Healthy Eating

We have all had decades at our hands to understand exactly what foods we like to eat. So, keeping Pooh’s point in mind, it should be easy to choose to eat less of what we don’t like. For instance, Leslie enjoys a pasta dinner, but the sauce is the best part…

I have spent a ridiculous amount of my life standing in front of an open refrigerator. Usually around six o’clock. I would stare at perfectly good food I had purchased only days earlier with the best of intentions. Chicken. Vegetables. Salad ingredients. Fruit. Maybe something I had specifically bought because I had promised myself this […]

For a long time, I believed healthy eating meant compromise. Less flavor. Smaller portions. Skipping the foods I loved. If dinner was delicious, surely I’d done something wrong. I don’t know exactly when I started believing that. Maybe it was years of magazine headlines. Maybe decades of hearing foods labeled “good” and “bad.” Whatever the reason, I stopped trusting my own plate…

One day Jennifer (my husband Jon’s daughter) asked if she could come over to our house and make dinner for us. She sent me an image of the meal that she would cook. Learning that it would be from a meal kit intrigued me. I had read about home-service meal delivery services, but we had never tried them…

I know. It sounds a little unconventional. But yes – I freeze my lemons whole. And I use every single part of them. I have a confession to make. For years, all I knew was to zest a little, cut the lemon in half, squeeze out the juice, and toss the rest into the garburator without a second thought. Half the lemon – gone. Every time…

I turned 60 on July 7. I did not wake up that morning suddenly craving kale, although I like kale. There was no magical transformation in aisle seven. I didn’t swear allegiance to broccoli, or suddenly start examining avocados with the wisdom that apparently comes with six decades of life. But turning 60 did make me realize something.

For many of us, the idea of switching to a healthy, organic diet seems out of reach because the perception is that it’s too expensive. Is that really true? It can be difficult to pinpoint the answer because we all have different food purchasing habits…

For women over 60 who struggle with food obsession and want to lose weight, the prospect of vacation can bring both excitement and anxiety. Why do women over 60 feel anxiety about indulgent eating on summer vacations?

We throw around the term ‘emotional eating’ a lot. Sometimes we even act like it is some kind of affliction that we contracted or is part of our personality. We say things like, “I have always been an emotional eater” or “I always eat when I am ____,” filling in the blank…

With summer here, are you looking for ways to eat well without heating up the kitchen? Salads are great, but if you’re pretty active you need something more substantial than lettuce, tomatoes and cucumbers to keep your energy up. I’d like to give you three…