Earlier in the week, I solicited your help via Why won’t KFC share nutrition info about their VEGGIES?! to get answers. Well, it worked! I want to thank everyone for their efforts. Here’s the info: • Vegetable Harvest Blend Small: 45 calories & 100 milligrams sodium • Vegetable Harvest Blend Medium: 110 calories & 250 […]
Dear Blog Readers, I am enlisting your help. A couple of weeks ago, a Facebook fan commented that KFC Canada had introduced mixed vegetables. She didn’t have a lot of faith in the nutritional value of the meal, even with the added vegetables. I’m all for fast food chains offering healthier options. What I don’t […]
Are you surprised by waist management struggles at this time of year, the season when it seems like healthy eating should come easy? In my last post, I pointed out five of my top 10 possible explanations for summer weight gain. Here are the last five. • Social events It’s the time of year for […]
Summertime and the livin’ is easy. You’re not alone if you think that healthy eating should be a breeze at this time of year. After all, there’s great local produce which goes hand in hand with light eating. Well guess again. It’s the season when it’s packing on the pounds comes easy as pie. Practicing […]
Local strawberries are spectacular whether you eat them naked, with yogurt or in a salad. Here’s a recipe that will convert even those who don’t love fruit and salad green combos. My husband is one of those and when he ate it again this week, he told me that he had forgotten how delicious it […]
OK – truth be told, you don’t need any other reason than taste to eat these luscious berries – especially right now as local strawberries hit farmers’ markets and store shelves. Even if they didn’t offer top notch nutrition, they would be a sought after taste treat. But here are five top health perks of […]
There’s no doubt that potato salad ranks near the top of favourite picnic and barbecue fare. But many commercial offerings score pretty high on their fat and sodium counts and short on vegetables. Here’s a yummy recipe that’s chock full of veggies and fat and sodium smart, to boot. The grainy mustard and dill together […]
In my previous post, I outlined some of the difficulties in determining what’s on your plate when you eat out. Posting nutrition information on menu boards at chain restaurants simply makes sense. Yet there are many staunch opponents. Not surprisingly most of these same eateries are not in favour of making these disclosures. One of […]
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