A while ago, in an effort to eat locally, my husband and I joined Farm Fresh To You, and we have since looked forward to each delivery with excited anticipation. Not only does it cut down on what we have to buy at the Co-Op, but also it supports local farmers and environmentally-friendly farming practices, [...]

Whenever my husband and I go on vacation (or really, any time we know we’ll be away from home for a few hours), we pack some Odwalla bars just in case we get hungry.
Odwalla (pronounced Oh-dwa-la) is a juice company founded in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1980 and is now headquartered in Half Moon Bay, Calif.
The Odwalla [...]

As if I haven’t harped on Stevia enough already, there’s one more way I get a lot of mileage from my little Stevia bottle.
Rather than buy a bunch of lemons when I’m in the mood for fresh lemonade, I turn to ReaLemon, which is 100 percent lemon juice from concentrate. I get it at my [...]

If, when you think of sweeteners, immediately you start humming “Pour Some Sugar On Me”, you’re not alone.
Generally speaking, there are two types of sweeteners, nutritive and non-nutritive. Among the nutritive are sugar alcohols, honey, fruits, and syrups (including maple, sugar beet, corn, cane, golden, barley malt, Molasses, brown rice, and agave).
Non-nutritive sweeteners include Acesulfame [...]

To me, cherries are the best fruit ever. They’re fun to eat, good for you, and sweet enough to be considered a dessert. In fact, one cup of cherries is only 87 calories, and is a good source of choline, a nutrient in the B vitamin family.
Other stone fruits are equally tasty and offer their [...]

Every week, I have to buy a jar of Frontera’s Salpica Mango Peach Salsa. Have to.
One taste, and immediately I was addicted to this salsa’s sweet yet spicy flavor. I’ve used it on burritos, quesadillas and eggs.
I could have it at every meal, but typically I exhibit a little more restraint than that…and limit myself to once a day.
The salsa [...]

I’m a cheesecake nut, and one of the things I made a point of doing during a cross-country trip a couple of years ago was tasting the cheesecake in both Philadelphia and New York, in the hopes of finding the best I’ve ever had.
I was sorely disappointed, especially when I realized the best cheesecake I’ve ever had [...]

One of the many things I regularly have on hand is Soyrizo (meatless soy chorizo).
Any time a recipe calls for sausage, I use Soyrizo instead. I’ve used it in lasagna (both traditional and polenta), as taco filling, for burritos, etc.
Soyrizo has no cholesterol and no preservatives. And not only is it meatless, but it’s also [...]

 
For over two decades, I’ve been perfecting the art of grocery shopping to make it as quick and painless as possible.
This inclination probably stems from my youth, when my Dad would spend the majority of every Wednesday (the day the food ads came out in the local paper) driving all over town to “get the best [...]

I was chubby in my youth, got really thin in high school and college, and weighed my lowest when I got married. I now weigh a more normal amount. More than I’d like, of course, but after all I’ve been through , I cut myself some slack.
(One of my biggest food struggles after cancer was that I [...]