by C | Jun 3, 2015 | Cooking, Food Finds, Healthy Eating, Nutrition, Plant-based, Risk Reduction
You know it’s important to eat your veggies – a 3rd grader could tell you that. Yet when most people think about adding more veggies to their day, bags of plain (boring) baby carrots and plates of (over) steamed broccoli often come to mind, squashing even the best of...
by C | Feb 4, 2015 | Food Finds, Nutrition, Weight Management
You know how sometimes your perception of what you see isn’t exactly what was INTENDED for you to see (or think. or believe.)? I find this to be particularly true in food marketing, where labelling language in the form of subtle wording slights, omissions or...
by C | Nov 5, 2014 | Food Finds, Nutrition
As I trolled the FNCE expo floor at the recent Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics annual conference, I couldn’t help but notice a couple of consistent themes. One major disappointment, my camera wasn’t working, so I was unable to capture photos of the food items I...
by C | Nov 8, 2013 | Cooking, Food Finds, Healthy Eating, Heart Health, Nutrition
I am a huge fan of cooking on the weekend for the week ahead. It saves time, money, energy and YOUR SANITY! That said, I know how easy it can be to get into a cooking rut, making the same dish over and over and over; many of my clients struggle with this. Because my...
by C | Oct 31, 2013 | Food Finds, Nutrition
At our house, my husband typically purchases the Halloween candy. On Halloween. Here’s what he came home with today; not bad (except for those Nerds and other “kid candies” – no thanks). I rarely think about it until the week of the big...
by C | Aug 29, 2013 | Cooking, Food Finds, Heart Health
Early in 2013, my father-in-law was diagnosed with bladder cancer. If that wasn’t startling enough, tests to determine whether the cancer had spread revealed lung cancer; different from the bladder cancer. Which turned out to be a good thing, in the hierarchy of...
