Tag: health
TidBit of the Day: Spicy Diet
You know we love to spice our food up here, but did you know there are some spices that actually help you to lose weight? According to Kaboodle, spices like cinnamon, cayenne, black pepper, mustard seed, and ginger are diet secrets. Check out their post here. If you want some hints in how to store [...]
‘Dear Foodbuzz’: French Apple Tart
As most of you know, the Zomppa crew recently participated in the Foodbuzz’s Project Food Blog competition. We made it to the third round, but then, were devastatingly rejected. This is Zomppa’s letter to Foodbuzz in response to their decision. Dearest Foodbuzz, Upon reading your ‘letter,’ we here at Zomppa are, ever so slightly, disturbed. [...]
TidBit of the Day: BPA Alternatives
Washington Post writer talks about the difficulty of finding BPA-free products that are traditionally in containers with BPA, i.e. tomato sauce. The article by Lyndsey Layton is here. For some other products that we’ve found, check it out here and here.
Label Thursday – Sept 16
Mystery food label of the week. What do you think it is? And thanks for all of you who guessed last week – great guesses! Sprinkled with Flour – you totally hit the nail on the head. Last week’s mystery label was… FUZE Peach Mango. It is labeled as a “Healthy Infuzion,” a “naturally flavored [...]
Label Thursday – Sept 9
If you’ve been reading us, you know that we at Zomppa are trying to raise awareness about our food. So today, we are launching a new feature: Label Thursday. Every Thursday, you will see a “mystery” food label. You have one week to guess what this item might be…some may surprise you, others may not. [...]
Guest/Harmburger
We are excited to introduce our newest guest, Leva, who hails from the Land Down Under (Melbourne, Australia). We might even be able to convince her to become a regular contributor! Leva is a nutritionist. She’s also kind of vegetarian. Kind of, in that on the day she decided to become vegetarian she ate a huge [...]
Contemplating Meat on a NC Beach
This past weekend was the annual trip to the Wilmington beaches, where I got sunburned (always forget that spot) and thought I broke my toes (I didn’t) and the ocean took my sunglasses (bye, bye, Calvin Kleins). I also was the entertainment of the day as I managed to capsize a kayak carrying a 300-pound [...]
Butterflies in My Stomach!!!
I hope those of you who celebrated the July 4 Independence Day holiday had a great one! There is still one more day to this fabulous long weekend. If many of you are like me, I love holidays! It’s a time to catch up with my children, reconnect with my husband, check-in with extended family [...]
Charleston Chew: Flourless Fruit Tarts
For those of you who have been following, you may realize that we at Zomppa are hoping to transform the way we relate and *meet* food – anybody know someone willing to donate a bus? I’m not joking…. …in any case, as part of this goal, I have been learning as much as I can [...]
Got (Drugstore Cow) Milk?
Got milk? While there is debate out there (i.e. T. Colin Campbell’s The China Study – good read if you haven’t yet) about cow’s milk and its benefits and dangers, a lot of us drink milk or at least give it to our children. But do you know where your milk comes from? If you [...]
