Dessert? A part of a healthy diet?! Yes, Virginia, there is such a thing as healthy dessert recipes. Following are several summer dessert recipes that not only taste great, but are packed with nutrition and help cool you off! Meal Replacement Shake Smoothie Serves one. 1 scoop meal replacement shake powder 1 cup water 1 [...]
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Should eggs be included as part of a healthy diet? The nutrients in eggs are varied and plentiful. That combined with their low cost should make them a winner with frugal cooks around the globe. However, during the past couple of decades, the greatness of eggs has been clouded. Mainly, it was because of the [...]
My husband will be happy. I bought some crimini mushrooms today, for the first time in a long time. I haven’t been because, frankly, they cost extra dinero. Since our food bill is already going through the roof with the addition of another eater in the house, I thought, do we really need them? One [...]
Vegetable soup recipes, while a great part of a healthy diet, can get a bit dull sometimes. But I recently created a recipe for a vegetable soup that both my husband and I found quite tasty, if I do say so myself. I don’t often invent recipes, but the several zucchini and yellow squash I [...]
Egg nog often gets a bad rap these days. It definitely doesn’t fall under most people’s idea of a healthy diet. “Be careful what you drink,” the health “experts” caution, “raw eggs might give you salmonella.” (Um, a 1 in 30,000 chance, by the way.) In my opinion, the the super-thick, super-rich concoction in cartons–which, [...]
My husband loves cheesecake. As such, that is his ongoing birthday dessert request. As The Crunchy Coach, however, I feel obligated to make sure even special desserts fit into my definition of a healthy diet as closely as possible. But a healthy cheesecake? One made without refined sugar and chemical preservatives, and made with organic cheese…is there [...]
Despite what some “diet gurus” say, certain kinds of bread in moderation can be a part of a healthy diet. Recently, I introduced you to what I believe to be the healthiest bread in the world. I listed four reasons for my belief: I make mine with kamut berries. I sprout and dehydrate the berries, [...]
A healthy diet can’t possibly include bread…or can it? The recipe I’m about to share must be…well, if it’s not THE healthiest bread in the world, it’s got to come close! I’m talking about the sourdough bread I bake every couple weeks. Why do I think it’s the healthiest? Four reasons: I make mine with [...]
Behold the eggplant; Egg-shaped majesty, Thou art a purple-cloaked mystery: Do you fruit or veggie be? Well, enough of that. I’m not a poet and I do know it, thank you very much. I’m also not a huge eggplant fan–at least I wasn’t, until earlier this week. An eggplant – a great part of a [...]
Last Tasty Tuesday, I shared with you how I began the Great Green Smoothie Experiment. I told you what I found to be the tastiest greens in a smoothie, and which ones my body didn’t particularly like. (Note: Just because Swiss chard and collard greens don’t set well in my system, doesn’t mean that you [...]