Tag: food

  • The Beginner’s Guide to the Paleo Diet

    The Beginner’s Guide to the Paleo Diet | Nerd Fitness. I hate counting calories. I don’t like keeping track of how much I’ve eaten, I don’t like obsessing over how many grams of a particular nutrient I’ve eaten, and I don’t like worrying that I ate too much/little and the end of the day.  Not…

  • Report: Fast-Food Chains Increase Targeting of Kids

    Report: Fast-Food Chains Increase Targeting of Kids. I guess when the marketers said they would step up their efforts to improve marketing to kids that it meant something different than what we all would have liked it to mean. Improvements in the efficacy and frequency they market is apparently what they meant! I am not…

  • What Is Organic? USDA Trying to Define It

    If you’ve ever wondered exactly what that “USDA organic” seal actually means, you’re in good company. The U.S. Department of Agriculture itself has been asking the same question ever since it established the National Organic Program in 2002. “Organic” is intended to mean agricultural products produced without hormones, pesticides, artificial fertilizers or other synthetic additives.…

  • Pizza Soup Recipe Review

    Here’s a pic of my pizza soup just before it was done. And at first glance by my kids –they were like no way ‘I’m not eating that’! I insisted and guess what? They LOVED it.  We all loved it. It was tasty, easy and left very little clean up. This is an A+ recipe…

  • Eating Well on a Budget

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  • Focus on losing the last few pounds

    It was a hot and sweaty workout – but I felt good and finished in the 30 min time limit. My upper body is sore from yesterday’s workout – a good sore! I felt really good about today’s workout. It was hard and challenging but it was great. I feel good and was in a…

  • The Best and Worst Restaurant Salads

    The Best and Worst Restaurant Salads I love my salad. Every lunch it is Salad Time for me. Here is a good recap of some salads you can find at your local eatery.  I make my own for lunch most days or go to the salad bar so I can control what goes in my…

  • Take Them A Meal!

    What a great, great idea. I know this would have come in handy when Scott was sick. In December of 2007, a close friend of ours collapsed from the sudden onset of a heart condition. The phone rang day and night because family, friends and neighbors wanted to help by bringing meals to her husband…

  • July 2010 Villager – The Dirty Dozen

    As a way to give back – every month I write an article for my local homeowner’s association magazine – the Villager. Here is July’s article: The Dirty Dozen – Organic Food Information Live Fit and Sore – July 2010– Page 14

  • Notable News about Kids

    Top 10 Brain Foods for Children. Want your child to do better in school? Take a close look at diet. Certain “brain foods” may help boost a child”s brain growth — plus improve brain function, memory, and concentration. In fact, the brain is a very hungry organ — the first of the body's organs to…