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The Gathering Season with Easy, Healthier, Homemade Recipes – Greek Potato Salad and Fresh Pear with Broccoli Slaw

December 10, 2024 By Cindy Silver

Cookie with heart

If you need some new creative sides for the gathering season and the New Year, try these!   Fall gathering season is a chance to create tasty and healthy meals for your favorite people - at home. It's not about cooking for days and days and then feeling exhausted. It's about cooking for fun and keeping it simple with delicious flavors. Getting friends and family to help out is always a good idea. And, don't overlook the younger generation because they are full of energy and desire to pitch in, too. Coming up with easy and healthy recipes is a joy of life for a nutrition … [Read more...] about The Gathering Season with Easy, Healthier, Homemade Recipes – Greek Potato Salad and Fresh Pear with Broccoli Slaw

Filed Under: Healthier Comfort Food, Healthy Recipes, Holiday Nutrition, Homemade Recipes, Mediterranean Nutrition, Simple, Healthy, Tasty

How the Grocery Store Can Help You Plan Dinner

September 22, 2024 By Cindy Silver

Pasta dinner

Coming up with a dinner plan isn't easy. So, let the grocery store help as you stroll up and down the aisles.   The grocery store is a place of abundant food choices that can be put together into tasty and easy dinners. Here are some tips of how to make use of all the information there. Make a 3-Day Dinner Plan with On Sale Foods Most of us get slightly or very overwhelmed with planning a week of dinners. After all, coming up with 7 meals is a lot of work. Planning 3 dinners is much easier and it is a great start. Here's how the grocery store can help... Dinner #1. Chicken … [Read more...] about How the Grocery Store Can Help You Plan Dinner

Filed Under: Grocery Shopping Tips, Healthier Dinners, Meal Planning, Mediterranean Nutrition, Simple, Healthy, Tasty, Tips from a Registered Dietitian

Olive Oil Basics 1: The Trees

September 17, 2024 By Cindy Silver

Olive Tree Ano Vouves Crete

Please note that this Olive Oil Basics Blog is part 1 of a 3-part series. An Historical Olive Tree in Greece Olive trees, olives, and olive oil are a super important part of the culture and life in Greece. When I visited Greece, I learned fun facts about olives every day. When I visited the Greek Island of Crete, I began appreciating the olives' significance more than I ever had before. Imagine a tree, like the one in this picture, that is more than 3,000 years old. Can you? It was mind-blowing to me when I saw the tree and realized its history - including a branch that was cut, traveled … [Read more...] about Olive Oil Basics 1: The Trees

Filed Under: Growing Food, Mediterranean Nutrition, Nutrition Pros, Simple, Healthy, Tasty Tagged With: Fruit, good nutrition, Mediterranean Diet, olive oil, olive trees

Summer Basil Pesto – It’s All About the Ingredients!

September 17, 2024 By Cindy Silver

Fresh basil in July

Quality Ingredients Matter If you ask me, the quality of ingredients really matters when making a great summer basil pesto. Why? Because each ingredient contributes to the flavor you experience when you roll it around in your mouth and over your tongue. Let's look one-by-one at the ingredients in a super tasty basil pesto made in the summertime. If you need a recipe, here's my recipe for summer basil pesto. Fresh Basil: The very best basil for pesto is what you grow yourself. It's really fun to grow fresh herbs - and easy, too. Basically, you need to find a sunny spot in your … [Read more...] about Summer Basil Pesto – It’s All About the Ingredients!

Filed Under: Back-To-School Nutrition, Growing Food, Healthy Recipes, Mediterranean Nutrition, Simple, Healthy, Tasty Tagged With: fresh basil, fresh herbs, good nutrition, healthy cooking, Mediterranean Diet, summer basil pesto, summer produce

How to Eat More Vegetables

September 17, 2024 By Cindy Silver

Cucumber Tomato Heart

The Why? There are probably more than 100 reasons why to eat more vegetables. I don't want to get boring or teachy-preachy, though. So, I'm going to boil it down to 10 quick reasons why: 1.Colors  2. Flavors  3. Crunch  4. Creamy  5. Sweet  6. Delicious             7. Filling  8. Fun shapes  9. Inexpensive  10. Nutritious The How? There are at least 50 ways to eat more vegetables. Here are 10 of my favorites: 1. Add some sliced cucumbers to your breakfast. 2. Pack a big handful of carrots, radishes, celery into your lunch. 3. Keep a couple cans of tomato juice or V8 in … [Read more...] about How to Eat More Vegetables

Filed Under: Back-To-School Nutrition, Healthy Recipes, Healthy Snacks, Mediterranean Nutrition, Quick & Easy Dinner Tips, Simple, Healthy, Tasty Tagged With: Antioxidants, Fiber, healthy lifestyle, How to eat more vegetables, meal planning, vegetables

Green Salad Tips for Better Nutrition

September 17, 2024 By Cindy Silver

Green salad with avocado tomatoes

I know a lot of people who eat a lot of green salads. In fact, several years ago I had a client who loved salad and I was trying to help her improve its nutrition quality. After a fun discussion of options for her salad, she realized that the salad greens are good nutrition and when you add the toppings, you get even better nutrition. That just about sums it up if you ask me. There are many creative directions your salad can take for better nutrition. Green Salad Tips for Better Nutrition Buy the freshest salad greens - Each time you stock up on greens, check the freshness because … [Read more...] about Green Salad Tips for Better Nutrition

Filed Under: Healthy Eating Tips, Mediterranean Nutrition, Nutritious Meal Planning Tips, Quick & Easy Dinner Tips, Simple, Healthy, Tasty Tagged With: better tasting salads, good nutrition, Green salad tips for better nutrition, Green salads, Homemade salad dressing, how to make a salad taste better and even be more nutritious, how to make your salads more nutritious, olive oil, salad, Salad toppings, tips to make salads more tasty, tips to make salads taste better, ways to make a salad more tasty

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