Last night I was making cabbage for dinner and thought “how can I make it different?” I also had an orange pepper and figured I would combine them somehow.
I cut the cabbage into shreds and roasted the pepper over a gas flame, removing the skin. After cutting the pepper into strips, I started cooking the [...]
Why do people put themselves through the agony of dieting only to gain it all back? It’s because they don’t have a very good relationship with food. Food is to nourish not only your body but also your soul. When you’re constantly in a mind battle over whether you should eat something, eating no longer [...]
I read a cute joke in Trader Joe’s Fearless Flyer that I thought you’d enjoy:
Q: What did the garbanzo say to the chickpea when he woke with a fever?
A: I falafel!
Have a great day!
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The USDA just came out with their report called “How Much Time Do Americans Spend on Food?” They used data from the 2006-2008 Economic Research Service “Eating and Health Module of the American Time Use Survey”. They were trying to determine how much time Americans spend on eating and other food-related experiences, such as grocery [...]
Americans have drastically increased their yogurt consumption in the past decade. Many people don’t really care for yogurt, but they “force” themselves to eat it. Why? Although no conclusive studies have proven that yogurt helps to control gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms or immunity, many people believe that it does.
Greek yogurt
Greek yogurt is strained, so it is [...]
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I made some quick rice pudding for breakfast the other day from some leftover brown rice. It was delicious. And, by the way, it was a complete breakfast in a pot.
I took about a teaspoon of butter and melted it in a frying pan. I added the rice and browned it slightly. Then I stirred [...]
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Last time I wrote about Eye Hunger. Today, I’m going to be discussing Nose Hunger, adding one more petal to our “Types of Hunger” Flower.
Don’t deny it! If you smell someone barbecuing or you pass a bakery and a waft of cooking cookie dough comes your way, all of a sudden you feel hungry. You [...]
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Right now I’m eating caramel corn from a bag I bought at the fair the other day. It was just sitting on my desk begging to be eaten. Am I actually hungry? No. But my eyes are. Unfortunately, we often eat for other reasons than pure hunger. Check out my “Hungry Flower”, each petal representing a [...]
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The standard joke about social networking is everyone is telling you what they had for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Do I really care that Joe had nachos for lunch? So you may wonder why I would bore you with what I had for breakfast today.
Actually, I’d like to start a series of blogs sharing with you [...]
