How to Add Healthy Fat to School Lunches
Fat. What a controversial subject! If you were a child of the eighties like me, you were told from a young age that fat is…
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How to Choose an Air Fryer: Air Fryer Review
When the Air Fryer craze began I was the first to say, “No thanks!” I didn’t have room for one more appliance in my kitchen and most definitely not on my counter. And I didn’t really want to learn how to use one more thing. I LOVE my slow cooker. Then my husband won an
Healthy Air Fryer Veggie Fries Recipe
For many people fall includes visiting an orchard to pick or buy apples. Maybe throw in a few donuts while you’re there for your once-a-year fresh cinnamon-sugar treat. Then there is my family. Fall means running our small, eighty tree apple orchard. We step outside and pick apples on a daily basis for a month
Storing Protein, Meats, Beans, Nuts & Oils Long Term
What is the best long term storage food? Storing protein in case of emergency is an important part of your preparedness plan. We’ll cover meat storage, how to store meat in the freezer, and best beans for long-term storage. Plus, we’ll touch on storing oils and fats. Many of the preparedness food storage solutions for
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Should You Be Cooking With Olive Oil?
Is cooking with olive oil harmful to your health? I used to think so but updated research has shed new light on the topic. Keep reading to see what changed my mind. Olive oil—the food that brings us all together. Whether you’re keto, paleo, vegan, vegetarian, eat a low-fat/high carb diet, or low carb/high-fat diet,
The Truth About Coconut Oil: Is Coconut Oil Good For You?
How do you use coconut oil? Refined or unrefined? Substitute with coconut oil for baking and cooking? Coconut oil is used for personal care like lotion, eye makeup remover, eczema treatment, oil pulling, and more. I could go on about the usefulness of coconut oil. When I first started getting into traditional nutrition, I read
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Which Fats Are the Healthiest to Start Your Day With?
If breakfast is the most important meal of the day, what’s the most important part of a healthy breakfast? Making sure what you eat is nourishing and sustaining. Healthy fats do both better than any glass of orange juice or frozen waffle, making them the foundation of any healthy breakfast. The Role of Fat in
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What’s Going to Replace Trans Fat?
Trans fat has been proven to cause heart disease and all sorts of other health evils, to the tune of 30,000 to 100,000 deaths from heart disease pinned on trans fat every year. The FDA recently removed the GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status from trans fat, 7 years after requiring companies to disclose trans fat
How to Find Butter That’s Better
I got a Costco membership just for the butter. Hundreds of dollars later, I still haven’t found the butter I was aiming for, which is sort of ironic. What is my magic bullet butter, you ask? I thought Kerrygold was my only option for grassfed butter that I could trust. Why? Other people trusted it.
Five Keys to Weight Loss with Real Food
We joke sometimes that we’ll launch a “Kitchen Stewardship® Diet Plan” with weird taglines like “Eat nuts, all the time!” or “Eggs, and more eggs!” or “Make everything yourself so you’re too tired to eat!” But truly, real food weight loss shouldn’t be a diet plan. It should be a lifestyle, a change (series of
Monday Mission: Refocus on Healthy Fats
Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to check your pantry for industrial oils or trans fats and root out any remaining stragglers. Today we’ll review the basic structures of fats and why you want to stock up on some and send others packing. Before you’ll be able to embrace the fact that some
My Husband’s Real Food Report Card
It was like getting the ACT results in the mail. My hands were trembling as I haphazardly tore open the envelope. Inside were some numbers that I felt might validate all the effort, the research, the time in the kitchen. Even though I wasn’t sure I put much stock in the numbers, I still wanted
Food for Thought: Lard and Tallow, Healthy Fats?
I’m all about the healthy baby steps! Let’s baby step our way into healthier fats by using lard and tallow. Learn the health benefits of tallow and lard and where to buy them. I used to spend a LOT of time cutting off every single little tiny bit of fat from every cut of meat I
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How to Make Ghee (Clarified Butter)
Ghee is one of those fats I had never heard of a year ago. Would you know ghee if you bumped into some on the street? Ghee, pronounced with a hard “g” like “go” and a long “e” like “see”, is also called clarified butter, and it’s pure butterfat with the milk solids, impurities and
Food for Thought: Canola Oil, a Unique Omega-3…Thumbs up or Thumbs Down???
I used to use Canola oil almost exclusively as my liquid fat for baking. The popular press said it was the healthy oil. I felt really good – you know that feeling? – when I used it in quick breads, etc. I would even brag about my “healthy food”. Hmph. Now there’s a whole bunch
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My First Roux (and a Cream of Potato Soup Recipe)
I can still picture standing in the kitchen my first summer in an apartment, talking on the phone with my mother. I called her a lot to ask how to do things! I just wanted the recipe for cream of potato soup, one of my favorites, and there she was explaining how to make a “roux”
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Food for Thought: Are Polyunsaturated Oils Healthy?
Anyone want to disagree with me? Question my research? Please, do. Really. This may sound confrontational at first, but I truly appreciate and welcome those wiser than me helping me understand the science of nutrition and sharing other sources that I may not have discovered on my own. I’m not a researcher. I love reading
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Is Full-Fat Dairy Healthy? Why You Should Be Drinking Full-Fat Milk and Eating Lots of Butter
Ah, the French know their fats. When my husband worked with a Frenchman, he reminisced about this time of year in France: “Fall is the best time of year because the food is so wonderful: the fish are fatter, the cream is plentiful, and the vegetables being harvested are some of my favorites.” Yep, he
Food for Thought: Fat and Your Body
Does the very word, “fat” make you squirm and think of exercise and cellulite? Today I’m practically begging you to release your fear of fat. Your mission, if you choose to accept, is to release your fear of fats. What’s Your Fat History? I was the kind of teenager who sopped the grease off her pizza with
A Fat Full Fall: Introduction
Does it ever drive you nuts that candy companies will slap a “Fat Free!” label on their packages, tempting sorry dieters to indulge in a snack that is anything but “guilt free?” I can’t help the sarcastic smirk on my face when I see the words “Fat Free!” emblazoned across sugar-filled indulgences. What’s the deal