Tag: "nutrition"

Christmas Kale
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Christmas Kale

I apologize for the quality (or lack thereof) of the photo…only had my phone with me, and I wanted to share this quick easy awesome recipe BEFORE next week’s holiday festivities in case you are looking for a great side for Christmas or got “stuck” making the greens.
I tested this with 103 random people, and [...]

Carbon Foodprint: To Meat or Not to Meat
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Carbon Foodprint: To Meat or Not to Meat

I love my vegetarian friends. But I love my meat too.

This is definitely a dilemma for me. I love animals. I love dogs. I think pigs are really smart animals. I care about the environment. I recycle. I reuse bags. I pay extra for the recycled business cards.

Am I a hypocrite?
For those of you who [...]

When pressure is all good
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When pressure is all good

I convinced my friends ZomppaB and ZomppaPatty to buy pressure cookers. It has been more than two months and I know that it still remains in their original packages tucked somewhere in their kitchen cupboard, amongst the unused impulse buy kitchen gadgets/utensils. Both ZomppaPatty and ZomppaB commented on how they were afraid of using the [...]

Pass (on) the Popcorn
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Pass (on) the Popcorn

There’s nothing like the smell of the buttery box of freshly-popped popcorn that you swear you won’t buy but then you do and proceed to eat half of it before the previews are over at the movie theatre. Every afternoon, someone in my office pops a bag of Orville Redenbacher’s and boy, it smells good.

But [...]

KFC or Raju Chiken?
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KFC or Raju Chiken?

As many of you know, India is full of contradictions. One of the biggest and most obvious points of contrast is the wide gap between rich and poor. It is not just a bit rich and a bit poor – it is like having the fancy Le Meridian hotel where meals cost as much as [...]

Little Garden in the Big Apple
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Little Garden in the Big Apple

Community gardens ARE possible and they are wonderful things! Living in New York City, I was fortunate to live right across from Central Park. However, to afford living there, my apartment also was on the bottom looking into a courtyard, meaning zero light for plants. My body functions with natural light, so this was pretty [...]

The Pile-Up on the MisInformation Highway
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The Pile-Up on the MisInformation Highway

According to Ed Ayred, “most of today’s TV and print media seem to abandon themselves to a kind of junk-information binge” (Ayres, E., Note to Readers, World Watch, May/June 1994). If this is the case, then how does the average person figure out what is real and what isn’t? Studies seem to come out daily, [...]