This week’s challenge in The Real Food Experience is to include healthy fats in your diet. It sounds like a fairly straightforward task, but once you start reading about dietary fat and trying to find the best advice, it gets confusing. Is saturated fat bad for you? Is cholesterol bad or [continue reading]
What if You Don’t Have Time to Eat Real Food?
This post is part of The Real Food Experience 2015. If you’ve been following the Experience since the beginning, you know that we’ve focused so far on two challenges – eating more fruits and vegetables and eating more whole grains. (If you haven’t joined us yet, there’s still plenty of [continue reading]
Super Orange Smoothie – Easy, Healthy and Delicious
Like most of you, I’m trying to keep a lot of balls in the air. As a result, sometimes it’s easy to let my own health – especially healthy eating – slip to the bottom of my priority list. I can’t always control my schedule, but I can do something [continue reading]
When Your Body Feels Like Your Enemy…
Do you ever feel like your body is your enemy, rather than your friend? I’ve been thinking for a while that many women feel exactly that way, and several things I read this week helped clarify the idea in my mind. In particular, three posts by J at Hot, Holy [continue reading]
Easy Real Food Breakfast – Yogurt, Fruit and Nut Bowl
On busy days, we all need a breakfast that’s quick, easy, delicious, and loaded with ingredients that energize and nourish our bodies. We want one that uses “normal” ingredients – things we’re likely to have on hand – and that takes almost no time to prepare. And we’d like one [continue reading]
Small Steps, Big Changes – Make a Plan for Living Calmer, Healthier and Sexier This Year
This month we’ve been talking about taking small steps that add up to big changes over time, changes that will allow us to live well and to really enjoy our lives this year. I’ve shared some ideas for living calmer, healthier and sexier, and many of you have shared a [continue reading]