FOOD
The food category covers all aspects of food -- recipes, nutrition, diets, cooking drinks. It could be anything!
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Recipe: Healthy Instant Oatmeal Jars
Adding whole grains into your diet can provide many benefits including lowering blood pressure and improving your body’s reaction to stress. These healthy instant oatmeal jars are the perfect way to have an easy ready-to-go snack or meal on hand in the pantry. I recommend using mason jars or some other air-tight containers to hold the mixtures. Then block out an hour over the weekend to make up a batch. You’ll find it’s so simple to whip up enough to last several days or a week that you’ll want to add this to your meal planning and prepping routine. Pick Your Oats All the recipes start with 1/2 cup of…
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Recipe: Sunny Side Pepper Eggs
Eggs are an absolute wonder. They’re incredibly nutritious – in fact, they’re one of the most nutritious foods on the planet. The protein in eggs has just the right mix of essential amino acids needed to build tissue fiber. Yup, that’s why Sylvester Stallone ate raw eggs in the movie Rocky. As a rule, who likes to drink raw eggs in the morning? Not me. Not to mention, I am not the biggest egg fan. However, there are times when fresh eggs have the right complementary ingredients and I can make an exception. Like with this recipe for sunny side pepper eggs. Make a Better Dish Using Fresh Eggs Made…
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Honey Ginger Grilled Salmon
Do you plank? No, not the exercise kind of plank. I mean planking as in plank grilling. It’s a method of cooking where you place food on a wood board on a grill, leaving your food with a deep, wood-smoked flavor, similar to the flavor you get using wood chips, but so much better. Salmon’s Many Benefits One of my husband’s favorite foods to eat is salmon — especially plank grilled salmon. That subtle smoky flavor is mouth-watering. And although I am allergic to seafood, you know I will still mention the health benefits of salmon. In addition, this powerhouse fish has been linked to a decreased risk of developing…
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Weight Loss Milestones: Celebrate Your Successes
If you have more than just a few pounds to lose, it’s not going to happen overnight — even though that what we might want! It took a while to put on the extra weight, so it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that it takes time to take it back off. Discouraging, right? You need motivation! One way to stay motivated is to set different little mini-goals or weight loss milestones. Don’t forget that each time you reach a milestone you should celebrate your success and how far you’ve come on your weight loss journey. Milestone Setting Varies for Each Person Where you set your weight loss milestones is…
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Motivational Tools To Help with Your Weight Loss Goals
Losing weight is hard work. We can all use a little extra help. This post discusses four different weight loss tools you may want to have on hand. These aren’t all electronic tools — some are low-tech tools that actually don’t cost any money. Either way, each of these tools can help keep you on track and — more importantly — keep you motivated to keep going. Motivation is key, particularly on those days when you’re craving high-calorie foods or don’t want to head outside to exercise. Use these tools to help you reach your weight loss goals. Food and Exercise Journal One of the simplest, yet most effective weight…
