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Sweet Stuff: Crunch a Color Game

Every nutritionist and child care expert I’ve ever known or read frowns upon using dessert as a bribe in getting kids to eat their vegetables. But do I know a

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Curried Pumpkin Soup

We must like pumpkin around here…  Although it was obviously neither right nor true, Ben and I let Esme convince us that she needed to bring in a carved Jack-0-latern

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Healthy Habits: Meal Monotony Saves Pounds

By Theresa Albert, nutritionist and founder of www.myfriendinfood.com Once upon a time experts advised people to eat a variety of foods.  Good advice during a time when everyone was eating

Vegetables

Roasted Cauliflower Salad

For some reason I have more distinct memories of Thanksgiving dinners than I do of any other holiday. Hilarious, huge meals prepared with our American friends Paul and Kira (who

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Sweet Potato French Fries

Here’s another one for the “How have we never done X before?” file. X being sweet potato fries this time around. Sweet potato fries? Shouldn’t that have been like the

Round-Ups

What’s So Great/Bad About Roundup

In a week dedicated to bad foods gone good we had to include a roundup of our favourite WSBA/WSGAs. As soon as we started running the columns called What’s So

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Food Find: Oikos Yogurt

Just a few weeks ago, Laura wrote a post about a great Greek style yogurt she’d fallen in love with, called Oikos by Stoneyfield. We’ve both been in love with

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Roundup: Speed Dinners

When people used to tell me they couldn’t cook, I thought they meant that they didn’t know how. Maybe there wasn’t a food culture in their family and they didn’t

Seafood

Shrimp & Polenta

Here’s my latest thought about overcoming the seeming impossibility of the weekday dinner: do one thing in the morning. Okay, it’s really two things. 1. Decide, roughly, what you’re going

Nutrition

Healthy Habits: Five Ways Nutrition Facts Labels Lie

By Theresa Albert, nutritionist and founder of www.myfriendinfood.com But the government regulates the information on the label, right? I mean, they can’t put it on there if it isn’t true!