Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Roasting Vegetables

If you’re going to turn the oven on to high temperatures for roasting, make sure to take advantage and roast as many vegetables as you can at the same time.
Place more delicate vegetables like zucchini, eggplant and summer squashes onto one sheet pan – these can be removed after about 20 minutes. Place heartier [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Eat Micro-Greens to Power Pack Nutrition

These little greens come packed solid with nutrients so dense, it’s hard to find anything else that meets their match.
If you think about it, seeds and sprouts rely on a ton of energy within them. The energy it takes to get them from where they are now into a full grown plant is enormous, and [...]

Everyday Tips For Healthy Living: Eat at the Table

Make it a rule of thumb to eat in a dedicated place and not while standing, driving, working or watching TV. From a “mindful eating” perspective, eating is its own activity. When we eat in a deliberate way, we are more able to pick up on our innate hunger cues: what we are  hungry for, [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Use a Rice Cooker for All Grains

Rice cookers are not only for rice. I use mine to cook other gluten-free whole grains like quinoa, millet and amaranth.
A rice cooker allows for easy preparation that requires little (if any) attention. This makes it ideal for stress-free cooking. And it conveniently doesn’t take up any stovetop space.
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Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Setting Your Table

How are we able to truly relax into the pleasure of eating if the dinner table is drop spot for unread mail, unpaid bills, newspapers and magazines? Having this kind of clutter around while eating subliminally reminds us of our unfinished business and can unconsciously put us into a stressful mode.
Make each meal at home [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Listen to Your Body

Are you treating your body like a master or a slave? Sometimes we drag our bodies around, telling them what to do, what to eat, what not to eat and how much to eat as if they have no say in the matter.
Being a mindful eater is not about a prescribed diet that we force [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Eat at Least One Cruciferous Vegetable a Day

It’s easier than it seems to add these power-packed vegetables to your daily diet. I disguise them inside my morning green smoothies, make crunchy slaws, massage them with olive oil (to break down the thick fiber) throw them into salads, and braise them.
Cruciferous veggies are proven cancer-fighters and are needed to help the liver in [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Replace a Meal a Day with a Super-Green Smoothie

Drinking a smoothie is a great way to “check off the box” for one whole meal, without having to think about meal planning, cooking and clean-up.
BUT… if you’re going to use a smoothie as a meal replacement, it really has to be complete and balanced, other wise you’ll never last. Good quality protein powder is [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Serve Desserts with Meals, Not After

If you’re like most people, desserts are treated as the “grand finale”. Serving lighter, less sweet desserts right alongside the main course re-programs us to de-emphasize desserts instead of treating them as the part of a meal that everyone’s been waiting for. This way, the sweet taste can be used as they do in the [...]

Everyday Tips for Healthy Living: Eat Protein at Each Meal

Vegetarians and omnivores alike need protein throughout the day, especially at breakfast. Starting off right ensures steady energy all day, and lays the groundwork for better choices at lunch and dinner. My favorite breakfasts are high-protein super-green smoothies or left-overs from last night’s dinner. It may take a while for you to reprogram yourself away [...]

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