{Recipe} Pre- Workout Snack, Peanuts + Raisins
Looking for an easy way to fuel-up before a workout or competition? Try this simple, yet nutrition powerhouse combination of salted peanuts + raisins. Yes – “salted” makes sense in the summer heat or...
View ArticleMisleading Food Marketing: Fig Bars
MISLEADING MARKETING: This one makes me sort of sad- because these bad boys are delicious! I’m actually a big fan of them for a pre-workout snack or a better “treat” for Nee-bug than other junk...
View Article{Recipe} Baked, Mini Sweet Peppers
RECIPE: I’m embarrassed to call this a recipe because it’s so ridiculously simple. No cutting. No measuring. No pots. One pan. But I promise it’s delicious. 1 bag mini sweet peppers Olive Oil Spray...
View ArticleMisleading Food Marketing: Whole Grain Pop-Tarts
Misleading Marketing: For the love a healthy breakfast- a little whole grains ain’t going transform this processed pastry! Shame on them for using a food with a health halo to put lipstick on a pastry...
View ArticleGrocery Find: Green Giant Saute Vegetables
Grocery Find! Kudos to Green Giant for making sauteing vegetables uber easy! I was iffy about whether it would taste good or not but its easy-peasy to cook + healthy + delicious. Found it in the...
View ArticleMisleading Food Marketing: Dried Cranberries
Misleading Marketing: I’m on a dried cranberry kick lately putting them in and on everything: salads, wraps, oatmeal, yogurt and my favorite mixed with peanuts. Put traditional dried fruit...
View ArticleMisleading Food Marketing: Honey Mustard
MISLEADING MARKETING: Who doesn’t like honey mustard? But, honey mustard is notoriously high in sugar and fat depending on the brand or restaurant. Still… If a little honey mustard gets my kid to eat...
View ArticleDiet: Complicated for the Sake of Profit.
Today’s health and wellness culture has managed to over complicate one of the most primal and basic functions of human existence: eating. As a registered dietitian, it saddens me to see so much...
View ArticleNutrition: It’s a mind game.
Most people walk around with negative thoughts bombarding their mind. Cleverly devised patterns of little nagging thoughts, suspicions, doubts, fears, wonderings, reasoning, and theories of why life...
View ArticleAre you setting yourself up for failure?
It seems counter intuitive that we would set ourselves up for failure, but that is exactly what many of us do when it comes to making lifestyle changes. You say you want to eat healthier, lose some...
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