Clean eating inspiration for fall starts with a quick spin around your local farmers’ market where you can see plentiful amounts of beautiful winter squash – butternut, acorn and pumpkin. Not to mention potatoes and sweet potatoes and lots of greens. For me, it’s the perfect opportunity to turn my sights and creative energy to making healthy fall creations.

The key here to is eat what’s in season, focus on clean eating that shuns processed foods full of sugar, salt and fat and to have some fun with it.  A little meal planning on a Saturday morning can yield a week’s worth of healthy, seasonal clean eating meals that won’t have to keep you in the kitchen for hours. Just today, I’ve cooked up a healthy soup with collard greens, beans and sweet potatoes, fresh tuna burgers and some delicious Jamaican style oatmeal.  All clean meals full of nutrients and flavor.

How are you doing with creating clean eating, seasonal meal plans that maximize nutrition and flavor? If you’re stumped for how to keep it simple, you have to join me, The Clean Eating Coach, for my upcoming teleclass on Wednesday, October 21, Fabulous Fall Seasonal Eating & Meal Planning. I’ll be sharing all my secrets and strategies for creating healthy, fall meals and why eating seasonally is so important. And I’ll be sharing a host of simple, quick and healthy recipes that won’t have you in the kitchen for hours or break the bank. 

Come on over and join in the fun! You can check out all the details here including a short video to learn more.  The cost is only $19 and you’ll leave with motivation and inspiration to get into action.  Learn more here: http://budurl.com/falleating.

And it’s not that I didn’t like to cook — I definitely loved the result. It was that it took a lot of time and effort to create meals that I’d often end up eating by myself.  It just wasn’t nearly as interesting or fulfilling going through the motions in order to get to the tasty end result so you can probably guess that I didn’t always go the extra mile in the kitchen.

And now that I’m married it still doesn’t mean that I always love the process of cooking when I’m so busy although the fun of eating together is great. Some days I simply have lots to do and despite my best meal planning efforts, I don’t always come out of it feeling joyous (although in the end it’s usually healthy).

So I thought it would be great to do my free monthly teleclass on some simple ways to make meal planning and food prep a whole lot more fun, especially if you’re single.  But even if you’re not you can come away with easy ideas for making the whole process less cumbersome, more fun and healthy too. And here’s a hint about the secret ingredient to make going solo more fun: building community.

Join me this Tuesday night, 4/21 for a one hour call on ways to get re-inspired with healthy food and preparing it. We’re going to have a great time and I hope you can join us.  Click on the link below for more details and to sign up: http://budurl.com/p97x

Tuesday, March 17th, 8 pm ET, 5 pm PT

Do you have a budget for your monthly expenditure on groceries? And if so, do you actually track your spending?

It’s amazing how many people I meet who have no idea how much they actually spend on groceries each month. So many of us don’t really want to know, living in denial about our spending. Sound familiar?

But the first step to saving money with meal planning is about creating a simple budget system that you’ll actually use and pay attention to, not just ignore.

Join me for this month’s free teleclass where I’ll teach you an ultra simple system for tracking your monthly grocery spending that doesn’t involve fancy spreadsheets. It’s all about increasing your awareness about what you’re doing so you can make money saving decisions when it comes to planning meals.

While ignorance may be bliss, awakening to your habits is empowering.

Believe it or not, we can all learn how to stay within our food budget and add a dose of fun and creativity to keep it interesting.

Sign up below by entering your name and email address.  You’ll receive an email with the call-in details.  Listen by phone or via your computer (no long distance charges). Join us, it’s going to be a blast, and possibly even life changing.

And if you can’t be on the call live, sign up anyway. The recording will be available for download for 5 days following the teleclass.

I’m just itching to share with you on of my new (and of course healthy) endeavors! I’m the resident health expert in the Smart Women’s Cafe. The Cafe is all about connecting awesome women, building community and helping you create the life of your dreams - start a business, get and stay healthy, meet interesting women from across the country, get more motivated or just have more fun!

I’m the resident health expert, helping women from across the country to embrace a healthy and vibrant lifestyle. Please join me tonigt to learn more about how you can connect with amazing women, and get healthy, get inspired, earn extra money and be part of an amazing community! Plus so much more!

Smart Women’s Café Call-in Details

Thursday, January 29th at 8:00 pm (est), 5 pm Pacific
Phone number: 218-486-3695
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You’ll meet all our experts and cafe members and get connected.  Come learn about the hottest new virtual social and business network on the internet and how you can receive $875 in free gifts when you join!

Click here to learn more about the cafe:  http://tinyurl.com/akz82a

Talk to you tonight! 

But there’s a way to navigate the holidays that can leave you feeling healthy and debt-free once January rolls around. Want to know the secret for how to stay on track, keep your weight in check and not going overboard with all those gifts (and honestly, in this economy, who can afford to do that?)?

Join me for an informative teleclass on simple steps you can take to be more aware and mindful this holiday season. We’ll be kicking things off on Thursday, December 11 from 8-9 pm ET. Registering is easy — just click on this link and you’ll be good to go:

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I grew up in a family where my mom’s major work, when I was younger, was serving on a variety of community boards and in various volunteer capacities in our suburban New Jersey town. Everything from the YWCA to the United Way, not to mention being my girl scout leader, my brother’s cub scout leader and a host of other things in between.

