Food
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Zucchini Pasta Carbonara
It can be challenging to get your kids to eat vegetables or anything good for them for that matter. When I first met my would be stepchildren, their favourite thing was chicken nuggets and barely any vegetables! Now here we are 7 years later and they ask for more vegetables and wouldn’t even consider eating chicken nuggets! That is progress! This recipe is a great way bulk up a pasta dinner with vegetables. With Fall fast approaching, squash of all forms are so readily available and a staple in my kitchen! This is a great recipe to have on hand when you don’t have a lot of time…
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Six Easy Tips To Get Your Kids to Eat Healthy
It’s always a challenge to get kids to eat healthy. With their first introduction to food, kids are testing and learning about their environment. Whether you’re feeding your baby their first food or trying to get your two-year-old to eat celery, these tips will help. 1. Start Early Keep the food as close to nature as possible. Avoid added sugar, which can create early problems with weight and diabetes. Type II diabetes in children is on the rise. 2. Be the Parent You have power over what your child eats and you know what’s healthy. Nurturing a helpless, dependent human being into an independent adult is not a job for…
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Living With Celiac Disease: A Life Without Wheat If You Can Imagine Such A Thing
Living with out gluten is not easy, nor is it very fun. If you’re like me, and you live for fun, family, friends and great food, then finding out you have celiac disease can make eating a major bummer. Take away everything exciting, and delicious in your diet like: breads, pasta’s, most packaged and processed foods and casseroles, most foods at restaurants, cakes, cookies, donuts, and pies, and you will see what I mean. (And that is just scratching the surface.) So long, social lunch hour with my BFF’s, or eating out with my hubby. It really isn’t fun for me to sit and watch everyone else at the table…
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Mini Strawberry Friands
Did you know that strawberries are a nutritional powerhouse? In addition to tasting sweet and delicious, they are also extremely good for you and contain powerful antioxidants including vitamin C, manganese, vitamin K and potassium. So what are you waiting for? Grab a handful of strawberries now and start munching, or enjoy them in these delightful and super easy friands. Mini Strawberry Friands 1/4 cup melted butter 2 egg whites 1/3 cup almond meal 1/2 cup icing sugar 2 heaped tablespoons plain flour sliced strawberries Whisk the butter and egg whites. Add almond meal and all other ingredients. Spoon into mini cupcake trays and top each friand with…
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The Four Roots of Optimum Wellness
There are four essential parts to being healthy that I call roots. If you make healthy choices in each root area, you will achieve optimum wellness—feeling supported, watered, nourished and full of energy. Root One: Diet It is not a coincidence that disease is on the increase at the same time our diets consist of more artificial and sugar-laden ingredients, plus meats and dairy laced with antibiotics and hormones. Cancer has now become the number one killer. For a start, here’s a list of things to avoid in foods: Hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils (trans fats) High fructose corn syrup Artificial colors, preservatives, flavors and sweeteners Meats given antibiotics,…
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Chicken Salad with Pineapple Celery Seed Dressing
It’s hard enough to stay cool in these late summer months, but when you have to get dinner on the table the last thing you want to have to do is turn on the stove or oven! This dinner menu packs in protein, fruit and vegetables and can be on the table in less than 30 minutes. This dish can be prepared with leftover chicken or you can use rotisserie chicken without the skin. What is great about it is you can add any fruits and vegetable have on hand. The dressing tastes of a tropical island and it blends everything together in a delicious meal everyone will enjoy. The…
