Have you ever opened your pantry to be greeted by something crawling on your shelves or flying around? That sure has happened to me before and it ain’t pretty! I absolutely hate bugs and what’s worse then finding them in or around your food? But that’s what can happen when we ignore our pantry for [...]

Filed under: Healthy Meals, Healthy lifestyle, Meal Planning, Optimal Health, Time Saving Tips

A dear friend of mine, Karen Batchelor, has a totally cool job. She helps women navigate midlife.
That may sound a little funny but midlife, as I’m beginning to discover, can be fraught with all kinds of issues I never imagined in my 30’s – aging parents, looming retirement, your body changing and resettling (oh dear!), deciding [...]

Filed under: Aging, Body wisdom, Fun and Adventure, Midlife, Women's Health

I believe one of the simplest and most compelling actions we can take to improve our health is to invest in a pedometer, commit to wear it everyday and monitor our steps. Pedometers are inexpensive (you can buy them as cheaply as $5 and on up), easy to use and a great way to get [...]

Filed under: Cardio, Energy, Exercise, Optimal Health, Pedometers, Walking, Weight Management

I’ve been subscribing to O Magazine almost since its inception, several years ago. The articles and features really resonate with me although in recent years, as I’ve become increasingly busy, I don’t have time for cover to cover reading. These days, I’m lucky if I sneak in a few pages here and there – some months [...]

Filed under: Fruit, High Quality Food, Optimal Health, Soul and Spirit, Time Saving Tips

Growing up, watermelon was one of my least favorite fruits. I hated all those big black seeds you had to spit out and frankly, it just didn’t taste that good to me. But back then, I didn’t know what I know now: watermelon is bursting with disease-fighting nutrients and it’s so good for us. Think cancer [...]

Filed under: Antioxidants, Beverages, Food, Fruit, Fruit, Healthy Meals, High Quality Food, Optimal Health, Recipes

I was in the grocery store last week, waiting in line to check out, when the cover of Self magazine caught my eye, “A No-Diet Way to Lose Lbs: 20 Foods that Slim You Down.” I’ve always been of the mind that diets don’t work and that following a diet book for a few weeks [...]

Filed under: Exercise, Greens, Healthy lifestyle, Legumes, Salmon, Vegetables, Weight loss

Remember when you were little and having a summer meal with family and friends that was so fun and delicious that it still evokes memories? I still think about summer evenings growing up in New Jersey when we’d have a cookout with my very best friend Alyson (still my best friend to this day, since we [...]

Filed under: Greens, Healthy Meals, High Quality Food, Locally Grown Food, Main Dishes, Meal Planning, Organic Products, Summer

I’m mad about blueberries. Yep, I could eat them by the handful, sometimes even by the bucket. One of my favorite summertime pleasures is going berry picking at Bishop’s Orchards, a local farm about 20 minutes from me.
I love the fun of picking my own fruit, eating some along the way (after all , isn’t [...]

Filed under: Food, Fruit, Locally Grown Food, Optimal Health, Prevention, Superfoods