You must start with a successful garden plan to grow nutritious, sustainable food for your healthy meal plans. Now more than ever, growing your food can be a stress reliever, save you money, and provide your family with delicious vegetables and flavorful herbs. Supermarket organic options can be costly, and with the current shopping restrictions, who wants to go to the store? To achieve a bountiful garden, you must start with a plan… Planning Your Garden Whether you are using containers or plotting a garden in the ground, having a plan is crucial for success. Ideally, you should keep a record of what you grow, plant maintenance, and your harvest.…
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A Refrigerator Make Over
With recent events, it may be more difficult than ever to maintain a healthy lifestyle. A cluttered refrigerator tends to make it harder to spot those healthy ingredients, meals, and snacks. Plan a refrigerator make-over this weekend. When you stock it with smart, delicious choices, living a healthy lifestyle becomes that much easier. Take these first three steps to a refrigerator make-over 1.What to toss out… A messy refrigerator can create overwhelm when you go to the refrigerator for a snack. Get rid of old condiments and anything that has been sitting in your fridge that you know you are not going to use. You will also want to get…
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Peaches Are More Than Nutritious
Peaches are considered a “drupe” fruit in the culinary world. A drupe is a single seeded, fleshy fruit with a soft, juicy layer surround a hard endocarp, the seed protecting part. Besides peaches, apricots, plums, cherries and mangoes are all drupe fruit. In the culinary world, fruits are usually high in sugar content, however, this is counterbalanced by their rich load of fiber, vitamins and antioxidants, often concentrated in the skin of the fruit. Peaches are a wonderful ingredient due to their versatility in the kitchen. Propagation of the Peach The peach is a deciduous tree (meaning every fall, these trees lose their leaves) native to Northwest China, where…
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Simple Healthy Dinner: Sheet Pan Salmon with Red Potatoes
Let’s face it, I am not a fan of salmon, but the health benefits make me realize, I need to incorporate it in my dinner menu somehow. My memories of salmon are distorted. I remember my mother frying up salmon patties using canned salmon because it was cheap! My husband is not going to eat canned seafood, other than tuna. I wanted a salmon recipe that would be simple to prepare, delicious and incredibly easy to clean up – Read on! I hit a home run! Health Benefits of Salmon Salmon is naturally loaded in Omega-3 fats. Don’t worry these are the…
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End of Summer Salad
Although the calendar indicates it is the end of summer, Mother Nature in South Carolina is not paying attention. Yesterday it was 92º and today it will be the same, nevertheless, most farmers markets are closing down or will be in the next two weeks. This end of summer celebration, because I hate the hot weather, was perfect for a dinner, finishing up a hot summer day. Light, refreshing and colorful, if you are a vegetable fan, you will love this easy to prepare salad. Because the vinaigrette is so prominent in this recipe, using good, fresh ingredients is important and will make a difference. Keep in mind, the vinaigrette…
