When I work with clients doing nutrition counseling, I tend to do a lot of nutrition and culinary education. After all, what good are vegetables if you don’t know why you should be eating (more of) them, which ones to pick, and how to prepare them so they actually taste delicious? In the past week, […]
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For me, this summer has been a beautiful blur of fruit picking (strawberries, raspberries, cherries, blueberries, peaches, etc.), food preservation (freezing, canning, fermenting, etc.), cooking, gardening, working with nutrition clients, teaching classes, camping, enjoying some down time, and chasing around a toddler who can climb just about anything the second you turn your back. Now
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In the post Lose Weight by Making 5 Simple Changes in Your Kitchen, I talked about a handful of simple ways to eat healthier by changing your environment. As an Integrative RDN, one of the quick and easy strategies I explained to help increase your consumption of fruits and veggies with minimal effort is to
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Last week, I was hired to set up a table and answer nutrition questions at a health fair for a large corporation in Pennsylvania. My display was titled Supermarket Savvy. . . since health starts where you buy your food and supermarkets are tricky to navigate for healthy items. It was a ton of fun
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Ever since I discovered that peanuts and my body don’t mix, I’ve been on a quest to find something that fills the void. I’ve tried almond butter, cashew butter, hazelnut butter, and so on. They are all delicious. . . and are a lot more expensive than even the “good” organic “just peanuts” peanut butter.
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A couple years ago, I got really sick of buying almond milk in the aseptic cartons. As a Fort Collins Nutritionist and dairy free consumer, tt seemed like we were going through a couple cartons of almond milk a week and all of the packaging and associated cost seemed wasteful. Almond milk is delicious, good
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