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A Guide to Living Consciously for a Healthy and Happy Life
January 16, 2013“Happiness is when what you think, what you say,and what you do are in harmony.” ~ Mohandas Karamchand Gandh I shared ...
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Thanksgiving Food that Tastes Great and Makes You Feel Great
November 13, 2012“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces – just good food from fresh ingredients.” ~ Julia ...
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Not All Organic Products Have The Same Impact On You
September 13, 2012“What you do speaks so loudly I can’t hear what you are saying.” ~ Henry Adams I recently signed on as a...
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Meals Made Easy: Making the Most of the Flavors You Know You Love
August 19, 2012When baking, follow directions. When cooking, go by your own taste. ~Laiko Bahrs People often tell me th...
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A Conscious Guide to Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
August 2, 2012I tell my girls all the time that you can have birthday cake and eat the things that you want as long as you are eating you...
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Want to Lose Weight and Feel Great? Make The Connection Between What You Eat and How It Makes You Feel!
July 20, 2012“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well” -Virginia Woolf Have you been trying...
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Simple and Delicious Tips For Eating To Prevent Cancer
June 25, 2012He that takes medicine and neglects diet, wastes the skill of the physician. ~Chinese Proverb The American Cancer Society esti...
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A Conscious Guide To A Classic and Delicious Backyard BBQ
June 6, 2012“Avoid foods you see advertised on television.” ~ Michael Pollan With Memorial Day behind us, summer has...
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A Conscious Guide to Simple Summer Entertaining
May 24, 2012“Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.” — M. F. K...
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One Mindset Change That Can Begin to Transform Your Body Your Relationship with Food for Life
May 11, 2012"You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think." Walter Anderson I’ve been talking a lot lately abou...
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Are You Confused When You Go Food Shopping?
April 26, 2012"You are what what you eat eats." Michael Pollan In my last article I talked about the importance of e...
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The Number 1 Consideration In Deciding What to Eat
April 13, 2012"Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food." — Michael Pollan I just returned...
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A Conscious Guide to Creating Happiness
March 15, 2012"Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions." ~ Dalai Lama Can you ac...
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What Are You Really Hungry For?
March 1, 2012“The mind is everything. What you think, you become.” ~ Buddha I’ve oft...
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A Conscious Guide to an Easy, Healthy and Delicious Home Cooked Dinner on Your Busiest Day
February 12, 2012Over the years of being working parent who loves to eat a good nourishing meal at the end of a busy day, I've developed a system f...
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A Conscious Guide to Saying Good-bye to Deprivation
January 26, 2012Nobody likes deprivation. It just puts us in a bad mood. When we think about being deprived of our favorite foods, it usually stan...
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Stocking Up For Success: A Peek Inside My Pantry
January 12, 2012“I feel a recipe is only a theme, which an intelligent cook can play each time with a variation.” ~ Madame Benoit ...
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Think Nourishment Instead of Deprivation to Lose Weight and Not Your Sanity
January 2, 2012Happy New Year!!! Did you make a resolution? Are you one of the many who have resolved to lose weight? I know that so many...
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Some of My Favorite Holiday Party Dishes
December 13, 2011As we approach the holidays, I wanted to share some of my favorite indulgences with you. I love this time of year. It’s an oppor...
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Delicious For Life
December 2, 2011I have been a food lover for as long as I can remember. Growing up in NYC, I had the good fortune of being exposed to all kinds of gre...