For many of us, if we want to eat healthier we’ve got to strategized our food bill and meal planning. But the fact is that if you really want to eat well, you don’t need to spend more money. One of the biggest tricks is to bulk out your meals. It’s not something you should be embarrassed about, because people have been bulking out their meals for centuries. If you are concerned with your finances but you still want you and your loved ones to eat well, here are a few ways to bulk out your meals that can make a big difference. Vegetables Of course, it’s one…
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Key Factors That Can Affect Your Food Choices
Many people have very definite reasons for eating specific foods, which becomes the foundation for their culinary choices. While 9% of the world’s population is reeling under food scarcity, statistics indicate that the rest of us can afford to make food choices. Indeed, cost is a big determining factor, but there’s a whole host of elements that are at play. So whether you’re selecting food off the menu at any restaurant, or you’re serving home cooked meals to your children, here are are four key factors that can affect your food choices. Taste, smell, and appearance Although the primary reason for eating is to satisfy hunger, one factor influencing a…
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Maintaining Healthy Eating Habits: 5 Things You Must Do
Healthy eating isn’t about fad diets and short-term goals. It should focus on sustainable eating habits that encourage a positive relationship with food. Building a strategy with this goal in mind will be integral to finding a way to make nutrition work for you. Small steps can make a big impact, but only when you maintain a level of consistency and discipline. Here are five focal points that can lead you to greatness. #1. Prepare Your Own Treats There is nothing wrong with incorporating treats into your nutrition plan. However, chowing down on processed foods and sugary snacks will undo the good work achieved elsewhere. This lemon buttermilk pound…
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What is Foodscaping?
Why are landscaping and gardening treated like two different things? Both work with mother nature, putting the right plant in the right place, monitoring sunlight and water, and helping the plants along as they grow… so, they have more similarities than differences, so why do we treat them with difference approaches? Traditionally, gardens are planted in rows, tucked away in a far corner of the landscape. Landscape plants are set closer to the house and organized aesthetically. Foodscaping combines both aesthetics, and practically, rather than a specific location in the yard. Is Foodscaping a Revolution? Brie Arthur is an award winning author and horticulturalist sharing her knowledge of The Foodscape…
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5 Reasons to Avoid Fast Food Consumption
As I drag myself to my new job, I past numerous fast food joints and coffee shops offering unhealthy food. Of course, we know it tastes yummy, and you enjoy the sumptuous delicacy, but it isn’t doing any good to your health. Unfortunately, many of us, including me, are looking for convivence and forgetting what fast food does to our bodies. All of us know, eating a poor quality diet high in fast food is linked to a higher risk of obesity, depression, digestive issues, heart disease and stroke, type 2 diabetes, cancer, and early death. But here are few other things to consider before you pull up to that…
