Understanding Your Food

Meat Marinade with Dark Beer to Reduce Carcinogens from Grilling

I don’t grill. I know you’re feeling really trusting of a grilling recipe from someone who doesn’t grill, but don’t worry – we grill plenty at the Kimball house. It’s just a great way to get some help with dinner as long as I remain completely ignorant about the mysterious workings of the grill. I

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Easy Gluten-free One-Bowl Pumpkin Muffins (also egg-free, dairy-free, nut-free, corn-free, soy-free and refined sugar-free) Kid-friendly and delicious

Best Gluten-free Pumpkin Muffins Recipe (Dairy-free, Egg-free, Corn-free, Soy-free, Nut-free)

The most versatile, brain-dead easy healthy pumpkin muffin recipe ever – gluten-free, dairy-free, egg-free, allergen-free AND one-bowl simple. Friends will beg you for this simple and delicious recipe! And you can feel good about it since it has no white sugar. There’s a little girl with egg, nut and dairy allergies on my daughter’s soccer

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How to Evaluate New Nutritional Philosophies Through a Critical Thinking, Traditional Foods Lens

Walking into the “diet/nutrition” section of a bookstore is overwhelming, the sheer quantity and variety of books absolutely staggering. I wandered into that section in a bookstore last week and started scanning titles. Almost immediately I began thinking about how many different diets one could embark on and how crazy it was that there were

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That Whole Grains Question: Is It Time for “To Soak or Not to Soak?”

If I make my mom’s biscuit recipe with unbleached, unbromated wheat flour, home-rendered pastured lard, Real Salt, and organic, grassfed milk, but the flour happens to have all the bran and all the germ sifted out of it, is my resulting biscuit – which will be so fluffy and melt-in-your-mouth smeared with pastured butter that

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What to do With that Beef Heart in Your Freezer (and how to tell your husband)

Warning: Raw meat photo spoiler! Do not open if you are pregnant or otherwise do not want to see pictures of raw beef heart… “What is that?” poor dear husband asked upon seeing this hunk of meat on the cutting board after a lovely dinner of summer hamburgers while the kids were at Grandma’s. “Beef

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Need protein after exercising? Don't want yucky processed bars? Find out WHY your body needs protein to build muscle when working out and a huge list of real food protein sources.

Whole Food Protein Sources: After a Workout, During Pregnancy, & Brain Boosters

Protein shakes, energy bars, and supplements marketed to athletes sometimes feel like the worst offenders in the processed foods world. Between the odd chemicals claiming to boost muscle mass, increase energy, and extend endurance (creatine, anyone?) and the fact that most energy bars use soy protein, ignoring the fact that animal foods are the best

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Healthy Homemade Baked Apple Crisp Recipe {With A FREE Download!}

Apples may reign supreme in the fall, but this baked apple crisp is a winner any time of year. Simple, real food ingredients make this dessert both delicious and healthy. No white sugar involved! What’s not to love about apple crisp? Warm, baked apples. Crunchy buttery topping. Top it with ice cream and you’re in

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Is stevia safe, stevia health benefits

Is Stevia Safe? What Are the Facts on Stevia?

A natural sweetener with zero calories and zero aftertaste that doesn’t cause cancer in lab rats? Is that a dream too good to be true? I’m hoping not. I’m talking about sweetening with stevia. Stevia is fast becoming my favorite formerly-unknown sweetener, if only for the mystery surrounding it, the foodie vs. government controversy, and

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Unrefined Dehydrated Whole Cane Sugar (Sucanat, Rapadura, Panela and Muscovado)

Unrefined sugars can be SO confusing – sucanat, rapadura, panela, and muscovado. Not only are they unfamiliar in the culture, tough to find at your local grocery store, and a maze of nutritional myths. When you have 3-4 names for basically the same product it can be difficult to find an answer to the question,

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