What if the food you eat to stay alive is killing the planet you live on? More and more, we’re learning that many of the foods we eat are grown, manufactured, packaged and transported in ways that harm the very water, air and land we depend on for survival. The good news: You can be … Read more
Tasty Waste Not-Want Not Strategies + Where Is This Story Going? Two weeks into my almond milk experiment I came to an uncomfortable realization: Making my own nut milk was producing a lot of food waste! I want to tell you more about why this is a problem and how brownies and banana muffins came … Read more
Hopeful news and tips for dealing with uncooperative taste buds The last two posts described how I successfully battled Recipe Frustration and Cooking Tedium. As I did so and, bit by bit, improved my milk-making process, I became ever more confident and comfortable that I could weave it into my food life pretty easily. Mission … Read more
Smoothing Out the Aggravation Bumps on the Road to Good Eating Success The last post explained that key to making our diet dreams come true is planning so success if inevitable. In turn, the most critical part of inevitability planning is slowing down and adjusting your time frame to accommodate planning and preparation time. For … Read more
And the Solution: “Inevitability Planning” Feel stuck in a “5-Recipe Rut,” making the same few things night after night? If so, it’s not hard to understand why. Just think about the times you’ve been inspired to try a new recipe. Its picture looked great and you’re committed to trying something new. So at least you … Read more
Step 1–Getting My Head Behind My Actions Ever made a good eating intention and then, not too long afterwards, come to the sudden realization that you’ve forgotten all about it?! For example, let’s say it’s lunchtime, you’re on the road going from here to there, and you’re starving. Naturally, you pull into the drive-through restaurant … Read more
How Are Those September Resolutions Going? If you haven’t settled on any, don’t worry. As explained in a post last month, nature’s seed planting goes on all autumn, so there’s still time to use the season’s momentum to your advantage and “plant” some seeds for food life changes. But here’s the thing: The seeds of … Read more
In a world of melted cheese, adjusting to a dairy-free diet is not only tough, but stressful. The previous post shared tricks and strategies to make it less so. One of those is demonstrated here: reforming your meal ideas by finding new ways to flavor your food. Note the tricks we used and experiment … Read more
Continuing the last post’s discussion about mealtime stress, several readers found that working around food restrictions really compounded mealtime stress levels. For instance, Pamela wrote: I have a terrible time getting motivated to eat and create yummy dishes being that I live alone. I thought I would just invite friends over, but that isn’t working … Read more
5 Tips and Tricks + 1 Fundamental Mindshift This article is the third in our Mealtime Transformation series. We started a couple months ago with an invitation to tell us how you’d like to see your mealtimes transformed. The answers to that survey were helpful and surprising as we reported last month. Now we want … Read more