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Category: Nutrition 101
Learn about the basics of nutrition from macro- to micro-nutrients
Why you probably need to eat more veggies
Vegetables are pretty much the only part of our diet that have never really come under question from a nutritional standpoint. Everyone more or less unanimously agrees that they are an essential part of a healthy diet. Veggies are an amazing source of essential...
My Five Foundations for Healthy Living
While I practice nutrition by training, I’m all about a holistic approach. That means I like to look at all aspects of life and how they come to together to create optimal health! To keep things as simple as possible I’ve broken it down into the 5 key foundations of...
Get Your Kitchen in Order: Make Your Budget Stretch Further
The amount of money that people spend on food has changed pretty dramatically over the last decades. In the US in the 1900s, families spent on average around 40% of their total budget on food. By the 1950s that had fallen to 30%, and the consumer expenditure report...
Get Your Kitchen in Order – Cleaning & Storing Foods
After the last posts you’ve cleaned out your kitchen and restocked your pantry with all the healthy essentials! But you want to get the most out of your money and make sure all those delicious goodies last as long as possible. (Missed those posts? Check them out here...
Get Your Kitchen in Order – Pantry Staples
So you’ve successfully cleaned out your pantry! Maybe it’s looking a little bit empty now? Not to worry, there are plenty of healthful foods I can recommend to stock it up! Of course, this isn’t everything I keep in my kitchen, but the real basics that I think...
Get Your Kitchen in Order – the Pantry Clean-Out
One of the keys to successfully maintaining a healthy diet and lifestyle is to plan and be prepared. It’s a lot easier to eat healthfully if your kitchen is only stocked with healthy, nourishing foods! In this new series, I’ll be covering tips and tricks in the...
Healthy Snacking
Have you ever grabbed an apple mid-afternoon for a small pick-me-up only to feel hungry again a short while later? You think you’re making a healthy choice, but with your snack gone you’re maybe then pulled in the direction of not-so-healthy options to curb your...
Nutrition 101 – Coffee
Is coffee healthy? As with many things in nutrition, this is not a black or white answer! Coffee has become ubiquitous with caffeine, but it is helpful to also consider the two separately. Caffeine Caffeine stimulates our central nervous system. It increases our...
Eat Seasonally! Free Fall Produce Guide
Today, when you walk around the produce section of a grocery store, you often have no concept anymore of the four seasons. A wide variety of fruit and vegetables are stocked throughout the year and so we have slowly gotten away from cooking and eating with the...