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Healthy Living: My Favorite Kitchen Resources!

I’m a big fan of finding inspiration in the kitchen to keep us coming back and making healthy meals. What’s worse than feeling like cooking and eating healthfully has to be a burden? The truth is, with a little effort, we all have the potential to make healthy changes that can stick. A few more read more

Filed under: Cooking, Food preparation, Healthy Meals, Meal Planning | 1 Comment

Are you an Intuitive or By-the-Book Cook?

I’ve always been of the mind that I’m a master at cooking from recipes but when it comes to creating dishes from scratch, that’s where my talent ends. Or does it? Do you think that you have to be a master chef to throw some creativity into your dishes and make them healthy and delicious? read more

Filed under: Cooking, Creativity, Healthy Meals | 2 Comments

Healthy Recipe: Southwestern Quinoa Stew

There’s nothing like a dose of inspiration from a healthy recipe to help me feel my best. And it’s even better when I have time to get creative and add my own spin to it, making it my own. That’s what happened today and the recipe is so tasty that I’m excited to share it with read more

Filed under: Cooking, Grains, Healthy Meals, Quinoa, Recipes, Soups | 6 Comments

Thanksgiving Cooking: Cut the Fat, Keep the Flavor

With Thanksgiving just around the corner, and the urge to consume huge amounts of food beckoning many of us, now is the time to begin with the end in mind when it comes to cooking that sumptuous meal. Holidays are the perfect time to throw our healthy eating out the window, kicking diets to the curb. We read more

Filed under: Cooking, Food preparation, Healthy Meals, Holidays, Mindful Eating, Sweet Potatoes, Vegetables | No Comments

You Have to Want to Get Healthy

Have you ever had a time in your life where you were so motivated about a goal that it didn’t seem like work? You happily got into action and things flowed easily? When we’re aiming for optimal health, that’s exactly the mindset we need to adopt. We have to want to get healthy, feel better read more

Filed under: Cooking, Eating, Eczema, Health Issues, Healthy Body, Healthy Meals, Healthy lifestyle, Optimal Health, Prevention, Self-care, desire | No Comments

Upcoming Events – March 2007

“Self-Care for the Soul” Tuesday, March 13, 6:00 pm, Home Instead Senior Care, Branford, CT You are perfectly capable of taking care of yourself, however, year after year, you’re the last one on the list. You don’t eat right, you feel anxious, tired and even moody. Yet loving self-care is totally within your reach. How? I’ll be read more

Filed under: Business, Connecticut, Cooking, Energy, Family and Friends, Healthy Kids, Past Events, Snacking, Soul and Spirit, Stress Management, Teleclasses | No Comments

Food Focus: Beans

Beans, or more accurately legumes, including peas and lentils, are an excellent source of plant-based protein. Beans are found in most traditional cultures as a staple food, offering grounding and strengthening properties that can enhance endurance. They offer a highly usable, highly absorbable source of calcium for the body. A very inexpensive source of high read more

Filed under: Cooking, Digestion, Energy, Legumes, Protein, Salt and Sodium, Spices | 1 Comment

Upcoming Events – October and November 2006

Upcoming Events!   Tuesday, October 17 – Sugar Blues: Kick Your Sugar Habit For Good! New Haven Public Library, corner of Temple and Elms Streets, 5:30-7:00 pm. Are you addicted to sugar? Do you suffer the highs and lows of too much sugar in your diet? Do you routinely need an afternoon pick-me-up to give your energy? Learn simple read more

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