Retraining Taste Buds
You know those cravings. You try to push them out of your head, but they won’t go away. Magazines advise us to wait 20 minutes and maybe they will go away. Twenty minutes of useless distraction and...
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Tackling the Dreaded Ds of Dieting: Deprivation and Discipline
Dieting sucks. There, I said it, putting my English degree to good use. Why gloss over what everyone knows to be true? The worst part of battling the bulge doesn’t even have anything to do with...
View ArticleWhat I Ate for Dinner Last Week
I’m always morbidly curious about the mundane details of other people’s lives. How exactly do we all live? Figuring you’re like me, or at least you like me, I thought I’d let you take a peek at my...
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Food is Food
A woman I know recently started a low-carb diet. She’s making an exception for cherries. She adores them and they’re in season torturing her. Her diet transformed her summer treat into a guilty...
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Hey, You!
Get out of my produce section, so-called Buddy Fruits! You are not a fruit or a vegetable! You are a fruit product, not produce. Right in the heart of stone fruit season my local grocery store,...
View ArticleDinner Rainbow
You don’t need to read the latest scientific studies to know whether or not you’re eating healthfully. (They’ll contradict themselves next month anyway.) Just take a look at what you’re eating and...
View ArticleHow to Sprout Lentils
Part of healthy living involves eating living food. You know, the kind of food that enlivens your body with energy and makes your skin glow, as opposed to the junk that comes wrapped in plastic and...
View ArticleA Foodie’s Guide to Reducing Dairy
This past April, I gave up dairy for a month. I did it for health reasons and was surprised by how easy it was. I haven’t drank milk in years, but I do cook with it and use butter and …
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Healthy December Snacks
You won’t find me knocking a Christmas cookie or a dandy candy cane, but sugar doesn’t need to rule the entire month, especially for children. Don’t forget that December is citrus season, so Mother...
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It’s a Book!
Mamaguru had a baby, and it’s a book! I am delighted to announce the publication of my first ebook, Enjoy the Holidays: Turn Holiday Stress Into Holiday Cheer. It is now available on Amazon, ibooks,...
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