“Don’t tell them it’s cauliflower,” a guest at our Thanksgiving dinner advised. “They’ll never know they’re not mashed potatoes!” Why cauliflower instead of potatoes? Cauliflower has a lower glycemic index (so it impacts blood sugar less), is lower in carbs at 5 grams versus the potato’s whopping 67 grams per…
Impostor health foods: neither tasty nor healthful.
Okay, I’ll be honest: sometimes I miss meat. Specifically, pork. When people ask me if I’m ever tempted to order a steak, I can sincerely say no, I am not the least bit interested in a plate-sized slab of beef. It’s not just the horrible images in my mind of…
I ordered first, a cup of the creamy squash soup and a sandwich but, as usual, soon second-guessed myself. “You’re getting a bowl of soup and a sandwich?” I asked my husband Wayne, imagining him still enjoying his steaming bowl of velvety orange soup while I, saving a buck, would…
Reading a New York Times article on the USDA’s mixed signals about cheese made me think about my own conflicting cheese emotions. The USDA, like a person with the two hemispheres of his brain separated, tells us “Eat less fat—don’t have so much cheese!” and at the same time encouraged…
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