It’s been a busy quarter. And I’ve got 6 more weeks ahead of me before the school year is over. I know wherever you are, whoever you are, chances are you might be in the middle of a busy time too. Having more tasks on your to-do list certainly contributes to that overwhelmed feeling, but …
Are you one of those people who actually reads a whole post on a food blog? Do you want to know the complete story about how the recipe came to be or do you jump right to the essentials: ingredients list and instructions? As a blogger myself, I probably shouldn’t admit this but I usually …
Lunch packing in the summer is easy. Certainly if you have kids, I’m hoping you have a few months off from this daily task. But for the rest of us, taking a lunch to work happens year round. And summertime offers a bounty of veggies and fruits to fill up those cute little compartments in …
We finally made it to fat! This is the fourth in a series of posts on the nutritional content of my lunches, including calories, protein, and carbohydrate. Today it’s fat’s turn, and boy did I learn a thing or two from logging my lipids.
Carbohydrates are often a vilified nutrient. Messages abound that carbs make you fat, low carb is the pathway to health, and eating carbohydrates is equivalent to eating straight sugar. On the contrary, many of the healthiest diets on the planet, like the Mediterranean diet or the DASH diet, are built on a firm foundation of …