Category Archives: Healthy Meals

“Health Food” Vs “Healthy Food”

Do you know how to read a food label? I thought I did until I watched this video and saw how much I have been mislead into buying “fat free” or “low fat” products that were not more low fat … Continue reading

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Cookie Monster Sings About Healthy Eating

OK, I have been a long time Sesame Street admirer, dating back to when my brother was young and my heart was opened up by Kermit the Frog singing, “It isn’t easy being green.” Here is this 2011 Sesame Street song, … Continue reading

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Healthy Eating – A New Way of Life for Local Chef

Last March, he was a coronary waiting to happen. His poor eating habits and lack of exercise had caught up with him, his family was thinking of doing an intervention to wake him up to his health problems, and he … Continue reading

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Meal Replacement Bars – Are They Worth It?

Meal replacement bars are certainly handly for when you are on the go and need a meal quickly. But when you look closely are they healthy enough to replace a meal? With the advertisments that promote these quick fix meals, … Continue reading

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The Paleo Diet

I have been hearing about the paleo diet and wanted to check into it to learn more. What is the Paleo Diet? The originator of this diet, Dr. Loren Cordain, is on the faculty Colorado State University in the dept. … Continue reading

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Why Do You Want To Lose Weight?

What is your idea of the shape you want to have?  What does she look like, this perfect image of you that you carry around in the back of your mind? Or how does he appear to you, this inner … Continue reading

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Eating Healthy, even when I want to splurge

Ok, so here it is.  I am a serial eater.  I want to eat for the joy of eating, for the satisfaction of the chewing and swallowing and feeling that familiar sensation of  and empty need filled – if only … Continue reading

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The Skinny on Fats

It is a pretty common statement that people make that eating fats makes you fat.  Seems logical, doesn’t it?  Well, it is not necessarily the truth. Fats alone do not make you gain body fat. The other “common thought” about … Continue reading

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