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Category: Food and Health

Cooking For One

Posted on July 2, 2012 by Lanie Fioretti

One of my readers reminded me, I don’t really have specific recipes for cooking for one.  Dishes that are simple to do, without a lot of leftovers.  I know it’s easy to cook a little larger amounts and freeze in portion size, but realistically some of us will never take it out of the freezer…

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Tomatoes

Posted on July 1, 2012July 1, 2012 by Lanie Fioretti

Tomatoes are the red gold of the garden.  A lot of people have bumper crops this year.  They are slowing down with the heat, but we still have another week or two of fresh tomatoes for sure.  If we’re lucky a couple of the plants may stay alive for a fall harvest. After the harvest…

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Ciao Chia

Posted on May 19, 2012May 22, 2012 by Lanie Fioretti

Who knew when we were growing all those chia pets in the 1970s, that we should’ve been eating them!!  I know I’ve mentioned Chia Seeds and that I’ve been testing Omega 3 on myself.  I’m more convinced than ever that the lack of Omega 3 in our diets in a major factor in disease.  Some…

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Staying Active

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Lanie Fioretti

The Nutrition Source from the Harvard School of Public Health has a new article with some good guidelines on how much exercise we need, what exercise intensity we need, etc.  To view the article, click here. Here’s my little aside! There’s lots of activity that is not involve a designated exercise program, that works well. …

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Herbs and Spice and Everything Nice

Posted on April 23, 2012August 18, 2016 by Lanie Fioretti

When I look around my kitchen and do a quick inventory, I realize how many herbs and spices I have.  It’s almost embarrassing!  I mean there’s an entire cart (like an Elfa cart) in my pantry with nothing but spices.  And that’s not all, there’s more near my stove.  If the spice trade ever came…

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