Who doesn’t love the sweet and salty taste of a chocolate covered pretzel? Or salted caramel ice cream? Or salt on an apple? Wait, what? I recently Google-landed on a list of “12 Weird Fruits You Should be Salting.” The title was a bit misleading as most of their suggestions…
Last weekend my friend Sara mentioned she and her college-aged daughter were committing to Whole30 for the coming month. I’d seen the book Whole30 and knew it was a healthy eating diet, but was curious about the details. That got me wondering about other real food diets such as Paleo…
Are you familiar with the children’s picture book The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear, by Don Wood? The field mouse has her eye on a very large and very ripe strawberry. She manages to take it from the plant and haul it home, but…
I have a family history of butter eating. My maternal grandmother served us butter sandwiches. Knowing my Grandma Frisen and her sweet tooth, I’m pretty sure she sprinkled a little sugar on there, too! Butter mint candies were often in her well-stocked candy dish. My grandfather was also a butter…
Armed with a detailed grocery list (organized by department and aisle because I’m that Type A about such things) I confidently steer a shopping cart into the overflowing produce department of my local Mariano’s. I head straight for the organic section. I always have such high hopes of filling my…
Some pantry staples are easy and tasty real food swaps: Pure maple syrup for maple-flavored syrup, two ingredient natural peanut butter for sugar-added peanut butter, olive or coconut oil for canola and vegetable oil. Other pantry must-haves are more challenging to swap. Like rice. And pasta. Spaghetti with Prego is…
While my daughter Natalie was the first person to open my eyes to a better way of eating, my first professional Real Food Hero was Lisa Leake. Her book 100 Days of Real Food was a game changer for me. It’s a perfect Real Foods 101 introduction to removing processed…
