Empty Nesters Like Pie

Empty Nesters Like Pie

Ok, which of you empty nesters like pie?  C’mon, don’t be shy to admit it.  Even if you aren’t an empty nester, I bet you like pie!  They are one of the easiest things to bake and the easiest to disappear around our house!   That’s why I don’t bake it very often.  Mister is the […]

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Healthy Families

Words Of Encouragement This is an inspirational story that all parents should read… One of the best benefits of learning how to eat to fuel my body, as a mom, was learning what a healthy plate looks like. At Tony Horton Fitness Camps in the days of old, Tony used to talk about the important […]

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Two Healthy Lenten Lunches

Lent is here (and almost over).  Being Catholic, I practice the fast/abstinence-from-meat thing on Fridays during this time.  I love seafood anyway so it’s not a very difficult thing for me.  These are two of my favorite healthy low carb-lunches – the first since I’ve discovered multigrain bread (altho I don’t eat a lot of […]

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My Salad of Late

I like simple.  And I like ‘tastes good’.  I know salads and raw veggies are healthy for our bodies.  I love spinach.  In fact, I’ve made up a salad of some of my favorite salad edibles.  This is the salad that I’ve been eating lately.  It’s made up of leaf lettuce (sometimes I buy Boston), […]

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Another Simple Asian Recipe – Soup

Here is another simple Asian recipe – soup.  This is my healthy version of saimin, a soup I grew up eating in Hawaii.  It ALWAYS makes me feel good all over – not sure if it’s the heat on a cold Iowa winter day, or that my cells remember the feelings of growing up in […]

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Simple, Healthy EASY Fried Rice

I love to cook but I don’t especially love taking hours and hours doing it.  I also like to use up leftovers.  So here is another Asian dish –  simple, healthy easy fried rice – I’d like to share and how I basically do it.  I use olive oil, brown sweet cooked rice, egg(s), chopped […]

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