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
Because it’s so flavorful, you don’t need much besides miso to make a surprisingly delicious soup, as can be seen in this recipe. We’re sharing it now because miso soup is both light and warming–perfect for the variable days of spring when the weather can swing from warm to cold in a matter of hours. … Read more
“More mealtime fun” and “excitement” were popular responses in our Mealtime Transformation Survey that we shared in the last post. Happily, it doesn’t take much to brighten up mealtimes. Something as simple as a new ingredient can be completely adequate. Miso, for example, is sure to tantalize your taste buds with its unique salty-sweet or … Read more
Many thanks to everyone who completed the Meal Time Transformation Survey that we shared in the last post. We also got responses from several classes and events over the last month. In summary, you all have enlightened me! I learned that a food life transformation is not a foreign concept. I wondered whether you might … Read more
Not surprisingly, it happened again. The only surprising thing is that it happened in my Pilates class of all places. But the “it” was the same: another unfortunate mealtime lament. It started when someone in class mentioned the nice article we got in the Daily Camera (p. 11), which got everyone talking about healthy eating. … Read more
Bone-Broth Pork Green Chili A dish with many uses: Use as a sauce over, e.g., burritos, as a side soup, or as a one-dish meal with the addition of shredded or ground chicken or pork. Plus, it can be made entirely from the pantry, with the exception of the optional cilantro. See the previous post … Read more
Those who have been readers for a while know I always wax poetic come autumn. You’ll remember, too, that I always encourage some kind of harvest-y type of activity. Stop long enough to notice this moving change of seasons and deep-rooted feelings get touched. As those feelings are exposed to a little autumn light, the … Read more
It’s tempting to toss little bits of leftovers. They don’t seem worth the time it takes find a container (and its lid), transfer the leftovers, and then find a place for the container in a (usually) overcrowded frig. But those little bits can be healthy diet savers. E.g., you come home after work starving. Instead … Read more