Year: 2011

Nuts for Nuts ! A Cure for Chocolate ?

Nuts for Nuts ! A Cure for Chocolate ?

Confessions of a Chocoholic and finding a Crave Cure : A bite of rich, sweet chocolate melting in your mouth is a sensory experience like no other. Chocolate… DARK chocolate is good for you … in moderation it seems. If you are a Chocoholic extreme like me […]

Squash and Pepper: A High Fiber match made in Heaven

Squash and Pepper: A High Fiber match made in Heaven

I was browsing around the aisles at Trader Joe’s and picked up a carton of their ‘Squash and Roasted Pepper Soup’. Simply delicious, but at almost $4.00 / carton and only four servings, that’s not very cost-effective for me and my family of four. I can easily consume 4 […]

Help Yourself to my Nutrition DIY Toolkit

Help Yourself to my Nutrition DIY Toolkit

    New blog! So had to create a new DIY page.  If you like DIY projects you will love my Nutrition and Health DIY page. It is my creative resource guide to all the nuts and bolts of Nutrition. Whether you want to check your  Body Mass Index […]

Some Hard and Sweet facts about Halloween Candy

Some Hard and Sweet facts about Halloween Candy

Before you fill up the cauldron to hand out some goodies to the friendly goblins, ghosts and fairytale creatures that come knocking at your door, here are some friendly facts on candy. Halloween is a child’s candy fantasy and a dentists’ nightmare. As for parents, it depends on how you […]

Setting up a Smoothie Friendly Kitchen

Setting up a Smoothie Friendly Kitchen

This is an older post of mine which I revamped after moving my blog from Blogger to Word Press. While the transition went of without much of a glitch, I seem to have lost my GFC followers. I am hoping to remedy that soon. The day I got my blog up […]

Fruit & Veggie Sprays Clean Better Than Water : Make Your Own For Just A Few Cents

Fruit & Veggie Sprays Clean Better Than Water : Make Your Own For Just A Few Cents

This is a follow up on my previous post on  going organic without breaking the bank. . I shared from my experience  how I saved on going ‘totally organic’ by using my own homemade version of veggie/ fruit spray and wash. This spray/ wash  effectively […]

Going Organic…..how far should you go ?

Going Organic…..how far should you go ?

Talking about going organic can be a touchy subject. Since I just talked about it at a workshop this morning, I feel brave enough to blog about it. Everyone knows that “Going Organic” is better but there are practical aspects of seeing how to fit it […]

Wordless Wednesday – Food Fun : Some ideas to tickle your palate.

Wordless Wednesday – Food Fun : Some ideas to tickle your palate.

 Food fun !! Some ideas to tickle your palate.

Getting your child to eat healthy without turning into " Food Police"

Getting your child to eat healthy without turning into " Food Police"

“Food Police at home” is the general term for parents, caregivers who NAG kids into eating healthy. While parenting does require guiding children into making the right choices which include food choices….becoming slightly obsessive about healthy food choices may make you a “Food Police”. Have […]

Digging up the Dirt and Good Earth on Coffee

Digging up the Dirt and Good Earth on Coffee

One of my tribe members from Triberr reminded me that it’s ” National Coffee Week” so of course I could not pass up the chance to “Dig up some Dirt“and “Good Earth” on Coffee. Am not big into Coffee since it gets me hyper energetic […]