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Appetizers: Keeping Them Healthy
Healthy app, anyone?
Everyone loves to start off a meal with appetizers, but they haven’t always been just a fatty addition to an oversized meal – which is a common occurrence at most any restaurant you frequent.
Appetizers have evolved through the centuries, and can be traced all the way back to ancient Greece. While still a small portion of food served prior to the main meal, they are usually filling, fried, and full of fat and calories. Let’s see where appetizers started, and bring it back there for healthier, fulfilling additions to your meal.
Your Restaurant Healthy-Eating Guide
While I certainly recommend splurging – getting a meal that is decadent and delicious – there are ways to do that without throwing away your whole week of running.
Be Healthy Today: Using Nutritional Yeast
Nutritional yeast for a healthy body
With healthy being a regularly trending topic these days, there is a lot of talk about nutritional yeast. While it’s an ingredient you’ll find in my cupboard, it’s not one I’m familiar with or have used very often. After reading about it in more magazine than one, I thought – I can’t be the only one who doesn’t really know how to use this. So, let’s learn together!
Food To Fuel A Fit Figure
My recent amazing food discovery… I think I tweeted a picture of it a while back… is homemade oatmeal. But, I haven’t been working all week, so I’ve been playing around with more food creations and have perfected my oatmeal and thought I would share with a quick breakdown.
With homemade oatmeal, you’ll be getting your fill first thing in the morning, without the extra sugar, sodium, etc that you’ll find in the packaged stuff.
Unfortunately, I know a lot of people don’t take the time to have a quick breakfast which is the first mistake of your day. Don’t believe me?
If You’re Cooking Challenged And You Know It
Photo credit: fooyoh.com
Aren’t we all inherently our best chef? We know what we like, and how we like it. I find that when I make something that doesn’t turn out well, Ben and I will often go our separate ways in the kitchen and turn it into the dish that we would like. Adding our own touches to personalize the dish. To do this, we are reaching into the pages of our own cook books.
