Food & Recipes / Healthy Bytes
Sometimes it’s hard to imagine that making a meal at home could be any faster or easier than hitting a drive-thru. Well here’s the good news: You don’t have to be any great chef to make your own fast, delicious, healthy, and inexpensive meals at home every single day. FREEZE…
Food & Recipes / Food How to 101
In the days before we had non-stick cookware, we had the next best thing – seasoned cast iron cookware. While non-stick cookware has certainly outdone cast iron cookware in the non-stick category, cast iron pots and pans are still favored by many chefs, including the professionals because of their durability…
Food & Recipes / Food How to 101
Getting your pasta just right can be tricky. If it’s overcooked, you have a big pile of mush. If it’s undercooked, you get bits of hard, dried noodles. Neither is appetizing or pleasant to eat. If you are trying to cook the perfect pasta, there are some basic pasta cooking…
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When you are looking for sugar free desserts, chances are good that you still want something that tastes sweet, satisfies you, and is easy to make. There are ten great sugar free desserts that you can make quickly and easily for a great end to a meal! Sugar Free Butterscotch…
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Pancakes are easy and almost foolproof. But there are some tricks to making them perfect. We’d like to share those tips: 1. Use a low-gluten flour. We like to use unbleached pastry flour in our recipes-that’s what our mixes are made with-but all purpose flour will do. Bread flour makes…
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In your busy life, it’s easy to fall into a rut when it comes to dinnertime. Lots of people develop “meal rotations” or “suppertime habits” which lead to the same evening meals week after week. But there’s one surefire way to break this repetitive cycle: make breakfast for dinner! Why…
Food & Recipes / Food How to 101
Lipids, also known as fats, make up one group of essential macronutrients. With all the contradictory information available today, the truth on fats can be difficult to discern. Though we need fat in our diets, too much can be detrimental to our health. When we consume a diet high in…
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by Lisa Parker Great dinners do not always require advanced planning. Sometimes you just have to wing it with what you have on hand. If you keep your pantry and refrigerator stocked with some basic supplies – and a few surprises – you will never be at a loss when…
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Originally, all foods were “organic” – grown and prepared without pesticides, herbicides, chemical fertilizers, hormones, irradiation to prevent spoilage, and microwave cooking. Our food these days, whether of vegetable or animal origin, is not only deficient in nutrients but also full of pollutants and farm chemicals. The modern denaturing of…
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No calorie counting, no special foods to buy — just pop open a can and nutrition goes in and weight comes off. Are meal replacement shakes (MRS) really that simple and effective? And are they healthy? What are the pros and cons of using them? Do people really lose weight,…