My farm share box this week contained a bulging bag of organic Maine-grown rolled oats. I know I could have just stuck it away in the pantry for some future use but there is something about all the fresh food in those boxes that makes me want to come up with ideas to use them cleverly –NOW. It’s an overachiever thing. Read more »
It’s Martin Luther King Jr. day and I’m delighted to find myself snugged up in my house while a blustery snowfall accumulates outside. I guess I missed the memo-I had no idea we were in for this (not that I mind!) Hope to get my snowshoes out before it gets dark.
All this precipitous white stuff made me want to offer a couple thoughts about the salt thing. Did you catch the news a couple of weeks ago that the folks in New York City (well, some of them) are fomenting a voluntary program wherein food manufacturers who sell things there will reduce the sodium content of their offerings by 25 per cent over the next five years? Thinking that there will be an effect on the problems we have with stroke and heart disease thereby? Oh, the canned-goods and frozen-foods folks are vexed, rolling their eyes heavenward. It’s not what consumers want, evidently.
Hi! Just a quick post to update you on some upcoming events and an article I published recently. Hope to see you at one of these — all are free! Make it your best year ever - Susan
Thursday January 7, 2010 6:30-7:30 pm
This is the time of year when many of us resolve to get our health/weight act together - but it can be a challenge to do this well and healthfully. Give me your ear for a short time and I’ll share the approach I’ve found to be best for finding your right weight for the long term - using real food, sound nutrition, pleasurable movement, and some lifestyle principles which do NOT involve spandex, food scales, or suffering. (Plus I’ll feed you yummy snacks.) RSVP is nice but not necessary - just drop in and bring a friend!
Location: True North Center for Health and Healing
202 US Route One, Suite 200 (Second floor) Falmouth Maine 781-4488
Can’t make it? Next program will be on February 4 Live Beautifully, Love Beautifully: Lifestyle Tips for Sweet Romance on Valentine’s Day (and beyond)
‘Tis the season of holiday parties where you bring something yummy to share! The other night I made a really terrific crustless mushroom-leek quiche for the dance party potluck. (When I bring my own protein I know that there will always be SOMETHING I really want to eat besides cookies.) (This is a winning strategy you might want to try!)
Anyway, I had a festive dish all prepped with paper grape leaves to stick elegantly out from underneath the food, but it was early morning when I was packing this up to travel, and the party wasn’t till that night. Putting the quiche bites into the dish first thing would give me soggy and unattractive leaves by dinnertime. Can’t have that! So I needed to carry it to work and then arrange the dish elegantly just before serving.