healthy eating

How to Get Kids to Eat More Vegetables

by Laura on September 27, 2011

Having a hard time pushing the vegetables onto the daily menu at your house?  Struggling with kids who won’t eat their greens, even if it means “no dessert for a month, mister!?” Sometimes dinnertime can become a warzone, and then no one’s happy eating anything, anyway, and the meal you worked so hard to make [...]

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Low-Cal-Super-Cheap-Vegetarian Soup

by Laura on January 27, 2010

Enjoy this super-cheap recipe for Black Bean soup that was inspired from the magazine Eating Well.  Each serving is under 200 calories and costs about 70 cents.   Even better, it only took about 10 minutes to make, from start to finish.   That’s my kind of meal.  Enjoy. Black Bean Soup Sautee a chopped onion, few stalks of [...]

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Ranch Hummus

by Laura on January 9, 2010

Here’s a super simple hummus recipe that I did this week for the family.  Since we are veggies-dipped-in-ranch fans, I added a packet of dry ranch dressing to the hummus.  I told the kids jokingly when I served it that the dip was “just like a thick ranch.”  They didn’t buy it, but they did [...]

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A Warm Salad

by Laura on January 5, 2010

Tired of eating regular salads and needing to work off the seven pounds you gained over the holidays?  (Oh, wait, that’s me,  not you.)  Anyway, check out this super-different salad we fixed this weekend at our house.  It takes a bit more effort than your average toss-it-all-together salad, but it’s worth the extra ten minutes.  [...]

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Kickin’ It with Kale

by Laura on October 11, 2009

(I know, lame title.  But how else can you make a green vegetable sound exciting?) I so admire healthy people.  Really.  But if you are like me, you would only eat a green like kale if your grandmother who lives in the south makes you on New Year’s Day along with Black Eyed Peas (yes, [...]

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Cobbler a Kid Can Make and a Diabetic (and Vegan!) Can Eat

by Laura on September 20, 2009

 Here’s a super simple cobbler I threw together last week when the couple coming over for dessert and coffee was diabetic.   We came up with an apple and peach cobbler that was so good I fixed it (actually Kelty fixed it) the following night for the family.  I will be honest and say that it does not compare [...]

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Lemon Dill Salmon

by Laura on September 3, 2009

Enjoy this easy recipe, again gleaned from memory from some health magazine I was trying to read at the gym on the ol’ treadmill.  Like all recipes I try to share, it requires very little ingredients (good for a tight budget) and is fairly quick and simple to put together (good for a busy mom [...]

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Tomato Melts

by Laura on August 26, 2009

As a final reminder of summer, try these easy, low-cal, super heart-healthy, vegetarian sandwiches for lunch one day.  Tomato Melts 1 english muffin 1 avocado 1 vine-ripe tomato salt, fresh ground pepper sprinkles of goat cheese Split an english muffin and spread with ripe avocado.  Top with slices of tomato, salt, pepper, and a few [...]

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Easy Veggie Lasagna

by Laura on August 13, 2009

This is one of my favorite vegetarian recipes. I remember back in college when Jennifer K. wrote it down on a little piece of note paper for me. After 10 years, I still have that little slip of paper tucked away in my cookbook. This is a fantastic way to make one dish for dinner, [...]

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Two Summer Recipes

by Laura on July 15, 2009

So I was reminded recently of a recipe I learned at a Vegan Cooking Class I took once from my amazing friend Pippi. I don’t know about you, but I had never even heard of quinoa before the class, much less tasted it, much lesser [I know Mom, that's not proper English ]cooked it. However, [...]

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