Do you ever find yourself feeling a little too full, or eating when you’re not really hungry? But at the same time, you’re struggling to change that? Overeating is really common and there are a few reasons why that’s so! Sometimes it could be because there was a special event like at a wedding when […]
Food & Nutrition
15 Picture-Perfect Desserts for the Fourth of July
Sweet berry salad “This fluffy salad is a welcome treat on warm Texas afternoons. Because there’s a blueberry orchard near our home, we often pick up berries to use in this recipe and others. When blueberries and strawberries aren’t in season, you can substitute frozen berries with equally good results.” —Karen Wenzel, Conroe, Texas Get […]
The Best Tempeh Recipes To Try
These tempeh recipes are nutritious, delicious, and simple to make and a great way to add more plant-based proteins to your diet! Whether you already eat mostly plant-based food or you’re wanting to start eating more a more plant-based diet, tempeh is a nutritious and versatile protein to add to your meals. Part of eating […]
How to Make Pancakes with What You Have on Hand
Out of flour? Low on milk? No worries! For pancakes, there are loads of ingredient substitutions using basic pantry staples. There’s nothing worse than waking up Sunday morning, ready to make a batch of homemade pancakes, only to realize that you’re out of a key ingredient. But wait. Before you cancel your pancake plans and […]
6 Items You Can Purge From Your Kitchen Guilt-Free
The dishes you never reach for Most of us will host a dinner party, or two if we’re lucky, outside the holiday season (and we know that you’re dying to know what your dinner party host secretly thinks about you!) But we keep dozens of plates, wine glasses and bowls inside our cabinets. Realistically, we […]
13 Things You Shouldn’t Do at Reopened Restaurants
If you do use the bathroom, don’t flush with your foot OK, so you couldn’t hold it in any longer and had to use the restaurant bathroom. But how do you go to the bathroom without, well, touching anything? For starters, avoid flushing the toilet with your foot. “Unless you can maneuver opening stall doors […]
How to Store These 11 Super Perishable Foods
Fresh Herbs Green, leafy goodies like parsley, cilantro, and basil tend to go bad quickly. To extend their freshness, trim off the bottoms of the stems, place them in a glass of water, and drape a plastic bag or plastic wrap over the tops. With the exception of basil (which should be left on the […]
Should You Be Tipping More When Restaurants Reopen?
If you’re lucky enough to be able to afford a night out at a restaurant right now, here’s what an etiquette expert has to say about whether you should up your tipping game. Many usually booming industries, and the people working in them, have been devastated by the coronavirus pandemic. Restaurant dining is one of […]
What Are the Safest Types of Meat to Eat?
Use caution with ground meat When it comes to food poisoning, the riskiest kind of meat, hands down, is ground meat, experts agree. Whether it’s chicken or turkey, pork, or beef, grinding the meat increases the amount of surface area that can come into contact with disease-causing pathogens. For that reason, it’s vital to cook […]
7 Easiest Vegetables to Grow at Home (Small-Space Picks Included!)
We all can benefit from strengthening the connection to our food, where they were grown, and how they end up on our plates. One of the golden standards for deepening this connection to our food is to grow it ourselves! Gardening comes in so many forms, large scale gardens taking up acres of land to […]
Meat Costs Are Rising—And That Could Mean Higher Prices at Restaurants
This will mostly likely affect items made with fresh beef and pork. If you keep an eye on the news, you know that the price of meat has gone up over the past couple of months. Now, Costco, Kroger, and other grocery chains have limited the amount of meat you can buy during your grocery run, […]
How to Pit Cherries Even If You Don’t Have a Cherry Pitter
For fans of fresh, home-baked cherry pie, we’ve got some good news and some bad news. The good news is we’ve got an absolutely amazing recipe for cherry pie (and other fresh cherry recipes!) that will make the process of pitting cherries feel totally worth it. The bad news is that the process is long […]
12 Dos and Don’ts for Avoiding Germs at Restaurants
Do avoid touching extra items We know coronavirus germs can live on surfaces, so do your best to avoid touching common areas like doorknobs, menus, or the bar. Check out the menu online before going to the restaurant and, as we mentioned, be sure to wash your hands before eating, and once you arrive home. […]
10 Helpful Gardening Tips That Actually Helped This Former Plant Killer
One of my go-to fantasies when life is tough is that I’ll run away to start a vegetable farm. I’ll spend long days covered in sweat, soil caked underneath my fingernails, satisfied with the knowledge that I was able to feed myself through hard work and a deep understanding of the natural world. Given our […]
11 Healthy Starbucks Drinks That Taste Indulgent
Skinny Vanilla Latte Good news! You can drink a relatively healthy vanilla latte. Another espresso-based drink, a latte tops a few shots of espresso with steamed milk and a dollop of frothed milk, flavored with a ribbon of vanilla syrup. When I’m craving dessert in the middle of the afternoon, a vanilla latte ticks the […]