Are you hungry for Spring and could you use help coming up with some new recipes? Take a moment to think about all the beauty of spring. When a new season of nature emerges from winter, the landscape becomes alive with color, birdsong, and bees. Many possibilities also emerge for making recipes and meals from early spring foods such as spinach, kale, Swiss chard, garlic shoots, spring onions, radishes, asparagus, green peas and a little later, strawberries. Here are 3 recipes to add spring freshness to your meal plans with the special foods of spring. And, to make life easier, here … [Read more...] about 3 Recipes for Spring with Grocery Shopping Lists to Match
How the Grocery Store Can Help You Plan 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
How to Upgrade Your Grocery Shopping Skills in 4 Steps
If your grocery trip is costly and no darn fun then your skills may need an upgrade. When you take time to do this you will restore your cash and your confidence. There are so many skills we need to learn. For example, grocery shopping at a reasonable cost, high nutritional quality, and 'match' with meals we decide to make at home. Times change, food budgets change, and food preferences change, not to mention time demands in different phases of life. To manage your home food supply well and feel good about how it affects your health, grocery shopping skills need to be upgraded from … [Read more...] about How to Upgrade Your Grocery Shopping Skills in 4 Steps
Grab and Go Healthier Snacks from the Grocery Store
A snack attack calls for a quick solution -- like the grocery store. When you need a healthier snack then take a quick dash into the closest grocery store. It's efficient and it can work beautifully in your home town or on a road trip out of town. Here are lots of options to choose from as you fill a hunger-gap between breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Dash to the Produce Department for these single serving choices: Bananas Apples Clementines or tangerines Baby carrots Cut-up melon, mango, or pineapple Cut-up carrots and celery Dash to the Deli for these creative … [Read more...] about Grab and Go Healthier Snacks from the Grocery Store
5 Common Mistakes Made when Reading Food and Nutrition Labels
When you choose a food at the grocery store, do you roll your eyes, toss it in your cart, and ignore the label? Or, do you read, digest, and try to understand it? For most of us, understanding food labels is a lifelong effort. Not only has the look of food labels changed over the years, but their information hasn't always been standard from product to product. Today's labels include the List of Ingredients and the Nutrition Facts Label and both can be very useful in guiding us to healthier foods. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the US government updated and standardized the … [Read more...] about 5 Common Mistakes Made when Reading Food and Nutrition Labels
Finding Dietary Fiber at the Grocery Store
Fiber's a mysterious nutrient. Most of us believe it's healthy to eat dietary fiber and yet we aren't sure where to find it at the grocery store. Fiber is a mysterious nutrient, isn't it? We hear that we should consume it every day and some people realize its importance in probiotics and nurturing a healthy gut. There are hundreds of 'dietary fiber target' foods lurking in every grocery store and yet many of us feel overwhelmed and confused. Where are they hiding? And, how much do I need? Here are some answers for you: While strolling through your grocery store, get to know … [Read more...] about Finding Dietary Fiber at the Grocery Store