Category: Healthy Eating

All about living a healthy life, having safe and nutritious food, growing and making good food.

Food Waste Reduction – Sweet Results

We’ve all done it… bought a fresh bag of brown sugar, tucked it into storage for that next batch of chocolate chip cookies, and forgotten it. Here’s an easy — and quick solution.

Basil, the Great Leveler: Gardening, Deconstructed

If I can do it, you can too! As a novice assigned the task of growing starts for this year’s garden I dove in head first, and ran right into my total lack of experience and, yes, lack of knowledge. After all, what is so complicated about putting a few seeds in some soil and waiting for Mother Nature to take care of the rest? Here it is July and I’m apologizing to Mother Nature (and my husband) for my hubris, my arrogance, and my ignorance.

You KNOW when it’s time to make your own ice cream

Our local natural food store and their best-selling ice cream brand have let us down. Way down… OK, we’re going to name names here. We trusted Alden’s. After all they told us, “Alden’s Organic frozen treats are always organic, made from real ingredients.” Real ingredients, that’s what we’re looking for.

Bread and Water for 390 Days

Around 2600 years ago, in a Jerusalem threatened by siege, God told Ezekiel he would have to live on only bread and water for 390 days. Ezekiel’s challenge was to survive on a daily ration of just 8 ounces of bread and a little over 2 ½ cups of water. Is it possible to do that? Can you survive on just bread and water?

Lentil Tacos – High Protein, No Meat

Tacos are a favorite treat for children and teens every where – and don’t forget the adults! How can you offer a tasty alternative that they will love as much as the traditional beef or chicken taco? The easiest way is to make the lentil fulling just as you would the beef filling and add the same toppings. Easy peasy!

Taco Tuesday will still be your favorite quick meal for the whole family.

Jacob’s Red Lentil Soup

The Biblical story of Jacob and Esau and the lentil soup resonates with many as a story of human weakness and trickery, where a younger brother tricks a hungry older brother into selling him his firstborn birthright for a bowl of soup. But is it that simple?

Eating History: Lentils, Dry Peas, Beans, Chickpeas

Lentils (those tiny little legumes often displayed in the “healthy grains” section of the supermarket) are not commonly on the dinner plate in most American households, even though they are a key element in the healthy – and highly recommended – Mediterranean diet.