Great Low-Fat Dressings

Great Low-Fat Dressings

Food & Recipes / Healthy Bytes

Dressings make a huge difference in the healthfulness of a salad and how good it tastes. It doesn’t take much to adopt healthy salad dressings — these tasty additions may encourage you incorporate more greens into your meals. But before you learn how to make healthy dressings, here’s the truth…

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Meals That Fill You Up, Not Out

Meals That Fill You Up, Not Out

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Diets often fail because they leave people feeling deprived and longing for more food. With this in mind, it is important to make hearty, yet healthy meals that fill you up and not out. You want a nutritional meal that isn’t loaded with empty calories. There are many ingredients that…

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How to Peel Almost Anything

How to Peel Almost Anything

Food & Recipes / Food How to 101

The great English cook Prue Leith once famously remarked “life’s too short to stuff a mushroom.” I feel pretty much the same way about peeling a grape. However, there may come a time when you want to do such a thing and it’s handy to have a simple method standing…

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The Art of Asparagus

The Art of Asparagus

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By Cheryl Tallman and Joan Ahlers, FreshBaby.com Asparagus derived its name from the ancient Greeks. But it was the Romans who were hooked on this vegetable. They documented detailed growing instructions, they enjoyed eating it in season, and they were the first to preserve it by freezing. Fast chariots and…

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How to Make Homemade Ice Cream

How to Make Homemade Ice Cream

Food & Recipes / Food How to 101

by Shannon Beineke Homemade ice cream has major advantages over store-bought versions. For one, you select the ingredients going into your dessert. Even better, you can have ice cream whenever you want – freshness guaranteed. The best part is having family and friends gather ’round to get creative. Making your…

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