Recipes and Cooking
6 Healthy Appetizer Dips
It's the beginning of football season here in the USA and we really like our chips and salsa as well as other dips while watching football. What are we to do when most of these appetizers are loaded with calories?...
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5 Proven Kitchen Hacks To Help You Eat Healthier
Kitchen Designer Getting into the kitchen to cook from scratch is the best way to make sure you are eating healthy meals, most of the time. But, if your kitchen is more like a bomb site, you may find you...
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20 Culinary Trends to Watch For
A survey of over 1500 chefs conducted by the American Culinary Association has revealed the top 20 culinary trends. Environmentally-consciousness reigns supreme in this list, with sustainability figuring prominently in the top 20. In fact, "green-friendly" choices take up...
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Healthy Eating When Cooking for One
sxc.hu: trinamole Most of us have faced cooking for one at some time or another. Problem is, when you work long hours, you may be in no mood to come home and whip up a storm in the kitchen--for one...
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How To Stock Your Kitchen for a Healthy Diet
Having a well stocked kitchen is like having armor for health and fat loss. This requires consistent and planned grocery shopping and preparing, but having a continuous supply of healthy staples makes healthy eating that much easier. Here are...
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How To: Make Your Own Pre-packaged Soups
With the current high cost of groceries, everybody is looking for ways to cut costs, but still maintain the same high level of quality of their food and nutritional content for their meals. Since time is a valuable commodity...
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Recipe: Soaked or Bircher Muesli
Given that most ready-to-eat breakfast cereals tend to be high in added sugars, what alternatives are there? Here is a great recipe for muesli (sometimes called Bircher Muesli). This version is from English chef Jamie Oliver. He calls it "Pukkola...
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5 Great Reasons to Try Quinoa
Everyone knows that whole grains provide a whole host of health benefits including lowering heart disease risk and helping with weight maintenance. I love to experiment with different whole grains and by far one of my favorites is Quinoa...
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How To: Easily Prepare Meals in Advance
Eating well can be challenging at the best of times; especially when you're away from your own kitchen. Here's a look at several nutritious foods than can be prepared in advance - ready for you to take to work with...
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Cooking Without Processed Food
Dee's Mighty Cookbook promotes an approach to eating that is free of processed foods. Author Dee McCaffrey heads up the Center for Processed Free Living - a non-profit group that recommends minimizing or eliminating processed foods from our diets....
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61 Calorie Popcorn Recipe
When you think of popcorn, you may think of the movie-theater variety; soaked in butter and loaded with saturated fat, trans-fat, and calories. Not good for any diet! But you can break free from the gooey movie popcorn. You...
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