recipes

What to Eat for Breakfast When You’re Sick of Oatmeal, Part II* [Crap in a Cup!]

April 24, 2012

Mug muffins! Like many trends I am way late on this bandwagon but I’m here to tell you that it’s totally worth jumping on because this stuff is awesome. It may look like crap in a cup but this is one breakfast that is as nutritious as it is tasty. (Note: I did not write “as tasty as it is nutritious” because I am known for eating some pretty foul stuff just because I think it’s good for me. This is not one of those things. It’s genuinely delish.) Plus it only takes 2 minutes to make and cook, is [...]

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Experiments in Cooking: How many different types of flour are there?

January 17, 2012

Just like performing three posthumous miracles will get you sainted in Catholic circles, there is a litmus test to determine true health nuts. While this won’t get you a cathedral named in your honor (but neither will you have to be martyred, so there is that) you will get a metaphorical halo and intestines of burnished steel. What is this criteria upon which much righteous indignation is predicated? Whole grains of course! One’s willingness to replace all their favorite foodstuffs with 100% whole grains is how you separate the healthy wheat from the diabetes-courting chaff. I jest. But only a [...]

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Myth Busting: Junk Food is Not Cheaper Than Healthy Food [Plus 4 More Health Food Myths]

October 16, 2011

One more excuse to eat poorly bit the dust as Mark Bittman of the New York Times took apart the oft-quoted adage that one reason why people don’t eat healthier is because junk food is more budget friendly. He writes, “In general, despite extensive government subsidies, hyperprocessed food remains more expensive than food cooked at home.” He then goes on to compare a McDonald’s meal for a family of 4 ($28) with a home-cooked dinner for 4 of roast chicken, salad, vegetables and milk ($14). Debunking the second part of the myth, that junk food provides more calories for the money [...]

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My Favorite Healthy Fall Recipes [Bloody entrails edition]

October 9, 2011

Is she not the cutest baby ever?! I kinda want to sneak into her room and kiss those little chubby hands right now… (Gym Buddy Allison took this pic!) Jelly Bean is of the opinion that if she can’t see vegetables then I can’t make her eat them. Little does she know that even though I nicknamed her after a candy, I’ve been sneaking in the good stuff to her since the day I first decided that eating an entire watermelon with a huge baby doing jumping jacks on my bladder was a good idea. And really I can’t complain [...]

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Diet Tweaks: Carb Cycling and Protein Shakes

December 3, 2010

This can’t have ended well. And also, why is there a can of whipped cream?? photo credit: professional recreationalist “Chug, chug, chug!” “Just slam it!” and my personal fave: “I should have brought my beer helmet.” This month’s Great Fitness Experiment, continued from last month’s Rachel Cosgrove: The Female Body Breakthrough*, has the Gym Buddies and I releasing our inner frat boy. Not that that’s hard to do what with all the burping, pit sniffing, grunting and “adjusting”- albeit more northern than southern -going on in our group. (Side note: Speaking of bizarre noises in the gym, you should have [...]

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What is Your Favorite Source for Healthy Recipes?

August 26, 2009

Every evening ’round about 5, this is totally me. Well, minus the nifty apron. But everything else – totally. I’ve discussed, probably to the point of boredom, the things that bother me about lady mags, celeb rags and even health & fitness glossies but there is one thing that never fails to delight me: the recipe section. Every magazine has them – even People publishes a weekly celeb favorite recipe (often ironically right after an article circling everyone’s cellulite in red, sigh) – but the ones that make me most excited are the “healthified” recipes. As you all know I [...]

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