Dining at sea means both the expected and the unexpected are now being offered for an additional cover charge beyond the cruise fare, allowing cruise ship guests more options than they ever previously had.
Guest Blog “Success Via Simple, Small Steps”
Today’s blog features a Guest Contributing Author sharing a real life story about how a number of simple, small steps taken in life when it comes to making food choices can add up to measurable success. Please welcome our Guest Blogger (she’s been a young military wife while her husband has served in the Armed Forces) and read on as she shares a true success story…this is what she wrote in to me… “A year and a half ago my husband asked me to help him lose a little weight. He was active and got regular exercise, however his waist
“Think Red” Healthy Red Bean Dip
Continuing on with our “Think Red” series to encourage wiser food choices that can contribute to heart health, today’s blog post is not just about beans and heart health. We’d like to also mention the larger family that beans belong to as well. Various beans can actually be quite heart healthy, depending upon exactly how they are prepared and what other ingredients they are combined with. Most people are familiar with red kidney beans, although there are many other beans, which belong to a larger family called “pulses” and include a wide range of naturally nutritious offerings. Image courtesy of
What to Eat in 2012?
Many experts have weighed in on this subject. Here is just some of the advice and a few of the various compiled suggestions that have been given by others for foods to consider incorporating into your foodstyle in 2012. © photo: www.e-Cobo.com, Nikolay Dimitrov
Do YOU Want to be the “Lady in Red”? (Go Red for Women) Take the First Step & Get Pinned!
February is heart month in more ways than one. Some of us might say “Hallmark Day” is coming, referring to Feb 14th and Valentine’s Day. But others will note that the American Heart Association (AHA) has long promoted women’s awareness of heart disease in the month of February. AHA has tied it’s efforts into a visible symbol of wearing red, including another variation of a red dress which is trademarked by the US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) and thus we’re not allowed to use that specific image here. The image shown was obtained from the stockfresh.com site.
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Savory Cheese Rolls
I use the Red Star Yeast Savory Cheese Rolls recipe. This is a batter dough method yeast roll recipe, so requires NO kneading! Once the dough has risen in the bowl, you beat it down, fill muffin cups, allow the dough to rise again, then simply bake it off. If for some reason you don’t like celery seed, but do like fennel seed, then you could probably add 1 tsp dried Herbs de Provence to this roll recipe in place of the celery seed if desired (and IF you aren’t making a bread stuffing recipe as well for the Thanksgiving Holiday–bread stuffing
Holiday Baking – Very Easy-to-Make Peanut Butter Blossoms Cookies
Want a cookie recipe that is EASY to make & that virtually any one can make for the holidays? (or any other time for that matter!) These work quite well for many a cookie exchange, too.
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LoSoPhoMo Food Trend Predicted For 2012
Are you familiar with the many social media terms that are in use everywhere today? LoSoPhoMo is a term that was newer to me, but makes good sense once explained.
Healthy Eating Need Not Be Just A Fairy Tale
Today’s blog title is adapted from a comment in the Albert Heijn Employee Magazine from 2009. Each year, that grocery store chain in The Netherlands organizes “Gezonde Weken” or “Health Weeks.” In 2009, the focus was on helping children to learn more about healthy eating in a fun way, so the chain handed out fairy tale place-mats for children. The fairy tale theme included “Wise Knight’s Facts” as well as “Princesses Tips” and was centered around the “Clover Land” theme, referring to the “Clover” logo based Point-of-Purchase Program designed to raise customer awareness of healthier food selection options in their stores. That grocery
Eggplant Caponata for the Holidays
Italian families typically love eggplant dishes, and tend to be quite fond of pine nuts as well. It turns out that combining eggplant with pine nuts is a perfect start for creating an appetizer to enjoy year round, and it can be quite delicious during the winter holidays.