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Quick & Healthy | Quick Brown Rice

June 23, 2011 cooking June 23, 2011

Finally……a blog post about fitness and nutrition and not just about me and pregnancy!!! Can it be true? You don’t have to wait 45 minutes for brown rice! There are a few different options to make brown rice in a hurry!! I’ll show you the options from best to worst! My favorite option, MAKE EXTRA AND FREEZE!! I found this in Real Simple Magazine (April 2011) and found it brilliant! Now, when I make fresh brown rice for dinner, I make extra and freeze it! I found these freezable BALL canning jars at our base’s commissary and they’re my new favorites! (I bought the 4 oz for breast milk and I’ll blog about that later if it works out!) For rice, I got 16 ...

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health-ify your recipes | Holiday Baking Time!

November 22, 2010 cooking November 22, 2010

[Snickerdoodles from BHG Cookbook] It’s that time of year!!! I love to bake and I bake every year. 2010 has been a year of a lot of baby steps and changes for us regarding our nutrition. But, every year I bake some of the same things [cookies] and have had the same requests this year. Oh no! What do I do?! Modify! We don’t like to eat bleached enriched white flour (or whatever it’s called) at our house! At. All. So, the first change I make to EVERY recipe is to add in Whole Wheat Flour for the white flour. Many recipes sub half and half. I don’t. I just sub it all. You’ll want to use a teeny bit less WW flour for the ...

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don’t cry over… chopped onion

November 13, 2010 cooking November 13, 2010

I thought I’d pass along a little tip that I heard and it works for me about half the time. CHEW GUM WHILE YOU CHOP ONIONS! It works for me about half the time….but that’s better than none! Why does this work? [the simple answer] Chewing gum while cutting onions prevents tears by forcing you to breathe through your mouth. This disperses the irritant so that a significantly smaller amount reaches the lachrymal glands, preventing them from being irritated enough to release tears. source: ehow

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FITori review | Salad Chopper!

October 25, 2010 cooking October 25, 2010

[after] I went to a Pampered Chef party during my contest prep. I couldn’t eat anything. I drank water. I couldn’t taste the foods. I had to take everyone’s word for it. BUT, I did place a fun order of some things. Some I love. I’ve already blogged about my olive oil sprayers here. My next fun Pampered Chef purchase that I have to share is….THE SALAD CHOPPER!! [click here for the actual product link] I buy my salad in the handy little plastic containers. And then…I reuse those handy little plastic containers. [I need to do a blog post about buying items partially for their packaging! I do that all the time! I am a sucker for great packaging! And, I digress...... So, salad only ...