If there is one thing that is absolutely true, it’s that life is busy. We spend all of our time racing from activity to activity, place to place, person to person. There is barely time in the day to sit down and eat a decent meal, never mind take time for self-care. By the time we get out of work and get home, the last thing that we want to do is spend time cooking for over an hour. As much as you may love the calm of cooking and creating a meal from scratch, the exhaustion of how busy life can get takes away from that pleasure and creates…
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Healthy Breakfast Ideas to Power Through Your Day
It is my belief that starting the day with a breakfast of sufficient protein and healthy fats, sets you up for a positive and productive day. Pulling out that coffee grinder brush and knowing that you are doing more for your morning with that brush than anything else is exciting! Starting your day with the coffee to fuel up, may have been something that you do and have done for many years, but if you want to start your morning healthily, coffee may not be your go-to. This essential resource fuels your body, giving you the power to move, think, and keep on living, but achieving the complex needs of…
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Food for Better Mental Health
Yes, it is true, the food we eat is intertwined with our emotions, there be it, our mental health. What we eat can change our behavior, mood, and change our moral outlook. We develop a personal relationship with food, influencing relationships we have with ourselves, society, and each other. Of course, I could write an entire book on our upbringing, culture, and accessibility to food that affects our daily lives, but an excellent book is available, Why You Eat What You Eat by Rachel Herz. However, this week, let’s examine how food can influence your state of mind and why. Food Cravings What do you usually crave? Does it depend…
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Tips for Flavorful Cooking Experimentation
Cooking is not only a great skill to learn on its own but it’s also a fantastic way to keep yourself occupied during a pandemic. I use recipes frequently, some of you might recall several years ago when I did my own little cooking experimentation; I did not repeat a single meal for a year. When it comes to food, I improvise quite a bit, using a recipe for “flavor inspiration” based on what I have available in the house at the time. Part of my reasoning for starting a blog was to help home cooks elevate their cooking abilities by learning the basics of preparing food and how to…
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Spinach Health Benefits and Easy to Grow
Spinach has incredible health benefits and it is very easy to grow. Several of my followers diagnosed with COVID-19 told me, doctors prescribed a regimen of vitamins C, D, and Zinc to combat their “mild-cases.” So this week I decided to write about a vegetable full of vitamins C, D, and zinc – SPINACH! Origin Spinach is a member of the beet family domesticated in central Asia. In the late Middle Ages, the Arabs brought it to Europe. Spaniards grew it as early as the eighth-century and eventually brought it to the United States. Known to be rich in the aforementioned nutrients, some consider it the most important leaf vegetable…
