Healthy School Lunches- Forever An Oxymoron?

I certainly hope not. But there’s clearly a lot of work that needs to be done. Just this past week, I had an opportunity to speak at length with a woman who teaches kindergarten at one of New York City’s Public Schools. She commented that yes, there are vegetables offered, but they’re so horribly prepared […]

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Salads Aren’t Just for Starters

Who ever said a salad had to be little, boring and not remotely filling? The joke that salads are the equivalent of ‘rabbit food’ usually comes to a screeching halt when I have guests for dinner.   I don’t do anything that I’d call too fancy; rather, I just let my creative cooking mind guide […]

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Meat Quality and Paleo

One very, very important distinction about the True Paleo regime is the source, and subsequent quality, of our proteins. Fresh, wild salmon and packaged, smoked salmon are not interchangeable.  Nor are the occasional serving of uncured bacon from pastured pork and the Oscar Meyer’s shrink-wrapped, sodium nitrate and nitrite-rich variety. And when we get into […]

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Aw, Go On, Have Some! No One’s Looking…

This was the premise of an ad I glimpsed:  a young-ish couple, having recently put their kids to put, made sure no one was around to ‘catch them in the act’, and then out came the Lucky Charm’s Cereal and the hidden Nintendo Console for a ‘fun’ evening of playing Super Mario Brothers and eating […]

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Paleoista Webinar Tomorrow!

Interested in learning a little about what the real deal of True Paleo living is all about? Discover the Benefits of a Paleo Diet tomorrow…for free!   Tune in to a webinar hosted by Sprouts Nutritionist Janet Little as I present Eat Food and Move! Click here to register! “Gain energy, get lean and feel […]

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Microwaveable Yams, Wrapped In Plastic

The other day, I stopped into a little market to pick up a few bits that I was short on for my the cooking I’d planned to do for myself and my husband this weekend. Since we had two rather long days with big volume training in the queue for Saturday and Sunday, I planned […]

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Your Dog is On Prozac?

I love dogs.   In particular, having just lost our 15 y/o Weim, Daisy, barely a year after her brother passed away (both shown above, 2009), I feel inclined to approach any Weimaraner I see to say hello. Just the other day, I saw a seemingly older Weim being walked by her mom on the […]

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Too Many Berries?

When you’re just getting started on your weekly Hour in the Kitchen, it’s easy to buy the wrong quantities of foods. Too much fruit, not enough veggies?   Enough pastured chicken to feed an army but barely enough wild salmon to feed your toddler? Happens all the time. It’s part of the learning curve to […]

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