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The latest video in the “Disney Fairies” movie series, Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure was released earlier this week. Disney does a terrific job creating fun kid activities like print outs to go along with their movies. I was also pleasantly surprised to see healthy family cooking activities like these: The recipe is a [...]
Now that my Pork Party Pack giveaway is over, I have two more that just went up: Get Yoplait Fiber One yogurt for free! Fish tonight? Win a Bonefish Grill $25 gift certificate There’s also two new reviews you may want to check out: Give your kids some BrainFuel ZenSoy Organic Soy Pudding review I’ve [...]
I was meeting with my writer’s group last week at Mt. Everest Cafe in Ft. Collins, Colorado. It’s an inexpensive buffet style Nepalese/Indian place that I had driven by hundreds of times but never went in. I’m so glad my friends invited me to join them because the food was delicious. As I sat there [...]
We’re just a few days from that sugar filled nightmare of a holiday, Halloween. So how do you keep your kids healthy with all that candy around? Dr. Tony Woodward, chief of emergency medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital, recommends that you let your kids have a treat or two a day instead of leaving candy [...]
Last year I wrote two posts on keeping yourself gaining weight on Halloween: 5 Things Dieters Can Do with Halloween Candy (Beside Eating It) and 5 ways to trick, treat and have a healthy Halloween. As a mom, I don’t mind giving the kids a little candy as a treat, but want to keep them [...]
My FoodieView Meal Plan for Oct 18-24 just posted. It features several healthy soup recipes for keeping warm this fall including: Creamy Pumpkin Soup Heart Healthy Lentil Vegetable Soup Coconut Carrot Soup For another soup recipe, stop by my review blog and check out my recipe for Pumpkin Curry Soup. It uses no fat evaporated [...]
You give a man a fishing pole – and a ticket to La Paz, Mexico – and he and three friends bring back over 200 pounds of tuna, wahoo and mahi mahi. Thanks to my husband’s recent fishing expedition, I’ll be cooking up a fish dish every week and featuring the recipes here at This [...]
“Beautiful soup, so rich and green Waiting in a hot tureen! Who for such dainties would not stoop? Soup of the evening, beautiful soup! Beautiful soup! Who cares for fish Game, or any other dish? Who would not give all else for two Pennyworth of beautiful soup?” Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland Our first serious [...]
At 9 Weight Watchers POINTS per serving, I was a little put off by this Flat Belly Diet recipe. Blame the peanut butter adding 21 grams to it. (Nut butters are great MUFA sources.) Then again it has a whopping 17 grams of protein and 11 grams of fiber. One serving should keeping you feeling [...]
I’m off to San Diego this week to visit with the folks at Kashi. I grew up in the area and one thing I miss about not living there is good Mexican food. Still, we manage to make decent versions of fish tacos, fatijas, carne asada, and ceviche at home. Of course, there’s nothing like [...]
First, how to poach an egg. If you’ve seen the movie Julie and Julia, you know how hard it is to poach an egg in boiling water. Here’s a video from Oakland Tribune Food Editor Jenny Slafkosky showing you how: My mom always used stove top egg poachers. But since I don’t have one, [...]
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