Well Being Magazine

Nature’s Energy Boosters

You have a plan. This new year (once again) you have resolved to get fit and eat a more nutritious diet. You start out gangbusters the first few weeks and then the enthusiasm and the energy to put in the effort start to wane. Even the most sincere desire to turn over a new leaf in the new year can be thwarted if you don’t have the “juice” to keep up Read more »

Food Safety Tips for the Holidays

What’s wrong with this picture? Can you identify the food safety rule that this cook is breaking? ‘Tis the season for parties, family dinners, and other gatherings where food is served. The last thing you want to do is give your holiday guests the unwelcome gift of foodborne illness. Following a few food safety tips, provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, can help prevent your holiday merriment from turning into Read more »

What we’re eating in 2017, the good, the bad, and the ugly

It happens every year, new (or re-invented) food trends emerge that set the pace for much of the culinary discussion until they meet the fate of last year’s must have menu item and disappear back into obscurity…or they don’t. Sometimes when a new food trend is actually based on sound nutritional fact, tastes good and is accepted even by our family’s pickiest eaters, it finds a permanent place in the Read more »

Give your salads some ZSA, ZSA, ZSU!

You don’t have to graduate culinary school to construct a fall salad that rings the bell on the zsa, zsa, zsu scale. You just need to know how to assemble some basics ingredients that will take your salads from wimpy to wow! Shopping and meal planning are tough under the best circumstances. When you throw in busy work schedules, afterschool activities and all the other pressures that can ravage the limited Read more »