Category — Healthy Living
Got Zucchini?
Hi Sweeties! Coming up for air here to check in with you and to share my cooking exploits of this morning. Feeling very domestic. One of the “benefits” of impending surgery and subsequent rehab is you have the ultimate incentive to get ducks in a row. So I’ve been madly filing, tidying, organizing, prepping . . . and as of this a.m., that extends to food.
Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t intend to (and really can’t) put up all the meals we’ll need for almost 8 weeks post-surgery (for that, I’m relying on the kindness of friends and family), but I can do little things – things with more of an eye toward when I’m cleared for activity and can cook again. Because then it’ll be late-fall and I will be mourning the end of the summer bounty from my CSA.
August 5, 2011 4 Comments
Take Action on BPA
In yesterday’s post, I told you about the SSI/BCF study re BPA in food, and about the 60% decrease in the body burden the families realized when they stopped using canned goods. It caught your attention, right? You’re concerned, no? [Read more →]
April 6, 2011 6 Comments
Have You Seen The News?
Most of you know I’m all about eating fresh foods, limiting your chemical exposures, yada yada yada. You know I don’t use canned goods anymore at home. Well, listen to this one. The good people at the Silent Spring Institute, along with the Breast Cancer Fund, last week released a small study that showed that food packaging is the major source of exposure to BPA and DEHP in children and adults, and that a fresh food diet reduces levels of these chemicals by half, after just three days. Yowza. [Read more →]
April 5, 2011 5 Comments
What’s Up?
I’ve been gone from here for a while . . . and some of you have taken notice. “What’s up with you?” come the emails, the questions at school, the texts and phone calls.
It’s all been good, friends. There’s no crisis, no health emergency. My mammo was clear, my cholesterol rocks.
No, it’s this: I’ve been taking some time away to evaluate the blog, my involvement with the blog and what I want to do (or not do) with the blog. I’ve also been committed to my Move Into March challenge and to healthy eating, and I’ve lost the 7 lbs. I gained thanks to my arthritis and my vacation. I have been able, for the first time in 2 years, to exercise standing up. I feel great, I’m enjoying myself. I’ve been reading lots, and prepping very simple, very healthful food.
“So what about RECIPES???” “The well is dry!!!” come other emails . . . I love love love that you all depend on the recipes – that this blog serves you so well! I may try posting once a week or so – try to strike a happy medium for us all, but truthfully, I’m really quite preoccupied with thinking up ways to better integrate my passion for healthy living, my love of food and cooking and face-to-face, real-life connections with people like you.
As Tama Kieves says, “If you feel lost, you’re on your way to the miraculous.” I’ll admit it – I have no idea what’s going on yet. But hang with me, will you? What’s yet to come might be even better than we all could have imagined!
Image: Simon Howden / FreeDigitalPhotos.net
March 23, 2011 3 Comments
Meet My Nemesis
We just came home from an all-inclusive beach resort and although we had a great time, I’m overstuffed.
February 28, 2011 4 Comments
Is Foreign-Grown Produce Safe?
It’s the dead of winter here in the Northeast, and maybe, just maybe you’re tiring of root vegetables? Eating locally is one thing, constant deprivation is another. Pooped out on parsnips? Need some green leafies? Fresh fruits? What to do?
I will admit to spending a fortune on organic blueberries and raspberries in the last few weeks (see yesterday’s “What I Ate” post) . . . they’re super-delicious and refreshing on salads and cereal, or just swimming in non-fat kefir “soup” with cinnamon. And I do buy organic salad greens and baby spinach all year ’round. A Semi-Sweet reader recently asked me: “What about buying produce from other (read: warm!) countries? Is that safe?” Well Sweeties, you ask, I answer!
January 21, 2011 4 Comments
Good News On Slow Cookers
January 13, 2011 3 Comments
Slow Cooked . . . Lead?
I write today with some potentially distressing news. I have heard a rumor that the ceramic liner of your slow cooker might contain unacceptable amounts of lead . . . and that it could potentially be leaching into whatever you’re slow-cooking. Now let me stress that this is, as yet, unsubstantiated. At the end of last week, another mother at pickup approached me and asked me if I knew anything about this – I was shocked (maybe I shouldn’t be?)!
January 10, 2011 4 Comments
