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From our Team to You: Real Ingredients

What do real ingredients mean to you? What real ingredients do you turn to most when you’re cooking? ANGELA Simplicity. Words I can pronounce. For cooking, I try to use really basic ingredients- proteins, carbohydrates, beans and whole grains. CHAZ I don’t cook that often, but real ingredients would be picked fresh from the earth [...]

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Cooking with Real Ingredients

Growing up, I was never the cook in my family. My mom and sisters were all much more gifted culinarily than I was, so there was never really a place for me in the kitchen and it’s not something I pushed. That said, I always ate pretty well growing up.  My mom made quite an [...]

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Roasted Provençal Tomatoes (and How to Make Veggies Everyone will Love!)

Roasted Provençal Tomatoes (and How to Make Veggies Everyone will Love!)

Everyone loves dessert. It’s sweet. It’s comforting. For most people, dessert brings an amazing amount of joy and satisfaction. There’s a reason we have birthday cake and not big, healthy birthday salad. There’s a way, though, to take vegetables and make them crazy exciting. Really. I’m a vegetable lover. I’m happy chomping on raw lettuce [...]

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A Prescription for Change

A Prescription for Change

Have you ever been told you would die shortly if you lived the way you did? I have. In February of 2008 I went to the doctor for a checkup. I hated going to the doctor. It was never good news for me. I was not feeling very good at the time. I did not [...]

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Grandma knows best

Grandma knows best

As I began my trek down this healthy living path I somehow became an eliminator. I decided if I didn’t eat certain foods (thankfully I’ve repressed what they were as I quite clearly recall the repetitive nature of the foods which remained) my excess weight would miraculously  melt away.  Swiftly, easily and permanently. Not only [...]

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