What’s With All the Coconut Oil?

Hey, Nell, I noticed that a lot of your recipes you use coconut oil, where olive oil would seem just as appropriate.  I was just wondering if coconut was in some way better that EVOO?  I know it has less omega 6, but really I think some omega 6 is fine, so long as you’re […]

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Kids As Our Motivation

There are reasons to get healthy everywhere we look; and sometimes these very reasons are sitting with us at the dinner table, watching television with us on a Monday evening or tugging at our hands to go outside and play. Yes, I’m talking about kids. While I don’t have any of my own, except, of […]

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Sugar On Your Broccoli? What?

That was precisely my friend’s reaction when she read through a delicious-sounding recipe in a popular cooking magazine for roasted broccoli. At first, she assumed it must be some last ditch attempt to trick kids into eating their veggies, which I’d obviously be vehemently opposed to. She happened to mention it when we were at […]

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Paleo Passover

Yes, it can be done. With Passover just one week away, I thought it a suitable time to post some alternatives to the traditional meal in order to give you enough time to procure your ingredients and prepare a lovely holiday meal. Prompted by a desperate plea from a reader who just recently discovered his […]

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