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Healthy Eating

Kitchen Mishaps – Recipe Modification Gone Bad

September 8, 2010

This weekend I had to make the same recipe twice, because the first time I goofed.  I skipped an entire cup of flour in a blackberry-zucchini bread recipe; it collapsed.  When I put it on a plate I couldn’t figure out why such a small looking cake felt like it weighed 20 pounds and when I [...]

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Happy Labor Day!

September 3, 2010

I’m practicing what I preach and taking a long weekend free of blogging, checking email and other such work-related things.  After all, Labor Day began as a tribute to working women and men, and what better way to honor that than to give ourselves some down time. Our hope for you this Labor Day weekend [...]

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Tomato and Sweet Corn Salad – Healthy Cooking Thursday

September 2, 2010

Last weekend, I returned to my home state of New Jersey to visit family and friends I hadn’t seen in a while. It’s always a bit of a culture shock to go back; gigantic buildings spring up like weeds in a garden, the roads are always faster and more congested than I remember, and everywhere I go people are in a [...]

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Making Peace with Food

September 1, 2010

Last week I posted on food addiction.  My suggestion was to attempt to find ways to eat certain foods in moderation before writing them off completely.  As I wrote last week: “I encourage people to play around with combinations first before throwing in the towel and assuming you can’t eat something because they are addicted to [...]

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It Happened this Week: Felled by a Cold

August 27, 2010

The week started out great.  Rebecca Scritchfield, dynamic RD from the DC area, joined us at Green Mountain to observe our mindful eating/mindful living or intuitive eating/intuitive living program.  She’s been a delight to have around, if for nothing else to feel her energy and hear her great ideas.  Her blog this week features several [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Roasted Garlic Dressing

August 26, 2010

Few dishes are as divinely fragrant to prepare (and devilishly simple) as roasted garlic.  Whenever I make this healthy recipe at our women’s weight loss program, I invariably am asked, ”What were you making that smells so amazing?” from the ladies who were working out in the room above our kitchen. The resulting dressing is a great addition to [...]

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Eating Lessons from Eat, Pray, Love

August 23, 2010

Last week, friend,  colleague and writer Carolyn O’Neil, RD, contacted several “mindful eating expert RDs” (her words) to comment on food lessons that could be learned from Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, a story of Gilbert’s search for self that started with an Italian food journey.  What grabbed Carolyn’s attention (and she likely bet grabbed [...]

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It Happened This Week: Green Tea, Eating Your Sunscreen & Dieting Daughters

August 20, 2010

Have you been drinking green tea to speed weight loss?  If so, read what the LA Times has to say about the claims. Summer may be coming to a close but there’s still plenty of sun in our future.  And that means, of course, that we still need to watch out for those damaging rays.  [...]

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Healthy Cooking Thursday: Chicken Hints

August 19, 2010

One of the most frequent questions I field here at our healthy weight loss program is, “Why is your chicken so moist and delicious and when I cook chicken, it, well, isn’t?” It is a loaded question, really.  There are several factors that might contribute to this issue. If you start with a quality ingredient, your end [...]

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Cooking with Beans

August 18, 2010

Last night I spent some time shelling the beans I grew this year.  When I grow my own food, I am MUCH more motivated to make sure I eat it right away.  Granted dried beans can last a long time, but there’s no way I’m putting these beauties in the back of the pantry to be [...]

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