Start your day with a healthy breakfast!

"The first wealth is health."--_Emerson._

Start your day off right - with a healthy breakfast. If you find yourself with luxury of time to cook some morning try this nutritious breakfast idea:

Allow 1 large egg, 1 small tomato, 1/4 oz. butter per person. Scald, peel, and slice tomatoes, and fry till quite cooked in the butter. Add seasoning to taste--salt, pepper, little grated onion, pinch of herbs. Scramble and serve heaped on a bed of spinach. Spinach is considered by many to be a 'SuperFood'.

How to prepare the spinach:
Soak in cold water and rinse very well to remove all grit. Trim away any
stalks. Shake the water well off, and put in dry saucepan with lid on, to cook for about 10 minutes. Drain, chop finely, and return to saucepan with some butter, salt and pepper, to get quite hot. Dish neatly in a flat, round, or oval shape, with scrambled eggs on top, and croutons or whole wheat toast.

Eating a healthy breakfast is a great way to start any day!


"A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things."

The Quickest Way to Lose Weight is Eating Healthy and Exercise!

Enjoy your Summer with family and friends - eating healthy foods and playing outside. Play your favorite sports. Go for a walk. Or a nice run. Take your little ones to the pool and refresh your body!

The quickest way to lose weight is to renew your strength! Exercise and lose weight fast! Eat a sensible, healthy diet! Enjoy this wonderful time of year!

Follow a calorie-reduced, but balanced diet that provides for as little as one or two pounds of weight loss a week. Be sure to include at least five servings a day of fruits and vegetables, along with whole grains, lean meat and low fat dairy products. It may not produce headlines, but it sure can reduce waistlines. It's not "miracle" science — just common sense. Most important, it's prudent and healthy.

Concentrate on eating a nutritious, balanced diet every day. This provides plenty of energy to grow and exercise and play! Enjoy the bounty of healthy fruits and vegetables available this time of year. Enjoy outdoor cooking with family and friends!

Its much easier to burn calories and sweat off those extra pounds when you feed your body a healthy mix of natural foods. Give your body the healthy nutrients it needs so you can play more and have more fun this Summer! The quickest way to lose weight is with plenty of exercise and a healthy, nutritious diet!

Healthy Eating

With so many healthy choices this time of year, eating healthy is easy! Enjoy these warmer months with a healthy variety of tasty foods! Here are some suggestions to help you eat healthier:

* Make half your grains whole. Substitute whole-grain products for refined products, such as whole-wheat bread instead of white bread or brown rice instead of white rice. Remember, don't add, substitute.
* Buy fresh vegetables in season; they're likely to be cheaper and be at their peak flavor. Select vegetables with more potassium often, such as sweet potatoes, white beans, tomato products, beet greens, soybeans, lima beans, winter squash, spinach, lentils, kidney beans, and split peas. Buy precut veggies (or precut them yourself) so they're always available in the refrigerator (e.g., baby carrots).
* Keep plenty of fresh fruit around. Keep a bowl of washed, whole fruit in the kitchen, ready to eat. Buy fresh fruit in season. Dried fruit is a good alternative for out-of-season or hard to find fruit.
* Don't forget about calcium. Include low-fat or fat-free milk as a beverage at meals. If you drink cappuccinos or lattes, ask for them with fat-free (skim) milk. Substitute low-fat or fat free yogurt for cream and sour cream in soups and sauces.
* Go lean on protein. Trim away all visible fat from meats and poultry before cooking. Broil, grill, roast, poach, or boil meat, poultry, or fish instead of frying. Drain off any fat that appears during cooking. Skip or limit the breading on meat, poultry, or fish. Prepare dried beans and peas without added fats.
* Choose wisely - food and drinks that are low in saturated fats, trans fats, cholesterol, salt (sodium), and added sugars.

Keep eating healthy and you're on your way to a much healthier lifestyle!

Eating healthy and staying slim

I love snacks. It is SO easy to go a little overboard ( OKAY, .... Way overboard )
when munching on that bag of mixed nuts or pretzels. Snacks are great and there are tons of healthy options for us all to enjoy. Keeping our portions limited to a small, reasonable size is the key to healthy snacking! Here's some tips:

The next time you reach for your favorite snack food, check the package and measure out a single serving. You may be surprised to find out you've been consuming not one, but several servings at a time. Learn what controlled servings of your favorite foods look like - and keep measuring until you can really tell how much is too much. Here are some typical serving sizes:

* Dairy products: one cup of lowfat or nonfat milk or yogurt
* Lean meat, poultry, or fish: 2-3 ounces
* Raw, leafy vegetables: 1 cup
* Other cooked or chopped vegetables: ½ cup
* Fresh fruit: 1 medium orange, banana, or apple
* Canned fruit: ½ cup of chopped, cooked, or canned fruit (in natural juice)
* Fruit juice: 3/4 cup
* Bread: 1 regular slice
* Dry cereal: 1 ounce
* Cooked cereal, pasta, or rice: ½ cup
* Peanut, or other nut butter: 2 tablespoons

Following are some tips to give your willpower a helping hand:

* Order smaller portions in restaurants. Many people who have no problem eating healthy portions at home overeat in restaurants because the portions are so large. But many restaurants serve half portions, or lunch-size portions at dinner. Don't be embarrassed to ask. You'll save calories and cash.
* Don't upsize anything, especially fast food. Fast food portions have more than doubled over the last twenty-five years. Don't be tempted by a "bargain." Avoid package deals; instead, order a sandwich - broiled chicken is good; hold the mayo - and a side salad.
* Order kids meals, where you can. Some restaurants will let you order them if you tell them you're dieting, and you can always order them in fast food restaurants. Kids meal portions are what used to be grown up portions (before the mega craze began).
* Buy small or single-serving quantities when possible. Don't buy the extra large bag of pretzels; buy the single serving size, one bag at a time.
* Avoid all-you-can-eat situations. Buffets and those "unlimited pasta on Tuesdays" meals make it difficult, if not impossible, to practice portion control.
* Quick reference: 3 ounces of meat is the size of a deck of cards; 1 ounce of meat is the size of a matchbook; 1 cup of potatoes, rice or pasta is the size of a tennis ball.

Eating Healthy on the weekend

Thank the Good Lord its finally here! Time to get after it and knock off some of those tasks on that much dreaded, never ending to-do list. Running to the grocery, the lumber yard, the hardware store. Heading out to the nursery for those flowers we hope will pretty up the yard.

And then there is the best part of every weekend - spending more time with the ones we love! Time for getting outdoors - hopefully - and enjoying this beautiful time of year. Time to dust off the old barbecue and fire up some steaks. Or toss a bunch of veggies and a skinless turkey breast or two into a stock pot and let it cook slowly while we enjoy the day.

The weekend is the perfect time for eating healthy with our loved ones. Enjoying a healthy meal with those we love the most. Or even that certain someone you've been wanting to get to know a little better!

So, head to the grocery and pick up some fresh veggies, plenty of fruit. Maybe some pasta if you like. Keep it healthy whatever you choose. And enjoy some great time this spring with your family and friends. Keep it simple if you like. put out some easy to prepare snacks - and enjoy a variety of healthy foods.

The strawberries are plentiful this time of year. Grapes are still fairly reasonable and in decent supply. Cut up some broccoli and celery maybe. Wash a bag of baby carrots and toss them in a bowl. Put out some walnuts or your favorite nuts. Or how about taking a break for a healthy shake or smoothie? Toss in some bananas and strawberries and you'll have a tasty, and healthy treat.

Enjoy your weekend eating healthy with those you love the most!