Tag: food
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Building Yourself Up and Tearing Yourself Down This t-shirt celebrates the classic post-race free food for the participants: a table loaded with bananas. Sometimes they have bagels, too, usually several different flavor options. But more races are offering post-race parties with beer, and some are even organized around true junk food. The Krispy Kreme Challenge,…
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Sometimes you need a quick — and reasonably good-for-you — snack, or want something that doesn’t lend itself to making a big batch ahead of time and parceling out into servings, but it can be tough to cook for one. Greatist has published this nice list of suggestions (and recipes) for easy, small meals with…
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Don’t Panic — It’s Just the Holidays Darya Rose at Summer Tomato has a nice list of recommendations for sticking with your healthy eating habits throughout the holidays. Here are the basic ideas — go read the post for terrific tips on how to implement them: 1. Don’t panic. 2. Pick your battles. 3. Plan…
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Is ANYTHING Good for You? In an article cheekily linked as “10 types of diet books that prove you can’t eat anything,” io9 notes: “What should you cut out of your diet to be more healthy? Everything. According to the most popular diet books on the market, there’s barely a food on Earth that’s safe…
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Nudge Yourself into a Sound Grocery Strategy Feeding America worked with Cornell University to develop a nudge-based way of presenting food in food banks and pantries — putting produce and recipe ideas right up front so that it was easy for people to make the right choices. Your local grocery store has its own priorities…
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Getting Ready for Thanksgiving If you are making a new commitment to healthful eating, Thanksgiving might be the biggest challenge of the year. Halloween candy can be tough to resist, but the prospect of tables groaning with comfort food — and cooking plans that seem to be designed to guarantee a week of leftovers —…
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Consider the Possibilities Only a tiny minority of people are actually harmed by eating gluten, but many people find that if they eat less gluten-containing foods they feel better. That could be for many reasons, including undiscovered sensitivity traits, something about gluten processing that we don’t understand yet, other food components that tend to travel…
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Happy Halloween! This is a detail from a Halloween Candy infographic at Livestrong.com. It makes and intriguing point! But Swiss people also walk close to twice as many steps as Americans, on average, and I’m sure there are other differences, too. (Why don’t we walk more, anyway? A series in Slate magazine a couple of…
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Making Seafood Decisions When we make a new commitment to healthier eating, one thing we have to decide is what, exactly, that means. For some people it is as simple as basic adjustments like no junk food in the house or no fast food at lunch. But if you have relied heavily on processed foods…