It was just pretty much understood (and demonstrated) that part of being a good citizen is about giving back. I also learned a lot about not only donating your time but also making financial contributions to organizations that create value in the community.

Over the years I’ve been involved in numerous community organizations focused on a broad range of issues – from the arts (indulging my creative side) to women’s issues (domestic violence and sexual assault) to mentoring young women.  But none has been more personally meaningful and fulfilling than what I now spend my volunteer time doing.

I’m pleased and proud to be on the board of Common Ground HS and the New Haven Ecology Project. Common Ground is a charter high school in New Haven that has an environmental focus.  It’s an urban oasis in the middle of the city, boasting a beautiful, organic farm that helps feed the kids (that alone is simply fantastic in this age of too much junk food!), a unique eco-curriculum with small classes and some of the most amazing teachers you can find.  But that can barely shake a stick at the fantastic and diverse students that the school attracts.  They’re bright, talented, savvy and oh so ready to use the Common Ground environment as their lab.

I joined the board about a year and a half ago on the prodding of my friend Frank, the board chair.  In addition to my board responsibilities, I love spending time educating students and parents about healthy living – everything from good nutrition to stress reduction. I’ve had big fun working with my friend Alexis, the gym teacher (and all around amazing woman — that’s Alexis, my husband Bruce and I at the fundraiser). So this past weekend I happily participated in an awesome fundraiser that we held, Feast From the Fields (imagine a yummy menu of locally grown food from local farmers and our garden).  I was pleased to come early to help with set up, welcome guests and make a healthy contribution to the silent auction (a seat in my meal planning class and a health coaching session). The event attracted lots of wonderful people for an evening to raise funds for the school, so it can keep doing what it does best.

But of all the highlights of the night, what was most gratifying was seeing some of the Common Ground students who volunteered their time, got dressed up and were the wait staff (that’s them in the photo at the top) – just as poised and mature as could be. They got to participate in the event, add value and give back.

Which just goes to show that we all have a role we can play in making a difference in our school, community or favorite organization, no matter what our age. And when we can help people be healthy and productive, it’s even better!

Via your telephone or computer

There’s so much conflicting information in the media today, that sometimes it’s hard to know what we should and shouldn’t be eating, especially as it relates to our heart health. And without question, what we eat influences how we feel and how healthy we are.

In “Eat Your Way to Optimal Heart Health: The Top 5 Heart Healthy Foods!” teleclass we’ll give you the lowdown on what foods are most important to support your heart health and an overall heart healthy lifestyle. In this class you’ll learn:

- The most nutritious foods you can eat to support your heart and why
- What foods not to eat
- The impact of unhealthy foods on your heart

You won’t want to miss this session that’s full of information to help you take your health to heart and help you get into action today!

Brought to you by Wendy Battles, founder of the Take Your Health To Heart Challenge http://TakeYourHealthToHeart.com

Just click on the following link and you can register in only seconds!

http://tinyurl.com/5syos4

And spread the word, tell your friends and family too!

Many of you who know me, know that I’m passionate about helping women be heart healthy. As much as we know we should take care of ourselves, we’re notorious for leaving it to chance or just not doing anything, even if we’re not feeling well. That’s why I founded the Take Your Health To Heart Challenge, to inspire women to get connected and into action around their heart health.

I’ll be kicking off my once a month free teleseminar on Wednesday, April 13 from 8-9 pm and I hope you’ll join me.

There’s so much conflicting information in the media today, that sometimes it’s hard to know what we should and shouldn’t be eating.  And without question, what we eat influences how we feel and how healthy we are.

In “Eat Your Way to Optimal Heart Health: The Top 5 Heart Healthy Foods!” teleclass we’ll give you the lowdown on what foods are most important to support your heart health and an overall heart healthy lifestyle. In this class you’ll learn:

• The most nutritious foods you can eat to support your heart and why
• What foods not to eat
• The impact of unhealthy foods on your heart

You won’t want to miss this session that’s full of information to help you take your health to heart and help you get into action today!

Just click on the following link and you can register in only seconds! http://tinyurl.com/5syos4

And remember it’s free! You can listen via your phone or the computer (via webcast).

Hope you’ll join us and feel free to spread the word.

Saturday, April 19, 11:00 am

Here’s how it works: after locating a local CSA in the spring, you sign up to receive a weekly “share” of fresh, often organic, produce throughout the harvest season. Unlike what we often purchase at the grocery store that may have been picked weeks ago, CSAs provide a mix of vegetables, herbs and even flowers, so you get produce that’s picked at its peak, loaded with essential vitamins and minerals.

Depending upon the CSA, you either pick it up from the farm, or in some cases, it’s delivered right to your doorstep. Either way, you also have the added benefits of buying produce at a fair price, supporting the local economy and getting more in tune with eating seasonally.

Sound intriguing? What’s your experience with CSA’s?