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Breakfast Beyond the Cereal Bowl

Salad for breakfast?! Why not? Maybe a better question is, “why would you even want to consider having something other than the traditional cereal/fruit/yogurt/toast/coffee type starter to your day?” For one, many of the breakfast foods we’ve come to rely on because they are fast and well, “breakfast foods,” are nothing but sugar bombs that [...]

Hellmann’s Light Mayo is Light On Nutrition

The other night I was preparing dinner at a client’s home and needed a little mayonnaise to make a sauce for shrimp cakes. Ordinarily I’d have made the sauce in my fully stocked kitchen and brought it with me but I had only decided to make this yummy coconut lime mayo on my way to [...]

5 Easy Tips To Help You Enjoy Your Weight Loss Food

If you’ve looked at the home page for this site you’ll see that it says right up front “Deprivation is not on the menu.” I am not a fan of over zealous calorie or enjoyment restriction. It usually doesn’t last and can be counterproductive. Cutting calories sharply–unless you are really packing them in by the [...]