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Saving Money on a Whole Foods Diet: Buy Whole Foods
This gets you the most nutrient density for your dollar. I mention it because many people switching to “healthy” or vegan diets automatically convert their processed food buying habits over to buying...
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Saving Money on a Whole Foods Diet: Buy in bulk when practical
Buy foods that store well in bulk rather than in smaller amounts (provided they’re cheaper this way). This extends beyond dry goods to things like apples and carrots along with other root vegetables...
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Saving Money on a Whole Foods Diet: Shop somewhere besides your grocery store
In addition to grocery/health food stores (feel free to compare prices, coupon, etc. at these conventional locations ), I have used, or currently use the following sources for our food. Bountiful...
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Saving Money on a Whole Foods Diet: Plan Your Menus
Just about everything that can be said on this subject has been said on this blog. This is because last October as part of a 31 Days of Posting Challenge, we focused on Menu Planning. I’ll re-post the...
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Saving Money on a Whole Foods Diet: Grow a Garden
Even a small garden can make a dent in your grocery budget. Additionally, some of the easiest foods to grow, herbs, are also the foods that you pay the most for per pound at the grocery store....
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Saving Money on a Whole Foods Diet: Fast Food at Home
Everyone is busy, and often, usually at least once a week we have nights where dinner just doesn’t seem like it’s going to happen. To prevent a fast food run, here are several options. * Learn to use a...
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Pressure Cooking 101, Steps 1 through 4
A Self Taught Course. I have recently become motivated to learn to use a pressure cooker, in part due to the title of my recently acquired “textbook”, The New Fast Food by Jill Nussinow. Who doesn’t...
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Pressure Cooking 101, steps 5 through 8
Step 5: Read through the manual and identify the various parts, get a general idea of how to operate your cooker. *This may lead you to wonder what people have against broccoli. Eight minutes in a...
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Pressure Cooking 101, the final
Having successfully cooked something, in your pressure cooker, you are now ready to move on and branch out in your pressure cooking experience. If you purchased The New Fast Food, finish reading it....
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Cancer and the “war”
I just read an article over at Christinacooks entitled; Cash, Cancer and Confusion by Bill Tara. Well done. My favorite quotes are, “A few years latter Richard Nixon declared the war on cancer. It has...
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A few other smoothies
The peanut butter option has become a sort of stand by for those times when we are low on fruit options, but still want a smoothie. Peanut Butter Smoothie 2 bananas, fresh or frozen 1 to 2 Tablespoons...
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The Evolution of Popcorn at our House
We used to eat popcorn just like everyone else (o.k. probably not everyone), with butter and salt. Air popped of course. I don’t like to use a microwave if there is another handy option and we have a...
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Losing Weight on a Plant Based Diet – Part 1
Sounds like a no brainer, right? Unfortunately, that’s not always the case. Many years ago, I gave up sugar. I really cut it out, everything except fruit sugars, and milk sugars (because at the time...
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Losing Weight On a Plant Based Diet – Part 2
What really got me thinking about making changes was reading Chef AJ’s story (here). (For a story with more detail, try this) I started debating about whether or not I should be cutting out nuts, and...
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Losing Weight on a Plant Based Diet – and Lindsay Nixon’s new book
Once again as Lindsay releases her newest masterpiece the opportunity to participate in a blog tour has arrived. I had the opportunity to ask a few questions. I feel they were really all answered with...
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Losing Weight on a Plant Based Diet – Enjoy your food!
I think this is key. Key to resisting cravings and not feeling deprived. When we eat things that feel like a luxury or an indulgence, but are also healthy, it’s possible to lose weight without a...
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Non-Queso Quesadilla
Lunch today. Inspired by the deliciousness of the refried beans for last nights’ burritos. I knew I did not want another burrito for lunch, but I did want those re-fried pinto beans. And so, this...
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Losing Weight on a Plant Based Diet – Exercise
I am so not an expert on this. In fact I view it as almost a necessary evil. However, since it is important… Find some type of physical activity that you enjoy. One of my favorites is hiking/walking....
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Kid-Friendly Food
I’m adding a new page to this blog (as you can see above). Just thought I would publish this as a regular post so it doesn’t moulder unoticed by any interested parties. Some people seem to think that...
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Pita Bowls
Named by my son, because all I could come up with were things like; garbanzo taco-ish things in a pita. You see why his name won. This is actually adapted from a recipe in Country Beans called...
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