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Healthy Holiday Recipe: Onion Bread Pudding
The other day I had a baguette that was past its prime, and my first thought was "I'll make bread pudding." But with all the holiday sweets around, I didn't want to add to the temptation with another dessert. So I dug up this recipe for a savory Onion Bread Pudding instead.
Which is Better For You: Pork Spareribs or Pulled Pork?
Just writing the title of this quiz has my mouth watering, but did you know one version of pork is way better for you than the other? Take the quiz to find out if you're pork smart this summer.
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Which is Better For You
2 Pork Spareribs (3 oz.
Numbers to Live By
Cooking Light Magazine polled adults who successfully take action day-by-day to improve their health in order to further understand about what motivates us in what we eat, how we exercise and how we view our health.
How do you compare?
- 70 % of American adults drink lower fat milk instead of whole milk
- 59 % eat chicken with the skin removed
- 54 % take vitamins
- 52 % use lower fat alternatives when cooking
- 51 % read nutrition labels on food
- 6 % of Americans adults get 30 minutes of exercise a day
- 22 % exercise three to four times per week
- 19 % walk or bike instead of taking transportation
- 41 % take the stairs whenever possible
- 33 % regularly park their cars farther from their destination to get in extra walking
- 67 % recognize that making small, healthy improvements today add up to big benefits later
- 76 % are satisfied with their mental and emotional well-being
- 45 % are satisfied with their body weight
- 58 % are satisfied with their stress level
Tips to Make Any Dish Healthier
If you like to cook, you may have a hard time doing it in a healthy way.
Luckily, Cooking Light has shared some great tips for making dishes more nutritious and still tasty.
For all recipes:
- Study the recipe.
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Scary Recipe Ingredients to Look Out for
Butter has a bad reputation in the cooking world but the truth is that there are many other cooking ingredients that are just as unhealthy for us as butter. It's scary that many of us don't even bat an eye at when tossing them into our recipes.
To see the scariest recipe ingredients to watch for, just read more
Reasons People Go Raw
It's World Vegetarian Month and many people are going meat-free for their health, but others are taking their diets to a whole new level — going raw. A raw food diet consists of consuming unprocessed, preferably organic, whole, plant-based foods, at least 75 percent of which should be uncooked.
A raw-food eater might enjoy uncooked veggies, fresh and dried fruits, nuts, seeds, seaweed, soaked dried beans, young coconut milk, and sprouted seeds and breads.
the same turkey dinner without the same fat: Turkey
Thanksgiving brings us a wonderful time to give thanks, to reconnect with family and friends and to eat more calories than we ever normally would in any given day. Ahhhh...the gluttony.
But it doesn't have to be that way, for tips on how to make your Thanksgiving turkey have less of an impact on your waistline, read more
DVD Review: Weight Loss — Cardio Kick
Although I'm not a huge fan of DVDs that have the words "weight loss" on the cover, I did love the Weight Loss — Cardio Sculpt video I reviewed a while back.
Here's another video from that series called Weight Loss — Cardio Kick ($15). This DVD follows the same format of a few minutes of cardio, and a few minutes of strength training with weights, so it goes by really fast.
Back on Track: Grill Veggies For the Week
Summer weather is winding down, so it's time to grill as much as you can before it gets too chilly. Since I don't always have time to light up the grill after work, I like to grill up a bunch of veggies on Sunday so I'll have extra for the week. They taste great on their own, mixed with pasta, as a pizza topping, or in a sandwich.
Learn to Love: Spinach
When it comes to stereotypical foods that kids hate, spinach tops the list, along with brussels sprouts and broccoli, all of which I've learned to love. Seriously, when it comes to bang for your buck nutrition-wise, it's hard to beat spinach.
Spinach is an awesome vegetarian source of iron.
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