This is a disturbing article on CalorieLab, especially: The study shows that 27 percent of adults and just 13 percent of adolescents report eating three or more vegetable servings daily. Wow, I have more vegetables in my breakfast smoothie than most eat in a day and probably more today than most eat in a week! […]
Christmas Celebration
Happy day after Christmas! When I was a kid, I hated the dreaded 26th of December because Christmas was over, no more gifts or Christmas music and we’d have to start thinking about taking the tree down at some point. But now I love it because it still feels like Christmas minus the stress of […]
Back in Business
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I’m looking forward to cooking again after spending a week on the east coast visiting family. First I need to shake jet lag and restock my kitchen! Sometimes being a healthy eater and knowing everything that’s not healthy is a curse, especially when staying with family and having […]
Workplace Pressure
I am continuing to notice benefits from a higher raw diet, from more energy and less intestinal problems which is a huge thing. I find I don’t miss breads or dairy near as much as I thought I would, zucchini pasta is great even cooked when I’m craving a hot, vegan meal. I have no […]
Berry Walnut Soup
Ah, finally a lazy weekend after a busy week. I drink a lot of hot tea at work, especially in frosty fall/winter weather. I tried a new tea today, Yogi Detox, that I found at Target. It’s corny, but the randomly insightful sayings on Yogi tea bag labels are uplifting for me, today’s was “By […]
Creamy Broccoli Soup
Happy Monday! Here’s yet another interesting article on junk food and depression that makes me wonder if the depression causes more junk intake or more junk intake leads to depression. On a less serious note, my excess Halloween candy disappeared at record speed today at work! You’d think everyone would be sick of it after […]
Red Pepper Soup
I had a sad thing happen, I cut open a giant spaghetti squash for dinner, but found the insides rotten. Such a waste, I hate that! Oh well, have to try another raw soup tonight. I decided to try one using up one of the red peppers sitting in my fridge and ended up modifying […]
Cucumber Soup
I did it, substituted the banana in my smoothie this morning for a carrot and it did not taste that much different. It was not as sweet and thicker, but still had a nice berry flavor thanks to the blueberries and raspberries. Encouraging and something I’ll probably be doing from now on, keeping the bananas […]
Curry Pumpkin Soup
I’m looking at piles of loose papers on my desk and hampers full on laundry thinking I really should get to that today, I don’t want my house to look like the one I’m watching on BBC America’s Clean House which is much scarier than the US version! Gotta love a show that will show […]
Raw Banana Nut Ice Cream
TGIF! Another busy week down and I’m feeling pretty good after 5 straight days of spinach-loaded smoothie breakfasts, it’s amazing how satisfying a smoothie is for breakfast, making it to lunch has not been a problem. Also, energy has been plentiful this week with only one cup of coffee in the morning instead of my […]