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Be Your Own Valentine: A Guide to Self-Love and Self-Care

Continue to celebrate Valentine's Day by showering yourself with love and care. Make each day all about nurturing your relationship with yourself. How do you love yourself? It’s time to count the ways. February is Heart Health Awareness Month and we are continuing our...

Heartstrong: Navigating Your Path To Cardiovascular Wellness

February is Heart Health Awareness Month and we’re here to help you take care of your ticker. Considering all of the factors that affect our health, we hope you find these strategies and tips useful and doable. In the United States, heart disease is a leading cause of...

Mental Health and Nutrition: How to Recognize the Impact on Eating Habits

As a Registered Dietitian, I've witnessed firsthand the profound impact that our mental health has on our eating habits and vice versa. It's a connection that can't be ignored, yet many healthcare providers may miss the subtle signs that patients hide or deny. The...

Quasi-recipe: That’s bananas.

I'm trying my darnedest to chill out with the overconsumption of sweets these days for so many reasons, one of which that, now that I'm unemployed, I don't have money to buy pants the next size up. Enter: homemade banana "ice cream." I like mixing up the add-ins and...

Quasi-recipe: Aw, sugar, sugar.

For a reason that is of no business to you, yesterday, I had a major craving for a chocolate-layered hunk of chocolate sprinkled with chocolate-covered chocolate.  So, naturally, I plugged in my panini press and made this: If you would like to make one of these, but...

Nuts!

As some of you may know, I recently quit my job to go back to school, so I'm on a fixed budget now and trying to find ways of saving and doing as much as possible myself. Case in point: almond butter.  I buy a brand that usually runs me about $14.00 for an 18-oz jar,...

Recipe: Simply Seitan-ical

I ate my meal so quickly the other night that I didn't stop to photograph it, so you'll just have to use your imagination while you read (or look at it yourself when you make your own version). When I got my first apartment back in 1994, one of my favorite meals to...

Recipe Remix: Chili-stuffed Sweet Potatoes

Remember this chili recipe? Well, here's a super simple way to rejigger it: make it, but omit the sweet potato/carrot in the mix. Instead, while the chili's cooking, roast a sweet potato1 in the oven, then stuff each half of the potato with the chili and sprinkle...

Cold cuts

I'm sick.  I've been pretending like I wasn't, but, finally, this morning, I gave in and canceled all my plans for the day, lied down on the sofa, and spent the entire day sipping hot tea with honey, knocking back meds, and blowing my nose. I thought I was taking...