Healthy LIfestyle and Foods
Fruits
Lemon Love
Mar 5th
Lemons are amazing things. Not only are they great with a little tequila and salt, but the rinds clean and refresh the garbage disposal when you put them in and grind them up!
Not to mention all the incredible nutrition in the lemon itself.
Did you know that if you put a lemon in water before you drink it, it may help relieve digestive problems?
Or, that you can use in on your face as an anti-aging remedy? It can help reduce the looks of wrinkles, and it gets rid of blackheads, too.
Lemons have so many other benefits as well, for instance, helping More >
Blueberry Pickin’
Feb 2nd
Last spring I went out blueberry picking for the first time ever. There is a farm near my house where they have planted row after row after row of blueberries. Some of the bushes are 30 years old, and the berries grow so thick you don’t even have to move- just stand there and fill your bucket! I never knew how easy it was to pick blueberries, and how absolutely delicious they are fresh off the bush. I went back 3 times before the season was over, and now I am eagerly waiting for this season’s berries to be ready.
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The Fabulous Fuji Apple
Dec 1st
The Fuji is a cross between the Red Delicious Apple, and the Ralls Janet (or Genet, or Jennet) Apple. While the Red Delicious apple is a deep red, Fuju’s have a reddish pink skin. Fuju apples didn’t exist until around the 1950’s when they were bred in Japan, and it took another 30 years for distribution in the US to become common.
Today, they can be found in most supermarkets here in the States. We grow them in the US now in Washington State. They have a better flavor if they are allowed to ripen longer, being harvested in late October More >
How Fresh is Fresh? A Case for Your Local Farmers’ Market
Oct 13th
Naturally when we think of wholesome, healthy foods, we think right away of fresh vegetables. And, it’s true, fresh vegetables are the highest in nutritional value. However, just because you bought vegetable from the produce section of your grocer, does not really guarantee that you are getting the freshness you expect.
Some vegetables have spent quite a bit of time in process and transit on their way from the farm to your nearby supermarket. From the pickers, the cleaners, the packers, the trucks, the distributors, and finally your local shop, each stage takes time. Often the vegetables you put in your More >
The Best Benefit of Eating Fruit- Weight Loss
Sep 20th
Better for you, and much healthier than taking diet supplements, or getting radical with the latest fad diet, is the wonderful world of fruit. Eating at least five portions a day will fill you up, and cut down on snacking. My sister always said to me, “if you want to lose weight, eat more fruit!”
For one thing, fruit has lots of fiber in it. This helps the body feel full, and decreases the tendency to snack later. Even if you do wish to snack later, just eat another piece of fruit. Try a different kind for variety, as this will More >
Keeping Bananas for Banana Bread
Sep 14th
Just a quick note here for those of us who plan to make banana bread this winter. Have you ever started to get everything out, only to discover that someone had eaten the last of the bananas that morning for breakfast? Isn’t it a pain to have a major ingredient missing from your plan? Or, perhaps, you know you have bananas, but when you go to get them, they are hard and green, and you just know that your banana bread is not going to be as sweet and delicious as it could be, if you’d had those browny, spotting, More >