Tag: nutrition
Label Thursday
What’s the mystery label this week? Thanks for guessing. Last week’s mystery label was… Little Debbie’s Chocolate Cake! Who knew such a little girl on a little box could use so many ingredients with such complicated names?
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 [...]
Bannock and Berries
Two things happened to inspire this article—First, I just returned from canoeing up in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness (BWCAW) in northern Minnesota, and second, this is prime berry-picking season. Let me elaborate on why I was even canoeing or berry-picking: I did it for a man. Sigh. Or should I say, the man. [...]
Alert: Child Nutrition Month!
Can you be obese AND hungry? According to Joel Berg, executive director of the New York Coalition Against Hunger, “Hunger and obesity are often flip sides to the same malnutrition coin…Hunger is certainly almost an exclusive symptom of poverty. And extra obesity is one of the symptoms of poverty.” According to nationwide statistics, 18.5% of [...]
Play is the Thing: 4YG to a Tastier World
I don’t about you, but I need something to cool down from ZomppaPatty’s pretzels…so I’m going to bring the heat down a few notches and talk about an afternoon I spent with runny-nosed, knee-scraped kids. It’s no surprise anymore to hear about the horrific statistics on childhood obesity (i.e. obesity rates have tripled, $150 billion [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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
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. [...]
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 [...]
