing - winter's coming. Ok, so it means more than one thing, but the fact is that the cold weather will be here before we know it. One of the challenges of eating right during the winter is, oftentimes, convenience - there's no food in the house, and we don't want to brave the cold weather to get something from the...
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It's getting to be that time of year again - the time when, although we can still enjoy the fruits of summer, the signs of autumn are undeniable. We all wish summer could last - especially when it brings such delicious fruits and vegetables. But time moves on, and summer turns to fall. But there is a way to eat that summer-fresh food, even in the coldest winter . Canning your own food is...
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If you're anything like me, you have some fond (and not-so-fond) memories of brown bag lunches. Ham and cheese, peanut butter and jelly, tuna fish on wheat - it seemed sometimes like we were eating the same thing for years and years and years. That is, unless you were one of the lucky ones who was able to trade their lunch for something better - and "better" usually meant whatever we didn't...
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It might still officially be summer, but in most parts of the country, kids are getting ready to head back to school. As depressing as that thought is, the reality is that, whether we like it or not, it's time to get back into the usual routine. We've got some tips to help with the transition: 1. Ease into it. Even if your kids have a couple of weeks before school starts, now is the time to...
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Disclosure: I've been on low carb diets. For the most part I did well on them, going into what's called "ketosis" fairly easily, and dropping weight. The problem I have with Atkins and other low carb diets is that without careful planning, they can get boring. In my case I ended up eating mainly meat, cheese, and green vegetables. As I've said before, any diet that narrowly restricts the foods...
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The last time you bought prepackaged food, did you notice the little blurb at the bottom that said, "Made in a facility that processes (fill in a potential allergen here)"? If you have any food allergies, you probably did. Or...maybe not. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 2 percent of adults and 4 to 8 percent of kids in the U.S. have food allergies. These...
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War on drugs, war on terror... war on food? Okay, your struggle with food. If I called it 'the food fight' some would misunderstand and we'd be scrubbing tomato and yogurt splatter off the walls for weeks. 1. It's not about weight. We've made weight into such a bogeyman, many people who have read this blog all the way through my stupid "This is why extreme diets are bad for you" 100 days of...
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A study recently published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association stated that only 61.5% of people check the nutrition labels on their food before they buy it. In the past ten years, there's been a lot of attention paid to those nutrition labels - to make them easier to read and easier to understand. But if only about 60% of people are reading them, what does that say about the...
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I've only worked in one restaurant in my life. it was as a dishwasher at a Mexican restaurant in downtown Vancouver, and at the time I thought it was awesome. I got all the pop and tortilla chips I could eat, the cooks would 'screw up' an order now and then and send it my way, and all I had to do was load dirty dishes onto a rack and feed them into the industrial dishwasher. I didn't deal with...
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