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Family Feasts for $75 a Week is written by Mary Ostyn, a mom of 10 who blogs at Owlhaven. Her book is filled with tips on how to food shop guerilla-style, like creating a price book – a notebook filled with prices of all the various food and household items you usually buy. So you [...]

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Posted on June 28, 2010 in Contests,Cookbooks and tagged as

I originally met Dave Grotto, author of 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life and 101 Optimal Life Foods at the Quaker Oats Living Proof blogger event in 2008. Even though I had been blogging about diet and living a healthier lifestyle for awhile, Dave was the first person who got me thinking about all [...]

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Posted on April 15, 2010 in Books,Contests,Health and tagged as

I feel like Mardi Gras has been going on since the Saints won the Super Bowl, don’t you? Since today is Pancake Day (also know as Shrove Tuesday or Mardi Gras) here are a few pancake recipes I’ve featured over the years at This Mama Cooks!  Stephanie Izard's Oatmeal Pancake Recipe Weight Watchers Sweet Potato [...]

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Posted on February 16, 2010 in Breakfast,Contests,Recipes

If you’re interested in learning how high ORAC (Oxygen Radical Absorbance Capacity) value foods like cherries can help keep your heart healthy, go to the Cherry Marketing Institute’s website at 1 p.m. EST, Wednesday, February 17th, for a live heart-healthy cooking class by Keri Glassman, MS, RD, CDN, dietitian and author of the book, The [...]

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Posted on February 15, 2010 in Books,Contests,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips and tagged as

As part of my Mayo Clinic Diet book and journal giveaway, I’m offering another excerpt from the book on learning how to identify potential roadblocks and develop strategies to help you with your weight-loss program. The giveaway ends TONIGHT! Go here to enter. Behavior obstacle – I’m a late-night snacker. Avoid eating late at night [...]

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Posted on January 25, 2010 in Books,Contests,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips and tagged as ,

As part of my Mayo Clinic Diet book and journal giveaway, I’m offering another excerpt from the book: Learning to identify potential roadblocks and confront personal temptations is an important part of being successful in losing weight. If you find a strategy that helps you, include it with your weight-loss program. Behaviors obstacle – I [...]

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Posted on January 21, 2010 in Books,Contests,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips and tagged as ,

The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat Well, Enjoy Life, Lose Weight by the weight-loss experts at the Mayo Clinic and Donald Hensrud, M.D., M.P.H. is a no nonsense approach to healthy eating and weight loss. It’s the only diet developed at the Mayo Clinic and uses a common sense approach to losing weight and keeping it [...]

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Posted on January 18, 2010 in Books,Contests,Dieting and Weight Loss Tips and tagged as , ,

I’ve done a lot of egg entrees here at This Mama Cooks, like: Spinach and Cheddar Frittata Potato and Pepper Frittata Corn and Green Chile Frittata Frittata with Spaghetti and Tomato Eggs Florentine with Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto Still, I like my eggs cooked as plain as possible and usually scramble or poach them. I recently [...]

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Posted on December 9, 2009 in Contests and tagged as

My Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day cookbook giveaway ends TONIGHT! So enter if you’d like to win a copy for yourself or to give to the baker in your life for the holidays. Chocolate and Coffee – a Rx for health? The following recipe from Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day by [...]

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Posted on November 20, 2009 in Baking,Contests,Cookbooks and tagged as

Last weekend at FoodBuzz's Blogger Festival I met Zoe Francois, co-author of Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day: 100 New Recipes Featuring Whole Grains, Fruits, Vegetables, and Gluten-Free Ingredients. She was nice enough to sign my copy of her book while we discussed the challenges of baking at altitude. (My challenge not hers.) Since [...]

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Posted on November 13, 2009 in Contests,Cookbooks and tagged as